Lectures



2005 Ms. Donna Francher My Own Science: Scientific Creativity and Entrepreneurship	Donna Francher received a BS degree in Biology from Syracuse University. After graduation, she spent four years interning at the SUNY Upstate Medical Center and has since become a leader in pharmaceutical research in oncology. She helped found the group “Women in Oncology” and was chosen as the keynote speaker at the Women’s Entrepreneurship Conference in 2004.
2004 Dr. Caroline Baillie DuPont Canada Chair in Engineering Education, Research, and Development at Queen's College in Kingston, Ontario, Canada Different or Equal: Transforming Science and Engineering Education	Dr. Baillie is an internationally distinguished expert on higher education as well as a successful materials engineer. She is the first DuPont Chair at Queen’s College and focuses her career on the improvement of the entire engineering education experience. She has created more than 100 publications in engineering and education during her career.
2003 Professor Patricia Rankin University of Colorado at Boulder Life as a Tempered Radical – What I Have Learned About Working with People Not Particles	Professor Rankin discussed the LEAP (Leadership Education for Advancement and Promotion) program at the University of Colorado at Boulder. LEAP is funded through a $3.5M grant from the Advance Program at NSF, which aims to increase the number of women in the fields of science and technology. LEAP works with both women and men to find ways of solving the problem of under-representation of women in these fields. Professor Rankin shared her findings on how to be a successful faculty member and how to improve the chances of success.
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Dr. Lynn Margulis University of Massachusetts, Amherst From Gaia to Gender	Dr. Margulis was awarded the University of Massachusetts Chancellor's Medal for Distinguished Faculty and a one-year Faculty Fellowship in 1992. Her publications, which span a wide range of scientific topics, include original contributions to cell biology and microbial evolution.
Dr. Virginia Valian Hunter College Why So Slow? The Advancement of Women	Dr. Valian has published many works on cognitive science, language learning and learnability, and cognition and gender. Her most notable publication is the book, Why So Slow? The Advancement of Women.
Dr. Maureen Raymo M.I.T. Global Climate Change: A Geological Perspective	One of the world's foremost researchers on global climate change, Dr. Raymo combines data from paleobiology, geochemistry, and tectonics to produce innovative models of how Earth's Cenozoic ice ages developed. Her research suggests that uplift of the Tibetan Plateau may have helped intensify climatic deterioration during late Cenozoic time, thereby strengthening the severity of ice-age climatic oscillations.
Dr. Sandra Harding U.C.L.A Is Science Multicultural?	Dr. Harding is an internationally known feminist scholar whose work explores the relationship between race, gender, and science. She has written extensively on feminism and science, and on the relation between scientific inquiry and women's lives. Harding's lecture focused on multicultural questions in science as explored in her 1998 book, Is Science Multicultural?
Dr. Velma Deleveaux Allied Capital Research Associates, Inc. From Engineering to Entrepreneur	Dr. Deleveaux, currently the president of Allied Capital Research Associates, Inc., is an industrial engineer who worked for many years with Digital Equipment Corporation. After completing her undergraduate work at Georgia Institute of Technology and her graduate work at Harvard University, she joined Digital Equipment Corporation as a manufacturing engineer. Over nine years, she rose to the rank of Total Quality Management Sr. Consultant before she started her Ph.D. at Pennsylvania State University. During her visit to Syracuse University, Dr. Deleveaux shared her experiences from working in a large corporation to being the president of a company.
Dr. Ruzena Bajcsy National Science Foundation Information Technology: Three Variations on a Theme	Dr. Bajcsy is the assistant director of the Directorate for Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE) at the National Science Foundation.
Dr. Pamela Matson Stanford University Too Much of a Good Thing? Fertilizer and Global Change in the Nitrogen Cycle	Dr. Matson is a biogeochemist who serves on various national and international scientific committees investigating issues related to global change. She has also served on the National Forum on Environmental and Natural Resources Research and Development of the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy.

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