Serving on the SCWIST Board of Directors is an exciting opportunity to gain leadership experience and express your voice as a woman in STEM while helping SCWIST to promote, encourage and emp… Read More
Oct 24-25: Engendering Success in STEM (ESS) Consortium
Posted on November 11, 2019
SCWIST was honoured to attend the third annual ESS (Engendering Success in STEM) Symposium at UBC this past week. The symposium brought together universities, professional associations, science educat… Read More
SCWIST at Gender Equality Network Canada to Make DIVERSITY Possible
Posted on November 11, 2019
Montreal: November 12 – 14, 2019
SCWIST GENC Leaders (left to right) Fariba Pacheleh, Anja Lanz and Christin Wiedemann
Leaders from SCWIST (Society for Canadian Women in Scien… Read More
WAGE Minister Monsef Meets SCWIST & Community Partners to Advance Gender Equality Across Canada!
Posted on September 29, 2019
STEM Expertise and Strength in Numbers: SCWIST Past Presidents with Minister Monsef (L to R) : Hiromi Matsui, Hilda Ching, Minister Monsef, Fariba Pacheleh, Christine Wiedemann, Maria Issa and Penny… Read More
The Gender Hierarchy Problem in Psychology
Posted on April 30, 2019
by Kassandra Burd
When people think of the field of Psychology, they may be aware that the majority of students who major in this discipline are female; it would only make sense to assume that both ac… Read More
Vienna Lam: finalist, Top 25 Canadian Immigrant Award
Posted on April 20, 2019
SCWIST is proud to announce that Vienna Chichi Lam, Board Member and Director for Youth Outreach, has been chosen as one of the Top 75 Canadian Immigrants. She is now a finalist for the Top… Read More
Making DIVERSITY Possible – One Organization At A Time
Posted on March 31, 2019
Saskatoon, April 1, 2019- In September 2017, the Society for Canadian Women in Science and Technology (SCWIST) initiated the three-year project, Make DIVERSITY Possible, to develop tools for STEM (sci… Read More
SCWIST Receives Funding to Advance Gender Equality in STEM Across Canada
Posted on March 28, 2019
In photo (left to right): SCWIST past president Dr. Maria Gyongyossy-Issa, current president Kelly Marciniw, founders Dr. Diana S. Herbst and Dr. Hilda Ching, Hon. Maryam Monsef, Make Possible Project… Read More
Beyond STEM: STEMinar
Posted on February 15, 2019
by Ashley van der Pouw Kraan
On January 19, Burnaby Central Secondary School was humming with activity as high school students from across the Lower Mainland flocked together to participate in the… Read More
Events round-up: December 2018
Posted on December 19, 2018
Jan 16, 2019
Nobel prize lectures
SFU Faculty of Science & Science World
Celebrate the 2018 Nobel Prizes in Chemistry, Physics and Medicine or Physiology and find out how these discovered changes… Read More