[bioundgrd] BE diversity seminar tomorrow, 4pm

[Rachel McPherson]

Dear Biology Faculty, Staff & Students,

Prof. Steve Bell has asked me to forward the following announcement to you.

Sincerely,

Mary


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This year, the BE Diversity committee is initiating a Diversity 
Seminar Series, where speakers will share their experiences of how 
their career paths have been shaped and influenced by their 
belonging to minority groups, and how racial and gender diversity 
can be enhanced or better dealt with in our academic environment.
We hope you'll be able to join us for our April talk!

Biological Engineering Diversity Seminar

Hosted by Prof. Doug Lauffenburger


Prof. Evelynn Hammonds

Senior Vice Provost for Faculty Development and Diversity
Professor of the History of Science and African and African 
American Studies,
Harvard University

" Enhancing and dealing with diversity in academia"

Wednesday, April 12, 2006
4 PM
32-155 (Stata Center)

  Questions can be directed to Maxine Jonas (jonas_m at mit.edu)


The mission of the BE Diversity Committee is to celebrate and 
support diversity in BE, namely by planning and promoting 
activities that:
1) Make all members of the department feel welcomed, valued, 
supported, and included,
2) Demonstrate the need for diversity within the department,
3) Allow free and constructive communication about diversity issues,
4) Encourage increasing numbers of underrepresented minorities 
among the students, post-doctoral fellows, staff, and faculty in BE.
http://web.mit.edu/be/diversity/


Professor Hammonds earned a Ph.D. in the history of science from 
Harvard University, an S.M. in physics from the Massachusetts 
Institute of Technology, a B.E.E. in electrical engineering from 
the Georgia Institute of Technology, and a B.S. in physics from 
Spelman College. She taught at the Massachusetts Institute of 
Technology before coming to Harvard. While at MIT she was the 
founding director of the MIT Center for the Study of Diversity in 
Science, Technology, and medicine.
Professor Hammonds's current work focuses on the intersection of 
scientific, medical, and socio-political concepts of race in the 
United States. She is completing a history of biological, medical, 
and anthropological uses of racial concepts entitled, The Logic of 
Difference: A History of Race in Science and Medicine in the United 
States , 18501990. She is also completing the MIT Reader on Race 
and Gender in Science.


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Stephen P. Bell
MIT/HHMI
Room 68-630
77 Massachusetts Ave.
Cambridge, MA  02139
Ph • (617) 253-2054
Fx • (617) 253-4043
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