Announcements

Videos by EDC STEM education experts Eden Badertscher, Jackie DeLisi, and Randy Kochevar won awards in the 2020 National Science Foundation (NSF) STEM for All Video Showcase.

The U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) selected EDC to lead Opportunity 2.0, a five-year, $37.5 million project supporting out-of-school youth for better education, employment, and livelihood outcomes.

EDC experts will share strategies to prevent suicide and promote mental health at the 2020 American Association of Suicidology Virtual Conference on April 22–25. The theme of the conference is “Crossroads: Preventing Suicide and Building Lives Worth Living.”

EDC’s new initiative—Mentoring New Data Pathways in Community Colleges—is helping faculty in six community colleges design programs to prepare students for data science and analytics careers.

An EDC education program in Lebanon, which aims to improve the effectiveness of the country’s higher education system in relation to preparing graduates for the workforce, recently signed memoranda of understanding (MOUs) with the first cohort of five Lebanese institutions of higher education.

An EDC workforce development project has been recognized as a promising new model for education by the World Economic Forum.

For the sixth year in a row, EDC’s Center for Strategic Prevention Support (CSPS) organized the Massachusetts Statewide Prevention Conference, which attracted 200 health and prevention professionals working to reduce opioid, alcohol, and other drug misuse in communities across the Commonwealth.