STEM
Tackling gender equity in academic sciences
March 31, 2023By: Aditi Dwivedi, News Writer On January 12, SFU Sci-Space conducted a workshop to help interested students start discourse about the conditions of gender equity and inclusion in the academic sciences, and the changes they want to see in their futures. This is the second year SFU Sci-Space has held a workshop regarding gender equity in STEM. The workshop had both undergraduate and graduate students share their experiences on gender-based violence and marginalization within academic sciences. In an interview with The Peak, Thomas Leischner, the student engagement coordinator for the Sci-Space team, opened up about the idea behind the workshop…
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STEM students need to prioritize academic interaction
February 22, 2021by Jacob Mattie, SFU Student In the 1990s, Dr. Mary M. Tai, a researcher working in diabetes care at New York University, published a paper highlighting a new method to obtain the area under a graph — useful for many…
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Women* supporting women* is the key to our success and identity in STEM
May 24, 2019By: Kitty Cheung, Staff Writer Author’s Note: The asterisks (*) have been included by the writer, as organizers of nwPlus UBC have, in order to “specifically and intentionally include cis and trans women, as well as non-binary, agender and intersex people”…
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AI summer camp aims to encourage high school girls to get involved in STEM
August 3, 2018By: Amal Javed Abdullah, Staff Writer The SFU Faculty of Applied Sciences held Invent the Future, an Artificial Intelligence (AI) summer camp, to encourage girls to pursue science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) fields. During the two…
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SFU PhD student awarded Wendy McDonald “Women to Watch” Diversity Award
June 21, 2018By: Kitty Cheung, SFU Student The Wendy McDonald Diversity Awards, hosted by the Greater Vancouver Board of Trade's Women's Leadership Circle, celebrates gender and diversity in leadership. This year, an SFU engineering PhD student has won in the "Women…
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Gender disparities in engineering and computing science at SFU and its effects on female students
March 13, 2017The contrast in male and female representation in some SFU programs is starker than many students might have thought. For Melissa Mah, a fifth-year student in electronics engineering and co-president of SFU’s Women in Engineering, the disproportionate gender distribution in…
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