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Spring 2017 WINS Speaker Announced // Nicole Thomas

May 18, 2017 // 5pm – 7pm // IDEA Lab {400 Fluke Hall} The WNF is proud to announce our second Womxn in Nanotechnology and Science (WINS) Speaker: Nicole Thomas. Nicole will introduce some of her current projects at Intel and talk about her transition from academia to industry after graduating. Nicole Thomas graduated from the University of Washington Electrical Engineering program in 2014. In this talk, she will discuss how a company such as Intel can contribute to research efforts by leveraging existing process technologies…

First 2017 WINS Speaker Announced // Zhenya Yuferova

February 2, 2017 // 7pm – 9pm // 119A Fluke Hall The WNF is proud to announce our first Womxn in Nanotechnology and Science (WINS) Speaker: Zhenya Yuferova. Zhenya will speak about her personal experience finding the right career & company, as well as life after graduation in the tech industry. Zhenya Yuferova graduated from the University of Washington Chemical Engineering program in 2015. During college, Zhenya worked for Washington Nanofabrication Facility (WNF) located on UW campus where she gained firsthand knowledge…

Call for Nominations – Womxn in Nanotechnology and Science (WINS) Speaker Series

The WNF requests recommendations for speakers for our new Womxn in Nanotechnology and Science (WINS) Speaker Series. Thanks to a generous gift from the Washington Research Foundation, the WNF will launch a quarterly speaker series focusing on women’s expertise and career accomplishments in Nanotechnology and Science. Our main goal is to reach out to and spike curiosity among womxn students towards careers in Nanotech and Science. Nominations may be from any field within these areas, but whatever the specialty, the…