CWD in the News
From 2010 - To Present
+ Race Matters When Recruiting, Retaining Undergraduate Women Engineers | July 19th, 2011
UW Today published an article about our recent findings concerning the significant differences between the challenges black, Hispanic, Native American, Asian American, and white women face in attempts to both recruit and retain women in undergraduate engineering programs - data previously presented at the annual meeting of the American Society for Engineering Education in Vancouver, B.C.
+ Proposal Accepted for AAAS 2012 | June 29th, 2011
The Annual Meeting Program Committee for the 2012 AAAS Annual Meeting (Vancouver, February 16 - 20th) has accepted our proposal for a 180-minute symposium titled: "Connecting Education and Research on Retention in Engineering".
+ Nature: Network for Women | June 29th, 2011
Issue 474 of the journal Nature featured an article concerning the online network facilitated by the nanotechnology and gender workshop, directed by Suzanne G. Brainard at the Center for Workforce Development. The online network will give female nanoscientists career-development tools and services to help them gain traction in an otherwise male-dominated field.
+ Honorable Mention: Intersections of Gender and Race in Engineering Education" | June 2011
The American Society for Engineering Education’s Women in Engineering Division awarded a certificate of honorable mention for best paper to Litzler, Mody-Pan, and Brainard for their paper entitled “Intersections of Gender and Race in Engineering Education.” The paper is accessible to the public here.
+ Suzanne G. Brainard Diversity STEM Scholarship | May 10th, 2011
The Suzanne G. Brainard Diversity STEM Scholarship was established to recognize the remarkable work of Dr. Brainard by awarding an annual scholarship to an exceptional student who impacts STEM diversity. As founder of UW WiSE (Women in Science and Engineering), and co-founder of WEPAN (Women in Engineering Program Advocates Network), Dr. Suzanne Brainard has influenced countless female scientists and engineers. She has been a trusted mentor and a passionate advocate for diversity at the UW.
+ AAAS News Release: Interaction with Faculty, Other Mentors Could Warm Up “Chilly” Engineering Classes for Women and Minorities | April 15th, 2010
Also mentioned in the May 2010 E-Newsletter of AAAS Advances, Molly McElroy of AAAS.org wrote an article featuring information about PACE and the PACE conference in which Deans of engineering colleges explored ways to improve the dearth of women and minorities in engineering and cited better mentoring and increased research opportunities as retention strategies. Preliminary analysis of the survey results were presented during a 17 March presentation at a workshop for participants in the Project to Assess Climate in Engineering (PACE), hosted by AAAS. About 20 deans and administrators from engineering schools attended the 17-18 March PACE meeting at AAAS. Students from their schools had participated in the PACE survey, and the educators had received the survey results along with individualized recommendations on how to reduce attrition of women and minorities at their schools.