- AWIS
- AWIS is a national advocacy organization championing the interests of women in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics across all disciplines and employment sectors. By breaking down barriers and creating opportunities, AWIS strives to ensure that women in these fields can achieve their full potential.
- CISER Home Page
- CISER is primarily funded by the Howard Hughes Medical Institute Undergraduate Science Education Program. CISER, in partnerships with the Region 17 Education Service Center (ESC), the Texas High School Project, the TTU TSTEM Center, and the Noyce grant at TTU, supports professional development activities for preservice and inservice STEM teachers.
- Mums (Moms) in Science
- This site has been designed as a portal for busy mums who work or have worked in science.
Too many women leave science due to the constraints of motherhood. Some struggle, and work part time, at the expense of advancing their career. Others change their career to fit in with their children, whilst working within some area of science.
- PoWERS
- The Partnership of Women in Engineering, Research, and Science (PoWERS) was formed when the National Science Foundation (NSF) ADVANCE PAID grant was awarded. The purpose of the grant is to increase the number of women faculty in engineering, science, pharmacy, and medicine at Texas Tech University (TTU) and Texas Tech University Health Science Center (HSC). PoWERS is a collaborative project between the TTU College of Engineering, TTU College of Arts and Sciences, HSC School of Pharmacy, and the HSC School of Medicine. The project includes a collection of initiatives over three years that will enhance and augment existing recruiting, retention, and promotion efforts for women faculty.
- SWE Chapter at TTU
- SWE, The Society of Women Engineers, is a national, non-profit service organization dedicated to making known the need for women engineers and encouraging young women to consider an engineering education. SWE stimulates women to achieve full potential in careers as engineers and leaders, expands the image of the engineering profession as a positive force improving the quality of life, and demonstrates the value of diversity.
- "How to Get a Life in the Life Sciences" by William Wickner
- This article was published in the American Society of Cell Biology Newsletter, Vol. 27, No. 9, in September of 2004. William Wickner is the James C. Chilcott 20 Distinguished Professor of Biochemistry in the Department of Biochemistry at Dartmouth University.
- TTU Career Center
- The Texas Tech University Career Center can be a valuable resource in searching and applying for internships and jobs.
- What Can I Do With This Major?
- The Texas Tech Career Center provides many resources for students to help find a career. This link offers resources to help determine career possibilities based on your major.
- WISE
- The Women in Science and Engineering Learning Community provides a unique experience for female students pursuing studies in science, technology, engineering and mathematics to live together in an environment supporting their academic, personal and professional success.
- News from the National Academies
- Although women are still underrepresented in the applicant pool for faculty positions in math, science, and engineering at major research universities, those who do apply are interviewed and hired at rates equal to or higher than those for men, says a new report from the National Research Council. Similarly, women are underrepresented among those considered for tenure, but those who are considered receive tenure at the same or higher rates than men
- How Women Can Save the Planet
- Scientifc American Nov. 2009: Empowering young women through education will help reduce overpopulation in areas that cannot support it and avoid extremism in the children they raise. The root cause of the looming energy problem—and the key to easing environmental, economic and religious tensions while improving public health—is to address the unending, and unequal, growth of the human population. And the one proven way to reduce fertility rates is to empower young women by educating them.
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