News Archive: January 2005
Washington Post 01/31/2005
Raise Your Hand if You Are a Women in Science By Virginia Valian For the past two weeks, my e-mail in-box has overflowed with messages from women -- and some men -- about the hypotheses recently offered by Harvard President Lawrence H. Summers to explain the dearth of women in the academic ... Read more
Breaking Ground - Leading Women, Leading Change
By Susan Owicki An extraordinary group of senior women leaders in mathematics and technology came together in January for the Anita Borg Institute for Women and Technology and the Institute for Pure and Applied Mathematics (IPAM) Leadership Workshop held on January 15th & 16th. The fifty participants -- executives, professors, researchers, ... Read more
Letter from Telle January 25, 2005
Letter from ABI President Regarding Lawrence Summer's Comments. Dear Anita Borg Institute friends, colleagues, and supporters, On Monday January 17th , Anita Borg's birthday and the celebration of the birthday of Martin Luther King, I was at home reading email when my inbox exploded. The Boston Globe article discussing the comments ... Read more
Chronicle of a Controversy
Friday, January 14, 2005 Harvard President, Dr. Lawrence Summers, while attending and speaking at an event co-sponsored by the Sponsored by the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation and The National Bureau of Economic Research entitled DIVERSIFYING THE SCIENCE & ENGINEERING WORKFORCE: WOMEN, UNDERREPRESENTED MINORITIES, AND THEIR S&E CAREERS in Massachusetts, MA said ... Read more
Technology is for Everyone
The Virtual Development Center (VDC) site at the University of Texas at El Paso (UTEP), now two years old, is directed by a faculty team led by Dr. Patricia Nava, associate professor of electrical and computer engineering who has taught at UTEP for eight years. When she was first approached ... Read more
From Ladakh
By Telle Whitney As you read this letter I will be in the Indian Himalayas in an area called Ladakh. Although Ladakh has experienced increased contact with the Western world, thirty years ago they were completely out of touch. As I work in technology, it is always interesting to experience a ... Read more