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UT Dallas Strives to Encourage, Support Female STEM Students

UT Dallas doctoral student Ana Salas-Villasenor spends her days in a laboratory researching materials to create more flexible electronic devices. She said pursuing engineering was difficult at first because the field has traditionally been geared toward men.

“I need help using the equipment, not because I didn’t have the skills to use the machines, but because the large size of the machines was designed with men in mind,” she said.

After completing her PhD next year, Salas-Villasenor hopes to work in a science, technology, engineering or math (STEM) field, where her gender will probably be underrepresented. Even though women make up nearly half of the workforce. Read More...

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Gala Event Recognizes Champions of Diversity

It was a gala in every sense of the word: a live jazz band, a capella performances, high heels and dark suits, a choice of filet mignon or salmon and hosted by a prime time TV actress. But the real stars of the night were the recipients of scholarships provided by the Office of Diversity and Community Engagement.

The 2012 Diversity Awards Gala and Scholarship Fundraiser gave opportunities for leaders on campus and corporate representatives to extol the value of enrolling and hiring people from different backgrounds and perspectives at a University. After opening festivities and academic and corporate perspectives about the importance of diversity, two Diversity Scholarship recipients who are also excellent students shared their inspirational journey to UT Dallas, earning standing ovations from the audience of more than 240. Read More...

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Student inspires refugees to study human rights

 

A project on documenting work conditions in the rubber plantations of south-west Thailand landed political science senior Brittany Ellenberg at the forefront of a human rights campaign for Myanmar's refugees last fall.

An internal political conflict within Myanmar has resulted in more than 140,000 Burmese people illegally immigrating to Thailand in search of work and a safe haven, according to an April 2011 Time Magazine article.

Ellenberg's work with the Foundation for Education and Development, or FED, took her to the southern Thai city of Khao Lak, where she intended to record discriminatory employment practices of such refugees, including youth and teenagers, in various Thai plantations and farms.Read More...

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