We hope to give a strong community of women at UCF the tools necessary to thrive and become more involved within their community. Everyone comes from different backgrounds and functions in different ways, we only hope for this website to assist and allow more students to become involved.
This article was written by Laurie Locasio and goes over her history within STEM. This article provides insight into her upbringing and the significance of women within STEM. This is shown through facts, personal experiences, and is a wonderful read for anyone who wants to know about the growing field of women in STEM.
This article discusses Unesco’s recent campaign “Imagine a World with More Women in Science”. This campaign aims to bring attention to the gender gap within science. Discussing the missed innovations and opportunities, Unesco created this campaign to bring attention to the significance of women in STEM.
This website offers great insight into the current state of STEM for women. NGCP aims to be a website for women in STEM to become more connected and involved in STEM. The sense of community provided through a website like this can be incredibly valuable especially with the emphasis on web based learning.
Katherine Johnson
Katherine Johnson was a mathematician who worked at NASA. She used her analysis of flight paths to improve safety and help send astronauts to the moon. The intricacy which she worked with the lack of technology present at the time is continually praised. She was one of the first African-American women to work at NASA, she sadly passed in 2020.
Susan Kare
Susan Kare is an iconographer who worked at Apple and developed typefaces and Macintosh computer logos. She is now the creative director at Pinterest and her work is still constantly used. Her influence is vast considering the everyday use of typefaces such as New York, Chicago, and Geneva.
Rosalind Franklin
Rosalind Franklin was a British chemist who made major discoveries which pushed towards discovering DNA’s molecular structure. She was discredited for her discoveries at the time but is world renowned today. She died in 1958, without her the DNA model as we know it today would not exist.