The STEMinist: Recent Episodes
WeSTEM
A bi-weekly podcast about all things STEM and women empowerment in the field. Join the members of weSTEM in NYU Abu Dhabi as we talk about everything cool happening on campus, in the UAE, and around the world.
weSTEM is back with a brand new episode of the STEMinist, our very own podcast and radio show! Tune in at 7 pm today at radio.nyuad.im for 40 minutes of Ria talking to Nicole Adoranti from the CDC about networking, grad school applications, mansplaining, and everything in between. Want a career in STEM, be it in industry or the academia? Then you will find something useful for sure.
Links: "Why do so many women leave engineering?" article - https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2016/11/why-do-so-many-women-leave-engineering?utm_content=buffer3f45f&utm_medium=social&utm_source=facebook.com&utm_campaign=buffer "Persistence is Cultural" study - http://journals.sagepub.com/doi/pdf/10.1177/0730888415618728 "Disrupting the Status Quo of Gender Roles" World Economics Forum Annual Meeting - https://www.weforum.org/events/world-economic-forum-annual-meeting-2017/sessions/disrupting-the-status-quo-of-gender-roles Power poses study - https://www0.gsb.columbia.edu/mygsb/faculty/research/pubfiles/4679/power.poses_.PS_.2010.pdf
So what is design thinking, and why does it even matter? Lama discusses the importance of design thinking and the workshop in collaboration with Girls Education Network for high school girls.
Join us for an extended episode talking all about the Open Studios event that happened on campus as well as the Interactive Media program here at NYUAD, with discussions of virtual reality, the benefit of workshops, as well as encouraging more girls to join technology fields. Featuring interviews with students in IM as well as the IM professor Pierre Depaz.
This podcast is hosted by WeSTEM at NYU in Abu Dhabi.
The gender gap for women in STEM fields is a growing issue in our world today. As awareness grows, it's important to ask ourselves, why does it matter? This podcast answers the questions surrounding the importance of promoting gender equality for women in STEM fields.
This podcast is hosted by WeSTEM at NYU in Abu Dhabi.