APS News (March 2020), “The CUWiP Experience at Yale”

Undergraduate women at a poster session at the Yale CUWiP conference. Photo by Emily Kuhn
March 2, 2020

The CUWiP Experience at Yale

By Leah Poffenberger
 
On a blustery Friday afternoon in January, nearly 200 undergraduate women seeking degrees in physics arrived at the Sloane Physics Laboratory on the Yale University campus, full of excitement for the coming weekend. Over the next two days, attendees would have the chance to network with their peers, hear from accomplished women in physics, and gather resources for their future physics careers.