NSAWS 2007: On a New Frontier,
Above and Beyond the Glass Ceiling
2007 Sponsors:
Harvard College Women's Center
Ann Radcliffe Trust
Harvard Provost's Office
Office of the Dean of the Faculty of
Arts & Sciences at Harvard College
Harvard College Live Sciences Division
Harvard Graduate Women in
Science and Engineering
Uno's Pizzeria in Harvard Square
Special Thanks to Leverett House
and Leverett House Masters Professor
Howard Georgi and Ann Georgi
2007 Conference Staff:
Conference Director:
Vinita Alexander
Speakers Committee:
Directors:
Lucie Guo
Xianlin Li
Staff:
Anna Chen
Kelly Cho
Alana Ju
Business Committee:
Directors:
Vijay Warrier
Kathleen Kelly
Staff:
Elizabeth Zhang
Kirsten Kester
Wendy Ying
Logistics Committee
Director:
Nadiah Wan
Staff:
Christina Li
Chandler O'Connell
Rachel Zhuang
Publications and
Public Relations Committee
Director:
Nguyen Nguyen
Staff:
Graciela Carrasc
Harvard College Women's Center
Ann Radcliffe Trust
Harvard Provost's Office
Office of the Dean of the Faculty of
Arts & Sciences at Harvard College
Harvard College Live Sciences Division
Harvard Graduate Women in
Science and Engineering
Uno's Pizzeria in Harvard Square
Special Thanks to Leverett House
and Leverett House Masters Professor
Howard Georgi and Ann Georgi
2007 Conference Staff:
Conference Director:
Vinita Alexander
Speakers Committee:
Directors:
Lucie Guo
Xianlin Li
Staff:
Anna Chen
Kelly Cho
Alana Ju
Business Committee:
Directors:
Vijay Warrier
Kathleen Kelly
Staff:
Elizabeth Zhang
Kirsten Kester
Wendy Ying
Logistics Committee
Director:
Nadiah Wan
Staff:
Christina Li
Chandler O'Connell
Rachel Zhuang
Publications and
Public Relations Committee
Director:
Nguyen Nguyen
Staff:
Graciela Carrasc
Friday, April 13, 2007
Opening Remarks
Vinita Alexander '07
2007 NSAWS Conference Director
Co-President, Women in Science at Harvard-Radcliffe
Benedict Gross
Leverett Professor of Mathematics, Dean of Harvard College
Marion Blakey
Administrator of the Federal Aviation Administration
Welcoming Banquet
Dudley Herschbach
Frank B. Baird, Jr. Professor of Science
Patricia Galloway
Chief Executive Officer and a Principal of Nielsen-Wurster
Saturday, April 14, 2007
Panel: The Social Impact of Science
Moderator: Sarah Jansen
Associate Professor of History of Science, Harvard University
Sandra Burchett
Clinical Director, Division of Infectious Diseases; Assistant Professor of Pediatrics,
HMS
Ann Goldfeld
Associate Professor of Medicine, HMS
Ann Kiessling
Director, Bedford Stem Cell Research Foundation
Judy Liberman
Director, Division of AIDS; Professor of Pediatrics, HMS
Panel: Moving up the Ladder in Academia
Moderator: Elain Elion
Professor of Biological Chemistry and Molecular Pharmacology, HMS
Eunyoung Cho
Assistant Professor, Department of Medicine, HMS
Megan Núñez
Clare Boothe Luce Assistant Professor of Chemistry, Mount Holyoke College ;
Radcliffe Fellow
Loretta Que
Assistant Professor of Medicine, Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine
Duke University
Joan Ruderman
Marion V. Nelson Professor of Cell Biology, HMS
Keynote Address
Patricia Donahoe
Marshall K. Bartlett Professor, Department of Surgery, HMS; Director, Pediatric
Surgical Research Laboratories, Massachusetts General Hospital
Panel: Women at the Frontiers of Space Research
Heidi Hammel
Senior Research Scientist, co-Director of Research at the Space Science Institute
Adriana Ocampo
Science Mission Directorate, NASA
Sara Seager
Ellen Swallow Richards Associate Professor of Planetary Science, MIT
Panel: Envisioning the Future of Computer Vision
Abeer Alwan
Lillian Gollay Knafel Fellow, Electrical Engineering, UCLA; Radcliffe Fellow
Ruzena Bajcsy
Professor of Computer Science, Berkeley
Margrit Betke
Associate Professor of Computer Science, Boston University
Stella X. Yu
Clare Boothe Luce Assistant Professor of Computer Science, Boston University
Panel: Leadership in Science
Moderator: Jiahong Juda
Co-Founder, President and CEO of WEST
Frances Allen
IBM Fellow Emerita
Donna Dean
President of the Association for Women in Science
Lucy Sanders
CEO and Co-founder of the National Center for
Women & Information Technology
Panel: Opportunities and Challenges in Drug Discovery
Moderator: Vanaja Ragavan
Senior Vice President and Chief Technology Officer, Science Center
Angela Koehler
Institute Fellow, Chemical Biology Program, Broad Institute
Lauren Monovich
Research Chemist, Novartis
Vicki Rosen
Chair, Department of Developmental Biology, HMS
Address: The Fun and Challenges of Being a Female Field Scientist
Anna K. Behrensmeyer
Research Paleobiologist, Department of Paleobiology
National Museum of Natural History
Reception at Leverett House Masters' Residence
Hosted by Professor Howard Georgi and Ms. Ann Georgi
Introduction
Howard Georgi
Mallinckrodt Professor of Physics at Harvard University
Keynote Dinner Address
Kathie Olsen
