{"id":21376,"date":"2017-04-28T10:15:28","date_gmt":"2017-04-28T14:15:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sciencescosmaincms.cm.ucf.edu\/news\/?p=21376"},"modified":"2017-04-28T10:46:51","modified_gmt":"2017-04-28T14:46:51","slug":"advocating-women-stem","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sciences.ucf.edu\/news\/advocating-women-stem\/","title":{"rendered":"Advocating for Women in STEM"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-21377 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/sciences.ucf.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/29\/2017\/04\/IMG_7610.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"423\" height=\"282\" \/>A first generation Mexican American and University of Central Florida student seeks to give voice to an underrepresented population.<\/p>\n<p>UCF physics doctoral student Brian Zamarripa just won a National Science Foundation to fund his proposed research on gender disparity in the field of physics.<\/p>\n<p>With parents hailing from Mexico, Zamarripa is part of a minority population himself. He believes that this can help him advocate for fellow underrepresented individuals, like women. Even though he is part of an underrepresented population, he says he does observe some privileges that he receives because of his gender.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSome microagressions against women include not recognizing or including women in the workplace, sexist language and jokes, and restrictive gender roles,\u201d he said. \u201cThese are all forms of sexism that I am less likely to be a target of due to being a man.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Zamarripa found his way to UCF by participating in the American Physical Society\u2019s Bridge Program, which is a program designed to aid people of underrepresented minorities in their pursuit of physics graduate degrees.\u00a0 He started the doctoral program in the UCF Department of Physics in summer of 2016.<\/p>\n<p>He\u2019s part of the physics education research program, a research group that centers on studying physics in higher education. His work focuses specifically on the differences across gender.<\/p>\n<p>Some of the most significant differences are in the numbers. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.aps.org\/programs\/education\/statistics\/womenphysics.cfm\">According to the American Physical Society<\/a>, less than 20 percent of undergraduate and doctoral students that earned degrees in physics in 2013 were women.<\/p>\n<p>Zamarripa hopes to change that. He wants his work to support women\u2019s interest in physics and their continued advancement. His research now has the monetary support from the NSF Graduate Research Fellowships Program.<\/p>\n<p>Zamarripa applied to the fellowship because of its requirements. Any proposed research has to benefit the scientific community as a whole \u2013 something he confidently saw in his work.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhen I first received the fellowship, it was unbelievable,\u201d Zamarripa said. \u201cI kind of just stared at the computer for ten minutes in disbelief.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Zamarripa\u2019s proposed research will study the differences in students\u2019 attitudes toward physics. He said that studies show undergraduate men and women differ in the way that they think about physics.<\/p>\n<p>An example is women underperforming academically. There is research that suggests underperformance is linked to confidence, interactions with other students and discouragement from the lack of equal representation within a class.<\/p>\n<p>These differences are not as apparent with physicists working in the field. He wants to figure why and when exactly that shift in thinking happens.<\/p>\n<p>An eventual goal of his is to discover what keeps women in physics and to promote it through workshops or other initiatives.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBeing able to positively change something for other people is my dream. I love this work and want it to make an impact,\u201d Zamarripa said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A first generation Mexican American and University of Central Florida student seeks to give voice to an underrepresented population. UCF physics doctoral student Brian Zamarripa just won a National Science Foundation to fund his proposed research on gender disparity in the field of physics. 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