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CSWS launches undergraduate fellowship
University of Oregon undergraduate students have a new way to participate in the research mission of CSWS.
Launching this year with funding from the Center's 50th anniversary Duckfunder campaign, the CSWS Undergraduate STEAM Summer Fellowship is intended to create opportunities for cross-disciplinary collaborations among science, technology, engineering, arts, and mathematics (STEAM) faculty and students on campus and to enhance pathways for underrepresented students in STEAM to succeed.
2025 STEAM Fellows
Personal Stories Inspire Summer Undergraduate Research Projects
The Center for the Study of Women in Society has launched a new student-centered research initiative—the CSWS Undergraduate STEAM Summer Fellowship. Over the summer, undergraduate fellows collaborated with University of Oregon faculty mentors to develop interdisciplinary research and creative projects that engage with STEAM fields—science, technology, engineering, arts, and mathematics. Our STEAM fellows approach their inquiry with gender and intersectionality as an analytical framework.
STEAM Research Projects
Video: Anisha Srinivasan
Psychology major Anisha Srinivasan discusses her 2025 summer research study on the intersection of race and gender in memory biases along with her faculty mentor Chanel Meyers, assistant professor of psychology at the University of Oregon.
Video: Alex Underwood
Sociology major Alex Underwood's discusses his 2025 summer project that documents queer histories through intergenerational storytelling and art—specifically portraiture.
Video: Sophia Foerster
Multidisciplinary science major Sophia Foerster discusses her 2025 summer project that explores gaps in medical research about how women’s joints work differently from men's, along with her faculty mentor is Nick Willett, associate professor of bioengineering at the the Phil and Penny Knight Campus for Accelerating Scientific Impact, University of Oregon.