Rofes, civil engineering students take part in National Women Build Week, WLBZ reports
WLBZ (Channel 2) reported students from the University of Maine’s chapter of the American Society of Civil Engineers worked with Habitat for Humanity to celebrate National Women Build Week. The students volunteered to help renovate homes in the area, according to the report. Xenia Rofes, a laboratory manager in UMaine’s Civil and Environmental Engineering Department, said there are lots of women engineers, and it’s important to break stigmas related to women and construction.