Coe College President David Hayes has been appointed to the Governor’s STEM Advisory Council, a group assembled to invigorate the Pre-K-12 talent pipeline toward STEM careers.
Mr. Hayes, a 1993 Coe graduate, will bring STEM education knowledge and connections built at the college to his advisory role.
“I’m fortunate to have worked with brilliant educators and researchers, and have proudly worked on expansion of our academic offerings in the STEM realm,” Mr. Hayes said in a release.
In the past five years, Coe has dedicated the David and Janice McInally Center for Health & Society to complement the college’s MedQuarter location and launched programs in data science, engineering physics and aviation management & flight operations.
Recent achievements at the college include physics professor Mario Affatigato being named president of the American Ceramic Society. Mr. Affatigato, a 1989 Coe graduate, holds the Fran Allison and Francis Halpin Professorship of Physics.
Coe’s Research Experiences for Undergraduates site was renewed last year with a $464,737 award from the National Science Foundation. The college also received a $225,000 grant from NASA to acquire high-performance computing clusters last year.
Coe recently announced a partnership with Google AI for Education Accelerator to provide artificial intelligence tools, resources and training.
Tyler Salrin, a member of the class of 2025, was named both a Goldwater Scholar and National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellow. Seven Coe students have been named NSF Graduate Research Fellows in the past decade.
Over the last 30 years, all physics and chemistry majors accepted to graduate school have earned full scholarships or stipends to attend.
The advisory council works to create opportunities that inspire Iowa’s young people to become innovative, enterprising contributors to the future workforce and quality of life in communities, according to its mission statement.
