WST Center News
"New living options attempt to bridge student-faculty gap" by Kaitlin Goodrich.
"ThinkBig@Tech provides options" by Kalpi Desai.
2009 Spring Undergraduate Research symposium posters
WST Inman STEM initiatives was presented by WST students Jimia Head, Kristen Seiloff, and Christy Seerley at the Undergraduate Research symposium, Georgia Tech, 2009. Pre-view their posters below.
2009 WST Distinguished Lecturer
Dr. Carolyn Merchant, the Chancellor's Professor of Environmental History, Philosophy, and Ethics in the Department of Environmental Science, Policy, and Management at the University of California, Berkeley, the author of The Death of Nature, delivered the 2008 - 2009 WST Distinguished Lecture entitled "Partnership with Nature."
Inman Middle School's Girls Excelling in Math and Science (GEMS) club
Today's Atlanta Journal Constitution has a front-page article about Inman Middle School's Girls Excelling in Math and Science (GEMS) club, an initiative for middle school girls sponsored by the Georgia Tech Center for the Study of Women, Science, and Technology (WST Center) and co-coordinated by Georgia Tech Professor Mary Lynn Realff of Polymer, Textile, and Fiber Engineering and Inman 7th grade science teacher Kelly Schlegel.
Realff has arranged for ASME to provide some material resources for the club, which meets weekly, and has worked with several Georgia Tech Women, Science, and Technology Learning Community and other undergraduate students who serve as instructors, mentors, and role models for the approximately 35 Inman students who participate in GEMS.
Photos and a brief article about the Inman club appears at
http://www.ajc.com/services/content/metro/stories/2009/02/09/girlscience0209.html
WST Inman STEM Project and GEMS, see http://www.wst.gatech.edu/journal.html
For information about Inman Middle School, see http://www.inmanmiddleschool.org
Danish
Media and Culture Summer 2009 Study Abroad Trip
Inman GEMS update,
WST Lrc C student, Kristin Seiloff, writes about Inman GEMS Girl Scout Troup.
See her report.
energeia, published by NSF ADVANCE
Talking
About the Future
Georgia Tech President Wayne Clough led a discussion with alumni,
faculty
and students on March 28, 2003, about the direction Tech will
take in the next 50
years. Read
about it.
Constructing
a New Future for Women Scientists
By Shayna Sobol, an article from CareerTech that features the WST minor.
Trailblazers
and Torchbears
By Anne Garrison, an electronic exhibit about
Women in Science and Technology at Georgia Tech.
SWS
Feminist Lecturer 2000
By Mary Frank Fox, SWS Feminist Lecture, "Women,
Science, and Academia."
WST
Community Flourishes
By Julia Trapold, Technique: "The South's
Liveliest College Newspaper"
Women
at Tech mark a golden anniversary
The Whistle, the faculty newspaper, printed a front-page article
about the 50th anniversary of women at Georgia Tech.
Mary
Frank Fox Awarded WEPAN Award for Research
Mary Frank Fox, NSF ADVANCE Professor of Sociology and WST Co-director,
has been awarded the WEPAN (Women in Engineering Programs) Betty
Vetter Award for Research. The award-citation states: "Recognizing
notable achievement in research on women in engineering, Dr. Fox
was selected for her 20+ years of research focused on the study
of women in science and engineering, including how institutional
and organizational factors impact participation, performance,
and assessment. Her research has appeared in more than 40 scholarly
journals and publications, has played a key role in developing
institutional policy and practice, and has had positive impacts
on attracting, retaining, and developing women in the technology
fields."
A
New Book Series: WOMEN,
GENDER, AND TECHNOLOGY
Published by University of Illinois Press.
Series Editors:
.Sue V. Rosser, Mary Frank Fox,
Deborah Johnson / Georgia Institute of Technology
Volumes in the Women,
Gender, and Technology Series bring together women’s
studies and technology studies, focusing upon women and technology,
feminist perspectives on technology, and/or the gendering of technology
and its impact upon gender relations in society. Volumes may be
written from multiple perspectives and approaches, reflecting
and aimed toward audiences including women’s studies, science
and technology studies, ethics and technology, cultural studies
of science and technology, history of technology, and public policy.
Topics focus upon:
- Cultures and
societies: comparative approaches in the study of gender,
science, and technology; representations of gender and technology;
politics and the state as they reflect and reinforce patterns
of gender, science, and technology.
- Institutions:
gender in technological training; structures of education and
outcomes; work and organizational contexts among women in technology;
programs and interventions to support gender equity.
- Individuals:
social psychology of gender, science, and technology; interactions,
expectations, identities, and networks as they are embedded
in institutions (e.g., education and work) and outcomes of science
and technology; effects of technology on human development and
life-span development between generations.
Send inquiries and
proposals to:
Sue
V. Rosser
Dean, Ivan Allen College, Georgia Tech, Atlanta, Georgia 30332-0525
Mary
Frank Fox
Professor of Sociology, School of Public Policy, Center for Study of Women, Science, & Technology,
Georgia Tech, Atlanta, Georgia 30332-0345
Deborah
Johnson Olsson
Professor of Applied Ethics Technology, Culture, and Communication, University of Virginia,
P.O. Box 400744, 351 McCormick Road, Thornton Hall, Charlottesville,
Virginia 22904-4744
