UChicago recently opened its doors to the 2023 Girls Advancing in STEM (GAINS) Conference. The three-day event connects high school girls interested in STEM with role models working in STEM fields through technical talks, lab tours and a career mixer.
“The GAINS Conference goals are three-fold,” said GAINS Network Director Monica E. Ortiz, Ph.D. “First, we want to expose our students to what STEM looks like in a university setting; second, we want to help them meet mentors that look like them; and, finally, to grow their network of peers that are similarly passionate about STEM.”
Held in early November, the event included tours across the University and by UChicago’s Pritzker School of Molecular Engineering faculty, staff, and students of the Squires Lab, the Hubbell Lab, the Nagler Lab, the Pritzker Nanofabrication Facility, and the Kawalek Lab, also known as the STAGE (Scientists, Technologists and Artists Generating Exploration) Lab.
PME undergraduate researcher Diangen (Dana) Lin walked the group through the preparing and illuminating individual molecules done every day in the Squires Lab. She said her goal was to give them a “bird’s eye view” showing the fascinating nanoscale single-molecule research work on the other side of academics.
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