Women in STEM — A celebration of excellence and curiosity
An MIT Values event showcased three women’s career journeys and how they are paving the way for the next generation.
Early-career women share their professional discoveries and personal journeys on the cutting edge of healthcare and medical technology
Thriving Stars panel: women leaders share career wisdom
This year’s panelists were: Jelena Notaros, Assistant Professor of EE in EECS at MIT; Neha Sardesai, senior application engineer of education at MathWorks; Lila Snyder, CEO of Bose Corporation; Grace Wang, litigating high tech patent attorney at Allen and Overy, LLC; and Songyee Yoon, president and chief strategy officer of video gaming giant NCSOFT.
6.9930 New Women in EECS Seminar: another fun semester of conversation and networking underway!
For the fall term 2022, 6.9930 New Women in EECS Seminar is off to a terrific start! The seminar, originally offered in 2005, is now starting its 18th…
Grace Hopper Celebration: a place of our own
MEng student Jeanne Harabedian found her place at the legendary conference for women in STEM.
$7 Million Gift from the Shiv Nadar Foundation Bolsters Undergraduate Research and Women in EECS
The gift will help establish the Vamasundari Devi Fellowship Fund to provide financial support to graduate students and will support the SuperUROP program, which provides undergraduates with two-semester research opportunities.
EECS Graduate Women’s Annual Research Summit Increases Research Visibility and Strengthens Community
Summit features the latest research of women and other underrepresented genders in MIT EECS, along with an opportunity to network, share experiences, and learn.
Women’s Technology Program 2021: the sweet sound of success
The Women’s Technology Program (WTP), now in its 19th year, brings high school students with little to no engineering and computer science experience to Cambridge every summer for an immersive, four-week exploration of all things engineering. But in the summer of 2021, the unprecedented public health challenge of COVID forced the staff of the summer program to reimagine WTP—labs, hands-on classes, team-based projects, and all—as an exclusively online offering.
3 Questions: Maaya Prasad and Kathleen Esfahany on Vision, Perception, and the Poetry of Science
EECS students Kathleen Esfahany and Maaya Prasad have been featured in the prominent “Poetry of Science” exhibits.
MIT EECS unveils a new effort designed to encourage and support women on their journey to–and through–graduate study in computing and information technologies.