The annual Women in STEM: Breaking Barriers (WiSTEM) conference at UCLA connected students and professionals with prominent women in STEM for the second consecutive year.
The April 7-8 conference featured dozens of speakers in 28 sessions. The event focused once again on helping participants navigate career paths, from high school to undergraduate and graduate education, as well as post-graduation careers.
This year’s WiSTEM planning team consisted of students from various departments within the UCLA Samueli School of Engineering as well as students in the physical sciences at UCLA and Brown University. The group sought to expand programming for this year’s conference by bringing in new speakers and topics.
“We’re trying to approach some of these topics from a different viewpoint and a different lens so that we can get a fuller picture for individuals to try to get lessons…
