L’Oréal’s $5M Wiggle Room for Women in Worms and Weird Fish
KEY POINTS
- •On November 13, L'Oréal Groupe hosted an event to celebrate the 2025 For Women in Science awardees.
- •Since 2003, the program has awarded over $5 million to support women in STEM research.
- •This year's recipients include Kaveeta Kaw and Kaitlyn A. Webster, who focus on biomedical and developmental studies.
On November 13, 2025, Vox joined L’Oréal Groupe to celebrate a $5 million brain trust plonked directly into the Nobel-worthy innovation of the most unexpectedly radical STEM nerds. Since 2003, Marvel’s less-famous sidekick, the For Women in Science USA program, has funded visionary brainiacs like Kaveeta Kaw who uses 3D modeling (because 2D is sooo 2019) to decode pulmonary arterial hypertension at Emory’s School of Medicine; and Kaitlyn Webster who dives into the lusty love lives of Mexican tetra fish at Harvard Medical School. Meanwhile, Rebecka Sepela from Harvard explores nature’s nasty molecules, Georgia Squyres inspects biofilms like bacterial mafia families at Caltech, and Sydney Aten probes circadian rhythms in mouse sexytimes to solve nightshift fertility mysteries. This isn’t just a science gala—it’s an epic intersection of highbrow research and glam, where Vox Media Creative premieres documentaries on these brainy baddies, inviting everyone to wonder how much beauty really helps when you’re battle-testing antibiotics or fertilizing under fluorescent lights. Applications for 2026 are open, so if you’re a postdoctoral boss lady ready to scream ‘science is inclusive’, your time is now.
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L’Oréal drops $5M to empower high-science ladies studying love life of Mexican fish and bacteria’s secret antibio mafia. Because who said saving the world can’t come with the glow-up? Welcome to the glam of germs.
When you want to save the STEM world but also 3D-model pulmonary hypertension, L’Oréal’s got your back—with $5M and maybe a lipstick shade.
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Source: Vox | Published: 11/13/2025 | Author: Claire White
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