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Author and educator Sue Rosser will deliver a lecture, "Including Gender and Race in Science Classrooms and Curriculum," on Monday, April 29, at 4:15 p.m., in the Chemistry Auditorium at Hamilton College. Her visit to campus is part of the Curricular Transformation Series funded by Hamilton's Hewlett Grant for Pluralism and Unity and sponsored by the Kirkland Project. It is free and open to the public.

Rosser is dean of faculty at Georgia Institute of Technology, and is a professor of biology, anthropology, zoology and medicine.   Most recently, Rosser served as director of the Center for Women's Studies and Gender Research at the University of Florida in Gainesville.  In 1995 she was senior program officer for women's programs at the National Science Foundation.  Author of more than 70 journal articles on theoretical and applied issues surrounding women in science and women's health, her books include Teaching Science and Health from a Feminist Perspective: A Practical Guide (1986); Feminism Within the Science and Health Care Professions: Overcoming Resistance (1988); Female Friendly Science: Applying Women's Studies Methods and Theories to Attract Students (1990); Feminism and Biology: A Dynamic Interaction (1992); Women's Health: Missing from U.S. Medicine (1994); and Teaching the Majority: Breaking the Gender Barrier in Science, Mathematics and Engineering (1995). Her most recent book, Re-Engineering Female Friendly Science, was published in 1997 by Teachers College Press at Columbia University. She currently serves on the editorial boards of the National Women's Studies Association Journal and Women's Studies Quarterly. She has held several grants from the National Science Foundation, "A USC System Model for Transformation of Science and Math Teaching to Reach Women in Varied Campus Settings" and  "POWRE Workshop."

The Hewlett Grant for Pluralism and Unity at Hamilton College supports a new curricular initiative for discussing issues of diversity, difference and social justice in and out of the classroom.  As directed by Margaret Bundy Scott Professor of Comparative Literature Nancy S. Rabinowitz, the grant will fund an annual summer institute for 12 faculty members.  Facilitated by outside experts, the Hewlett Summer Pluralism & Unity Institutes will prepare faculty members to teach interdisciplinary seminars by offering an immersion experience built around lectures, discussions, workshops and cultural events.

Hamilton expects each institute to yield a cluster of interactive, small-enrollment courses designed to increase students' familiarity with and respect for varying cultural traditions and to foster meaningful discussions of difference, equality and community.  These courses, serving between 200 and 250 students annually, will be intellectually rigorous, emphasizing critical thinking, writing and public presentations.

For more information, please call the Kirkland Project office at 315-859-4288.
 

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