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Congratulations to the 2024-2025 SWE Scholarship Recipients!

By |2024-10-01T11:45:00-04:00October 1st, 2024|Categories: Uncategorized|

SWE is proud to award 328 scholarships, totaling nearly $1.5 million, to undergraduate and graduate engineering students for the 2024-2025 academic year. This year marks a special milestone as SWE celebrates 65 years of its scholarship program.

SWE Diverse Podcast Ep 281: Engineered by Women With Catherine Hunt Ryan of Bechtel

By |2024-10-01T09:58:00-04:00October 1st, 2024|Categories: Uncategorized|

Catherine Hunt Ryan, president of Bechtel’s Manufacturing and Technology business, previews her WE24 keynote and discusses the pivotal role women play in infrastructure projects in this episode of Diverse: a SWE podcast.

Porphyrion: The Longest Known Black Hole Jets

By |2024-10-01T09:09:08-04:00October 1st, 2024|Categories: NASA News, Uncategorized|Tags: , , , , , |

Photo of the Day How far can black hole jets extend? A new record was found just recently with the discovery of a 23-million light-year long jet pair from a black hole active billions of years ago. Dubbed Porphyrion for a mythological Greek giant, the impressive jets were created by a type of black [...]

Stellar Streams in the Local Universe

By |2024-09-27T09:09:17-04:00September 27th, 2024|Categories: NASA News, Uncategorized|Tags: , , , , , |

Photo of the Day The twenty galaxies arrayed in these panels are part of an ambitious astronomical survey of tidal stellar streams. Each panel presents a composite view; a deep, inverted image taken from publicly available imaging surveys of a field that surrounds a nearby massive galaxy image. The inverted images reveal faint cosmic [...]

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