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Women in Science and Engineering Workshop
November 16, 2009
Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility
Newport News, VA
Program
Monday, November 16, 2009 (CC Auditorium) |
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| 7:30 - 8:30 | Registration and Continental Breakfast | ||
| Topic | Speaker | ||
| 8:30 - 9:00 | |||
| Welcome | Hugh Montgomery(Jefferson Lab) | ||
| Goals of the Workshop | Latifa Elouadrhiri (Jefferson Lab) | ||
| 9:00 - 10:30 | Status of women in science (30 min each) | ||
| Report from the Gender Equity Conference | Catherine Fiore (MIT) | ||
| Committee on the Status of Women in Physics | Kim Budil (Lawerence Livermore National Lab) | ||
| Women in Engineering | Catherine Didion (National Academy of Eng.) | ||
| 10:30 - 10:45 | Coffee Break | ||
| 10:45 - 4:00 | Recruiting Strategies - Feeding more women into the pipeline (30 min each) | ||
| The Importance of Research Experiences | Beverly Hartline (Delaware State University) | ||
| Outreach at Jefferson Lab | Hari Areti (Jefferson Lab) | ||
| Minority Programs | David Ernst (Vanderbilt) | ||
| Female-friendly academic departments | Howard Georgi (Harvard University) | ||
| 12:45 - 2:00 | Lunch | ||
| The Perspective of Women in Europe | Silke Zollinger (Max Planck Institute for Physics) | ||
| NSF: Programs and Plans | Kathleen McCloud (NSF) | ||
| Gender Equity Activities in the DOE Office of Science | Linda Blevins (DOE) | ||
| 3:30 - 4:00 | Coffee Break | ||
| 4:00 - 6:00 | Retention - Improving the Environment and the Role of Mentoring (30 min each) | ||
| Graduate Women Leadership Institute: Leaders in Life | Leslie Kolodziejski, (MIT) | ||
| The Effect of Peer Instruction on the Retention of Women | Eric Mazur (Harvard University) | ||
| Effective Mentoring: Roles and Responsibilities, Expectations and Realities | Stephanie Bird (Science and Engineering Ethics) | ||
| The Two-Body Problem | Marc Sher (William & Mary) | ||
| 6:00 - 8:00 | Reception | ||