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Drexel University, Florida International University, Oklahoma State University, the University of Alabama at Birmingham, and the University of Maryland, College Park will implement the UTeach program in the fall of 2014. UTeach recruits math, science, and computer science students and prepares them to teach science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM) at the secondary school level. Participants in the program can earn a teaching certificate without adding time or cost to their four-year STEM degree program. Each university will receive a $1.45-million grant to cover the cost of implementing the program over a five-year period. Developed first at the University of Texas at Austin in 1997, UTeach partnered with the National Math and Science Initiative (NMSI) in 2008 to expand the program. NMSI says UTeach will produce more than 9,000 math and science teachers by 2020. Five more universities will join in 2015, which will bring the total number implementing UTeach to 45. A $22.5-million grant from the Howard Hughes Medical Institute has made the expansion possible. To read further, please visit http://campustechnology.com/articles/2014/02/05/uteach-stem-teacher-prep-program-expands-with-22.5-million-grant.aspx.