The Women in STEM Research Symposium returns to UT on March 21, bringing together students, faculty, and researchers for a day recognizing and strengthening the role of women in science, technology, engineering, and math fields.

The event, now in its third year, has grown to include people from other universities and features talks, presentations, and discussions in various rooms of Hodges Library on issues impacting women in STEM fields.

“The unique thing is that it’s a local professional conference meant to highlight the phenomenal research being conducted here at UT,” said Mallory Ladd, a National Science Foundation graduate research fellow and doctoral candidate in UT’s Bredesen Center for Interdisciplinary Research and Graduate Education. Ladd is co-head of the group organizing the event, Pipeline: Vols for Women in STEM.

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