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. Free lunch break (~30 min.)
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Seminar Part 2. Small group discussion
Experience-centric discussion surrounding queer experiences in a STEM trajectory (~45 min.)
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oSTEM Leadership Team
Get to Know Us
Vanessa T. Mariscal
oSTEM Co-President
Allyson McAtamney
oSTEM Co-President
Radcliff Huffman
oSTEM Vice President
Francesca Pavlovici
oSTEM Seminar Organizer
Mel Jones
oSTEM Co-Publicity Coordinator
Daniel Pfaff
oSTEM Treasurer
Tyler DeWitt
oSTEM Founder & Former President
Hannah Maul-Newby
oSTEM Founder and Former Treasurer
Cindy Liang
Former oSTEM Co-Publicity Coordinator
Sarah Levy
Former oSTEM Co-Treasurer
Current and Past Seminars
Portfolio of Work
Lauren Esposito, PhD. May 2022
Title: TBA
Curator and Schlinger Chair of Arachnology at the California Academy of Sciences in San Francisco .
Melissa Moore, PhD. March 2021
CSO, Platform Research, and Moderna
Moderna, CSO
Brian Castellano, PhD. February 2020
Signaling pathways for cellular growth and personal development
Post-doctoral Researcher, Genentech
Professor Laura Burrus, PhD. April 2019
Imag(in)ing New Mechanisms of Wnt Gradient Formation
SF State University
