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Amazon expands SURE program to Carnegie Mellon and UCLA

Amazon expands SURE program to Carnegie Mellon and UCLA

SURE provides students from historically underrepresented communities with research experiences at top-tier universities. According to a report from the U.S. National Science Foundation (NSF) and the National Science Board (NSB), women, Blacks, Hispanics, and American Indians or Alaska Natives remain significantly underrepresented among degree recipients in STEM …

UCLA Engineering Doctoral Student Aims to Bring Accessible Speech Technology to All

UCLA Engineering Doctoral Student Aims to Bring Accessible Speech Technology to All

The way people talk is influenced by where they grew up, the school they attended, their cultural background and the language spoken at home among other things. But does today’s speech technology recognize such nuanced differences and their implications? That’s the question Alexander Johnson, M.S. ’19 is trying to address.

2022 Amazon Fellows

2022 Amazon Fellows

The Science Hub advisory group selected 13 Amazon Fellows for 2022 among 44 nominations. …