by jkorsmeyer | Jan 26, 2023 | Events, Outreach
WiC+ was asked by the advisor of Maine High School’s Women in STEM club to speak with some students about what a career in chemistry is like. Eventually, we decided that the best way to get them excited about STEM would be to show them! On Friday, Feb. 3rd WiC+...
by jkorsmeyer | Sep 20, 2022 | Outreach
For the first time, UChicago hosted the Southside Science Festival (affectionately nicknamed S3F) as an opportunity for students and families to get a taste of all the different science that happens in Hyde Park. On September 17 2022, the UChicago Science Quads was...
by brookeschuster | Dec 7, 2019 | Outreach
Each year, elementary school students from around Southside Chicago visit the University of Chicago with their families to attend “Physics with a Bang!,” hosted by the UChicago Materials Research Science and Engineering Center. On December 7 2019, the GCIS...
by brookeschuster | Oct 8, 2019 | Outreach
WiC hosted their second annual First-Year Mentoring Program with a dinner welcoming the newest class of chemistry women to the department. Mentors and mentees met over a delicious meal at Pizza Capri in our very own Hyde Park. The WiC First-Year Mentoring Program...
by colameta | Jan 30, 2019 | Outreach
Each year, elementary school students from around Southside Chicago visit the University of Chicago with their families to attend “Physics with a Bang!,” hosted by the UChicago Materials Research Science and Engineering Center. On December 8 2018, the GCIS...
by colameta | Aug 1, 2018 | Outreach
Chemistry graduate student Elizabeth Bain led a Girls4Science event at the University of Chicago for two hundred female students from the south side of Chicago. Under the theme the “Science of Beauty,” Elizabeth and fifteen volunteers from Women in Chemistry and the...
