Careers of Women in Science: Issues of Power and Control (Conference, May 2001)

Speakers' Short Biographies

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Sylvia Braselmann
Scientist
Onyx Pharmaceuticals, Inc.

Sylvia Braselmann studied at the University of Düsseldorf, Germany, and the Phillips University of Marburg, Germany. She performed her thesis research at the University of Geneva, Switzerland, and received her MS in Human Biology from Marburg in 1987. She then graduated from the Research Institute of Molecular Pathology at the University of Vienna, Austria, with a Ph.D. in Molecular Biology in 1992. Since 1993, she has been at Onyx Pharmaceuticals, where she is currently Scientist and Project Leader.

Braselmann has done research and published in the fields of oncology and inflammation, especially in the area of signal transduction and lipid kinases. She is also a part time graduate student at the History Department of San Francisco State University, concentrating on American History and Women's History. Her special interest lies in the History of Science.

Kimberly S. Budil
Physicist
Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory

Kimberly S. Budil was educated at the University of Illinois at Chicago where she earned her BS in physics in 1987. She then graduated from the University of California at Davis with an MS (1989) and Ph.D. (1994) in Applied Science. She is a physicist in B Division within the Defense & Nuclear Technologies Directorate at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory. In this capacity Budil performs computational design work exploring means to assess primary performance without nuclear testing and the underlying weapons physics. Prior to this assignment she pursued experimental high energy density physics research at the Nova Laser Facility at LLNL. Budil's research interests include the evolution of hydrodynamic instabilities, computational physics and high energy density physical processes and she has published numerous papers on these topics.

Budil has also been involved in numerous activities seeking to increase the representation of women in technical roles. These include being the founding co-chair of the Women in Science and Engineering Subcommittee of the LLNL Women's Association, Technical Co-Chair of the 1998 LLNL Women's Technical and Professional Symposium, Co-Chair of the 1997 Tri-Valley Expanding Your Horizons Conference and member of the LLNL EYH Consortium and the Strategies Within Forum Steering Committee and Local Working Group. She received an LLNL Laser Program Directorate Award for Women's Outreach Activities and gave an invited talk at the American Physical Society April 2001 Meeting in Washington, D.C. on the Strategies Within effort.

Hattie Carwell
Operations Lead, US Department of Energy
Berkeley Site Office
Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (LBNL)

Hattie Carwell has BS in Chemistry/Biology from Bennett College, an MA in Health Physics from Rutgers, and an honorary doctorate from Bennett. She worked for five years at the International Atomic Energy Agency in Vienna as a nuclear safeguards inspector and group leader. Previous work experience also includes positions as a senior health physicist with the US Department of Energy, Oakland Operations Office and research assistant at Thomas Jefferson University.

Carwell is currently the Operations Lead for the US Department of Energy at the Berkeley Site Office located at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (LBNL). As operations lead, she manages the DOE environment, health and safety oversight at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, which involves evaluation of safety performance, implementation of policies and requirements, facility safety analysis, and research program reviews.

Debbie Clingingsmith
Director, SWE Golden West Region
Software Engineer, Hewlett-Packard Company

Debbie Clingingsmith has an BS (1976) from the University of California at Davis; an MS (1991) from California State University at Chico; and a Standard Designated Teaching Credential for High School and Community College, 1/83, from California State University, Consortium. Currently, she works as a Software Engineer at Hewlett-Packard Company where she is responsible for the design, test, and support of software and firmware for mass storage devices. She also teaches classes to international audiences on emerging mass storage technologies.

Clingingsmith's professional contributions have been recognized by an Engineering Council of Sacramento Valley Outstanding Service to the Engineering Profession Award (1995) and a National Science Foundation Faculty Grant recipient for the National Educational Computing Conference (1992).

