By Karen Updyke, School of Engineering
As we close Women’s History Month, the University of Dayton School of Engineering would like to celebrate two special people: Gerica Brown and Kelly Bohrer who have made positive contributions to our University community and to our society. They were recently designated by the UD Women s Center as two of the fifteen
2021 Women of UD honorees.
Brown and Bohrer exemplify the Center’s theme,
Leading with Character and Resilience, which honors women who have demonstrated tremendous tenacity and courage.
For almost five years, Brown, director of the Multi-Ethnic Engineers Program in the School of Engineering, has been working with the Diversity in Engineering Center in pursuit of diversity, equity and inclusion within the University and the School.
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LAWRENCE IHAWKe, the umbrella organization for diversity and women’s programs at the University of Kansas School of Engineering, is celebrating its 50th anniversary in 2021 with virtual and in-person events, as well as a scholarship fundraising campaign, scheduled throughout the year.
“We want to celebrate the fact that we ve been doing this since 1971,” said Andrew Williams, KU Engineering associate dean for diversity, equity and inclusion. “And it’s been an award-winning program ever since.”
A virtual celebration is planned for April 29. There is also an in-person event expected safety permitting in October.
The organization began life in 1971 as SCoRMEBE, the Student Council for Recruiting, Motivating and Educating Black Engineers, started by Black engineering students at KU: William Nunnery, Gene Kendall and Ralph Temple. Soon after, William Hogan was appointed as the school s first assistant dean of minority affairs.
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LEXINGTON, Ky. (March 15, 2021) “What do you want to be when you grow up?”
As children, we rarely have a good answer for the adults who ask us that question.
As a young girl navigating small-town life in Thomson, Georgia, Savannah Lewis certainly didn’t have the answer. But she always had a strong interest in math and science more specifically, a fascination with electricity and astronomy.
Lewis often wondered, “how can I channel that passion into purpose?”
“Because there are hardly any Black engineers in society, it’s more difficult for Black kids to see that as a possibility for themselves,” she said. “There are kids that have no idea what they are passionate about, because they don’t have the resources available to be exposed to it.”
March 13, 2021
In another Google spotlight for Women’s History Month, the company featured three girls from Washington D.C. set to change the world.
Friends Mikayla Sharrieff, India Skinner, and Bria Snell, knew where they’d do their 270 hours of community service to graduate high school: In3, a place for would-be D.C. entrepreneurs to learn code, develop soft skills, and network.
When the girls’ In3 mentor, Marissa Jennings, suggested that they compete in a NASA contest – the Optimus Prime Spinoff Promotion and Research Challenge (OPSPARC) – the girls, now high school seniors, were excited to develop a “spinoff” of an existing NASA technology.