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

Conference Program

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Saturday May 12, 2001

9:00-9-30 Coffee, Registration

9:30-10:30 INTRODUCTION AND WELCOME

Anne J. MacLachlan, UC Berkeley and Lorna Erwin, University of York, Conference Organizers: Welcoming Remarks

Ira Michael Heyman, Director of the Center for Studies in Higher Education, Chancellor Emeritus, UCB: Welcome

Lorna Erwin, Department of Sociology, York University, Canada
A Consideration of Issues of Power and Control in the Lives and Careers of Women in Science

10:30-11:00 Coffee Break

11:00-12:30 PANEL 1 - Workplace Recruitment/Support/Promotion

Kimberly S. Budil, Physicist
Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
The CAWMSET Report: A Call to Action

Catherine J. Didion
Association for Women in Science, Washington, D.C.
The Impact of Tenure Policies on Women in Science

Giovanna Gabetta , EniTechnologie, San Donato Milanese, Italy
A survey on women in science. What about power and responsibility?

Patricia Ellis, School of Sociology and Social Policy
University of Surrey Roehampton, London
Women in Public-Sector Science- What's Their Problem?

12:30-2:00 Lunch

2:00-2:30 TESLA COIL DEMONSTRATION
David Dorfan, Chair Physics Department, UCSC, Charlie Crummer, UCSC; Felix Rosenbaum, SCIPPS; Teela Pulliam, Colleen Milburry, Kamal Prasad, Brian Keeney-UCSC
http://scipp.ucsc.edu/outreach/index.html

2:30-4:00 PANEL 2 - Success Against Big Odds

Diana E. Long, Professor of History
University of Southern Maine
Negotiating Success: Berkeley Women in Biomedicine, 1915-1950

Lillian Dyck, Neuropsychiatry Research
University of Saskatchewan
Success: There has to be an easier way!

Anne MacLachlan, Center for Studies in Higher Education
University of California, Berkeley
Success against the odds, women of color getting through UC

4:00-4:15 Coffee Break

4:15-5:45 PANEL 3- Women Organizing

Sylvia Braselmann
Onyx Pharmaceuticals
Reluctant Rebels, Women Scientists Organizing

Angela Stacy, Professor of Chemistry
University of California, Berkeley
Senior Women Chemists out for Change

Yolanda George, Board Member, WEPAN
American Association for the Advancement of Science
Advocating for Change in Engineering

Sunday May 13, 2001

8:30-9:00 Coffee

9:00-9:30 Keynote: Sheila Tobias, Women in Science: Old Strategies and New

9:30-11:00 PANEL 4-Helping Girls into the Science and Technology Pipeline

Linda H. Mantel, President, Association for Women in Science
University of Portland
Model Mentoring Projects for Women Students in Science

Barbara Jones, Manager, Theoretical and Computational Physics
IBM Almaden Research Center
Development and Prospects of the IBM/APS and Lucent internship programs for undergraduate women

Amy Ryken, Education Director, Berkeley Biotechnology Education, Inc.
University of California, Berkeley
Envisioning a Future in Science: Embarking on the Biotechnology Educational and Career Pathway

Carol Muller, Director, MentorNet, San Jose State
Mentorship through Technology: Mentor Net

Debbie Clingingsmith, Past President, Society of Women Engineers
Hewlett Packard
Increasing the Flow through the Engineering Pipeline: The Society of Women Engineers

11:00-11:15 Coffee Break

11:15-12:45 PANEL 5- Using Power

Joyce Tang, Department of Sociology, Queens College, CUNY
Making it in Engineering: A Case Study of Women Engineers

Ellen Weaver, East Bay AWIS
The Impact of AWIS since 1972

Maria Ople Ong, Graduate School of Education
Social and Cultural Studies, UC Berkeley
Gaining Power from the Margins: Women of Color in Physics

Mary Dee Wenniger, Editor & Publisher,
Women in Higher Education
Growing Power for Women in the Academy

12:45-2:15 Lunch

2:15-3:45 PANEL 6- Doing successful science as women/women of color: Panel Discussion
Jonghui Lee, BBEI; Hattie Carwell, LBNL, Deborah Bravo Colosi

3:45-4:00 Coffee Break

4:00-5:00 PANEL 7- Closing, Answering the Question

THE CONFERENCE FOR HIGH SCHOOL GIRLS

Parallel activities running on Saturday May 12 from 11:00 to 12:30, 2:30 to 5:45 and Sunday May 13, from 9:30 to 12:45

*Two rooms of staffed information tables with information about scientific and engineering fields, careers and workplaces; community colleges, four year college and graduate programs in science and engineering; information about financial aid, school outreach programs, and organizations which promote girls in science and engineering.

*Panels of undergraduate women in various scientific and engineering fields who are speaking about their transition to college, graduate women about their transition to graduate school.

*Nifty science demonstrations

*Hourly guided tours of the world wide web to learn how to use the web to find a mentor, a job, a college; information about scientific careers and how to prepare for them; support groups; where to locate colleges, find money, internships, cooperative programs.

*Talks by women scientists about their lives and careers with plenty of question time.

*Free lunches with the opportunity to talk to all the women scientists there.

*Presentations about aspects of life as a working women or woman of color scientist

All of this runs parallel to the scholarly conference, so there is a wide choice of activity.

All participants must be registered in advance to attend. Separate registration forms for General and High School Student participants are available on the conference website.