Women working in Science

UW System Women and Science Program

Opportunities for Wisconsin

Women in Science, Technology, Engineering and Math Course
 

Course Kick Off Conference

 

August 6-8, 2007

UW Oshkosh River Center  

 

Keynote Speakers:

 

  Dr. Eric J. Jolly is the president of the Science Museum of Minnesota, which is among the nation’s largest and most-esteemed science museums. In 1994 he founded the National Institute of Affirmative Action. He is also the author of numerous books, articles, and curricula for students and teachers across the educational spectrum.

  Dr. Kathryn Scantlebury is an Associate Professor and the Secondary Science Education Coordinator at the University of Delaware in the Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry. She is a nationaal speaker about engaging girls in STEM classrooms and has worked as a Program Director for the National Science Foundation.

bonniebaslerDr. Bonnie Bassler, a member of the National Academy of Sciences, is a Howard Hughes Medical Investigator and Professor of Molecular Biology at Princeton University.  She received a B.S. in Biochemistry from the University of California at Davis, and a Ph.D. in Biochemistry from the Johns Hopkins University.  She performed postdoctoral work in Genetics at the Agouron Institute, and she joined the Princeton faculty in 1994.  The research in her laboratory focuses on the molecular mechanisms that bacteria use for intercellular communication.  This process is called quorum sensing.  Dr. Bassler is the Director of Graduate Studies in the Molecular Biology Department, and she teaches both undergraduate and graduate courses.  Dr. Bassler was awarded a MacArthur Foundation Fellowship in 2002.  She was elected to the American Academy of Microbiology in 2002 and made a fellow of American Association for the Advancement of Science in 2004.  She was given the 2003 Theobald Smith Society Waksman Award and she is the 2006 recipient of the American Society for Microbiology’s Eli Lilly Investigator Award for fundamental contributions to microbiological research.  Bassler is an editor for Molecular Microbiology and Annual Reviews of Genetics, and she is an associate editor for the Journal of Bacteriology.  Among other duties, she serves on grant, fellowship, and award review panels for the National Institutes of Health, National Science Foundation, American Society for Microbiology, American Academy of Microbiology, Keck Foundation, Burroughs Wellcome Trust, and the Max Planck Society. 

  Meals and Lodging Provided  

Resource and Idea Fair

Conference Schedule

This project is sponsored by a National Science Foundation Research on Gender in Science and Engineering Dissemination grant (#05-33553).