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Women in STEM Roundup – Week of January 27, 2014
Here’s the Women in STEM articles this week of January 27, 2014…
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“Boy” toys vs. “Girl” toys – Why do we have to label?
There has been a lot of talk about “boy” vs “girl” toys lately — from the Huffington post article about the 1981 Lego ad to the story behind the stereotype of video games being for boys. Elly Vila Dominicis recently posted about “girl” vs “boy” toys at McDonalds: Some days, I was curious, or I…
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Women in Engineering, Interview with Ariel Ash-Shakoor, NSF IGERT Fellow & Bioengineering Graduate Student
Though it was a difficult journey, Ariel Ash-Shakoor was always interested in the medial, health, and science fields. She enjoyed solving problems and creating stories. She is currently a bioengineering graduate student at Syracuse University and a proud alumni of the Univeristy of Maryland, College Park which is located close to her hometown by the District…
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Women in STEM Events for Week of January 27, 2014
STEM events for Women happening this week of January 27, 2014… Monday, January 27 – Wednesday, January 29 Society of Thoracic Surgeons 50th Annual Meeting (Orlando, FL) Friday, January 31 Science and Engineering of the Winter Olympics (Arlington, VA) Saturday, February 1 National Society of Black Engineers 2014 K-12 Engineers Week Program (Chicago, IL) Intro to…
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Women in STEM Roundup – Week of January 20, 2014
Here’s the Women in STEM articles this week of January 20, 2014…
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Women in Science: Interview with Laura Douglass, President & CEO, Next Generation Clinical Research
Laura Douglass started out as an ICU/surgical nurse and moved into drug research, becoming a Clinical Director of a major life science company. She eventually went on to found and lead 2 banks dedicated to funding science research and is on numerous boards, as well as volunteering on a community medical team. She shares how…
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STEM Events for Week of January 20, 2014
STEM events for Women happening this week of January 20, 2014….
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Women in STEM Roundup – Week of January 13, 2014
Here’s the Women in STEM articles this week of January 13, 2014…
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Why I Became a Computer Engineer
Maybe it was the Matchbox cars, Transformers and Legos I played with as a kid. Maybe it was hanging around the high school physics lab waiting for my father, who was a physics teacher (later switching to computer science). Maybe it was the fact that we had a computer at home for as long as…
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Women in Technology: Interview with Marlin Page, Founder of Sisters Code
After college, Marlin Page was an aspiring Mortician, until she learned to code in 7-different languages in a 13-week boot camp. Her accidental entry into the tech field literally changed her life over night. She went on to develop software, became a technology executive at a fortune 500 company, served as Deputy CIO for the…