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Just how friendly is the climate for women in the sciences?
What are the consequences of ignoring race and gender in science classes?
Would changing pedagogy and curricular content make science courses
more attractive to women and students of color?

The Hewlett Grant for Pluralism and Unity presents a lecture by Sue Rosser, "Including Gender and Race in Science Classrooms and Curriculum" on Monday, April 29, at 4:15 p.m. in the Chemistry Auditorium.

Sue will also offer open office hours on Tuesday, April 30 from 9:15 - 11:30 am in the Science Building conference/ copy room.

Sue Rosser visits campus as part of the Curricular Transformation Series funded by Hamilton's Hewlett Grant for Pluralism and Unity. Rosser is dean of faculty at Georgia Institute of Technology, and is a professor of history, technology and society and biology. She received her degree in zoology at the University of Madison, Wisconsin.  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.

This lecture is free and open to the public. For more information, please call the Kirkland Project office at 315-859-4288.

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