Resources for Women in Physics
This page lists useful resources within and outside of UCSB. More information about WiP at UCSB is available in our brochure.
If you're interested in an applying to UCSB, find out more on our Prospective Students page.
If you would like to suggest any resources to add to this list, please email the webmaster.
UCSB Physics
- Presentation and Discussion (Feb. 6, 2014) about our WIP representatives' trip to the 2013 North American Gender Summit
- Faculty Student Advocates in the physics department
- GradLife -- a group for physics grad students at UCSB
- Informational Brochure about Women in Physics at UCSB [pdf]
- Contact our committee members with questions about more resources!
Elsewhere at UCSB
- Women in Science and Engineering (WiSE) group at UCSB
- SciiX -- a science and industry exchange for women
- UCSB Office of the Ombuds -- a confidential resource for any campus-related concerns
- UCSB Office of Equal Opportunity and Sexual Harassment / Title IX Compliance -- provides resources for reporting sexual harassment on campus. Note that confidentiality of reports made to this office cannot be guaranteed, unlike the Office of the Ombuds
- UCSB Physics Department Official Hazing and Harassment Policy
- Office of the Associate Vice Chancellor for Diversity, Equity and Academic Policy
- Women's Center
- Resource Center for Sexual and Gender Diversity
External Resources
- Diversity and Excellence in Physics - presentation by Ed Bertschinger, MIT
- American Physical Society (APS) -- information, workshops, programs, and other resources for women in physics
- Resources for Women in Physics from USC
- WIP reading list from UCSD
- Women, minorities, and persons with disabilities in science and engineering, by the NSF National Center for Science and Engineering Statistics
- Statistics research center, by the American Institute of Physics
- LGBTIQQAP+ Physicists
Grad School
- Who Do I Talk to About... -- a list of points of contact for different issues within UCSB Physics
- GradLife -- a group for physics grad students at UCSB
- List of Fellowships - Funding opportunities for graduates and undergraduates.
- Information for prospective UCSB physics grad students
- Informational Brochure about Women in Physics at UCSB [pdf]
For Undergrads
- Society of Physics Students (SPS) for undergraduates, UCSB chapter
- What is Research? Slides from our presentation introducing the different areas of physics research and REUs, from Dec 2014.
- Applying to Grad School Workshop 2014 - slides with advice and resources for applying to grad school, from our workshop in October 2014.
- Applying to Grad School Workshop 2009 - information and advice on applying to graduate school from our workshop in 2009.
Blogs
- Occam's Typewriter -- a blog by the University of Cambridge's Gender Equality Champion and biophysicist Professor Athene Donald
- Female Science Professor -- anonymous blog by a female professor in the physical sciences.
- WomanOfScience -- a blog by UCSB physics alumna Jenni Ross about being a woman in science.
- Women in Astronomy -- an excellent blog that's also relevant to other scientific fields!