Professor Asmeret Asefaw Berhe was awarded funding by the National Science Foundation, an effort to include more women in the STEM field. Berhe is a biogeochemist, and her work is dedicated to climate change impacts in the land of Sierra Nevada; she received an ADVANCE grant (part of the NSF program), in the value of more than 1 million dollars, in order to research about the issue of gender-based harassment in the earth sciences and look for new solutions. Her research team, from the University of Wisconsin, Madison, is led by Professor Erika Marín-Spiotta. Focus groups at many University of California campuses (including UC Merced) have been created in order to test the efficacy of possible strategies to combat sexual harassment against women in STEM fields. Photo credit: UC Merced
