By Elaine Rita Mendus Más Wired Latinos use their mobile phones for everything from texting to video chat to listening to music and much more. Phones have become a multi-use device for Latinos, much more so than for whites….
Global Views, zNew Headline
Bogota firm releases design for landmine detecting shoe insert
Jan 14, 2014, 2:45 PM 0
By Taran Volckhausen Colombia Reports The Bogota-based Lemur Studio has released a product design for a wearable detector aimed at helping Colombia’s rural populations avoid landmines left hidden from over a half-century of armed conflict, Project Director Lorena Cardenas…
Technology, Youth, zNew Headline
Study: New Generation Latinos continue to be high users of technology
Dec 18, 2013, 11:46 AM 0
Insight TR3S It’s no secret that young Latinos are big fans of technology. For a group that’s always on the go, cost-conscious, and highly social with friends and family near and far, they are very proficient at making the…
By Divya Raghavan NerdScholar Earlier this year, NerdScholar was selected as a winner of the College Knowledge Challenge, a competitive grant initiative funded by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. The College Knowledge Challenge is a partnership between the Gates…
Culture, Education, Women, zNew Headline
Latina scientists needed to move scientific knowledge forward
Oct 8, 2013, 2:28 PM 0
By Nicole Hernández Hammer LatinaLista Last week I was at a meeting of community organizers to discuss engagement of Miami’s Hispanic communities on climate change. At the end of the meeting one of the attendees came up to me…
Global Views, zNew Headline
Barcelona-based husband-wife team create high-tech fashion house that appeals equally to geeks and fashionistas
Oct 7, 2013, 1:29 PM 0
LatinaLista — Any woman who has shopped for clothes knows that it can be like a treasure hunt to find the right dress size. A size 8 in one label could be a size 12 in another, a big…
By Frank X. Moraga Amigos805 Building multidimensional shapes out of plastic tubing and using Mentos and soda to propel race cars. While at first glance the exercises seem like children’s play, for high school students at CSU Channel Islands…
BlogBeat, zNew Headline
SwivetZone YouTube series promotes STEM for minorities, women
Aug 5, 2013, 4:23 PM 0
By Elaine Rita Mendus Más Wired Pink Castle Pictures and the International Center for Professional Development (ICPD) have come together to produce a new web series aimed at getting teenagers interested in and engaged in the STEM fields. “SwivetZone”…
Nonprofit, zNew Headline
Nonprofit Spotlight: URBAN TxT turns at-risk boys into tomorrow’s community and technology leaders
Jun 28, 2013, 2:29 PM 0
LatinaLista — There’s one organization is South Los Angeles that encourages kids to txt — as in joining URBAN TxT – Teens eXploring Technology. Urban TxT is a leadership program that takes at-risk boys in 7th to 11th grades…
BlogBeat, zNew Headline
5 Tips from Professors: Advice to Increase Diversity in STEM fields
Jun 21, 2013, 1:22 PM 0
By Laura Pereyra NerdScholar Background: Where STEM diversity is now Today only 18.3% and 12.1% of STEM students who get computer science and engineering degrees are from diverse and underrepresented backgrounds, respectively. Given that our country’s demographics are rapidly…
Videos, zNew Headline
Video: Latino technology entrepreneur transforms science fiction into reality one ‘cara’ at a time
May 21, 2013, 12:00 AM 0
LatinaLista — Jason Sosa describes himself as a ‘Buccaneer Scholar.” He defines it as “anyone whose love of learning is not muzzled or shackled by any institution or authority; whose mind is driven to wander and find its own…
By Jacqueline Clary Broadband & Social Justice A common question civil rights practitioners receive is: “Why?” In an era where a Supreme Court Justice is comfortable talking about the continuation of the Voting Rights Act as a “perpetuation of…
General, Life Issues, Youth
New study finds girls could pursue STEM careers, but they’re choosing not to
Apr 15, 2013, 12:00 AM 0
LatinaLista — As the national economy begins to transform itself to better handle its future role in a global economy, more emphasis and attention are being directed at encouraging students to major in science, technology, engineering or math (STEM)…
Local News, Washington DC
Making Delaware history: Victor Ayala, first Hispanic promoted to police inspector in Wilmington
Apr 8, 2013, 10:54 AM 0
By Gabriel Pilonieta-Blanco El Tiempo Hispano WILMINGTON, DELAWARE — Ayala is a simple man who without his uniform might go unnoticed, but the reality is that his work as a police officer has led him to take the second…
Causes, General, Nonprofit
Spotlight Nonprofit: Preparing low-income girls for a future in technology and engineering
Sep 14, 2012, 12:00 AM 0
LatinaLista — It’s pretty much understood that most jobs of the future will involve technology on some level. Yet, if current trends persist, women will be at a severe disadvantage, especially women of color. To make sure that doesn’t…
By Sara Inés Calderón Más Wired Jean Rockford Aguilar-Valdez is a doctoral student studying equity in science education and a former science teacher. She’s been doing research at a high school in North Carolina with a 15% Latino population,…
By Sara Inéz Calderón Más Wired Más Wired interviewed Lalo Alcaraz, cartoonist and satirist extraordinary, about how his work has been amplified by technology. Since his days as a Berkeley graduate student, Alcaraz would promote his work via photocopied…
Local News, South
A Heart Two Sizes Too Big – Keeping one young Latina alive through technology
Jul 9, 2012, 12:33 PM 0
By Amy Robinson La Prensa San Antonio SAN ANTONIO — Amber Munoz, 15, was diagnosed with non-ischemic cardiomyopathy last January. Her heart was too big and couldn’t pump the blood through her body. After a grueling six hour procedure…
Education, Palabra Final
Policymakers think low-income Latino families have gone from the digital divide to creating “time-wasting” gap
May 30, 2012, 4:47 PM 1
LatinaLista — A New York Times article points out that in the rush to bridge the digital divide — giving low-income families access to computers and other high-tech tools to access online resources — it has created an unintended consequence,…
Causes, General, Social Media
Latina Lista to appear at SXSW — if there are enough votes
Sep 2, 2009, 2:36 PM 1
LatinaLista — If you think South by Southwest (SXSW) is just a compass direction then chances are you haven’t heard of the annual Austin event that seems to grow bigger every year and brings together some of the most…
Government, Palabra Final, Social Justice
Fulfilling Dr. King’s Dream is a lot Harder than Making George Jetson’s Vision Come True in the 21st Century
Jan 21, 2008, 5:27 PM 30
LatinaLista — In 1963, Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. delivered his now famous I Have a Dream speech. It wasn’t just words on paper, but passion in motion. Because of that, those words inspired a generation to see the…
