Now an assistant professor of biomedical engineering at the University of Florida Herbert Wertheim College of Engineering, the start of Dr. Aysegul Gunduz’s (pictured) professional journey was encouraged by a female mentor, an experience that inspired her to join the Association for Academic Women at the University of Florida. Today she leads the group as its president and uses her platform to support up-and-coming women in science, technology, engineering and math, or STEM.“All of our membership dues go to dissertation awards for female doctoral students who are emerging scholars in their fields