Clingingsmith has been a strong advocate for women in engineering. A chartering member of the Sierra Foothills Section of the Society for Women Engineers (SWE), she has been very active in the SWE since joining in 1990. Among the many offices she has held are SWE-SFS Section President, member of the Multi-Cultural Committee (1993-); National Convention Diversity Track Technical Papers Co-Chair (1998); Region A Deputy Director (1996-1998; 1996-1998) Electronic Communications Committee member as Region A web gatekeeper. She is currently Director of the Golden West Region and a member of the SWE national Board of Directors. Clingingsmith also speaks and writes on issues pertaining to the advancement of women in engineering, including Engendering Equity: Fostering Computer Science Success Among Women and Minorities; Electronic Communications in the Future of SWE; and Training the Trainer: Strategies for Sharing Your Expertise.

Catherine Jay Didion
Executive Director of the Association for Women in Science (AWIS)
Washington, DC

Since 1990, Catherine Jay Didion has been Executive Director of the over 5,000 member strong Association for Women in Science (AWIS) in Washington, DC. During her term, AWIS has been actively implementing through its 76 local chapters an undergraduate and
graduate mentoring program supported by the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation and the National Science Foundation (NSF). It has produced several major publications.

As Executive Director of AWIS, Didion has discussed its programs at numerous professional meetings, has written about women and science for The Scientist, Science, and Initiatives (the journal of
the National Association for Women in Education), and has presented
testimony to Congress, and speaks frequently to the media. She also writes the bimonthly column, "Women in Science" for the Journal of College Science Teaching.

Didion was invited by the Government of South Africa to be the Keynote speaker at a national conference on women in science. As one of the official representatives for AWIS to the United Nations, she headed up the twelve member delegation to the Fourth World Conference on Women in Beijing , co-chaired the first science and
technology caucus at a U.N. women's conference, and was instrumental in the Beijing+5 meetings. She is one of the co-founders of the Global Alliance Diversity Project-a partnership exploring the global impact of diversity. Didion is active on many advisory boards including, National Academy of Engineering's Celebration of Women in Engineering; Women in Science and Engineering (WISE); Science Linkages in the Community (SLC), to name but a few.

Lillian Dyck
Professor, Department of Psychiatry
University of Saskatchewan

Lillian Dyck graduated with a Ph.D. in Biological Psychiatry from the University of Saskatchewan in 1981. Currently, she is a full professor in the Department of Psychiatry at U of Saskatchewan. As an academic neurochemist she is one of the few women in Canada and the entire Aboriginal world to hold such a title.

Dyck's research interests include the role enzymes and drug metabolism play in psychiatric disorders such as depression, schizophrenia, and Alzheimer's disease. Over the past few years,
she has been working with two chemists to synthesize a new series of compounds that prevent cells from dying or that will rescue cells that are dying, research that will have a significant impact on stroke research.

A strong advocate for both women and Aboriginal peoples in science, Dyck was honoured with a National Aboriginal Achievement Award in 1999 for her advocacy, and for bringing an Aboriginal perspective to her research. She was also the recipient of a Canadian House of Commons House Citation in recognition of her accomplishments in biochemistry and praising her as a role model.

Dyck is the inventor of several patents. In addition to numerous scientific publications, she has also written articles in gender and aboriginal studies including: An analysis of Western, Feminist and
Aboriginal Science Using the Medicine Wheel of the Plains Indians and Stages in the Path to Equity for Women Faculty in Science.

Patricia Ellis
Ph.D. Candidate & Graduate Assistant
The School of Sociology and Social Policy
University of Surrey Roehampton

Patricia Ellis graduated with a first degree in Physics from the University of Durham, followed by a Master's degree in Pollution and Environmental Control at the University of Manchester.
She is currently in the third year of her doctoral research at The School of Sociology and Social Policy, University of Surrey Roehampton.

Ellis's MS research focused on the sound insulation properties of non-standard dwellings with particular reference to motorway noise, but she quickly became involved in trying to understand people's reactions to noise and their perceptions of it. In her doctoral research, she is investigating the obstacles and barriers to retention and progression for women who enter science-based employment.

Ellis began her working career as a physicist in the Occupational Health and Medical Laboratories of the Health and Safety Executive. Later she moved to the Scientific Services Branch of the Greater London Council where she worked as an Environmental Consultant specializing in noise and vibration and provided advice to the Council on policy in these areas. After her own career break, she began to work for the Daphne Jackson Memorial Fellowships Trust-an educational charity which enables qualified scientists and engineers to return to work after a career break.

