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Dr. Elizabeth G. Creamer is co-Principal Investigator of the Women and Information Technology project funded by the National Science foundation, Principal Investigator of a grant to investigate climate in undergraduate engineering programs, and Director of Research and Assessment for VT Advance, another project funded by the National Science Foundation. Creamer’s disciplinary background is in the field of higher education. Her research interests involve issues related to faculty careers, work, and lives, including gender differences in the factors associated with faculty publishing productivity. Creamer teaches courses in qualitative research including Qualitative Methods in Educational Research I and II and EDRE 6794: Mixed Methods in Educational Research. Creamer is recognized in Who’s Who in Education and is a recipient of the 2005 College of Liberal Arts and Human Studies Research Grant. She is the author or co-author of three books and 45 refereed journal articles and scholarly book chapters.
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September 25, 2008 - 1:00 - 2:00 pm ET
Laurel Haak, Ph.D. is an expert in science and technology policy, management and implementation. At Discovery Logic, Dr. Haak provides leading-edge scientific and technical vision and leads delivery of information technology solutions and services for the scientific community. Before joining Discovery Logic, Dr. Haak was a program officer for the Committee on Science, Engineering, and Public Policy at the National Academies. Prior to this, she served as editor of Science's Next Wave Postdoc Network at the American Association for the Advancement of Science and completed her postdoctoral research at the National Institutes of Health. Dr. Haak received a BS and an MS in biology from Stanford University and a PhD in neuroscience from Stanford University Medical School.
Dr. Haak has served as president of Women in Neuroscience, co-chair of the Society for Neuroscience Committee on Women in Neuroscience, and on the Biophysics Society Early Careers Committee. In 2006, she was awarded the National Postdoctoral Association's Distinguished Service Award and currently serves on its Advisory Board.
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October 9, 2008 - 1:00 - 2:00 pm ET
Professor Jacquelynne Eccles is the Wilbert McKeachie Collegiate Professor of Psychology, Education and Women's Studies at the University of Michigan and a Research Scientist at the Institute for Social Research. She is also director of the Gender and Achievement Research Program. Dr. Eccles' research interests include: family and school influences on development; development in high-risk settings; development of self-esteem, activity preferences, and task choice; adolescent development; identity formation; transition into adulthood; biosocial influences and development; gender role development; and role of ethnicity in development and socialization.
Her most recent book, edited by Helen M.G. Watt, is Gender and Occupational Outcomes: Longitudinal Assessments of Individual, Social and Cultural Influences. The persistence of gender-related disparities in science, technology and math careers sustains a troubling state of gender inequity in which women are not sharing in the salary and status advantages attached to scientific and technical careers. In this landmark volume, editors Watt and Eccles, both well known for their research contributions in this area, compile a rich source of longitudinal analysis that places the problem in context.
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October 16, 2008 - 1:00 - 2:00 pm ET
This presentation challenges recent media accounts that women don't choose engineering because they "don't want to." Based on a 3-year study of 120 high school girls, I will argue that young women have few opportunities to learn about engineering, that social and economic factors limit any emergent interest, and that common beliefs undermine chances that even interested young women will "choose" engineering.
Margaret A. Eisenhart, Ph.D. is a University Distinguished Professor and Charles Professor of Educational Anthropology and Research Methodology at the University of Colorado, Boulder. Her research focuses on culture and gender in education, and women in science and engineering. She has conducted research in elementary and secondary schools, colleges, universities, and work places. Her most important works include: Educated in Romance: Women, Achievement, and College Culture (with Dorothy Holland); Women's Science: Learning and Succeeding from the Margins (with Elizabeth Finkel); and Designing Classroom Research (with Hilda Borko).
In her current research project, "Female Recruits Explore Engineering," she developed and delivered a program to encourage high school minority girls' interest in engineering and IT and is studying how the program and its goals fit the context of the girls' lives. She is a fellow of the American Anthropological Association and a member of the National Academy of Education. Eisenhart was the 2001 recipient of the Elizabeth Gee Award for outstanding contributions to research, teaching, and service for women. In 2003 she won the university's highest honor, the Distinguished Research Lectureship Award for a career of outstanding scholarship.
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