The Science House, with sponsorship from the Burroughs Wellcome Fund,
will host an Invitational Conference on K-12 Outreach from University
Science Departments in the Research Triangle Park, April 8-10, 2008.
Minigrants, call for new organizations to host collaboratives, assessment strategies, webinars, and more.
Once again, I’m a bit behind in posting a summary of the NGCP e-newsletter: see ngcproject.org/resources/newsletter.html.
Here are highlights from December and January issues.
Pat from FairerScience.Org will be on a panel at the second annual Science Blogging Conference, here in RTP on Jan. 19.
For more on the conference see www.scienceblogging.com — and while you’re there contemplate what an AAUW meeting would look like if run as an “un-conference”.
Again, playing catchup from October …
Here are a couple of links to items at fairerscience.org:
What can men do to help women stay in science, Interactive Physics Simulations
See http://ngcproject.org/resources/newsletter.html for the October and November newsletters.
A recent National Academies report, Beyond Bias and Barriers: Fulfilling the Potential of Women in Academic Science and Engineering, found that women repeatedly face biases in academia in the science fields, and that these barriers to success discourage them from careers in these areas. In response to this report, Rep. Eddie Bernice Johnson (D-TX) recently introduced the Gender Bias Elimination Act (H.R. 3514).
Learn more and contact your representative
Dr. Sharon Schulze of the Science House, the state’s lead organization for the National Girls Collaborative Project, spoke to AAUW Raleigh/Wake County on Tuesday. You can find her slides and additional resources at
http://rwc.aauwnc.org/2007/11/125/
Check out http://www.ngcproject.org/resources/video.html
for links to a video describing the start of the project.
If you have a Facebook account, you can also find the video at the NGCP group. Consider joining that if you want to stay up to date on the project.
You may find this in the NGCP directory, but since the registration deadline is near, I thought I’d post this here, too:
The Infinite Possibilities Conference (IPC) is a national conference that is designed to promote, educate, encourage and support minority women interested in mathematics and statistics. This unique and special event will assemble women mathematicians from underrepresented minority groups from all over the country for a 2-day mathematics conference
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