NSAWS 2005
2005 Sponsors
Harvard Provost
Harvard Science Departments
Ann Radcliffe Trust
Radcliffe Institute of Advanced Studies
Undergraduate Council
Microsoft
The Coop
Staples
Special Thanks to Leverett House
and Leverett House Masters Professor
Howard Georgi and Ann Georgi
2005 Staff
Conference Director:
Mariangela Lisanti
Speakers Committee:
Directors:
Vinita Alexander
Sophia McKinley
Staff:
Kate Delaney
Kathryn Seyfried
Business Committee:
Directors:
Elina Onitskansky
Staff:
Mitra Dowlatsh
Natasha Novikov
Rose Loughlin
Logistics Committee
Director:
Jehee Choi
Staff:
Anjali Lohani
Publications and
Public Relations Committee
Director:
Alisha Jiwani
Staff:
Shivani Ghoshal
Pichamol Jirapinyo
Harvard Provost
Harvard Science Departments
Ann Radcliffe Trust
Radcliffe Institute of Advanced Studies
Undergraduate Council
Microsoft
The Coop
Staples
Special Thanks to Leverett House
and Leverett House Masters Professor
Howard Georgi and Ann Georgi
2005 Staff
Conference Director:
Mariangela Lisanti
Speakers Committee:
Directors:
Vinita Alexander
Sophia McKinley
Staff:
Kate Delaney
Kathryn Seyfried
Business Committee:
Directors:
Elina Onitskansky
Staff:
Mitra Dowlatsh
Natasha Novikov
Rose Loughlin
Logistics Committee
Director:
Jehee Choi
Staff:
Anjali Lohani
Publications and
Public Relations Committee
Director:
Alisha Jiwani
Staff:
Shivani Ghoshal
Pichamol Jirapinyo
Thursday, April 7, 2005
Mariangela Lisanti, ‘05
NSAWS Conference Director
President, Women in Science at Harvard-Radcliffe
Barbara Grosz
Dean of Science, Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Studiess
Professor of Natural Sciences, Harvard University
Margo Seltzer
Herchel Smith Professor of Computer Science, Harvard University
Associate Dean for Computer Science and Engineering, Harvard University
Remarks
Lawrence H. Summers
Harvard University President
Friday, April 8, 2005
Panel IV: Development of Women in Power
Moderator: Sharon McGrayne
Author of Nobel Prize Women in Science:
Their Lives, Struggles and Momentous Discoveries
Tejal Desai
Associate Professor, Biomedical Engineering, Boston University
Melissa Franklin
Professor of Physics, Harvard University
Cathleen Morawetz
Professor Emerita at the Courant Institute of Mathematics Sciences
New York University
Rose Mage
Chief of the Molecular Immunogenetics Section of the Laboratory of
Immunology, National Institute of Health
Alyssa Goodman
Professor of Astronomy at Harvard University and Research Associate
at the Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory
Address – “Choosing Among Career Paths”
Sharon Smith
Executive and Director of Technology at Lockheed Martin’s Corporate
Headquarters in Bethesda MD
Chair of the Lockheed Martin’s Steering on Nanotechnology
Opening Remarks
Dudley Herschbach
Frank B. Baird, Jr. Professor of Science, Harvard University
Winner of the Nobel Prize in Chemistry (1986)
Rita Colwell
Former Director of the National Science Foundation, 1998-2004
Chairman of Canon US Life Sciences, Inc.
