We are excited for our upcoming 5th Annual Women in STEM Research Symposium! Planning is underway and we look forward to seeing you all Wednesday March 27, 2019. If you are interested in submitting an abstract for either a poster or oral presentation, please click here. We are also looking for judges! Click here to volunteer.
Have a story about your experience as a woman in STEM at UTK?
Introducing #UTKHerStorySTEM, a new campaign from Pipeline: Vols for Women in STEM aimed to showcase women in STEM here at UT, while encouraging others to pursue careers in STEM. If you're interested in having yourself and your research featured on our website and social media pages, click below to fill out our form!
Introducing #UTKHerStorySTEM, a new campaign from Pipeline: Vols for Women in STEM aimed to showcase women in STEM here at UT, while encouraging others to pursue careers in STEM. If you're interested in having yourself and your research featured on our website and social media pages, click below to fill out our form!
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Even though women make up half of the U.S. workforce and are leaving high school with equal interest in science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM) fields, further along in the career pipeline, numbers start to diverge. Across the STEM fields, women make up just 24%, and these numbers are even worse for women of color, and women in leadership positions. Equal representation and inclusion of women and minorities in STEM fields is essential for research & innovation and maintaining U.S. competitiveness in the global scientific community.
Pipeline: Vols for Women in STEM was formed to help enable and encourage this by starting right here in Knoxville, Tennessee. First, we aim to answer the following questions:
1) What are the gender distributions in STEM fields at UT?
2) Where is there inequity, and why might that be occurring?
3) What can we do to improve the status and representation of women and minorities in STEM at UT?
This year, our goals include:
We aim to serve as a campus-wide support system that fosters an environment of interdisciplinary engagement while providing networking and professional development opportunities in STEM fields.
Our organization consists of undergraduate and graduate students, post-docs, faculty & staff dedicated to promoting diversity and equity on campus and within the academic and professional research communities. If you have a passion for equity, diversity, or promoting awareness of women’s issues, we want to work with you!
For more information, join our mailing list, visit our Facebook & Twitter, or check back here for more updates!
Even though women make up half of the U.S. workforce and are leaving high school with equal interest in science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM) fields, further along in the career pipeline, numbers start to diverge. Across the STEM fields, women make up just 24%, and these numbers are even worse for women of color, and women in leadership positions. Equal representation and inclusion of women and minorities in STEM fields is essential for research & innovation and maintaining U.S. competitiveness in the global scientific community.
Pipeline: Vols for Women in STEM was formed to help enable and encourage this by starting right here in Knoxville, Tennessee. First, we aim to answer the following questions:
1) What are the gender distributions in STEM fields at UT?
2) Where is there inequity, and why might that be occurring?
3) What can we do to improve the status and representation of women and minorities in STEM at UT?
This year, our goals include:
- Expand our Mentoring Program to include not only undergraduate and graduate students but post-docs and faculty as well to encourage communication and provide a multi-level supportive community across campus
- Host the 4th Annual Women in STEM Research Symposium to highlight the breadth and caliber of research being conducted by self-identifying women researchers here in Knoxville
- Establish a new Intersectionality Committee to encourage dialogue on campus that explicitly acknowledges the unique experiences of all underrepresented groups in STEM including but not limited to, women of color, different ability, socioeconomic status, gender identity, sexual orientation, political perspective, nationality, and/or religion
- Continue to collect data within our Data & Statistics Committee across all STEM departments including those often left out of the conversation like nursing, psychology, kinesiology, etc. to better understand what the distributions and conditions are like here at UT
We aim to serve as a campus-wide support system that fosters an environment of interdisciplinary engagement while providing networking and professional development opportunities in STEM fields.
Our organization consists of undergraduate and graduate students, post-docs, faculty & staff dedicated to promoting diversity and equity on campus and within the academic and professional research communities. If you have a passion for equity, diversity, or promoting awareness of women’s issues, we want to work with you!
For more information, join our mailing list, visit our Facebook & Twitter, or check back here for more updates!
Looking to get involved?Check our Ways To Join page
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