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  • Building Resilience During Challenging Times

    March 31, 2020

    Georgia Tech ERG offers virtual workshops and courses for the campus community.

  • Student Emergency Funding Now Available

    March 23, 2020

    The Division of Student Life, the Alumni Association, and the Office of Development are partnering to collect and distribute emergency funding through the Georgia Tech Parents Fund and Roll Call to support students in need.

  • Mary Frank Fox Elected AAAS Section Chair

    January 28, 2020

    Mary Frank Fox, ADVANCE Professor in the School of Public Policy, has been elected Chair of the Social, Economic and Political Sciences Section of the American Association for the Advancement of Science.

  • Georgia Tech Receives INSIGHT Into Diversity HEED Award for Sixth Consecutive Year

    September 20, 2019

    Georgia Tech has received the 2019 Higher Education Excellence in Diversity (HEED) Award from INSIGHT Into Diversity magazine. This is the sixth consecutive year the Institute has been a recipient of the award.

  • Gift to Tech Awarded to CDAC/WST Menstrual Product Program

    April 16, 2019

    The CDAC/WST Menstrual Product Program, a pilot program offering free menstrual products to campus, is the 2019 Gift to Tech winner. The project will receive approximately $30,000 for programmatic support.

  • Stronger Together

    October 11, 2018

    Through its ADVANCE program, Georgia Tech is working to increase representation and advancement of women in academic, science and engineering careers.
     

  • Why STEM Students Need Gender Studies

    June 26, 2014

    Carol Colatrella, LMC Professor, WST Co-Director, and Associate Dean for Graduate Studies and Faculty Affairs in Ivan Allen College of Liberal Arts at Georgia Tech published an article about the university's initiatives in the May-June 2014 issue of Academe, a publication of the American Association of University Professors. The article can be viewed online at http://www.aaup.org/article/why-stem-students-need-gender-studies

  • GEMS Club wins 2013 CETL award

    March 7, 2013

    The team of educators and volunteers contributing to Girls Excelling in Math and Science (GEMS) Club, a joint initiative sponsored by the Center for the Study of Women, Science, and Technology (WST) and Inman Middle School, an Atlanta Public School, will receive the 2013 Educational Partnership Award from Georgia Tech's Center for the Enhancement of Teaching and Learning at the spring Georgia Tech Faculty Honors Lunch on April 10, 2013. The GEMS partnership includes WST Co-directors Mary Lynn Realff and Carol Colatrella; Georgia Tech students Mehran D'Souza (ISYE), Natalie Payne (BME), Mercedes Shannon (MGT), Lu Ling (BME), and Andrea Del Risco (ISYE); and Inman Middle School Principal Paula Herrema and 7th grade science teacher Candice Price.

  • WitsOn Online STEM Mentoring Program

    October 1, 2012

    Calling Georgia Tech faculty and students interested in WitsOn, an online pilot program
    sponsored by Piazza and Harvey Mudd College that will run from October 1 to
    November 9, 2012. WitsOn will connect undergraduate students pursuing STEM degrees
    with female mentors from industry and academia who can speak from personal
    experience about issues of particular concern to young women. Georgia Tech is a lead institution on the project.

  • Brand new WST website

    August 10, 2012

    WST has a new website, rolled out for fall 2012 term. Send notices of events and news items to wst.lrn.c@gmail.com.

  • Mary Frank Fox speaking at the STEM Diversity US Higher Education Forum - Bayer Foundation

    April 18, 2012

    Dr. Mary Frank Fox, Co-Director, Center for Study of Women, Science and Technology, Georgia Institute of Technology speaks at the STEM Diversity US Higher Education Forum about STEM department chairs and their efforts to recruit and retain female and underrepresented minority STEM undergraduate students. Watch the forum at  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cqowkZIZw9Y

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