AWIS Community Expectations
March 25, 2025
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Please review the AWIS Code of Ethics and Code of Conduct to understand behavior expectations, consequences, and the complaint review process.
Please review the AWIS Code of Ethics and Code of Conduct to understand behavior expectations, consequences, and the complaint review process.
Until we are willing to acknowledge people’s sexual orientation and gender identity, we will not be able to create truly inclusive STEM communities.
An interview with Crystal R. Emery on broadening participation in science and medicine through innovative media and programs.
When microbiologists Ariangela Kozik, PhD and Kishana Taylor, PhD decided to launch #BlackInMicrobiology, they had no idea that in less than a year, they’d be at the helm of a nonprofit, taking their goals to the next level.
To help increase the diversity of patent holders, AWIS is hosting a panel of experts to share lessons learned.
Stay tuned! AWIS is offering new scholarships to support the professional development and advancement of AWIS members.
Activate is a non-profit which supports entrepreneurial scientists and engineers through a paid, two-year fellowship. In this case study, Activate reflects on its work with AWIS to improve its fellow recruitment outreach.
This AWIS Fact Sheet discusses methods to accelerate inclusion and diversity in the workplace.
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AWIS research deepens the understanding of the leadership barriers STEM women face and steps to create more inclusive leadership cultures.
STEM to Market participant Dr. Maria Artunduaga won an NSF Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) grant, worth $225,000, for her innovative start-up.
This study found that while the department placed an emphasis on research, it did so in a way that, in conjunction with a lack of communication and transparency, devalued teaching and mentoring, and negatively impacted the professional development, education, and sense of belonging of the students.
Building a brighter outlook for women in STEM is best accomplished by implementing innovative approaches to systemic change. AWIS research shows how intersectionality can achieve STEM equity.
In Nature Human Behaviour, Heather Metcalf illustrates historical notions of scientific inferiority underlie contemporary beliefs about scientific talent, or lack of it, in women and minority groups.
Women have long been underrepresented and underrecognized in mathematics disciplines, despite significant contributions they have made to the field.
As AWIS focuses on diversifying the workplace, they recognize unearned privileges in their and acts on inequalities by taking responsibility to end patterns of injustice.
With women in STEM still experiencing inequalities in the workplace, AWIS offers some final recommendations for researchers seeking to broaden the science of broadening participation.
How to effectively conduct research on STEM workplaces from an intersectionality perspective remains a scientific grand challenge that, left unaddressed, inhibits our ability to understand and create equitable and inclusive STEM workplaces.
The State of Women in Engineering session was designed to shed light on some of the most important trends that are affecting the advancement of women in engineering, drawing from key research findings.
AWIS Director of Research and Analysis, Dr. Heather Metcalf, calls for science to clean up its act in her article published today in Scientific American.
As part of a collection of peer-reviewed articles addressing Women’s Under-representation in Engineering and Computing: Fresh Perspectives on a Complex Problem, AWIS Director of Research and her co-authors discuss their longitudinal research on academic computing culture and steps necessary for change.
This research methods Essay details the usefulness of critical theoretical frameworks and critical mixed-methodological approaches for life sciences education research on broadening participation in the life sciences.
Much research points to the myriad stratification, cultural barriers, stereotypes, micro-aggressions, and biases women and people from historically underrepresented racial and ethnic backgrounds experience in STEM.