“STEMing the Tide: Female Experts and Peers act as “Social Vaccines” that Inoculate Young Women against Stereotypes and Increase their Participation in STEM Careers” Nilanjana Dasgupta is a social psychologist whose work focuses on the effects of social contexts on implicit stereotypes – particularly on factors which insulate women in STEM fields from harmful stereotypes […]
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CNS Women in Science Initiative Lecture and GWIS Reception
Please join us on Monday, March 28 for two special events: The CNS Women in Science Lecture and GWIS Reception immediately following. During the lecture, panelists will discuss what is being done at UMass to promote professional development and gender equity for women in STEM. The following reception is a chance for students, faculty, and […]
GSDSE Spring 2016 Diversity Seminar Series
We are excited to invite you to the GSDSE Spring 2016 diversity seminar series next Thursday and Friday, February 11th and 12th. We are delighted to have Professor Thomas Epps III as our invited seminar speaker. Professor Epps will give a diversity and a technical talk, where he will share with us his views about […]
SDI Diversity Day: Friday April 4th
SDI-Five Colleges, Inc. Distinguished Lecture in ISB221 4:00 From Bench to Boardroom: A Life in Science Lydia Villa-Komaroff, Ph.D. Reception to follow Dr. Villa-Komaroff is a molecular biologist who earned her Ph.D. at MIT in 1975. She was the third Mexican-American woman to earn a science Ph.D. in the United States […]
Announcing the 2nd Annual CNS Women in Science Lecture!
The College of Natural Sciences at the University of Massachusetts Amherst invites you to the 2nd Annual CNS Women in Science Lecture: SUSAN METZ, Senior Research Associate and Director of Diversity & Inclusion at Stevens Institute of Technology “Moving Beyond Fixing the Women to Changing the Culture in Academic STEM Fields,” UMass Student Union Ballroom […]
STEM talk: “Why aren’t more women in science?”
Physics Professor Kathy Aidala is the Department Chair Mount Holyoke College, and will be giving a talk to the STEM audience titled “Why Aren’t More Women in Science?”. Tuesday November 19th at 4pm in Hasabrouck 138 The talk abstract is here: We will examine the differences among the sciences and the assumptions people often make to […]
Upcoming professional development talk by EE alumnus
Mark your calendars! UMass alumnus Jon Roskill ’85 EE, Corporate Vice President of Microsoft Worldwide Partners Group, will share his career experiences in a talk that will cross many disciplines,
