{"id":130,"date":"2022-07-14T16:15:55","date_gmt":"2022-07-14T20:15:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/scicommers\/?p=130"},"modified":"2022-07-14T16:26:21","modified_gmt":"2022-07-14T20:26:21","slug":"black-womens-experiences-in-stem-inspire-an-annual-workshop","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/scicommers\/2022\/07\/14\/black-womens-experiences-in-stem-inspire-an-annual-workshop\/","title":{"rendered":"Black women\u2019s experiences in STEM inspire an annual workshop"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Publication Date:<\/strong> 5\/10\/2021<br \/>\n<strong>Outlet:<\/strong> Physics Today<br \/>\n<strong>Author:<\/strong> Bryn\u00e9 Hadnott<\/p>\n<h3>Black women\u2019s experiences in STEM inspire an annual workshop<\/h3>\n<h4>The Women+ of Color Project aims to increase representation in STEM PhD programs in the face of a lack of support from academia.<\/h4>\n<p>When LaNell Williams arrived at Harvard University in 2017 to begin a graduate program in physics, several of her peers told her she had been admitted only because she was a Black woman\u2014her 3.9 GPA, NSF Graduate Research Fellowship, and two coauthored scientific papers notwithstanding. During an open house for the incoming class, she asked her fellow students why they thought no other underrepresented racial minority woman had been admitted to the physics department that year. \u201cWe [women of color] hear many different things in those conversations, one of them being that we\u2019re not interested in physics, which isn\u2019t true,\u201d Williams says. \u201cOr that some of us don\u2019t have the pedigree, which is also not true. And then the last thing is that we don\u2019t apply\u2014and in some cases that is true.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/physicstoday.scitation.org\/do\/10.1063\/PT.6.5.20210510a\/full\/\">Read the full article<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Publication Date: 5\/10\/2021 Outlet: Physics Today Author: Bryn\u00e9 Hadnott Black women\u2019s experiences in STEM inspire an annual workshop The Women+ of Color Project aims to increase representation in STEM PhD programs in the face of a lack of support from academia. When LaNell Williams arrived at Harvard University in 2017 to begin a graduate program [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1654,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[8],"tags":[9],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/scicommers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/130"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/scicommers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/scicommers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/scicommers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1654"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/scicommers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=130"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/scicommers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/130\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":135,"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/scicommers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/130\/revisions\/135"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/scicommers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=130"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/scicommers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=130"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/scicommers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=130"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}