“Grainger Bob” will soon have a female counterpart after Sakshi Srivastava, senior in Engineering, proposed adding a female engineering statue outside of Grainger Engineering Library in November 2013.

URBANA — Nothing against "Grainger Bob," but what about "Grainger Jane?" On the University of Illinois' engineering campus, where men are the majority (among students, faculty and hall-of-fame ...

URBANA, Ill. (AP) - A new statue on the University of Illinois’ campus honors women in engineering. Sakshi Srivastava, a graduate student in electrical engineering, began the campaign for the statue ...

URBANA — It's taken some time, but Sakshi Srivastava's determination to get a statue honoring women in engineering on the University of Illinois campus is finally paying off. The life-size statue, a ...

When Sakshi Srivastava, junior in Engineering, got an internship, a classmate told her that she only received it because she is a woman. “That made me feel marginalized… Women in engineering work just ...