Issues for Ethnic Minorities and Women in Science and Engineering

Lecture Series supported by the Deans of Medicine, Engineering and Graduate School and the Divisional Dean of Natural Sciences

• There will be several public lectures associated with Physics 451/Women Studies 485. The schedule for these talks is below.
• This list was last updated on 23 January 2002. Please keep checking this site for updates.
• The reading material assigned to students in the class for these lectures is linked via the course home page or lecture schedule.

Course Lecture Schedule

1 Feb	Friday	1:30-2:20	The Graduate Experience of Women and Minorities in SMET and How it Could be Improved abstract Anne MacLachlan  Center for Studies in Higher Education University of California, Berkeley (website)
8 Feb	Friday	1:30-2:30	Minority Mathematics Professor:  Confessions of a Round Peg in a Square Hole abstract Richard Tapia  Noah Harding Professor of Computational and Applied Mathematics; Associate Director of Graduate Studies; and Director, Center for Excellence and Equity in Education Rice University (website)
22 Feb	Friday	1:30-2:30	Systemic Change and Physics Education abstract Ramón Lopez C. Sharp Cook Professor of Physics     University of Texas El Paso (website)
1 Mar	Friday	1:30-2:30	Key Barriers for Academic Institutions Seeking to Retain Women Scientists and Engineers abstract Sue Rosser  Dean, Ivan Allen College Georgia Institute of Technology (website)
8 Mar	Friday	1:30-2:30	From Scarcity to Visibility: Gender Differences in the Careers ofDoctoral Scientists abstract J. Scott Long Chancellor's Professor, Department of Sociology Indiana University, Bloomington (website)