WiSTEM2D University Pillar

Empowering Scholars to Blaze a STEM²D Trail

e strive to expand our outreach to female students at universities and institutions in order to help them to both remain and excel in STEM²D fields. In addition, we seek to fuel development of future female STEM²D leaders and feed the STEM²D talent pipeline by awarding and sponsoring women at critical points in their careers in each of the six STEM²D disciplines.

Our Mission

Igniting Women: We remain focused on inspiring, nurturing and recognizing groundbreaking female leaders. We believe women can be catalysts for creating healthier people, healthier communities and a healthier world.

We've been championing women and providing them with the tools, resources and opportunities to succeed since our founding more than 130 years ago. Today, we're more committed than ever.

We believe women can be catalysts for creating healthier people, communities and a healthier world. Each of us has a role in igniting this movement and powering it forward every day.

Johnson & Johnson is committed to fostering diverse women in the STEM²D community by mobilizing brilliant minds that ignite great ideas.

We are enthusiastic about working with prestigious institutions to expand interest in STEM2D fields while fostering diversified perspectives across the world. At the undergraduate level, we aspire to increase the number of women entering and graduating from four-year undergraduate programs with STEM2D degrees. At the graduate level, we aspire to increase the number of women pursuing advanced academic careers in STEM2D.

— Cat Oyler, Vice President, Global Public Health

Supporting Undergrads

We seek to help women in STEM²D fields increase their graduation rate, as well as to identify promising recruits for our varied internship programs.

How We Help STEM Superstars Thrive at Johnson & Johnson

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Internship Opportunities

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Scholars Award Program

The Johnson & Johnson Scholars Award Program aims to fuel development of female STEM²D leaders and feed the STEM²D talent pipeline by awarding and sponsoring women at critical points in their careers. Learn more about the Scholars Award.

Meet Our Latest WiSTEM²D Scholars Award Winners

Learn About the Winners

Hear From Our First Scholars Award Winners

I am thrilled to be selected as a WiSTEM2D awardee! This early career support will grant me the independence and flexibility to move my research program forward and pursue research that I am passionate about.

— Lauren Stadler, Ph.D., Assistant Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Rice University

I am grateful to be an inaugural recipient of the Johnson & Johnson Women in STEM2D Award, which helps provide much-needed support and encouragement for women, such as myself, in historically male-dominated fields of math, science and engineering.

— Soojung Claire Hur, Clare Boothe Luce Assistant Professor of Mechanical Engineering, Whiting School of Engineering, Johns Hopkins University

Being an inaugural Johnson & Johnson WiSTEM2D scholar is an incredible honor. I’m excited for the unique resources this award will provide to my own research program as well as the opportunity to work with Johnson & Johnson to maximize the potential of other women in science.

— Seemay Chou, Ph.D., Assistant Professor in Biochemistry and Biophysics, University of California San Francisco

Featured STEM Stories

Innovation

The Future of STEM Is Female: Meet 5 University Scientists Working on Breakthrough Healthcare Ideas

A foldable, 3-D printed robot that can serve as a heart stent. Using artificial intelligence to help detect cancer. Seeking out life on other planets. These are just some of the areas of fascinating research that this year’s winners of the Johnson & Johnson WiSTEM²D Scholars Award are focused on in their labs across the country.

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Personal Stories

Girls Who Code Teams Up With Johnson & Johnson to Inspire More High Schoolers to Embrace Computer Science

Seven weeks. 19 students. One incredible experience. We're talking about the inaugural Girls Who Code Summer Immersion Program hosted at the company's Raritan location—and we captured it all on video. Watch as two high schoolers take us behind the scenes.

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Photo of participants in the inaugural Girls Who Code Summer Immersion Program hosted b Johnson & Johnson

Innovation

These 6 University Researchers Are Ready to Change the World With Their Inventions

They're the winners of the second annual Johnson & Johnson WiSTEM²D Scholars Award, thanks to such amazing innovations as tattoos that can monitor changes in your metabolism. Meet them and their groundbreaking work.

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Caring & Giving

Caring & Giving Around the Globe: 43 Johnson & Johnson Programs That Are Transforming Lives—and the Future of Healthcare

43 Johnson & Johnson Programs Around the World That Are Transforming Lives—and the Future of Healthcare

Check out this fun interactive map for a glimpse at how the company is helping people on nearly every continent live healthier lives.

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Personal Stories

Doing Good Day and Night: 6 Johnson & Johnson Employees Who Are Making the World a Better Place

Who says you can't take your work home with you? For these men and women, their day jobs are just one facet of living a purpose-driven life to help others in truly impactful ways.

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Pierre Theodore, M.D., volunteering at a hospital in Haiti