1. New Tharp Fellows Arrive
2. Funding for Departments & Divisions
3. Funding for Women Scientists at Columbia
4. Upcoming Events
5. Recommended Reading
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1. New Tharp Fellows Arrive
- Natalie Mahowald (National Center for Atmospheric Research) will be
arriving next month to begin a 3-month Marie Tharp Visiting Fellowship. She
will be collaborating with scientists at GISS and with faculty in the
Department of Applied Physics & Applied Math.
Geotimes profile of Dr. Mahowald:
http://www.agiweb.org/geotimes/june06/profiles.html
- Mousumi Roy (University of New Mexico) will begin her fellowship later
this month. She will be collaborating with Jim Gaherty at the
Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory. More about Dr. Roy:
http://epswww.unm.edu/facstaff/mroy/home.htm
2. Funding for Departments & Divisions
ADVANCE has funding available for divisions, departments, and research
centers. The funding can be used to invite women scholars to campus, expand
search efforts, or enhance mentoring and networking within the unit.
More information:
http://www.earth.columbia.edu/advance/departmentawards.html
3. Funding for Women Scientists at Columbia
ADVANCE provides funding for women faculty, research scientists, and
post-docs at Columbia in the form of leadership opportunities and support
for continued research productivity.
More information:
http://www.earthinstitute.columbia.edu/advance/support_field.html
4. Upcoming Events
LDEO Director's Lecture Series on the Science of Diversity
10/13: Harriet Zuckerman, Mellon Foundation
11/10: Elke Weber, Columbia University
Where: Monell Auditorium, Lamont campus, 3:30 pm
A Symposium on the Science of Diversity
Presented by the Task Force on Diversity in Science & Engineering, the
Department of Psychology, and the ADVANCE program
When: Friday, November 17, 2006
Where: The Faculty House, Morningside campus
More information:
http://www.earth.columbia.edu/advance/events_current.html
5. Recommended Reading
"Does Gender Matter?"
Ben A. Barres
Nature
July 13, 2006
The suggestion that women are not advancing in science because of innate
inability is being taken seriously by some high-profile academics. Barres
explains what is wrong with the hypothesis.
http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v442/n7099/full/442133a.html
"Death Leaves Gap in Female Science Leadership"
June 30, 2006
San Jose Mercury News
The death of University of California-Santa Cruz Chancellor Denice Denton
leaves a gaping hole in the small and tightly knit community of America's
elite female scientists and engineers.
http://www.mercurynews.com:80/mld/mercurynews/living/education/14937454.htm
"Harvard Rethinks Science"
Inside Higher Ed
July 17, 2006
Report calls for the creation of 75 new full-time interdisciplinary professor
slots in the next decade. Research priorities would not come from
individual departments, but from a new committee that would include members
from several colleges. The report also says that this new committee should
be diverse in scientific fields represented, as well as in gender and race Ñ
and that it should explicitly take steps to seek out diverse applicant pools
for the new slots.
http://insidehighered.com/news/2006/07/17/harvard
"Just Half of Professors Earn Tenure in 7 Years"
Chronicle of Higher Education
July 21, 2006
Penn State study finds that only 53 percent of the 1,382 young scholars
hired in the 1997-98 academic year by 10 major research universities stayed
long enough to be considered for tenure and earned it. And a significantly
smaller proportion of women succeeded than men: 48 percent versus 56
percent.
http://chronicle.com/weekly/v52/i46/46a01001.htm
"Diversity in Physics"
Physics Today
June 2006
Physics stands out among the sciences for its inability to attract enough
women or minorities that their representation in physics will, in the
foreseeable future, be commensurate with their proportions in the general
population. True, among the so-called hard sciences, physics has experienced
over the past decade the most significant rate of increase in women PhDs.
But the baseline number of women PhDs, say from the 1970s, is small.
http://www.physicstoday.org/vol-59/iss-6/p44.html
"Report Urges National Academies to Improve Status of Women"
Science
June 30, 2006
The report, posted by the InterAcademy Council, offers a refreshingly candid
assessment of the problems facing women trying to enter and move up in the
world of science and engineering. Although it strikes familiar chords about
the need to remove barriers and increase opportunities for girls and women,
it sings a new tune in commanding the national academies themselves to
"first put their own houses in order."
http://www.sciencemag.org/cgi/content/full/312/5782/1859a
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Jennifer Laird
Assistant Director, ADVANCE
The Earth Institute at Columbia University
Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory
61 Route 9W, Palisades, NY 10964
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