FREE - SPIE 2009 Women in Optics Monthly Planner
The SPIE Women in Optics Monthly Planner is a valuable resource for young women interested in entering the field of optics. This piece features stories and pictures from SPIE Members making a difference through their work and contributing to the field of optics. SPIE is happy to provide free copies to SPIE Members, career counselors, science teachers, and community clubs (while supplies last). Please send your request to pascale@spie.org
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NEW! - Women in Optics - Imagine Poster
Free while supplies last. This poster is meant to introduce young people to optics and photonics as a career and draw attention to its impact on the world around us. Request a poster.
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UPCOMING EVENTS
Women and Optics Presentation and Reception
Monday 3 August 5:00 to 6:30
Convention Center - Room 11B
Empowering Refugee Women Through Solar Cooking
Speaker: Tzivia Schwartz-Getzug
Executive Director, Jewish World Watch
Tzivia Schwartz-Getzug recently went to Chad to bear witness to the genocide in Darfur and the atrocities committed against women as they left relative safety of the refugee camps to collect firewood. Through the introduction of solar cooking, not only have the women been able to stay protected in the refugee camps, but the environment and the local economy are being saved as well.
For more information visit the Solar Cooker Project
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IN THE NEWS
New Study Ponders Professors' Gender and Students' Success in Science
Female students - or, more specifically, female Air Force cadets - are more likely to succeed in introductory-level science courses if those courses are taught by female professors, according to a study by a trio of economists.
May 18, 2009
Great Science for Girls
A wide range of resources, literature, and research regarding girls and science can be found at this website, which includes a sampling of evidence-based curricula for after-school programs that deliver positive outcomes and success in stimulating girls' interest in STEM subjects and instilling self-confidence in their abilities.
In 'Geek Chic' and Obama, New Hope for Lifting Women in Science
By Natalie Angier
The New York Times, Published 19 January 2009
With the inauguration of an administration avowedly committed to Science as the grand elixir for the nation's economic, environmental and psycho-reputational woes, a number of scientists say that now is the time to tackle a chronic conundrum of their beloved enterprise: how to attract more women into the fold, and keep them once they are there. Continued.
Women in Science - Norway
Gender Equality in Science?
This is an online information source for people who work to improve gender balance in the research sector, and for anyone else interested in the issue of gender equality in science. The website is initiated by the Committee for Maintreaming - Women in Science.
RIT receives grant to recruit, retain women faculty
By NATE DOUGHERTY
Rochester Business Journal
January 6, 2009
Rochester Institute of Technology has received a $200,000 grant to help support a self-assessment of its recruitment, retention and promotion of female faculty in science, technology, engineering and math.
The Institutional Transformation Catalyst grant was awarded through the National Science Foundation's Advance program.
"The goal of the research is to identify barriers for our current women STEM faculty in regards to rank, tenure and leadership role progression," said Margaret Bailey, Kate Gleason Chair and associate professor at the Kate Gleason College of Engineering and EFFORT@RIT principal investigator.
The team has started to analyze historical data available from human resources, faculty recruitment and institutional research and policy studies-departments at RIT specific to hiring, tenure, promotion and retention.
EFFORT@RIT assesses the best practices and developmental needs of faculty within the STEM programs to ensure a diverse work force, encourage leadership opportunities and provide role models to young women looking to take their place in STEM fields.
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