The number of STEM majors has surged in recent years — yet these graduates don’t work in STEM occupations. Employers and investors are to blame.

A quarter of U.S. high schools with majority Black and Latinx students do not offer key STEM courses. More than 90% of districts serving Black and Latinx students can't recruit & retain STEM ...

The gap in STEM workforce representation is remains particularly large for Latinos, a new Pew Research Center report published Thursday found.

Studer's team, for example, began looking at stem cells to treat brain diseases more than 25 years ago. "For us, it's quite an exciting time," he says, "finally seeing some of the fruit of that work." ...