In addition to her research activities, Ellis contributes to teaching in the School of Sociology and Social Policy; in particular, she has been the co-convener of the Women and Employment course. She has recently been on a study visit to Washington, DC to explore the use of statistics on women and science in the U.S.

Lorna Erwin
Professor, Sociology
Director, Qualitative Research and Resource Centre

Lorna Erwin received a Ph.D. in Sociology in 1990 from York University in Toronto. In 1997-98, she was an Affiliated Scholar at Beatrice Bain Research Group on Gender at UC Berkeley. Currently, she is an Associate professor of Sociology at York, with cross appointments in Women's Studies and the Faculty of Education. She is also the director York's Qualitative Research and Resource Centre.

Erwin's research interests include women in science, the effects of social difference on educational experiences and outcomes, gender identity formation, and the politics of organized anti-feminism. Currently, she is the principal investigator of a Social Science and Humanities Research Council of Canada project (1993-2001) on the formation of career aspirations and identities among female science students. This study involves narrative interviews with 81 women over at eight-year period, beginning with their first year in university.

In addition to publishing several articles on career identities and gender deficits in science, Erwin is the co-editor of The Sociology of Education in Canada: Critical Perspectives in Theory, Research and Practice. She has also written widely on anti-feminism and the "pro-family movement" in Canada.

Erwin has been actively involved in academic struggles in Canada over equity issues and state and corporate control over research and funding in higher education. She sits on numerous committees and boards on educational equity issues and is currently Vice-President in charge of External Relations for the York University Faculty Association (YUFA).

Giovanna Gabetta
EniTecnologie

Giovanna Gabetta earned her doctoral degree in nuclear engineering at the Politecnico di Milano in 1975, the first woman to graduate from the nuclear engineering program. Until 1994, she worked in material science-corrosion engineering in power generation. She has continued to work in the same field applied to oil and gas environment. Gabetta has participated in many international cooperation programs beginning with her research at the European Union (EU) Joint Research Centre (JRC) in the materials division, to her work with the US Nuclear Regulatory Commission, and participation in working parties and associations.

Gabetta, a long-time supporter of women's careers in science, has actively promoted the assumption of responsibilities by women inside the company where she works. Her advocacy work also includes personal contact with individual women who have an interest in scientific careers and involvement In Professional Associations and The Equal Opportunities Agency-Ministry.

The author of more than seventy technical papers, Gabetta is also well versed in the gender and science literature. She has conducted statistical studies comparing the career progression of men and women in science. In 1998, Gabetta published Sesso, Amore e Gerarchia (Gender, Love, and Hierarchy) about male-female relationships at work. She is currently writing another article based on the results of her survey on women and science.

Gabetta has been married to Carlo Zanotti since 1975 and has three chidren: Paola and Emma (twins, born in 1980) and Gianluigi (born in 1983).

Yolanda S. George
Deputy Director
Directorate for Education and Human Resources
American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)

Yolanda S. George received her BS and MS from Xavier University in Louisiana and Atlanta University in Georgia, respectively. She has served as Director of Development for the Association of Science-Technology Centers (ASTC) and Director of a pre-college, university recruitment, retention, and pre-graduate school program at UC Berkeley.

George is Deputy Director for the Directorate for Education and Human Resources Programs at the AAAS. She is responsible for conceptualizing, developing and implementing multi-year projects related to increasing the participation of minorities, women, and disabled persons in science and engineering. She is Co-Principal Investigator for the Department of Energy funded Global Alliance for Diversifying the Science and Engineering Workforce, a joint initiative with the Association for Women in Science (AWIS) and the Women in Science and Engineering Advocates Network (WEPAN). She is the Co-PI for the NSF funded Minority Graduate Education Research Program as well as other NSF projects.

George is a consultant to federal and state agencies, Departments of Education, foundations, corporations, and colleges and universities. She sits on numerous boards and committees including the WEPAN Board of Directors; the Maria Mitchell Women in Science Award Advisory Committee; the California State University, Los Angeles, ACCESS Program, and the Boys and Girls Club of America, Computer Technology Centers Project, Atlanta, GA.

