Professor Mukerji aspires for Inclusion in STEM to serve as a source of empowerment for students.
Author: Isabella Polyn
New student group focuses on getting students into research on campus
“What does research mean to you?” To the co-founders of Wesleyan’s newest student organization, WesSir, research is aplatform for cultivating a community. Founded this summer by Shekinah Mba (’26), Ethan Chu (’26), Diana Tran (’26), LaurenEldarazi (’26), and Abigail Oduro (’27), WesSir hopes to increase students’ comfort withfinding research opportunities and contacting faculty members. In…
Catching up with Tere Padilla-Benavides
With three years passing from Inclusion in STEM’s first interview of Professor TeresitaPadilla-Benavides, it was more than time for an update about MB&B’s Assistant Professor. 2023 was as an eventful year for the Padilla-Benavides lab, with the NIH providing an approximately 1.9 million dollar grant, R01, to cover all indirect and direct costs of research. Citing…
Advice from Seniors to First Years
I feel like my main advice would just be to be a person and talk to your professors, because they’re also people, and they have also been through the struggles of being a student. Going to your professors and talking to them, and just being honest from a place of I’m struggling with this, or…