Women in STEM

  • Driving Scientific Innovation

    Driving Scientific Innovation

    Autism and Brain Neurons: Discovering Genes Behind Hypersensitivity Dr. Leena Ali Ibrahim is a Palestinian-Bulgarian Assistant Professor of Bioscience at King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST) and a rising star in the field of sensory processing and brain development. Currently leading a research lab at KAUST, her...
  • Enabling Impact Via Broader Understanding of Disease Prevention, Management

    Enabling Impact Via Broader Understanding of Disease Prevention, Management

    Study of Respiratory Infections and The Effectiveness of Treatments Dr.Hiam Chemaitelly is a Lebanese Assistant Professor of Research in Population Health Sciences at Weill Cornell Medicine-Qatar, whose research has had a significant global impact, particularly in the study of respiratory infections, including COVID-19, respiratory syncytial virus, and influenza. Her...
  • Combining Scientific Rigor With Tangible Real-world Impact And Delivering Justice

    Combining Scientific Rigor With Tangible Real-world Impact And Delivering Justice

    Tell us about yourself, where you are from and a bit about your childhood that led you to choose your career and educational path. My name is Entesar Al-Hetlani, and I am a professor at Kuwait University. From a young age, I was captivated by the wonders of the...
  • Disrupting Cyberspace

    An All-Female Team of Students Wins Day 1 of the 5th Edition of the UAE CyberQuest....
  • Tunisian STEMinsts: In a League of Their Own

    Today, almost 99 percent of women in Tunisia are educated, epitomizing the modern Arab woman. Playing a pivotal role in the torrential Arab Spring that swept across the MENA region – with divergent tides elsewhere – here women not only participated actively in the revolution but have scaled new...
  • NYU Abu Dhabi engaging women via weSTEM

    Scientific innovation is essential in all fields of life in the contemporary, globalized world. The Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (STEM) workforce is crucial to the world’s economic competitiveness and innovative capacity. Ironically, women who make up approximately 50 percent of the workforce of the developed world are disproportionately...
  • What is pushing women out of STEM?

    The importance of women’s participation in economic activities on global, regional and local levels cannot be emphasized enough. Comprising half of the population of the world, women’s inclusion leads to sustainable development. Technology is the driving force behind the fourth industrial revolution and women are called the next billion...
  • Disrupting the status quo in STEM

    The driving force behind 21st century’s industrial revolution has primarily been advancements made in the fields of Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM). And it is certainly not rocket science to see and perceive that women’s participation have played a pivotal role in driving economic growth stemming from these...
  • Is there space for girls in STEM?

    Women Engineers Pakistan and Ananke Magazine strive towards one mission, that is, women empowerment in every realm possible. STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics) is one of the fields where women’s representation is currently quite low. It’s this that has given way to this research whose purpose is to...
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