Fwd: Event for Women in Science members

[Wei Ding]

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From: Christina Couch <co...@mit.edu>
Date: Fri, Mar 3, 2017 at 2:22 PM
Subject: Event for Women in Science members
To: "di...@cs.umb.edu" <di...@cs.umb.edu>

Dear Dr. Ding:

I am the coordinator for the MIT Communications Forum. We have an event coming up that may be of interest to Women in Science members. Information is below. Please feel free to distribute this among your mailing lists and/or websites if you find it relevant. Hope to see you there.

Thanks!

Christina Couch

Sexual Harassment and Gender Equity in Science

Thursday, March 9, 2017
5:00–7:00 pm
Room 3–270, MIT

In October, 2015, BuzzFeed News reporter Azeen Ghorayshi broke an investigative story detailing astronomer Geoffrey Marcy’s long history of sexual harassment. Since then, more female scientists have come forward about their experiences with harassment. Ghorayshi, MIT astronomer Sarah Ballard, and Harvard history of science professor Evelynn M. Hammonds join science journalist and MIT Communications Forum coordinator Christina Couch to discuss barriers to gender equality in the sciences and steps to overcome them.

Speakers

Azeen Ghorayshi is a science reporter for BuzzFeed News and recipient of the AAAS Kavli Science Journalism Award and the Evert Clark/Seth Payne Award for young science journalists. 

Sarah Ballard is an astronomer and and a Torres Fellow for Exoplanetary Research at the MIT Kavli Institute for Astrophysics and Space Research. She frequently writes about the culture of science and equity issues therein.

Evelynn M. Hammonds is a professor of the history of science and of African and African American Studies at Harvard University. She is the former dean of Harvard College and the first woman and first African-American to hold that position.

Moderator: Christina Couch is a science journalist and coordinator for the MIT Communications Forum . Her work explores the intersections of technology and psychology.

This event is co-sponsored by Radius at MIT and is free for the MIT community and general public. For more information on this and other Communications Forum events, head to commforum.mit.edu. 

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Best Regards, 

Wei Ding, Ph.D.

Associate Professor, Computer Science

Director, Knowledge Discovery Lab

University of Massachusetts Boston

100 Morrissey Blvd.

Boston, MA 02125-3393

Phone: 617.287.6428 

Webpage: www.cs.umb.edu/~ding

Knowledge Discovery Lab: kdl.cs.umb.edu