women in science project
The Women in Science Project is a collaboration between the Center for Gender Studies, a committee of women faculty from the Biological, Physical, and Social Sciences Divisions, and Mary Harvey from the Provost’s office. The aim of the project is to organize events that bring women faculty in the sciences at the University together to share their work, make connections around shared research interests, and build community to counter-balance the isolation some of them experience in their departments and laboratories. In the academic year 2009/2010, the Project will host three events, one per quarter, which pair women working on similar problems from different disciplinary perspectives.
Coming Events:
February 4, 2010 "Making the Invisible Visible: from the Nose
to the Cosmos" with Evalyn Gates, Assistant
Director, Kavli Institute for Cosmological Physics speaking on gravitational
lensing and the search for dark matter and Leslie Kay,
Associate Professor, Department of Psychology and Director, Institute for
Mind and Biology speaking on dynamical states in olfactory perception. This
is an event for UC women faculty in the sciences. Please contact Gina Olson
if you would like to attend: cgs@lists.uchicago.edu.
Past Events:
May 21, 2009 Our first event, “Personal Perspectives on Women in the Sciences,” sprung from the “On Equal Terms” Educating Women at the University of Chicago archive exhibit in the Special Collections Research Center at Regenstein Library. Featured presenters: Evalyn Gates, Senior research associate and assistant director, Kavli Institute, Department of Astronomy & Astrophysics. Katie Turk, Graduate student, Department of History, Co-Curator of "On Equal Terms: Educating Women at the University of Chicago" exhibit. Janet Rowley, Blum-Riese Distinguished Service Professor, Departments of Medicine, Molecular Genetics & Cell Biology, and Human Genetics. Caroline Herzenberg, Consultant, Science and Engineering, Argonne National Laboratory Physicist, retired.
December 2, 2009 “Integrated Approaches to the Study of Birth Defects”
with Ka Yee C. Lee, Professor of Chemistry, University
of Chicago speaking on lung surfactant, a complex mixture of lipids and
proteins that assists the breathing process and Victoria Prince,
Professor, Department of Organismal Biology and Anatomy and Chair, Committee
on Developmental Biology, University of Chicago speaking on her lab's studies
of how neurons move.
The Women in Science Project Organizing Committee:
Evalyn Gates, Senior Research Associate, Department of Astronomy and Astrophysics; Assistant Director, Kavli Institute for Cosmological Physics
Leslie Kay, Associate Professor, Department of Psychology and The College; Director of the Institute for Mind and Biology
Ka Yee Lee, Professor, Department of Chemistry and The College; Institute for Biophysical Dynamics
Kathleen Millen, Associate Professor, Department of Human Genetics and The College; Committee on Neurobiology, Committee on Genetics, Committee on Developmental Biology
Victoria Prince, Associate Professor, Department of Organismal Biology and Anatomy and The College; Committee on Evolutionary Biology; Chair, Committee on Developmental Biology; Committee on Neurobiology; Committee on Genetics
Linda Zerilli, Professor, Department of Political Science and The College; Center for Gender Studies
This
project is open to Faculty at the University of Chicago. Interested in WISP
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More information regarding Women in Science and specific fields can be found at:
Female Science Professor
Women in Science
Drug Monkey
Scientiae Carnival
Is There Gender Bias in the Peer Review Process at Journal of Neurophysiology?
Mothers in Science