Chamber grant will help develop Memphis area’s STEM workforce

By , Daily Memphian Published: June 15, 2023 3:28 PM CT

The initiative includes a focus on recruiting and supporting Black, Indigenous and other students of color, women and other underrepresented individuals as engineering program candidates.

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Aisling Mäki

Aisling Mäki

Aisling Mäki covers health care, banking and finance, technology and professions. After launching her career in news two decades ago, she worked in public relations for almost a decade before returning to journalism in 2022.

As a health care reporter, she’s collaborated with The Carter Center, earned awards from the Associated Press and Society of Professional Journalists and won a 2024 Tennessee Press Association first-place prize for her series on discrepancies in Shelby County life expectancy by ZIP code.


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