Visiting Scholars serve as inspiring role models for students and junior faculty and raise awareness among all faculty and students of the research accomplishments of highly successful female scholars. Furthermore, the Visiting Scholars program provides a forum where junior faculty and other young STEM women can exchange with the Visiting Scholar successful strategies for success as a STEM academic. The WISEST Facilitators organized the 2-day campus visits of the following Visiting Scholars:

• Mar 6-7, 2009 Tejal Desai, Professor of Physiology, Bioengineering Division, University of California - San Francisco, Director, UCSF Laboratory of Therapeutic Micro and Nanotechnology
• Jan 28-29, 2009 Cynthia Barnhart, Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering and Engineering Systems Division, Associate Dean for Academic Affairs, School of Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
• Oct 13-14, 2008 Karen Vogtmann, Professor of Mathematics, Cornell University; Trustee, American Mathematical Society
• Mar 17-18, 2008 Erin K. O’Shea, Professor of Molecular and Cellular Biology and of Chemistry and Chemical Biology, Harvard University, Investigator, Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Director, Harvard FAS Center for Systems Biology
• Mar 13-14, 2008 Mary Lou Soffa, Owen R. Cheatham Professor and Chair of Computer Science University of Virginia
• Mar 13-14, 2008 Lynn M. Walter, Professor of Geological Sciences, University of Michigan
• Nov 5-6, 2007 Shubhra Gangopadhyay, LaPierre Chair and Joint Professor, Departments of Electrical Engineering, Biological Engineering and Physics, University of Missouri Columbia
• Oct 2-3, 2007 Susan Coppersmith, Professor and Chair Department of Physics University of Wisconsin Madison
• Sep 27-28, 2007 Paula T. Hammond, Bayer Chair Professor of Chemical Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

See details about these WISEST Visiting Scholars

At UIC WISEST we also showcase the scholarship of our own STEM women faculty. See recent news about UIC STEM women faculty.