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PAST
CONFERENCES
2007
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Staff photo Rose Lincoln/Harvard News Office
(Harvard Gazette Online, April 19, 2007)
See article
2007 Sponsors:
Harvard College Women's
Center
Ann Radcliffe Trust
Harvard Provost's Office
Office of the Dean of the Faculty of
Arts & Sciences at Harvard College
Harvard College Life Sciences Division
Harvard Graduate Women in
Science and Engineering
Uno's Pizzeria in Harvard Square
Special Thanks to
Leverett House
and Leverett House Masters Professor
Howard Georgi and Ann Georgi
2007 Conference
Staff:
Conference Director:
Vinita Alexander
Speakers Committee:
Directors:
Lucie Guo
Xianlin Li
Staff:
Anna Chen
Kelly Cho
Alana Ju
Business Committee:
Directors:
Vijay Warrier
Kathleen Kelly
Staff:
Elizabeth Zhang
Kirsten Kester
Wendy Ying
Logistics Committee
Director:
Nadiah Wan
Staff:
Christina Li
Chandler O'Connell
Rachel Zhang
Publications and
Public Relations Committee
Director:
Nguyen Nguyen
Staff:
Graciela Carrasco
Kamilia Kaczor |
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NSAWS 2007:
On a New
Frontier:
Above and Beyond the Glass Ceiling
Schedule
of Events:
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Friday, April
13, 2007 |
4:00-5:00 PM: Registration
(Maxwell Dworkin Lobby, 33 Oxford St)
5:00-5:30 PM Opening Remarks
(Maxwell Dworkin 115)
Vinita Alexander '07
2007 NSAWS Conference Director
Co-President, Women in Science at Harvard-Radcliffe
Benedict Gross
Leverett Professor of Mathematics, Dean of Harvard College
5:30-6:30 PM: Opening Address
Marion Blakey
Administrator of the Federal Aviation Administration
6:30s-7:30 PM: Social Hour
(Lobby, Maxwell Dworkin)
7.30-9:00 PM Harvard Faculty Club Banquet
Introduction
Dudley Herschbach
Frank B. Baird, Jr. Professor of Science
Dinner and Address:
Patricia Galloway
Chief Executive Officer and a Principal of Nielsen-Wurster
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Saturday, April
14, 2007 |
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9:00-10:00 AM: Breakfast
10:00-10:50 AM: Panel: The Social Impact of Science
Moderator: Sarah Jansen
Associate Professor of History of Science, Harvard University
Sandra Burchett
Clinical Director, Division of Infectious Diseases; Assistant
Professor of Pediatrics,
HMS
Ann Goldfeld
Associate Professor of Medicine, HMS
Ann Kiessling
Director, Bedford Stem Cell Research Foundation
Judy Lieberman
Director, Division of AIDS; Professor of Pediatrics, HMS
11:00-11.50 AM: Panel: Moving up the Ladder in Academia
Moderator: Elain Elion
Professor of Biological Chemistry and Molecular Pharmacology, HMS
Eunyoung Cho
Assistant Professor, Department of Medicine, HMS
Megan Núñez
Clare Boothe Luce Assistant Professor of Chemistry, Mount Holyoke
College ;
Radcliffe Fellow
Loretta Que
Assistant Professor of Medicine, Pulmonary and Critical Care
Medicine
Duke University
Joan Ruderman
Marion V. Nelson Professor of Cell Biology, HMS
12:00-12.30 PM: Keynote Address
Patricia Donahoe
Marshall K. Bartlett Professor, Department of Surgery, HMS; Director, Pediatric
Surgical Research Laboratories,
Massachusetts General Hospital
12.30-1.25 PM: Lunch with Speakers and Students
1.30-2.20 PM: Panel: Women at the Frontiers of Space Research
Heidi Hammel
Senior Research Scientist, co-Director of Research at the Space
Science Institute
Adriana Ocampo
Science Mission Directorate, NASA
Sara Seager
Ellen Swallow Richards Associate Professor of Planetary Science,
MIT
2:30-3:20 PM: Panel: Envisioning
the Future of Computer Vision
Abeer Alwan
Lillian Gollay Knafel Fellow, Electrical Engineering, UCLA;
Radcliffe Fellow
Ruzena Bajcsy
Professor of Computer Science, Berkeley
Margrit Betke
Associate Professor of Computer Science, Boston University
Stella X. Yu
Clare Boothe Luce Assistant Professor of Computer Science, Boston
University
3:30-4:20 PM: Panel:
Leadership in Science
Moderator: Jiahong Juda
Co-Founder, President and CEO of WEST
Frances Allen
IBM Fellow Emerita
Donna Dean
President of the Association for Women in Science
Lucy Sanders
CEO and Co-founder of the National Center for
Women & Information
Technology
4.30-5.20 PM: Panel: Opportunities and Challenges in Drug
Discovery
Moderator: Vanaja Ragavan
Senior Vice President and Chief Technology Officer, Science Center
Angela Koehler
Institute Fellow, Chemical Biology
Program, Broad Institute
Lauren Monovich
Research Chemist, Novartis
Vicki Rosen
Chair, Department of Developmental Biology, HMS
5:30-6:00 PM: Address: The Fun and Challenges of Being a
Female Field Scientist
Anna K. Behrensmeyer
Research Paleobiologist, Department of Paleobiolog
National
Museum of Natural History
7:30-8:30 PM: Reception at Leverett House Masters' Residence
Hosted by Professor Howard Georgi and Ms. Ann Georgi
8:30-10:00 PM: Leverett Dinner (co-sponsored by HGWISE)
Introduction
Howard Georgi
Mallinckrodt Professor of Physics at Harvard University
Keynote Dinner Address
Kathie Olsen
Deputy Director, Chief Operating Office, National Science
Foundation
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Sunday, April
15, 2007 |
10:00-10:30 AM: Address: Women on the edge of
Interdisciplinarity
Anita Mehta
Radcliffe Fellow
10:40-11:00 AM: Address
Anita Goel
Chairman, CEO and Scientific Director of Nanobiosym Labs
11:00-11:50 AM: Panel: Advances in Biomedical Engineering
Moderator: Anita Goel
Chairman, CEO and Scientific Director of Nanobiosym Labs
Sangeeta Bhatia
Associate Professor, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Diane Hoffman-Kim
Assistant Professor of Medical Science and Engineering, Brown
University
Tayhas Palmore
Associate Professor of Engineering and Medical Science, Brown
University
Radcliffe Fellow
12:00-12:45 PM: Address
Susan Lindquist
Member, Whitehead Institute; Professor of Biology, MIT
Melissa Franklin
Mallinckrodt Professor of Physics; Director of Graduate Studies,
Harvard
12:45-1:45 PM: Lunch
1:45-2:00 PM: Closing Remarks
Salil Vadhan
Thomas D. Cabot Associate Professor of Computer Science
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