WASHINGTON — A new report from the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine offers a road map for increasing access to science, technology, engineering, and math education ...

The U.S. Department of Energy requires developers applying for all the agency’s grant and loan programs to craft a community benefits plan, with the goal of leveraging public investments into broadly ...

We turn now to a discussion of infrastructure and materials as important factors for driving change in rural science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) education and workforce ...

Extreme poverty is mainly a rural phenomenon. Four of every five people below the $1.90-a-day international income poverty line lived in rural areas in 2013 (Castañeda and others, 2018). Over the last ...

The Department of Agriculture will not be shy about asking Congress for help on cybersecurity and IT, the agency’s undersecretary for rural development nominee told senators Wednesday. Smith co-signed ...

Promoting sustainable agriculture and rural development (SARD) is the subject of chapter 14 of Agenda 21. The major objective of SARD is to increase food production in a sustainable way and enhance ...

How do we build thriving rural communities in the 21st century? The labor-intensive, extractive industries paradigm that has long powered rural economies—think agriculture, manufacturing, mining, ...

If a community is 30 miles from the nearest hospital, it will face rural challenges, regardless of whether 500 or 50,000 people live there.

Rural areas, often marginalised in terms of technological advancements, stand to benefit significantly from the application of AI in various domains AI-powered educational platforms can personalise ...