George has authored or co-authored over 45 papers, pamphlets, and hands-on science manuals including Losing Ground: Science and Engineering Graduate Education of Black and Hispanic Americans and Global Linkages for Science Literacy Project: Reports from the Field on Promising Strategies for Educating Girls and Women in Science, Mathematics, and Technology.

Barbara Jones
Manager of Theoretical and Computational Physics
IBM Almaden Research Center in San Jose, CA.
Consulting Professor, Physics Department, Stanford University

Barbara Jones received an AB degree in physics from Harvard University in 1982, and MS and Ph.D. degrees in physics from Cornell in 1985 and 1988, respectively. Following a postdoctoral position at Harvard, she joined IBM in 1989 as a Research Staff Member. Jones is currently Manager of Theoretical and Computational Physics at the IBM Almaden Research Center in San Jose, CA. For the six years prior to this, she managed the group Magnetic Materials and Phenomena.

Jones' research interests are in the interaction of magnetic and nonmagnetic materials, particularly at nanometer scales. Recent projects include micromagnetic modeling of media, theories of current-induced magnetization reversal, and many-body theories of magnetic atoms on metallic or superconducting surfaces (as studied by UHV STM), such as quantum mirage systems.

Jones has a long-standing interest in promoting the participation of women in physics. She is the co-founder and chair of the APS/IBM Research Internship for Undergraduate Women, a member of IBM Almaden's Diversity Council, and Vice Chair of the Committee on the Status of Women in Physics of the American Physical Society (Chair 2002). She is also a Trustee and General Member of the Aspen Center for Physics (1996-), an Advisory Board Member for the Institute for Theoretical Physics, UCSB (1999-2003); a past Member at Large of the Executive Committee of the Division of Condensed Matter Physics, American Physical Society (1997-2000); and sits on the Board of Advisors for the Graduate Program in Physics, Georgetown University (1999-). She is a recipient of the YWCA 2001 Tribute to Women in Industry Award.

Jonghui K. Lee
Program Coordinator
Berkeley Biotechnology Education, Inc.

Jonghui K. Lee was educated at the University of California, San Diego where she earned her BS in molecular biology in 1994. She then graduated from the University of California, Berkeley (UCB) with a Ph.D. in Molecular and Cell Biology in 2000. Immediately after her graduation, she took a position as the Program Coordinator of Berkeley Biotechnology Education, Inc. (BBEI), a non-profit organization that serves local high school and community college students who are underrepresented in science to enter biotechnology careers. Starting the summer of 2001, she will also join the Laney Community College faculty as the biotechnology cooperative education instructor as an expansion of her role at BBEI.

Lee's doctoral research focused on phosphorylation-induced interdomain communication in the response regulator NtrC. In 1998, she was selected to participate in NSF Summer Institute in Korea and conducted a collaborative research with the host scientist at the Korea Research Institute of Bioscience and Biotechnology.

While in graduate school, Lee co-organized a first-of-kind, credited career seminar series for graduate students and postdoctoral fellows, sponsored by UCB Molecular and Cell Biology Department and the Career Center. She also organized career development workshops at the Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) annual meetings for both 2000 ("Taking Actions on Young Scientists Career Development and Training Issues") and 2001 ("Beyond Benchwork: Career Options for Scientists") meetings, sponsored by the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation and AWIS. She also presented at both workshops as one of several speakers.

Diana Long
Professor of History
University of Southern Maine Portland
Visiting Scholar, Office for History of Science & Technology,
UC Berkeley

Diana Long was educated at Smith College where she earned her BA in history in 1959. She then graduated from Yale University with an MA in history in 1960 and Ph.D. in the History of Science and Medicine in 1966. She is a Professor of History at the University of Southern Maine Portland where she was also the Director of Women's Studies from 1989-95. Dr. Long is currently a visiting scholar at Office for History of Science and Technology at UC Berkeley. She was a Visiting Senior Historian at the National Library of Medicine, NIH in 1989.

