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Registration in Lobby of Boylston
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10:00 AM - 10:10 AM
[Fong Auditorium] |
Brief Introduction by Francesca Reindel
NSAWS Speakers Committee Director
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10:10 AM - 11:00 AM
[Fong Auditorium] |
Panel: "Current Challenges in HIV/AIDS Research and Global Health"
Judy Lieberman
Director, Division of AIDS, Harvard Medical School
Diane Havlir
Chief, HIV/AIDS Division, San Francisco General Hospital
Robert Lue
Professor, Molecular and Cellular Biology, Harvard University
Direction of Life Sciences Education at Harvard University
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11:00 AM - 11:40 AM
[Fong Auditorium] |
Morning keynote address:
"Risk taking in a changing scientific environment - lessons from Systems Biology"
Vera Mucaj, Introductions
Pamela Silver
Professor of Systems Biology, Harvard Medical School
Director of Harvard Graduate Programs in Systems Biology
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11:40 AM - 12:30 PM
[Fong Auditorium] |
Panel: "Networking and Collaboration across Disciplines"
Francesca Reindel, Moderator
Nancy Kopell
Co-Director, Center for BioDynamics; Department of Mathematics, Boston University
Richard Losick
Professor, Molecular and Cellular Biology, Harvard University
Co-head Tutor of Molecular and Cellular Biology
Diana Dabby
Assistant Professor of Electrical Engineering and Music, Olin College of Engineering
Laura Diaz Anadon
Manager of Energy Research, Development, Demonstration & Deployment Policy Project
Harvard Kennedy School of Government
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12:30 PM - 1:30 PM
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[Ticknor Lounge] Networking Luncheon
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1:30 PM - 2:20 PM
[Fong Auditorium] |
Panel: "Strategies for Tightening the Leaky Pipeline through Science Education"
Tzu-ying Chuang, Moderator
Howard Georgi
Professor and Head Tutor in Physics, Harvard
Master of Leverett House
Sarah Stewart-Mukhopadhyay
Assistant Professor of Planetary Science, Harvard
Myra Halpin
Dean of Science
North Carolina School of Science and Mathematics
Jessica Edmonds
Business Development Project Engineer
Aurora Flight Sciences Corporation
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1:30 PM - 2:20 PM [Room 105]
Concurrent Faculty Workshop: "Music from Chaos"
Facilitators: Francesca Reindel, Alana Ju
Diana Dabby
Assistant Professor of Electrical Engineering and Music, Olin College of Engineering |
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1:30 PM - 2:20 PM [Room 103]
Concurrent Faculty Workshop: "Evolutionary Genetics of Mammals"
Facilitators: Ellen Yan, Anne McCabe
Hopi Hoekstra
Associate Professor of Natural Sciences, Harvard
Curator of Mammals, Museum of Comparative Zoology |
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2:20 PM - 3:10 PM
[Fong Auditorium] |
Panel: "Entering the World of Industry and Other Non-Academic Careers"
Elizabeth Zhang, Moderator
Mary Lynne Hedley
Chief Scientific Officer and Executive Vice President
MGI Pharma, Inc.
Lisan Parker
Senior Research Biologist
Merck Research Laboratories
Stacie Weninger
Science Grant Manager, Fidelity
Former Senior Editor of Neuron
Brenda Jarrell
Co-Chair, Life Sciences Group
Choate, Hall & Stewart LLP
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2:20 PM - 3:10 PM [Ticknor Lounge]
Concurrent student workshop:
"Schooling after Undergrad"
Julia Tartaglia, Moderator
Jessica Edmonds
Business Development Project Engineer
Aurora Flight Sciences Corporation
(Recently obtained PhD from MIT Dept of Aeronautics and Astronautics)
Katie Rose Clapham
Harvard College '08
Student, Harvard Medical School
Crissy Markova
Student, Harvard Dental School
Eun Young Choi
Graduate Student in Neuroscience, Harvard
Co-Chair, Harvard Graduate Women in Science and Engineering (HGWISE) |
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3:10 PM - 3:50 PM
[Fong Auditorium] |
Afternoon keynote address
Ola Canty '11, Introductions
Melissa Franklin
Professor and Director of Graduate Studies in Physics, Harvard University
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3:50 PM - 4:30 PM
[Fong Auditorium] |
Panel: "Climbing Ladders in Academia"
Chiamaka Nwakeze, Moderator
Dora Carrico-Moniz
Assistant professor of chemistry
Wellesley College
Cassandra Extavour
Assistant Professor of Organismic & Evolutionary Biology, Harvard University
Stella X. Yu
Assistant Professor of Computer Science
Boston College
Elizabeth Thiele
Director, Pediatric Epilepsy Program
Associate Professor of Neurology
Harvard Medical School
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3:50 PM - 4:30 PM [Room 105]
Concurrent Career Exploration Workshop: "Discovery and Communication: Exploring Science Journalism"
Facilitators: Jenny Chen, Becky Martinez
Cristine Russell
Science Journalist
President, Council for the Advancement of Science Writing, Harvard Kennedy School |
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3:50 PM - 4:30 PM [Room 103]
Concurrent Career Exploration Workshop:
"Exciting Green Career Opportunities in Sustainable Architecture, Engineering, Public Policy, and Urban Planning"
Facilitators: Alana Ju, Nandini Sarma
Ellen Watts
Principal, Architerra Inc.
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4:30 PM - 5:20 PM
[Fong Auditorium] |
Panel for high school attendees:
"The College Life as a Woman in Science"
Nguyen Nguyen, Moderator
Diana Robles
Undergrad in Molecular & Cellular Biology, Harvard
Claire Reddy
Undergrad in Chemistry, Wellesley College
Anjali Tripathi
Undergrad in Physics, MIT
Chiamaka Nwakeze
Undergrad in Neurobiology, Harvard
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4:30 PM - 5:20 PM [Ticknor Lounge]
Concurrent student workshop: "Leadership Strategies for Women-in-Science Organizations"
An intercollegial discussion for students involved in or interested in women-in-science organizations on their campuses, led by the presidents of Women-in-Science at Harvard-Radcliffe (WISHR):
Rachel Zhang and Michele Lee |
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| 5:20 PM - 7:00 PM |
Break
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7:00 PM - 8:00 PM
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[Master's Residence, Leverett House] (Map of Leverett House)
Reception for guests hosted by Professor Howard Georgi and Ann Georgi (Research Advisor for the Life Sciences at Harvard)
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8:00 PM - 10:00 PM
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Closing Banquet [Leverett House Dining Hall]
Generously hosted by Professor Howard Georgi and Ann Georgi (Research Advisor for the Life Sciences at Harvard)
Closing remarks:
Lucie Guo
NSAWS Co-Director
Banquet keynote address:
"Why I'm Talking to You at NSAWS: My Evolution Over 30 Years as a Woman in Science"
Meg Urry
Chair and Department of Physics, Yale University
Director of the Yale Center for Astronomy & Astrophysics
With introduction by Professor Howard Georgi
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