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<span id="docs-internal-guid-57540c78-694f-674d-b652-b270a67e4806"><span style="font-size: 14.6667px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent;">PCAST Report: “</span>[https://www.whitehouse.gov/sites/default/files/microsites/ostp/pcast-executive-report-final_2-13-12.pdf <span style="font-size: 14.6667px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(17, 85, 204); text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent;">Engage to Excel: Producing One Million Additional College Graduates With Degrees in Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics</span><span style="font-size: 16px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(17, 85, 204); text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent;">”</span>]</span>
<span></span> = Original Press Release from Epicenter Tripled Community for 1 Year Anniversary! =
March 2016 marked the #uifresh community's one year anniversary working toward engaging freshmen across the U.S. The 6th and final White House Science Fair was held on April 13, 2016. The schools that joined the initiative since March 2015 were also highlighed as part of a collection initiatives to expand high-quality STEM education opportunities in the [https://www.whitehouse.gov/sites/whitehouse.gov/files/documents/WHSF_fact_sheet_41316_0.pdf White House fact sheet]. [http://universityinnovationfellows.org/20150323uifresh/ University Innovation Fellows launch #uifresh campaign -29-schools-collaborate-on-national-initiative-to -attract and -retain first-year new-stem-students to STEM majors/ Read Epicenter's press release announcing the schools that joined].] *
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<li><span style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px rgb(225, 225, 225); font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-size: inherit; line-height: inherit; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;">[http://universityinnovationfellows.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/Spring-2016-Bethune-Cookman.pdf Bethune-Cookman University]</span></li>
<li><span style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px rgb(225, 225, 225); font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-size: inherit; line-height: inherit; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;">[http://universityinnovationfellows.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/Spring-2016-Mines-UIFresh.pdf Colorado School of Mines]</span></li>
<li><span style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px rgb(225, 225, 225); font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-size: inherit; line-height: inherit; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;">[http://universityinnovationfellows.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/Spring-2016-GVSU-UIFresh-Letter.pdf Grand Valley State University]</span></li>
<li><span style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px rgb(225, 225, 225); font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-size: inherit; line-height: inherit; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;">[http://universityinnovationfellows.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/Spring-2016-IUPUI-UIFresh-LoC.pdf Indiana University–Purdue University Indianapolis]</span></li>
<li><span style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px rgb(225, 225, 225); font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-size: inherit; line-height: inherit; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;">[http://universityinnovationfellows.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/Spring-2016-Kettering.pdf Kettering University]</span></li>
<li><span style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px rgb(225, 225, 225); font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-size: inherit; line-height: inherit; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;">[http://universityinnovationfellows.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/Spring-2016-LTU_UIfreshLetter.pdf Lawrence Technological University]</span></li>
<li><span style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px rgb(225, 225, 225); font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-size: inherit; line-height: inherit; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;">Ohio Northern University</span></li>
<li><span style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px rgb(225, 225, 225); font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-size: inherit; line-height: inherit; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;">[http://universityinnovationfellows.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/Spring-2016-SaintLouisUniversityUIFRESH.pdf Saint Louis University]</span></li>
<li><span style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px rgb(225, 225, 225); font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-size: inherit; line-height: inherit; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;">[http://universityinnovationfellows.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/Spring-2016-University-of-Wisconsin-Milwaukee-uifresh.pdf University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee]</span></li>
<li><span style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px rgb(225, 225, 225); font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-size: inherit; line-height: inherit; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;">[http://universityinnovationfellows.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/UVI-UIFresh-Spring-2016.pdf University of the Virgin Islands]</span></li>
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= Fall 2015 Activity =
[http://universityinnovationfellows.org/20-colleges-and-universities-launch-innovative-orientation-activities-to-retain-stem-students/ 20 Colleges & University Launch Innovative Orientation Acitivities to Retain STEM Students]
Twenty higher education institutions are welcoming their incoming students in a unique way as part of a national STEM initative called #uifresh. Participating institutions are exposing freshmen to design thinking, entrepreneurship, and innovation in order to attract and retain more students in STEM disciplines.
10 institutions joined the initiative in March 2015:
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<li>[http://universityinnovationfellows.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/03/clark-atlanta-uifresh-letter.pdf Clark Atlanta University]</li>
<li>[http://universityinnovationfellows.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/03/mtu-uifresh-letter.pdf Michigan Technological University]</li>
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= Fall 2015 Activity Original Press Release from Epicenter =
[http://universityinnovationfellows.org/20-colleges-and-universities-20150323uifresh/ University Innovation Fellows launch-innovative-orientation-activities-#uifresh campaign to-attract and retainfirst-stem-year students/ 20 Colleges & University Launch Innovative Orientation Acitivities to Retain STEM Studentsmajors.]
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<li>[http://universityinnovationfellows.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/03/clark-atlanta-uifresh-letter.pdf Clark Atlanta University]</li>
<li>[http://universityinnovationfellows.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/03/william-jewell-uifresh-letter.pdf William Jewell College]</li>
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