Long's research interests include the interactions of science, medicine and culture in the twentieth century; the history of sex endocrinology and the patterns of medical language the were part of the history; and understanding the roles, behaviors and motives of women scientists working in physiology labs. She has edited two books and is the author of numerous articles including: Hidden Persuaders: Medical Indexing and the Gendered Professionalism of American Medicine, 1880-1932; Scientific Authority and the Search for Sex Hormones; Moving Reprints: An Historian Looks at Sex Research Publications of the 1930s; The `Physiological' Identity of American Sex Researchers between the Two World Wars; and Academics, Bluestockings and Biologists: Woman at the University of Chicago, 1892-1932.

Anne J. MacLachlan
Research Associate
Center for Studies in Higher Education (CHSE)
University of California, Berkeley

Anne J. MacLachlan received her Ph.D. in German Economic History, which was supported by NDEA, DAAD, Institute fuer Europäische Geschichte, Mainz, from the University of California, Irvine. After completing her Ph.D. in 1985, she taught history at UCB and UCSB. Maclachlan was the Berkeley Campus Academic Placement Coordinator (1987-92), Assistant Dean of the Graduate Division UC Santa Barbara (1993-94), and the Researcher and Special Projects Coordinator for the Berkeley Graduate Division and the Center for Studies in Higher Education (1994-97).

MacLachlan has also been involved with several German educational organizations over the past two decades. She was a recent visiting scholar to Wissenschaftliches Zentrum für Berufs-Hochschulforschung, Kassel (1999, 2000), participated in Darmstadt-Kassel Runde on aspects of German Universities (1999), and was a Fellow at the Max-Planck Institut für Geschichte 2000, 1999, etc).

Since coming to the CHSE in 1996, MacLachlan has pursued a vigorous research agenda on recruitment, retention, and career outcome issues with a particular focus on women and minorities in science. A current Spencer Foundation-funded project, A Longitudinal Study of Minority Ph.D.s in Science and Engineering at UC Berkeley (1980 to 1990), explores the reasons underlying success in graduate school and subsequent career trajectories. This matched-pair study, which involves interviews with minority (N=415) and non-minority Ph.D.s (N=415), will make a substantial contribution our understanding of how gender and race mediate educational experiences and outcomes.

MacLachlan has also written numerous articles and reports that examine various aspects of the graduate school experiences and outcomes of women and minority students in science and engineering, including: Against the Odds: How Minority Women Scientists Negotiate the Workplace; The Inclusion of Women in American Higher Education, 1870-to the present: A Study of Institutional Adaptation; Successful Activities in California to Recruit and Retain Women in Schools of Engineering, and The Lives and Careers of Minority Women Scientists, among others.

Linda H. Mantel
Assistant Vice-President for Technology Services
University of Portland

Linda H. Mantel graduated from Swarthmore College and received her Ph.D. in Physiology and Biophysics from the University of Illinois. She spent three years as a Research Fellow in the Department of Invertebrates at the American Museum of Natural History, before joining the Biology Department at City College of the City University of New York, where she had a 25-year career as a faculty member, department chair, and Assistant Provost for Graduate Studies and Research. After leaving City College, Mantel served as Dean of the Faculty at Reed College in Portland, OR and as Interim Vice-President for Academic Administration at Willamette University. Currently, Mantel is Assistant Vice-President for Technology Services at the University of Portland and the President of AWIS.

Mantel's research interest-the physiology of crustaceans, including salt and water balance, growth and molting, metabolism, and responses to pollutants-has enabled her to visit and work at many interesting locations.
Mantel has been a leading advocate for women in science for many years. While in New York, she was a founding member of the Metro New York Chapter of the Association for Women in Science (AWIS) and of the Section on Women of the New York Academy of Sciences. She was elected as a National Councilor of AWIS in 1992 and served on the Executive Board for three years. At the end of that time, she became a Co-PI of a NSF-sponsored mentoring project, which was carried out by twelve AWIS chapters across the country. As President of AWIS, she is involved in projects to encourage girls and young women to think about careers in science, and to improve the professional lives of those who are already in science.

