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March 16, 2026

CERSE Staff Author 2025 SWE Magazine Literature Review about Women and Girls in STEM

SWE Magazine recently published, “Women in Engineering and STEM: A Review of the 2025 Literature,” which was coauthored by CERSE Staff Michael Beach, Emily Knaphus-Soran, and Liz Litzler. For this work, the CERSE team examined 465 journal articles and conference papers from 2025 to synthesize the related gender and equity research themes from across the…

February 26, 2026

CERSE Staff Litzler and Han Co-Author with Collaborators an Article Outlining a Professional Development Curriculum for Academic Change Agents in Engineering

CERSE staff Liz Litzler and Rae Jing Han co-authored with other colleagues a practice-oriented article focused on a curriculum to help engineering educators make change.  The open-access article was published in Education Sciences, and is titled, “Fixing the Potholes on the Road to Academic Success: A Curriculum for Engineering Educators to Create and Sustain Meaningful…

CERSE Director Liz Litzler Co-Authored Chapter in “Women in Academia”

CERSE Director Liz Litzler co-authored a chapter called “History of and Trends in Women’s Participation in Academic Computing” in the book “Women in Academia” edited by Jenna Carpenter. Liz’s co-authors were Kaitlyn Stormes, Kate Lehman, and Lecia Barker.  This chapter outlines the history of women’s participation and organizations that have advocated for improvements in women’s…

November 8, 2025

New Article on Evaluating Program Sustainability

CERSE staff (current and former), Ari Hock, Jana Foxe and Liz Litzler recently published work sharing their qualitative rubric to help programs evaluate key aspects of their programs that will support program sustainability.  You can read the open-access article in Innovative Higher Education Journal, so check it out!  

January 22, 2025

CERSE Staff Collaborating with Faculty-led ASEE Team to Pilot Faculty Recognition Framework for Professional Development in Teaching

Engineering graduate students typically spend five years earning their Ph.D., conducting important, cutting-edge research in an area of national interest. Most of those who earn their Ph.D. in engineering wind up working in research positions within industry or government laboratories to start. A small percentage, however, become faculty members working at colleges across the US…

July 9, 2024

CERSE Staff Publish Research on Engineering Counterspaces to Support Students 

CERSE staff members Erin Carll, Aryaa Rajouria, and Elizabeth Litzler, along with additional current and former University of Washington (UW) faculty and staff, published an article in Studies in Engineering Education: “Engineering Counterspaces to Address Inequities in Preparation for Undergraduate Academics.” The researchers explore students’ experiences with the Washington State Academic RedShirt program (STARS), which…

July 3, 2024

Aryaa Rajouria Receives the UW Department of Sociology’s 2024 Award for Best Performance for the Master of Arts Degree

CERSE Graduate Research Assistant Aryaa Rajouria was recognized with the Best Performance for the Master of Arts Degree award from the University of Washington’s Department of Sociology. Aryaa’s thesis, “Beyond Migration: Examining the Impact of Migration Experience, Gender, and Ethno-Caste Identity on Mental Health,” investigates the effects of migration on the mental health of migrants…

June 26, 2024

Emily Knaphus-Soran and Colleagues Publish Findings on the Redshirt in Engineering Model

CERSE Core Staff member Emily Knaphus-Soran and colleagues have published a study in the Advances in Engineering Education Journal titled “The Redshirt in Engineering Model: Lessons Learned through Implementation Across Six Institutions.” The research seeks to help address the need for wider participation in engineering education. The NSF-funded Redshirt in Engineering Consortium, formed in 2016,…

May 22, 2024

The BRAINS Program Team Publishes Commentary about “Thriving in Neuroscience Careers” for Neuroscientists from Underrepresented and Marginalized Groups

The team from the BRAINS (Broadening the Representation of Academic Investigators in NeuroScience) Program recently published a commentary in Neuron, “Thriving in Neuroscience Careers: Three Lessons from 12+ Years of the BRAINS Program.” In the piece, the BRAINS team shares what it has learned over time about supporting neuroscientists from underprivileged and marginalized communities. Specifically,…

May 15, 2024

Science 2.0 blog post about DEI in a global context features CERSE-created charts

Hontas Farmer, astrophysicist and adjunct professor at the College of DuPage, recently authored the Science 2.0 blog post, “DEI Without Compromise: Embracing Diversity in the LISA Global Scientific Collaboration. A ESA NASA Project.” In this post, Farmer discussed diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) on a global scale, including DEI challenges and how some people are…