"HGWISE Symposium on 'Beyond Bias and Barriers': The National Academy of Sciences Report on Women in Science" on October 10, 2007

October 10th, "HGWISE Symposium on 'Beyond Bias and Barriers': The National Academy of Sciences Report on Women in Science."
Organizing team members are from OEB (Organismic and Evolutionary Biology) and DMS (Division of Medical Sciences).
Faculty Advisor: Colleen Cavanaugh.

RSVP by email hgwise@hcs.harvard.edu
Flyer including schedule is available to download here.

Wednesday, October 10th, 2007
Radcliffe Gymnasium
Radcliffe Yard
Cambridge, MA 02138

Symposium Topics:


1:45-2:00 : Registration & Refreshments

2:00-2:15 : Opening Remarks

2:15-2:50 : Current Status of Women in Science
Maria Zuber
E.A. Griswold Professor of Geophysics
Massachusetts Institute of Technology

2:50-3:15 : How Institutions Impact Diversity
Nan Keohane
Harvard University Corporation member, Laurance S. Rockefeller Distinguished Visiting Professor of Public Affairs at Princeton University, and former President of Duke University

3:15-3:35 : Break & Refreshments

3:35-4:10 : What Harvard Can Do
Barbara Grosz
Interim Dean of the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Studies and Higgins Professor of Natural Sciences

4:10-5:00 : Panel Discussion
Evelynn Hammonds, Moderator
Senior Vice Provost for Faculty Diversity and Development and Rosenkrantz Professor of the History of Science and of African and African American Studies

5:00-6:00 : Reception & Refreshments

Sponsored by Harvard Graduate Women in Science and Engineering, HGWISE,
the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, and Harvard Integrated Life Sciences.