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Date: Tue Mar 04 2003 - 16:54:23 PST
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Cornell alumnae conference explores women in life sciences, March 6-9
FOR RELEASE: March 3, 2003
Contact: Linda Grace-Kobas
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ITHACA, N.Y. -- Women in life sciences will be the focus of the
President's Council of Cornell Women (PCCW) during its spring
conference at Cornell University, March 6-9.
Presenters include Mae Jemison, the first African-American woman to
fly in space and a 1981 graduate of Weill Cornell Medical College,
who will address Cornell students at a luncheon hosted by PCCW
Saturday, March 8, and participate in a panel discussing how research
in life sciences affects women's lives.
Three panel sessions will be open to the Cornell community:
o Cornell: A Leader in Life Sciences, Friday, March 7, from 3:45 to 5
p.m. in the Robison Hall of Fame Room, Schoellkopf Hall. PCCW member
Marcia Bergren Pine will moderate a panel that includes Kraig K.
Adler, Cornell vice provost for life sciences; W. Kent Fuchs, dean of
the College of Engineering; Biddy Martin, provost; and Patrick J.
Stover, associate professor of nutritional biochemistry, Division of
Nutritional Sciences, College of Human Ecology.
o Life Sciences Research and Our Bodies, Saturday, March 8, from
10:15 a.m. to noon in Room B09 Sage Hall. Fredi Kronenberg,
professor of clinical physiology and director of the Richard and
Hinda Rosenthal Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicine at
Columbia University, will moderate the panel. Speakers are Hazel H.
Szeto, professor of pharmacology, Weill Cornell Medical College;
Marjolein van der Meulen, associate professor of mechanical and
aerospace engineering at Cornell; and Virginia A. Zakian, the Harry
Wiess Professor of Life Sciences at Princeton University.
o Life Sciences Research and Our Daily Lives, Saturday, March 8, from
3:15 to 4:30 p.m. in Room B09 Sage Hall. Wendy T. Chin, president of
Creative Technology Group Inc., will moderate. Speakers are Barbara
A. Baird, director of Cornell's Nanobiotechnology Center; Kathryn J.
Boor, associate professor of food science; Paulette Clancy, professor
of chemical engineering; and PCCW member Jemison, former NASA space
shuttle astronaut and president of The Jemison Group, a medical
technology company.
The conference also will include networking sessions with students
and a reception for women faculty to honor recipients of PCCW's
Affinito-Stewart Grant program, which has presented $307,500 to 134
women at Cornell to help advance their academic careers through
support of their research.
Established in 1990 with the mission of advancing the involvement and
leadership of women students, faculty, staff and alumnae within
Cornell and throughout its many constituent communities, PCCW serves
as an advisory council to Cornell's president.
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http://www.news.cornell.edu/releases/March03/PCCW.conference.2003.html
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