Today President Biden signed the CHIPS and Science Act, and AWIS CEO, Meredith Gibson, was invited to attend the celebration and witness the historical event. AWIS supports the legislation which will invest billions of dollars to fund...
source: AWIS
Particle physicist Dr. Smita Darmora is a researcher at Argonne National Laboratory, an AWIS partner. She has spent 10 years working on the ATLAS experiment in the Large Hadron Collider at CERN. Find out why she loves particle physics and how her field makes an impact on...
source: AWIS
"As a mixed-race Japanese-American woman, my entire life has been an exercise in navigating and reclaiming spaces that were not built for me," says Claire Hamaji, MPH. Now a human health risk assessor, she shares how...
source: AWIS
Academic scientists value scientific excellence and believe they can judge it accurately. Yet women, people of color and LGBTQ+ scientists, who are just as productive as their white heterosexual male peers, are routinely marginalized and devalued. To address this inequality...
source: Times of Higher Education
It's been an exciting summer for space fans: NASA has set a launch date for Artemis 1, the first stage of an ambitious return to the Moon, and last month saw the release of the first full-color images from the James Webb Space...
source: ZDNet
A huge percentage of the photographic record of Western culture is incredibly boring: Endless large groups of formally dressed, formally arranged men facing the camera. Just look to class pictures from every imaginable school, association,...
source: Smithsonian Magazine
Historically, there has been a severe lack of representation of women, people of color and people with disabilities in technology-adjacent fields. For people in one or more of these groups to picture themselves in a career in technology,...
source: EdTech
We wish we could open our 2022 call for Fiercest Women in Life Sciences nominations with an update that, since last year, more women had broken the glass ceiling that is the CEO chair, but we can't. Emma Walmsley is holding strong at GSK, despite pressure from investors...
source: Fierce Pharma
Gender bias against women in the field of cardiovascular diseases has been known for decades. Women with cardiovascular disorders are more likely to be misdiagnosed and/or undertreated and have higher mortality rates than men.
source: News Medical
Navigating your professional relationships in the workplace can be quite the challenge, especially with the ever-changing landscapes of today's workforce. But whether you're working from home, in the office; whether you're in...
source: Essence
With periods of rapid change often comes some of the most remarkable ingenuity. Over the past few years, we have seen how pressing needs have created space for new innovations and ways of operating. This is especially true as...
source: Ebony
When you walk into Bilt headquarters on Bond Street in Manhattan, it feels like pre-pandemic times. A small group of young employees at the fintech startup sit on a couch talking about their latest projects. Others are busily...
source: MSNBC
Dianna Mazzone writes: I got curious about computer science when I was nine years old. I was watching PBS and they were interviewing someone from MIT who had created a social robot named Kismet. It had big ears that moved. It could smile. I didn't know you could do that...
source: Allure
Showing diverse women in science, technology, engineering and mathematics on social media inspired other women who want, or have, a career in the sciences, according to the results of a case study conducted by Alexandra...
source: Pharmacy Times
It took Ximena Cid three tries to pass her introductory physics class as an undergraduate student at the University of California, Berkeley. Most people would have given up after the first attempt, and certainly after the second. But “I’m really stubborn,”...
source: Symmetry Magazine