Carol B. Muller
Founder and Executive Director of MentorNet

Carol B. Muller graduated from Dartmouth College in 1977 with a major in Philosophy and English, and earned Masters (1981) and Ph.D. (1985) in education administration and policy analysis from Stanford University. She is a consulting associate professor of engineering at Stanford, where she works with colleagues in designing and implementing a series of engineering faculty development workshops.
As Associate Dean for Dartmouth's school of engineering in the 1990s, she co-founded the campus' award-winning Women in Science Project, building on her expertise in gender issues in education, and employment.

Muller is the founder and executive director of MentorNet, the national electronic mentoring network for women in engineering and science, based at San José State University. She has recently completed work as the executive director for the Dartmouth Project for Teaching Engineering Problem Solving at Dartmouth College, an NSF-sponsored program designed to bring engineering problem solving techniques to high school science and math teachers.

Muller frequently writes and speaks on issues central to the retention and promotion of women in science. Recent presentations and articles include: The Women in Science Project: One Campus Model for Support and Systemic Change; MentorNet: The National Electronic Industrial Mentoring Network for Women in Engineering and Science; Retaining Undergraduate Women in Science, Math, and Engineering: A Model Program; and Factors Influencing Women's Pursuit of a College Science Major or Science Career: An Evaluation of the Women in Science Project (WISP).

Maria Ople Ong
Ph.D. Candidate
Social and Cultural Studies in Education
University of California, Berkeley

Maria Ople Ong is a doctoral candidate in Social and Cultural Studies in Education at the University of California, Berkeley. She is a current Fellow of the American Educational Research Association and the
National Science Foundation - UC Berkeley Program in the Social Studies of Science and Technology.

Ong served for over three years as the program Director of the Physics Scholars Program, an NSF-sponsored undergraduate retention program serving Primarily women and underrepresented minority students In physics and engineering at UC Berkeley. More recently, she has held positions as the coordinator of the Chevron Undergraduate Research Program, which sponsors research efforts of underrepresented science and engineering majors, and as the lead researcher of a Spencer Foundation-sponsored project that examines the factors influencing the success in science of ethnic minority Ph.D. recipients. Her current research explores the processes by which traditional outsiders-ethnic minorities and women-learn to become full participants in an academic physics community that is predominantly White and male. She examines how underrepresented students reconcile strong academic science performances with their cultural performances as minorities and/or women and demonstrates how the work they undertake to bridge multiple (and sometimes competing) memberships necessarily challenges and broadens traditional meanings of 'success' in science.

Amy E. Ryken

Amy E. Ryken was educated at Mills College where she earned her BA in biochemistry and a teaching credential in 1985. She then graduated from the University of California, Berkeley with a M.P.H. in health education in 1990. She returned to the University of California, Berkeley to study Educational Policy and Management Research, receiving her Ph.D. in 2001.

In between attaining her educational goals, Ryken worked in a variety of science education settings. She taught chemistry, biology and integrated science at Berkeley High School for seven years and biotechnology co-operative education at Laney College for five years. Since 1994 she has been the Education Director of Berkeley Biotechnology Education, Inc. Beginning Fall 2001, Ryken will be an Assistant Professor of Education at the University of Puget Sound, teaching science and math methods courses to pre-service elementary and secondary teachers.

Ryken's research interests include understanding how students learn science in school and work settings, exploring how companies recruit, train and develop science workers, and linking high school and beyond (college and work). Her dissertation, "Content, Pedagogy, Results: A Thrice-Told Tale of Integrating Work-based and School-based Learning," examined the types of content, pedagogy, and outcomes that biotechnology career academies and community colleges provide students access to, and identified practices that help students integrate scientific theory and practice.

Angelica Stacy
Professor of Chemistry
UC Berkeley

Angelica Stacy received her BA from LaSalle College in 1977, a Ph.D. in Chemistry from Cornell (1981), and was a Postdoctoral Fellow at Northwestern (1981-1983). Currently, a Professor of Chemistry at Berkeley, she heads up the Stacy Solid State Chemistry Lab.

