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Why have a career in STEM? Science is all around us!

November 8th is National STEM Day! Principal Deputy Commissioner Namandjé Bumpus shares how a curiosity for the world around her led her to a career in STEM. (This video was created while Dr. Bumpus served as the FDA's Chief Scientist) To learn more about careers in STEM, we encourage you to visit our website and share our STEM videos in your classrooms and with your children.

Veterinary Medicine and STEM

National STEM Day is a perfect opportunity to shine a spotlight on the amazing work our FDA Center for Veterinary Medicine (CVM) scientists do every day to protect the health of people and animals. Although they are one of the smallest Centers in FDA, the important work they do touches every aspect of your life.

Learn more about the amazing work our FDA Center for Veterinary Medicine (CVM) scientists do to protect the health of people and animals. Although we are one of the smallest Centers in FDA, the important work we do touches every aspect of your life.

From Mammograms to Microwaves

FDA Center for Devices and Radiological Health

Regulating and Approving Drugs

Experts like scientists, doctors, pharmacists, engineers and mathematicians at the FDA’s Center for Drug Evaluation and Research (CDER) work rigorously to ensure that drugs are safe and effective.

Office of Women's Health

Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math (STEM) skills drive innovation and change in the world around us. In honor of National STEM Day, members of FDA’s Office of Women’s Health are sharing what it’s like to pursue a career in STEM and why we need more young women in this industry.

Center for Tobacco Products

If you’re a STEM student, you have a bright future ahead of you – there are tons of different ways your unique skills and thinking can create a great future for yourselves and others. Maybe someday you’ll be one of the STEM heroes at FDA’s Center for Tobacco Products (CTP), helping improve the health of our country.

STEM: Connected to All We Do at FDA Office of Minority Health and Health Equity

STEM is part of all the work we do at FDA’s Office of Minority Health and Health Equity as we pursue our mission to promote and protect the health of diverse research and communication of science that address health disparities.



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