EVENTS                                                                                                                                                                                       

Blueprint for the Future: Framing the Issues of Women in Science in a Global Context - A Workshop
April 4, 2011 | Keck Center, 500 Fifth Street, NW, Washington, DC, 20001
 

Agenda and Workshop Presentations 

11:30 AM - 11:45 AM	Welcome and Overview of Workshop (Lunch Served)
	Allan Fisher, Senior Vice President, Laureate Education, Inc., and Committee member, Commitee on Women in Science, Engineering, and Medicine (CWSEM) Carol Stoel, Program Director, Division of Graduate Education, Education and Human Resources Directorate, National Science Foundation Catherine Didion, Director, Committee on Women in Science, Engineering, and Medicine

 

11:45 AM - 1:00 PM	Panel I - Cross-Cultural Issues:
	Knowledge and Data Sources Angelica Salvi Del Pero, Administrator (Gender) Social Policy Division, Directorate for Employment, Labour and Social Affairs, OECD Social-Historical Trends Mariko Ogawa, Professor, Humanities, Law and Economics, Mie University, Japan
	Higher Education
	Anne MacLachlan, Senior Researcher, Center for Studies in Higher Education, University of California, Berkeley and Cheryl Leggon, Associate Professor, School of Public Policy,Georgia Institute of Technology
	Workforce Segregation
	Alice Abreu, Regional Coordinator, Rio + 20 Initiative, International Council for Science (ICSU)
	Discussant: Anneke Sengers, Scientist Emeritus, NIST and Chair, Working Group on Women, Inter American Network of Academies of Science (IANAS)

 

1:00 PM - 2:15 PM	Panel II - Focal Disciplines:
	Chemical Sciences
	Robert Lichter, Principle, Merrimack Consultants, LLC, and Willie Pearson, Jr., Professor, School of History, Technology, and Society, Georgia Institute of Technology
	Computer Sciences
	Joanne Cohoon, Associate Professor, Science, Technology and Society Department, School of Engineering and Applied Science, University of Virginia
	Mathematics and Statistics
	Keith Crank, Assistant Director, Research and Graduate Education,American Statistical Association, and Ingrid Daubechies, Professor, Duke University and President, International Mathematical Union (IMU)
	Discussants: Allan Fisher, Senior Vice President, Laureate Education Inc.; and Bradley Miller, Director, Office of International Activities, American Chemical Society.

2:15 PM - 2:30 PM

Break

2:30 PM - 3:45 PM	Panel III - Cross-Cutting Themes:
	Role of Professional Societies
	Lisa M. Frehill, Senior Program Officer, the National Academies
	Promising Programs
	Daryl Chubin, Director, Center for Advancing Science & Engineering Capacity, American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)
	Promising Policies
	Connie L. McNeely, Professor of Public Policy, and Co-Director, Center for Science and Technology Policy, George Mason University, and Cheryl Leggon, Associate Professor, School of Public Policy, Georgia Institute of Technology
	Discussants: Jessie DeAro, Program Director, Alliances For Graduate Education and the Professoriate (AGEP), Education and Human Resources Directorate, National Science Foundation; Kathie Bailey-Mathae, Director, Board on International Scientific Organizations (BISO), The National Academies; and Patricia Taboada-Serrano, Early-Career Representative, Women for Science Working Group, InterAmerican Network of Academies of Sciences

3:45 PM - 4:30 PM	Concluding Discussion
	Shirley M. Malcom, Co-chair, Gender Advisory Board, UN Commission on Science and Technology Development (UNCSTD), and Head, Education and Human Resources, American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)

4:30 PM

Adjournment

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