UC s 2015 WISE Program Participants Give Final Presentations July 31

The UC WISE Program encourages women undergraduates to take initiative in research. Urmila Ghia, chair of the program, explains, “Participation in research projects is a significant factor in increasing student retention, and in encouraging talented students to excel. These talented and dedicated young women are the bright future of STEM fields.”

Two summers ago, WISE celebrated 15 years of promoting and sustaining research among women undergraduates. The event was an enormous success, with WISE alumnae from many years sharing their stories.

The WISE REWU Program is sponsored, in part, by the Offices of the Provost and the Vice President for Research; the Graduate School; Commission on the Status of UC Women; McNair Scholars Program; Office of Nationally Competitive Awards; and the support and cooperation of several departments in the Colleges of Arts & Sciences; Engineering and Applied Science; Allied Health; Nursing; and Medicine and Children’s Hospital, by way of their faculty’s participation and committing matching funds. This 12-week program seeks to expose women undergraduates to diverse areas of research early in their education, and to encourage the pursuit of advanced studies in these fields.

This summer, students had the opportunity to conduct research alongside UC’s leading scientists and engineers in a wide range of fields: biology; chemistry; communication sciences & disorders; engineering; environmental sciences; geology; mathematics; physics; nursing; orthopaedic surgery; pediatrics; and science and health (Clermont).

Please feel free to stop by and support these women undergraduates as they take you on their research journey of their first steps toward achieving their career goals.

For more information about the 2015 WISE REWU Program, visit:

http://www.wise.uc.edu/wise/rewu/2015ProgramAnnouncement.pdf