WST Events
All WST Center Events are co-sponsored with
ADVANCE, free, and open to the
public. Please RSVP to Irina Nikiforova if you are interested in attending.
FALL 2009
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Wednesday, October 14, 2009, 1:30 - 3:30pm, Klaus Advanced Computing Building, 116 East and West
Cross-College, ADVANCE Panel and Discussion: "Persisting in the Passion for Research and Publication Productivity"
Topics include:
1. Finding publication stride - Minami Yoda (ME)
2. Pacing research - Jane Ammons (ISYE)
3. Dealing with types of breaks in a research program - Terry Blum (MGT)
4. Post promotion and/or tenure productivity - Julia Kubanek (BIOL) |
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Thursday, November 5, 2009, 7pm, Hotel Midtown
Dr. Wendy Wheeler, London Metropolitan University, will speak at a guest scholar session on "Creative Evolution: Science and Belief," at the Hotel Midtown.
This event is co-sponsored by the Society for Literature, Science, and the Arts; Georgia Tech's School of Literature, Communication, and Culture, and Emory University's English Department, Program in Science and Society, and Department of Women's Studies. |
SPRING 2010
SPRING 2009
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Wednesday, February 11, 2009, 4pm
Dean Sue V. Rosser, a talk on women and patents co-sponsored by the Women's Resource Center and WST. Alumni Faculty House. |
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Tuesday, February 24, 2009, 4pm
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, will deliver the 2008 - 2009 WST Distinguished Lecture entitled "Partnership with Nature." Clary Theatre, Success Center, reception to follow lecture. |  |
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Tuesday, March 24, 2009, 12pm
Research Pane and lunch: "Women and International Dimensions of Higher Education"
slides1 Vicki Birchfield, Associate Professor, School of International Affairs, Director of European Union Center for Excellence "Higher Education and the European Union"
slides2 Ruby Heap, Professor, Department of History, Fulbright Scholar/visitor "The Canada Research Chairs Program and the Barriers to Gender Equity in University Research"
slides3 Mary Lynn Realff, Associate Professor, Polymer, Fiber, and Textile Engineering,WST Co-director, "Women's International Research Engineering Summit (WIRES)" |
FALL 2008
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Wednesday,
September 10, 2008; 3:30 pm - 5:00 pm
Annual Reception co-sponsored by the Center for the Study of Women, Science, and Technology; Women in Engineering, and the Women’s Resource Center. Klaus Atrium. |
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Thursday, September 25, 2008
Doris Derby, Women Leaders in the Civil Rights Movement. 4pm. Clary Theatre, Success Center. Reception following. (In conjunction with High Museum exhibit “Road to Freedom”) |
SPRING 2008
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Wednesday,
February 27, 2008; 1:00 pm - 3:00 pm
ADVANCE/WST Center
career coaching for faculty members. |
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Tuesday, March 4,
2008; 4:00 pm
Dr. J. Scott Long,
Chancellor's Professor of Sociology & Statistics, as well as the Associate
Vice Provost for Research of Indiana University will deliver the 2007 -
2008 WST Distinguished Lecture entitled "From Scarcity to Visibility:
The changing presence and participation of women in science." Reception to
follow lecture -- held in Student Success Center.
Dr. Scott Long's Presentation |
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Tuesday,
April 1, 2008; 12 pm - 1:30 pm
WST lunch (provided)
& discussion will be lead by Anne Walsh (LCC) on the topic of "Not Our
Fathers' Union: The Emergence of Women's Unions in Japan." The event will
be held in the Student Success Center, President's Suite C. |
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Wednesday,
April 16,
2008; 11:30 am - 1:00 pm
Dr. Gilda Barabino
(BME) and Cheryl Leggon (Public Policy) will discuss their ADVANCE
project at the Student Success Center in President's Suite C. |
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FALL 2007 |
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Wednesday,
September 19, 2007; 2 pm - 3:30 pm
The WST
Center, Women's Resource Center, and ADVANCE are hosting a reception for
new faculty members and WST Learning Community students in the Georgia
Tech Library. Refreshments will be served. |
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Thursday, October
4, 2007; 11:30 am - 1:00 pm
WST lunch (provided)
& panel on the topic of gender and teaching. The panel will feature Adju
Amekudzi (CE), Michelle Dion (INTA), and Mark Guzdial (CoC). The event
will be held in the Student Success Center, President's Suite C.
Amekudzi
Presentation
Dion Presentation
Guzdial Presentation |
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Tuesday, October
30, 2007; 12 pm - 1:30 pm
WST lunch (provided)
& discussion lead by Paula Rayman (University of Massachusetts - Lowell)
on the topic of "Women in Science." The event will be held in the Student
Success Center, President's Suite C. |
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