oSTEM @ UC Santa Cruz
Creating a Brighter Future
About Our oSTEM Chapter
Providing diverse queer representation in STEM
We are a graduate student run organization that works to recruit queer-identifying STEM scientists from various disciplines to come to our campus and give a 2-part seminar. Our goal is to broaden the visual representation of a scientist and provide a more inclusive picture of people in STEM. To do this, we host seminars as outlined below:
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Seminar Part 1. Large group seminar
Research-focused talk (~40 min. with ~5 min. Q&A)
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Lunch.
Lunch provided by oSTEM or a supporting department (METX, CB3, MCDB, etc).
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Seminar Part 2. Small focus group
Experience-centric discussion surrounding queer experiences in a STEM trajectory (~45 min.)
oSTEM Leadership Team
Get to Know Us
Vanessa T. Mariscal
oSTEM Co-President
Allyson McAtamney
oSTEM Co-President
Radcliff Huffman
oSTEM Vice President
oSTEM Treasurer
Francesca Pavlovici
oSTEM Seminar Organizer
Jackson Calhoun
oSTEM Member
Tyler DeWitt
oSTEM Founder & Former President
Hannah Maul-Newby
oSTEM Founder and Former Treasurer
Current and Past Seminars
Please reach out if there is someone you'd like to invite for an oSTEM seminar!
Natacha Ruiz, PhD. March 2024
Lauren Esposito, PhD. May 2022
Melissa Moore, PhD. March 2021
Brian Castellano, PhD. February 2020
Laura Burrus, PhD. April 2019
