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SWE Diverse Podcast Ep 261: Leadership Insights With Parsons Corporation CEO Carey Smith

By |2024-05-21T13:57:00-04:00May 21st, 2024|Categories: Uncategorized|

Carey Smith, chair, president, and CEO of Parsons Corporation, discusses her journey from engineer to corporate leader and shares insights on the global infrastructure industry on Diverse: a SWE podcast. Source

CG4: The Globule and the Galaxy

By |2024-05-21T09:09:14-04:00May 21st, 2024|Categories: NASA News, Uncategorized|Tags: , , , , , |

Photo of the Day Can a gas cloud eat a galaxy? It's not even close. The "claw" of this odd looking "creature" in the featured photo is a gas cloud known as a cometary globule. This globule, however, has ruptured. Cometary globules are typically characterized by dusty heads and elongated tails. These features cause [...]

The Impact of the ARDC Foundation’s Scholarships for Women in Engineering

By |2024-05-17T17:49:00-04:00May 17th, 2024|Categories: Uncategorized|

Learn more about the impact of Amateur Radio and Digital Communications Foundation's support of SWE scholarships, including testimonials from scholarship recipients. Source

AR 3664 at the Sun’s Edge

By |2024-05-15T09:09:50-04:00May 15th, 2024|Categories: NASA News, Uncategorized|Tags: , , , , |

Photo of the Day What did the monster active region that created the recent auroras look like when at the Sun's edge? There, AR 3664 better showed its 3D structure. Pictured, a large multi-pronged solar prominence was captured extending from chaotic sunspot region AR 3664 out into space, just one example of the particle [...]

SWE Diverse Podcast Ep 260: The SWE Collegiate Experience With Vidhya Thiyagarajan

By |2024-05-14T09:58:00-04:00May 14th, 2024|Categories: Uncategorized|

Vidhya Thiyagarajan shares about her SWE collegiate experience and reflects on what it was like to start a SWENext Club at her high school in this episode of Diverse: a SWE podcast. Source

AR 3664 on a Setting Sun

By |2024-05-13T09:09:10-04:00May 13th, 2024|Categories: NASA News, Uncategorized|Tags: , , , , |

Photo of the Day It was larger than the Earth. It was so big you could actually see it on the Sun's surface without magnification. It contained powerful and tangled magnetic fields as well as numerous dark sunspots. Labelled AR 3664, it developed into one of the most energetic areas seen on the Sun [...]

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