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In a previous post I provided a teaser of the information presented during our Boston AAS panel discussion on 'Transforming Cultural Norms: Mentoring and Networking Groups for Women and Minorities".
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Astronomy
Posting of the Boston AAS Panel Discussion Video
In a previous post I provided a teaser of the information presented during our Boston AAS panel discussion on 'Transforming Cultural Norms: Mentoring and Networking Groups for Women and Minorities".
Thank you again to our panelists for their thoughtful responses. Our panelists were:
- Marcel Agueros -- astronomy faculty and Director of Columbia University's Bridge to PhD program in the Natural Sciences
- Ed Bertschinger -- Chair of the MIT Physics department and deeply involved in a number of mentoring, networking, and cultural change initiatives, member of the CSWA
- Kim Coble -- physics/astronomy faculty at Chicago State University, a minority serving institution in Chicago, deeply involved in mentoring and pipeline issues
- Meredith Danowski -- astronomy PhD student and co-founder of Boston University's women in STEM mentoring and networking program
- Jim Ulvestad -- NSF-AST director, head of astro2010 demographics study group, and former member of the CSWA
Below is the videotape we made of this special session (thank you BU graduate student!), split into 3 parts.
I strongly recommend viewing the higher quality version, posted here.
(This blog site only supports very small file sizes.)
-L. Trouille
- Boston Aas: Panel Discussion On Transforming Cultural Norms...
Yesterday we held a panel discussion during the Boston AAS meeting entitled "Transforming Cultural Norms: Mentoring and Networking Groups for Women and Minorities". In order to more widely disseminate the ideas and resources shared during this discussion,...
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AAS Committee on the Status of Women Issue of May 20, 2011 eds. Joan Schmelz, Caroline Simpson, and Michele Montgomery This week's issues: 1. Special Sessions at the Boston AAS in May2. Women's Adventures in Science3. Job Announcements4. How to...
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Post by guest-blogger Meredith Danowski*, PhD student in Astronomy at Boston University. There's a stack of papers to be graded, a grant proposal that needs some work, a paper that needs to be written, and a class that needs to be prepared. There...
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Post by guest-blogger Meredith Danowski*, PhD student in Astronomy at Boston University. The day-to-day work of science can be difficult. There are grant proposals to be written, courses to be taught, data to be analyzed. But that's the stuff we came...
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