Distinguished University Professor both at the University of Maryland at
College Park and at Johns Hopkins University Bloomberg School of Public Health
Saturday, April 9, 2005
Addresses:
Carol Etherington
Former President of the United States Board, Doctors Without Borders
Assistant Professor of Nursing, Vanderbilt University
Suzanna Rose
Professor of Psychology at Florida International University. Sue Rosser
Professor and Dean of the Ivan Allen College (Georgia Tech)
Sharon McGrayne
Author of Nobel Prize Women in Science, Prometheans in the Lab,
and Iron, Nature’s Universal Element
Panel II - Interdisciplinary Careers: Carrying Science Across Fields
Moderator: Sarah Jansen
Assistant Professor of the History of Science at Harvard University
Anna K Behrensmeyer
Research Paleobiologist, Smithsonian institution
Emily Senay
CBS News Medical Correspondent
Resident in the Department of Community & Preventive Medicine
Mount Sinai School of Medicine in New York City
Stacie Weninger
Senior Analyst and Project Manager, Task Force on Women in Science
and Engineering at Harvard University
Senior Editor, Neuron
Diana Dabby
Professor of Engineering and a Concert Pianist at Olin College
Sophie Chabot
Instructor in Pediatrics, Children's Hospital. Harvard Medical School
Address:
Sheila Tobias
Author of Rethinking Science as a Career and
Revitalizing Undergraduate Science
Panel III - Keeping Women in Science: Tightening the “Leaky Pipeline”
Moderator: Shiela Tobias
Noted author and science education consultant. Author of Revitalizing
Undergraduate Science
Mia Ong
Sociologist, Postdoctoral Fellow and Lecturer at the Harvard
Graduate School of Education
Brianna Blaser
Researcher at the Deparment of Women Studies at the University of Washington
Robert Drago
Professor of Labor Studies and Women's Studies at the
Pennsylvania State University
Student Winners of 2004-5 Siemens Westinghouse Competition
Keynote Address – “Finding Scienceland”
Elizabeth Ivey
Executive Director of Association for Women in Science in Washington, DC.
Banquet Opening Remarks and Speaker Introduction -
Howard Georgi
Mallinckrodt Professor of Physics, Harvard University
Master, Leverett House
Keynote Address –
Margaret Kemeny
Director of the Queens Cancer Center
Professor of Surgery, Mount Sinai School of Medicine
Closing Comments
Kathy Buckley
Assistant Provost, Harvard University
Sunday, April 10, 2005
Opening Remarks
Julia G. Fox
Assistant Dean of Harvard College
Director of the Ann Radcliffe Trust
Director of Transfer & Visiting Student Programs
Addresses
Brianna Blaser
Researcher at the Department of Women Studies
University of Washington Mary Ellen Avery
Physician-in-Chief Emeritus, The Children's Hospital, Boston
Panel I: Women in Industry
Jiahong Juda
President and Co-Founder of Women in Science & Technology (WEST)
Weng Tao
Chief Scientific Officer, VP of Research and Development, Neurotech USA
Sharon Smith
Corporate Executive and Director of Technology at
Lockheed Martin Corporate Headquarters
Paula Wamsley
Senior Systems Engineer at Ball Aerospace and Technologies Corp.
Boulder, CO
Addresses
Nina Byers
Professor emeritus at Department of Physics and Astronomy
University of California at Los Angeles
Vivian Berlin
Senior Director, Strategic Alliances at GPC Biotech
Mariangela Lisanti, ‘05
NSAWS Conference Director
President, Women in Science at Harvard-Radcliffe
Barbara Grosz
Dean of Science, Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Studiess
Professor of Natural Sciences, Harvard University
Margo Seltzer
Herchel Smith Professor of Computer Science, Harvard University
Associate Dean for Computer Science and Engineering, Harvard University
Remarks
Lawrence H. Summers
Harvard University President
Friday, April 8, 2005
Panel IV: Development of Women in Power
Moderator: Sharon McGrayne
Author of Nobel Prize Women in Science:
Their Lives, Struggles and Momentous Discoveries
Tejal Desai
Associate Professor, Biomedical Engineering, Boston University
Melissa Franklin
Professor of Physics, Harvard University
Cathleen Morawetz
Professor Emerita at the Courant Institute of Mathematics Sciences
New York University
Rose Mage
Chief of the Molecular Immunogenetics Section of the Laboratory of
Immunology, National Institute of Health
Alyssa Goodman
Professor of Astronomy at Harvard University and Research Associate
at the Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory
Address – “Choosing Among Career Paths”
Sharon Smith
Executive and Director of Technology at Lockheed Martin’s Corporate
Headquarters in Bethesda MD
Chair of the Lockheed Martin’s Steering on Nanotechnology
Opening Remarks
Dudley Herschbach
Frank B. Baird, Jr. Professor of Science, Harvard University
Winner of the Nobel Prize in Chemistry (1986)
Rita Colwell
Former Director of the National Science Foundation, 1998-2004
Chairman of Canon US Life Sciences, Inc.
