[Sci-tech-public] UPDATED: MIT Communications Forum: Women in Science

[Randyn A. Miller]

Apologies for the confusion, this announcement has the correct date and more information about the Forum. Please disregard the previous announcement for this event. 


From Seth Mnookin and the MIT Communications Forum:


Greetings All —
You are invited to join the Communications Forum next Thursday, February 26, for the first event of this very snowy semester. 


Women in Science: A Panel Discussion

Thursday, February 26, 2015 
5:00 - 7:00 pm
66-110 <http://whereis.mit.edu/?go=66>

The achievements of women in science have often been overlooked or ignored. Today, a new generation of female scientists is making clear just how different the future will be. Harvard’s Pardis Sabeti <http://sabetilab.org/people/pardis-sabeti>, a computational geneticist who investigates the evolution of disease, and MIT’s Jessika Trancik <https://esd.mit.edu/Faculty_Pages/trancik/trancik.html>, whose research focuses on the environmental impacts of energy technology, will discuss their backgrounds, career paths, and what they see as challenges and opportunities moving forward. Moderator: MIT’s Rosalind Williams <http://rosalindwilliams.com/>. 

Speakers

Pardis Sabeti <http://sabetilab.org/people/pardis-sabeti> is an Associate Professor at the Center for Systems Biology at Harvard University, Department of Organismic and Evolutionary Biology, and in the Department of Immunology and Infectious Disease at Harvard School of Public Health, and is a Senior Associate Member of the Broad Institute of Harvard and MIT. Dr. Sabeti is a computational geneticist with expertise studying genetic diversity, developing algorithms to detect genetic signatures of natural selection, and carrying out genetic association studies. She completed her undergraduate degree at MIT and her PhD at Oxford as a Rhodes Scholar, before returning to earn her medical degree from Harvard Medical School as a Soros Fellow.

Jessika Trancik <https://esd.mit.edu/Faculty_Pages/trancik/trancik.html> is the Atlantic Richfield Career Development Assistant Professor of Energy Studies in the Engineering Systems Division at MIT. She is also an external professor at the Santa Fe Institute. She received her B.S. in materials science and engineering from Cornell University and her Ph.D. in materials science from the University of Oxford as a Rhodes Scholar. Before MIT, she spent several years at the Santa Fe Institute as an Omidyar Fellow, and at Columbia University as an Earth Institute Fellow, where her research focused on energy systems modeling. Her research group studies the dynamic costs and environmental impacts of energy technologies to inform technology design and policy.

Rosalind Williams <http://web.mit.edu/sts/people/williams.html> is the Bern Dibner Professor of the History of Science and Technology at MIT. She attended Wellesley College and received degrees from Harvard University (B.A. History and Literature), the University of California at Berkeley (M.A. Modern European History) and the University of Massachusetts at Amherst (Ph.D. History). Her first three books (Dream Worlds, Notes from the Underground, and Retooling) all examined the implications for human life, both individual and collective, of living in a predominantly self-constructed world. Her most recent book, The Triumph of Human Empire, surveys the overarching historical event of our time: the rise and triumph of human empire, defined by the dominance of human presence on the planet. 



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