A main theme in Stacy's research is the development of new synthetic methodologies, including the use of molten salts for the synthesis of oxide superconductors, electrodeposition (in aqueous solutions and molten salts) for the synthesis of thermoelectric materials, and the use of plasma-solid reactions for the synthesis of fluorides with interesting catalytic properties.

Stacy has been recognized not only her scholarship in chemistry, but also for her contributions to the teaching of chemistry. Her "extraordinary ability" in the classroom and her research on student learning in chemistry and curriculum development have earned her many grants and awards, including: the Donald Sterling Noyce Prize for Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching (1996); the James Flack Norris Award for Outstanding Achievement in the Teaching of Chemistry (1998); and Berkeley's Distinguished Teaching Award (1991); to mention a few.

In addition to her numerous disciplined-based research papers, Stacy writes on student learning and pedagogy including: The MORE Thinking Frame: Guiding Students Thinking in the Laboratory; The Role of Metacognition in Learning Chemistry; and the Graduate Student in the Dual Role of Student and Teacher. An advocate for women in science, she currently sits on the Committee on the Status of Women and Ethnic Minorities at Berkeley and the Committee on the Advancement of Women Chemists.

Joyce Tang
Associate Professor and Deputy Chair of Sociology
Queens College, City University of New York (CUNY).

Joyce Tang graduated with a Ph.D. in sociology from the University of Pennsylvania in 1991. She is an associate professor and deputy chair of the Sociology Department at Queens College of the City University of New York (CUNY).

Much of her work concerns stratification in science and engineering. She is especially interested in gender and racial differences in career attainments. Currently, she is conducting a comprehensive analysis of pioneers of modern science, with a focus on women scientists with outstanding career.

Tang has published numerous scholarly articles on scientists and engineers. She is also the author of Doing engineering: the Career Attainment and Mobility of Caucasian, Black, and Asian-American Engineers (Lanham, Maryland: Rowman and Littlefield Publishers, Inc., 2000) and the co-editor of Women and Minorities in American Professions [with Earl Smith] (Albany, New York: State University of New York Press, 1996).

Sheila Tobias
Consultant

Sheila Tobias was educated at Harvard and Columbia, primarily in history, literature, and political science. A renowned feminist educator, long-time activist, and the author of several books, she is perhaps best known for her work on science and mathematics education.

In 1971, Tobias helped organize the first Women's Studies program in the United States at Cornell University. While associate provost at a previously all-male college, Connecticut's Wesleyan University, she began research into the study of women's avoidance of mathematics, resulting in the bestseller Overcoming Math Anxiety, recently re-released by Norton.

Tobias' other books include They're Not Dumb, They're Different, Faces of Feminism: An Activist's Reflections on the Women's Movement, and - the book that led her work in new MS degree programs - Rethinking Science as a Career. She has also written about defense policy, women in the military, and Women, Militarism, and War (with J.B. Elshtain).

Mary Dee Wenniger
Editor and Publisher
Women in Higher Education

A University of Wisconsin-Madison graduate with BA and MA degrees in journalism and communications research, Mary Dee Wenniger worked in two administrative positions at the University before becoming marketing director and then publisher for a firm producing nine newsletters in higher education.

In 1991, she independently launched Women in Higher Education, a subscription news journal designed to enlighten, encourage, empower, and enrage women on campus. More than 12,000 women on campuses across the USA and Canada, plus China, Japan, Australia, and Argentina, read Women in Higher Education each month, forming a powerful network of those who challenge the status quo and bring a new perspective to the traditional patriarchal climate of higher education. In 24 to 44 pages each month, the news journal connects thousands of women to their counterparts and millions more on its worldwide Web site (www.wihe.com). By advertising dozens of job openings on campuses, the journal also serves as a career connection. Jossey-Bass recently published Gender Equity or Bust!, which includes about 100 articles from the journal's first eight years, edited by Wenniger and colleague Mary Helen Conroy.

As editor and publisher, Wenniger attends about a dozen conferences each year on topics of interest to women in higher education, and continually speaks with women on campus about their problems and solutions, successes and failures, thoughts and feelings about higher education and their roles on campus. Their words and worlds resonate in its pages and in the hearts of readers worldwide.