Contact: phoebe.lee@duke.edu
Sponsor: WiSE: Women in Science and Engineering
Where:
Sigma Xi Center, RTP
Why:
Friday, January 16, 2009
Time: 7 - 9pm, Light food and drinks provided!
Place: Sigma Xi Center, RTP, Directions can be found here.
Please Register here!
Print a flyer of the event: pdf, png.
Keynote address by Rebecca Skloot:
"Women, science, and storytelling: The immortal life of Henrietta Lacks (a.k.a. HeLa), and one woman's journey from scientist to writer
WiSE is partnering with ScienceOnline'09, a national science blogging and communication conference, to host a Triangle-wide networking event for women scientists, engineers, educators, researchers, science writers, and students. This event also includes many of our local women's groups and promises to be a networking extravaganza. Following a networking reception with free light eats and drinks, there will be a presentation by our guest speaker, Rebecca Skloot, a freelance science writer, contributing editor at Popular Science, and correspondent for PBS's NOVA scienceNOW. Our goal in hosting this networking event is to bring together local women's groups to support joint efforts in community outreach and to support communication of science information and ideas to the general public.
Register now, and come network with women from many different institutions and companies!
Check out who's coming! Download the participant list (.csv, openable in a spreadsheet program like Excel).
And many thanks to our many sponsors! Generous funding for this event provided by the NC Biotechnology Center, Rachel Witek, David Kroll (NC Central University), the Sigma Xi Center, Duke School of Medicine, Syngenta, Duke Graduate Student Affairs, Duke Graduate and Professional Student Council, Duke's Women's Center, UNC School of Medicine, Sigma Xi (UNC Chapter), Sigma Xi (Duke Chapter), Sigma Xi (NC State Chapter), and the DeWitt Wallace Center for Media and Democracy in the Terry Sanford Institute of Public Policy at Duke.