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WiSE milestones

About WiSE

• Women in Science and Engineering (WiSE) Marks 25 Years, Welcomes New Faculty Co-Directors
• Women in Science and Engineering Rise Together, Build the Future

Faculty news

Awards, grants & appointments

• The Building Blocks of Future Smart Materials
• Physicist Marina Artuso Named Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science
• 9 Faculty Honored for Excellence in Graduate Education — including Dr. Jian Qin, a WiSE faculty member.
• BMCE Professor Mary Beth Monroe Receives Young Investigator Award — current Chair of the Norma Slepecky Undergraduate Research Prize and Memorial Lecture.
• MAE Professor Yiyang Sun Receives YIP Award
• Jae Oh and Michelle Blum Named as Associate Deans
• Physics Professor Receives NSF Grant for Work at CERN
• Physics Professor Jennifer Schwarz Honored by the American Physical Society
• Mathematics Professor Claudia Miller Receives NSF Grants to Study Algebra
• 4 STEM Faculty Presented NSF Early-Career Research Awards — Drs. Rachel Steinhardt, Tripti Bhattacharya, Olga Makhlynets, and Alison Patteson.
• Qinru Qiu Named a Distinguished Member of the Association for Computing Machinery — WiSE Faculty Advisor.
• A&S Biology Professor Helping to Shape NSF Funding — Dr. Kari Segraves.
• University Announces Inaugural Renée Crown Honors Professorships — Dr. Heidi Hehnly, WiSE Faculty Advisor.
• NIH ESTEEMED Grant to Enhance Diversity and Elevate Undergraduate Research in Bioengineering — Drs. Shikha Nangia and Julie Hasenwinkel, WiSE Faculty Advisors.
• Lab Focuses on Curing Brain-Related Diseases — Dr. Shikha Nangia’s research, featuring WiSE-FPP Associate Jingjing Ji.
• The Art of Science: Students Participate in University’s First-Ever Bio-Art Class — Dr. Heidi Hehnly’s class, featuring WiSE-FPP Associate Renita Saldanha.
• Eleanor Maine Receives Wasserstrom Prize for Graduate Teaching — WiSE Faculty Advisor.
• Lab’s Synthetic Materials Repair Damaged Tissues and Organs — Dr. Mary Beth Monroe’s research and her work fostering community and equity in STEM.

Student & alumnae news

Achievements & features

• Three Earn National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowships
• Congratulations Mariana L. Perez!
• Virtual Reality Pioneer Mary Spio ’98 Helping to Revolutionize the Industry
• Record Five Syracuse University Students Selected for Prestigious 2024 Goldwater Scholarship
• Biology Professor Named University’s First Partnership for Undergraduate Life Sciences Education Fellow
• New-Fashioned Sustainability — Alexis Peña ’16 (Bioengineering), an early WWoCS member, earned her Ph.D. from Johns Hopkins and founded biotech firm Good Fibes, biomanufacturing natural textile fibers for a circular textile economy.
• BioInspired Institute Research Labs Graduate Student Project — Thalma Orado won the Best Commercialization Potential award; congratulations also to Natalie Petryk (Stevenson Biomaterials Poster Award) and Elizabeth Oguntade, WWoCS Graduate Mentor (Lightning Talk Award).
• Yousr Dhaouadi: Ph.D. Candidate, GSO President Willing to ‘Follow Every Opportunity’ — featuring former WiSE-FPP Associate Yousr Dhaouadi.
• Podcast and Q&A With Speech Language Pathologist Alex Middleton ’22 — featuring WiSE Summer Research participant Alex Middleton.

Heritage & community

Celebrating our community

• Happy Black History Month!
• Recognizing and Celebrating National Native American Heritage Month 2023-2024