Welcome to Diverse, a podcast by the Society of Women Engineers. SWE gives women engineers a unique place and voice within the engineering community. On Diverse, they highlight incredible thought leaders and personalities in the STEM community and discover who they are at home, at work, and in between. You can stream episodes online or wherever you listen to your favorite podcasts.

The Academy for Creative Media at the University of Hawai‘i–West O‘ahu (ACMWO) created a plan to use Creative Media as a gateway to engage underrepresented students in STEM concepts — a significant step toward supporting the National Science Foundation’s Broadening Participation in Computing (BPC) initiative. BPC, funded under NSF’s Directorate for Computer and Information Science and Engineering, brings together various stakeholders in the computer science and engineering communities to work toward increasing diversity and inclusion in the fields. The BPCnet Resource Portal provides an opportunity for universities nationwide to submit a Departmental BPC Plan - a document that serves to coordinate BPC activities within a college - and have it read and verified by a BPC Consultant. The ACMWO Departmental BPC Plan was verified on June 3 by BPCnet.

Working from both sides of the camera lens, innovative women seized new technologies and transformed how movies look, feel, and entertain. When STEM and the arts collide, creative disruption can change everything. Film is a prime example - constantly reinventing itself with new technology and using it to tell human stories. Though the film industry has largely been male dominated (except for a brief period in the 1920s and early 1930s), women have always found ways to use and even invent technology to make art. Alice Guy-Blaché loved books, theater, and science and was a natural storyteller. In 1895, she attended a Paris demonstration of the Lumière brothers’ newly invented Cinématographe camera. The Lumières’ short actualité film showed a group of factory workers leaving a plant. Guy-Blaché immediately saw film’s potential for creating entertaining stories and was convinced she could do better.

In this video and transcript, NASA astronauts Tracy Dyson and Suni Williams discuss their life and work during an in-flight interview with two leaders from the Society of Women Engineers. On Aug. 6, FY25 SWE President Karen Roth and SWE Past President Heather Doty had a special opportunity to speak with two female astronauts from NASA who are in the midst of missions on the International Space Station. In this conversation, Astronaut Tracy Dyson and Astronaut Suni Williams share their biggest role models, the lessons from engineering school that they still apply today, and how being in space has affected their perspectives about living on earth.

Talk about out-of-this-world advice! Astronaut and mom Kellie Gerardi is on a mission to encourage young girls to feel confident and change the face of STEM. "For Gerardi, an astronaut and dedicated science communicator, it's crucial that young girls, including her 5-year-old daughter Delta, understand that space is for everyone."

Cheshire High School student Suchita Srinivasan shows a medical device she invented, called Cura, for people with a rare neck condition called torticollis, at her home in Cheshire, Conn., on Thursday July 11, 2024. Suchita hopes to eventually have the device made into something the size of a hearing aid that can slipped into one's ear.

Automation and AI are business buzzwords these days. Agility Robotics CEO Peggy Johnson—along with her cohort of “over 50” inventors, scientists and STEM superstars - are leading the charge in advancing these technologies for good.

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Elaine Nkwocha’s love of teaching and STEM began as a child growing up in Nigeria. She shares the journey that led her to teach science, provide mentorship, and advocate for girls and women in STEM.

Who else is so inspired by the BlackAtNASA trend? Recently, Black employees have gone viral for posting their headshots at NASA. Black people are extremely underrepresented in STEM making up only 9% of the STEM workers in the US. At Girls Who Code, they’ve seen firsthand the impact positive representation can have on our students. However, these Black employees are shining a light on diverse representation in STEM using the viral hashtag BlackAtNASA. Learn more about these out-of-this-world Black women making waves in space.