As we begin the festive season and draw this year to a close, a huge shoutout to our wonderful team (https://t.co/OCfkAaWmXG) that brainstormed and organised wonderful initiatives- wine&cheese, coffee & mentorship, discussion dinner and outreach events
Say hi to our Mentorship Coordinator- Stephanie Taylor- a 4th year PhD candidate in Materials Science and Engg๐๐๐
Fun facts: the #PeriodicTable brings Stephanie tremendous joy. And her #FavFood is grapes. She says, โThey are ambrosia. Top-tier morsel. Iโd eat grapes any day!โ
As we enter the last couple of weeks of Fall Quarter, we want to introduce our wonderful board and thank the members for putting together some awesome events (and planning many more for 2024) So brace yourselves as the awesomeness unfolds!
As we enter the last couple of weeks of Fall Quarter, we want to introduce our wonderful board and thank the members for putting together some awesome events (and planning many more for 2024) So brace yourselves as the awesomeness unfolds!
Members of our board attended #WE23@SWEtalk and have aWEsome things to say! We enjoyed hearing about their experiences and are excited to share them with you ๐ฉ๐ฝโ๐๐ฉ๐ผโ๐ฌ๐ฉ๐พโ๐ป๐ฉ๐ปโ๐ซ Having #WE23 on home territory made it extra special!
Such a fun, informative and honest workshop led by Stephanie Taylor (@GradSWEUCLA) and @swe_ucla! The comic-book style slide deck had everything you needed to know about applying to grad school.
Happening today at 6 pm, Boelter Hall Penthouse! โTis the season for grad school applications ๐๐ Join us and @swe_ucla as we discuss our paths to grad schools and pointers to remember as you pick schools to apply to. Come for the cool flyer, stay for the magic of grad life.
The GradSWE panelists shared their journeys to grad school and learnings from their experiences. Hereโs how excited the panelists (some missing!) were, to talk about how school-is-cool!
Happening today at 6 pm, Boelter Hall Penthouse! โTis the season for grad school applications ๐๐ Join us and @swe_ucla as we discuss our paths to grad schools and pointers to remember as you pick schools to apply to. Come for the cool flyer, stay for the magic of grad life.
Caitlyn is a third year PhD candidate in @UclaCBE (home dept. @uclachem). She loves spending time with friends & family (and of course @GradSWEUCLA :) and spreading her love for chemistry through teaching and empowering others. Congratulations, Caitlyn!
Time to announce our next scholarship winner ๐ฅ๐ฅ
Caitlyn Fick (@cayditty) has been awarded the GradSWE @ UCLA Empowerment Scholarship 2023 for her efforts in empowering and inspiring peers ๐ฅณ โจ
One of three GradSWE@UCLA scholarships, this one recognises the inspirational journey of graduate students pursuing a Ph.D. and their vision for inspiring change.
We are very pumped to announce the winner of the GradSWE@UCLA Inspiration Scholarship ๐ฅEllin Q. Zhao (@ellin_zhao)! Ellin is a 2nd year PhD student in @ECE_UCLA, broadly researching computational imaging and computer vision. Congratulations Ellin! ๐
Ellin says, โOver the years, Iโve been supported by so many amazing women-without them, I would not be pursuing a Ph.D. I hope to continue this chain of mentorship, and to make STEM fields more accessible for young womenโ
On International Day of Women in Engineering, we want to give a huge shoutout to all the women who are engineering change, one day at a time, one innovation at a time, one discovery at a time! ๐ท๐งโโ๏ธ๐งช
Last week we held our last board meeting of the year! Itโs a wrap on a very eventful and exciting year of social, professional, outreach and fun initiatives.
Weโre all set for our last event of the year- Coffee & Chat!
Join us in Boelter Hall 3440 (Connections Lab) for piping hot coffee, oatmeal, muffins and wonderful conversations โ๏ธ
This quarter we revived our book club, led by board member Stephanie! Our first book is The Patriarchs by Angela Saini. We discussed our favorite quotes and empowering aspects from the book, and shared personal experiences and stories.