In an interdisciplinary team seeking to work across boundaries to creat new knowledge, we found we had an obstacle that proved bigger than we estimated - language and culture around what we defined as models and modeling

A chemist by education whose career has turned to firing up young people about the career prospects in the STEAM disciplines has been honored with the third annual John G. Petty Community Champion Award from Lawrence Technological University. Sibrina N. Collins is executive director of LTU’s Marburger STEM Center, the university’s clearinghouse for K-12 outreach efforts in science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM), along with architecture and design, the “A” in STEAM.