GWISE: Graduate Women in Science and Engineering

GWISE is a group of graduate students and postdocs designed to assist in the professional and personal advancement of women in science and engineering at Northeastern University.

GWISE is a group of graduate students and postdocs designed to assist in the professional and personal advancement of women in science and engineering at Northeastern University. GWISE strives to provide women with the support and resources necessary to be successful, as well as to create a sense of community. To achieve this, GWISE will sponsor events covering a wide variety of topics including networking, career options, balancing work and personal life, and other issues affecting women in the sciences.

Student Organization Advisor


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Kathryn Schulte Grahame
Teaching Professor and Associate Director,  First Year Engineering Program
Affiliated Faculty,  Civil and Environmental Engineering

Service-learning in engineering, first year engineering success, sustainable urban design; alternative energy sources; green roof technology; soil-liquid infiltration physics


Penny Beuning
Affiliated Faculty,  Bioengineering
Professor,  Chemistry and Chemical Biology

chemical biology and biotechnology; DNA replication and repair; enzyme function


Sara M. Hashmi
Assistant Professor,  Chemical Engineering
Affiliated Faculty,  Mechanical and Industrial Engineering
Affiliated Faculty,  Chemistry and Chemical Biology

Complex fluids, biomaterials & soft materials: manipulation of nanoscale and single-particle properties to control macroscale transport & assembly; microfluidics for biomedical, pharmaceutical & energy applications