Six students with ties to MIT have been awarded fellowships by the Fannie and John Hertz Foundation: Jeffrey Brown, Liyam Chitayat, Vaibhav Mohanty, Sahil Pontula, Benjamin Spector, and Beatriz Yankelevich.
Undergrads create summer camp to support women in physics
The SPINWIP student organizer team: Amber Yang 21 (top left), Beatriz Yankelevich 21 (top bottom), Serena Debesai 22(bottom left) and Sophie Decoppet 21 (bottom right). (Photo courtesy of Beatriz Yankelevich)
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Women earn less than a quarter of physics bachelor’s degrees, but a group of Stanford undergraduate women are seeking to change that.
The Stanford Program for Inspiring the Next Generation of Women in Physics (SPINWIP), a virtual three-week summer camp for high schoolers, seeks to expose women and first-generation low-income (FLI) youth to the possibilities of careers in physics and STEM and is taught entirely by women.