Distinguished University Professor both at the University of Maryland at
College Park and at Johns Hopkins University Bloomberg School of Public Health
Saturday, April 9, 2005
Addresses:
Carol Etherington
Former President of the United States Board, Doctors Without Borders
Assistant Professor of Nursing, Vanderbilt University
Suzanna Rose
Professor of Psychology at Florida International University. Sue Rosser
Professor and Dean of the Ivan Allen College (Georgia Tech)
Sharon McGrayne
Author of Nobel Prize Women in Science, Prometheans in the Lab,
and Iron, Nature’s Universal Element
Panel II - Interdisciplinary Careers: Carrying Science Across Fields
Moderator: Sarah Jansen
Assistant Professor of the History of Science at Harvard University
Anna K Behrensmeyer
Research Paleobiologist, Smithsonian institution
Emily Senay
CBS News Medical Correspondent
Resident in the Department of Community & Preventive Medicine
Mount Sinai School of Medicine in New York City
Stacie Weninger
Senior Analyst and Project Manager, Task Force on Women in Science
and Engineering at Harvard University
Senior Editor, Neuron
Diana Dabby
Professor of Engineering and a Concert Pianist at Olin College
Sophie Chabot
Instructor in Pediatrics, Children's Hospital. Harvard Medical School
Address:
Sheila Tobias
Author of Rethinking Science as a Career and
Revitalizing Undergraduate Science
Panel III - Keeping Women in Science: Tightening the “Leaky Pipeline”
Moderator: Shiela Tobias
Noted author and science education consultant. Author of Revitalizing
Undergraduate Science
Mia Ong
Sociologist, Postdoctoral Fellow and Lecturer at the Harvard
Graduate School of Education
Brianna Blaser
Researcher at the Deparment of Women Studies at the University of Washington
Robert Drago
Professor of Labor Studies and Women's Studies at the
Pennsylvania State University
Student Winners of 2004-5 Siemens Westinghouse Competition
Keynote Address – “Finding Scienceland”
Elizabeth Ivey
Executive Director of Association for Women in Science in Washington, DC.
Banquet Opening Remarks and Speaker Introduction -
Howard Georgi
Mallinckrodt Professor of Physics, Harvard University
Master, Leverett House
Keynote Address –
Margaret Kemeny
Director of the Queens Cancer Center
Professor of Surgery, Mount Sinai School of Medicine
Closing Comments
Kathy Buckley
Assistant Provost, Harvard University
Sunday, April 10, 2005
Opening Remarks
Julia G. Fox
Assistant Dean of Harvard College
Director of the Ann Radcliffe Trust
Director of Transfer & Visiting Student Programs
Addresses
Brianna Blaser
Researcher at the Department of Women Studies
University of Washington Mary Ellen Avery
Physician-in-Chief Emeritus, The Children's Hospital, Boston
Panel I: Women in Industry
Jiahong Juda
President and Co-Founder of Women in Science & Technology (WEST)
Weng Tao
Chief Scientific Officer, VP of Research and Development, Neurotech USA
Sharon Smith
Corporate Executive and Director of Technology at
Lockheed Martin Corporate Headquarters
Paula Wamsley
Senior Systems Engineer at Ball Aerospace and Technologies Corp.
Boulder, CO
Addresses
Nina Byers
Professor emeritus at Department of Physics and Astronomy
University of California at Los Angeles
Vivian Berlin
Senior Director, Strategic Alliances at GPC Biotech