Deputy Director, Chief Operating Office, National Science Foundation
Sunday, April 15, 2007
Address: Women on the edge of Interdisciplinarity
Anita Mehta
Radcliffe Fellow
Anita Goel
Chairman, CEO and Scientific Director of Nanobiosym Labs
Panel: Advances in Biomedical Engineering
Moderator: Anita Goel
Chairman, CEO and Scientific Director of Nanobiosym Labs
Sangeeta Bhatia
Associate Professor, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Diane Hoffman-Kim
Assistant Professor of Medical Science and Engineering, Brown University
Tayhas Palmore
Associate Professor of Engineering and Medical Science, Brown University
Radcliffe Fellow
Address
Susan Lindquist
Member, Whitehead Institute; Professor of Biology, MIT
Melissa Franklin
Mallinckrodt Professor of Physics; Director of Graduate Studies, Harvard
Closing Remarks
Salil Vadhan
Thomas D. Cabot Associate Professor of Computer Science
Opening Remarks
Vinita Alexander '07
2007 NSAWS Conference Director
Co-President, Women in Science at Harvard-Radcliffe
Benedict Gross
Leverett Professor of Mathematics, Dean of Harvard College
Marion Blakey
Administrator of the Federal Aviation Administration
Welcoming Banquet
Dudley Herschbach
Frank B. Baird, Jr. Professor of Science
Patricia Galloway
Chief Executive Officer and a Principal of Nielsen-Wurster
Saturday, April 14, 2007
Panel: The Social Impact of Science
Moderator: Sarah Jansen
Associate Professor of History of Science, Harvard University
Sandra Burchett
Clinical Director, Division of Infectious Diseases; Assistant Professor of Pediatrics,
HMS
Ann Goldfeld
Associate Professor of Medicine, HMS
Ann Kiessling
Director, Bedford Stem Cell Research Foundation
Judy Liberman
Director, Division of AIDS; Professor of Pediatrics, HMS
Panel: Moving up the Ladder in Academia
Moderator: Elain Elion
Professor of Biological Chemistry and Molecular Pharmacology, HMS
Eunyoung Cho
Assistant Professor, Department of Medicine, HMS
Megan Núñez
Clare Boothe Luce Assistant Professor of Chemistry, Mount Holyoke College ;
Radcliffe Fellow
Loretta Que
Assistant Professor of Medicine, Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine
Duke University
Joan Ruderman
Marion V. Nelson Professor of Cell Biology, HMS
Keynote Address
Patricia Donahoe
Marshall K. Bartlett Professor, Department of Surgery, HMS; Director, Pediatric
Surgical Research Laboratories, Massachusetts General Hospital
Panel: Women at the Frontiers of Space Research
Heidi Hammel
Senior Research Scientist, co-Director of Research at the Space Science Institute
Adriana Ocampo
Science Mission Directorate, NASA
Sara Seager
Ellen Swallow Richards Associate Professor of Planetary Science, MIT
Panel: Envisioning the Future of Computer Vision
Abeer Alwan
Lillian Gollay Knafel Fellow, Electrical Engineering, UCLA; Radcliffe Fellow
Ruzena Bajcsy
Professor of Computer Science, Berkeley
Margrit Betke
Associate Professor of Computer Science, Boston University
Stella X. Yu
Clare Boothe Luce Assistant Professor of Computer Science, Boston University
Panel: Leadership in Science
Moderator: Jiahong Juda
Co-Founder, President and CEO of WEST
Frances Allen
IBM Fellow Emerita
Donna Dean
President of the Association for Women in Science
Lucy Sanders
CEO and Co-founder of the National Center for
Women & Information Technology
Panel: Opportunities and Challenges in Drug Discovery
Moderator: Vanaja Ragavan
Senior Vice President and Chief Technology Officer, Science Center
Angela Koehler
Institute Fellow, Chemical Biology Program, Broad Institute
Lauren Monovich
Research Chemist, Novartis
Vicki Rosen
Chair, Department of Developmental Biology, HMS
Address: The Fun and Challenges of Being a Female Field Scientist
Anna K. Behrensmeyer
Research Paleobiologist, Department of Paleobiology
National Museum of Natural History
Reception at Leverett House Masters' Residence
Hosted by Professor Howard Georgi and Ms. Ann Georgi
Introduction
Howard Georgi
Mallinckrodt Professor of Physics at Harvard University
Keynote Dinner Address
Kathie Olsen
Deputy Director, Chief Operating Office, National Science Foundation
Sunday, April 15, 2007
Address: Women on the edge of Interdisciplinarity
Anita Mehta
Radcliffe Fellow
Anita Goel
Chairman, CEO and Scientific Director of Nanobiosym Labs
Panel: Advances in Biomedical Engineering
Moderator: Anita Goel
Chairman, CEO and Scientific Director of Nanobiosym Labs
Sangeeta Bhatia
Associate Professor, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Diane Hoffman-Kim
Assistant Professor of Medical Science and Engineering, Brown University
Tayhas Palmore
Associate Professor of Engineering and Medical Science, Brown University
Radcliffe Fellow
Address
Susan Lindquist
Member, Whitehead Institute; Professor of Biology, MIT
Melissa Franklin
Mallinckrodt Professor of Physics; Director of Graduate Studies, Harvard
Closing Remarks
Salil Vadhan
Thomas D. Cabot Associate Professor of Computer Science
