Left to right: SCSU senior and BioPath Innovation Fellow Paula-Marie Simpson; Physics Professor Christine Broadbridge, executive director of Research and Innovation and director of the Connecticut State College and Universities Center for Nanotechnology; and Snigtha Mohanraj, a student at New Haven’s Engineering and Science University Magnet School and a Werth Industry Academic Fellow at Southern
Snigtha Mohanraj has registered her first patent.
A Werth Industry Academic Fellow at Southern, she won the Youth Innovation and Leadership Award from the Connecticut Technology Council at its recent Women of Innovation celebration.
Yet Mohanraj is still a high school senior, attending the Engineering and Science University Magnet School, a New Haven public school located in West Haven.
She, along with Southern senior Paula-Marie Simpson, a finalist for Women in Innovation’s Collegian Innovation and Leadership Award and a BioPath Innovation Fellow, are two examples of Southern’s efforts to promote women in STEM fields through its SCSU Innovation Hub, known as the i-HUB.
To hear more from Christine Broadbridge and Snigtha Mohanraj on the importance of mentoring girls and women in STEM fields, watch an interview with them on WTNH: “Women of Innovation event next Tuesday to honor women in STEM” (WTNH, Oct. 14, 2024)