Challenges, mentors and successes: Women leaders reflect on their pathways

In honor of Women’s History Month, three eminent professors and leaders at Princeton University’s School of Engineering and Applied Science spoke about their paths and offered advice to young women with an interest in engineering, technology, math, and science.

The online conversation included:

Andrea Goldsmith, dean of the School of Engineering and Applied Science and the Arthur LeGrand Doty Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering;
Jennifer Rexford, chair of computer science and the Gordon Y.S. Wu Professor in Engineering; and
Lynn Loo, director of the Andlinger Center for Energy and the Environment and the Theodora D. ’78 and William H. Walton III ’74 Professor in Engineering.

At a March 2021 event, three eminent professors and leaders at Princeton University’s School of Engineering and Applied Science described their pathways, challenges and mentors in their careers and offered advice to young women interested in engineering and science.

The event concluded with the following celebratory slide show.