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Speakers
 Dr. Marlene Zuk
Dr. Marlene Zuk, Professor of Biology and the Associate Vice Provost for Faculty Equity and Diversity at the University of California-Riverside, is an evolutionary biologist who studies sexual selection in a variety of animals.
She is also interested in how human attitudes about gender influence the
interpretation of animal behavior. Dr. Zuk is the author of numerous scientific articles as well as the books Sexual Selections: What We Can and Can't Learn About Sex from Animals and Riddled with Life: Friendly Worms, Lady Bug Sex and the Parasites that Make Us Who We Are and has been a guest of National Public Radio.
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 Dr. Sue V. Rosser
Sue Rosser received her Ph.D. in Zoology from the University of Wisconsin-Madison in 1973. Since July 1999, she has served as Dean of Ivan Allen College, the liberal arts college at Georgia Institute of Technology, where she is also Professor of Public Policy and of History, Technology, and Society. She holds the endowed Ivan Allen Dean's Chair of Liberal Arts and Technology.
From 1995-1999, she was Director for the Center for Women's Studies and Gender Research and Professor of Anthropology at the University of Florida-Gainesville. In 1995, she was Senior Program Officer for Women's Programs at the National Science Foundation. From 1986 to 1995 she served as Director of Women's Studies at the University of South Carolina, where she also was a Professor of Family and Preventive Medicine in the Medical School.
She has edited collections and written approximately 120 journal articles on the theoretical and applied problems of women and science and women's health. Author of ten books, Teaching Science and Health from a Feminist Perspective: A Practical Guide (1986), Feminism within the Science and Health Care Professions: Overcoming Resistance (1988), Female-Friendly Science (1990) from Pergamon Press, Feminism and Biology: A Dynamic Interaction (1992) from Twayne Macmillan, Women's Health: Missing from U.S. Medicine (1994) from Indiana University Press, and Teaching the Majority (1995), Re-engineering Female Friendly Science (1997), Women, Science, and Society: The Crucial Union (2000) from Teachers College Press, and The Science Glass Ceiling: Academic Women Scientists and their Struggle to Succeed (2004), her latest book is Women, Gender, and Technology (2006), co-edited with Mary Frank Fox and Deborah Johnson.
She also served as the Latin and North American Co-editor of Women's Studies International Forum from 1989-1993 and currently serves on the editorial boards of NWSA Journal, Journal of Women and Minorities in Science and Engineering and Transformations. She has held several grants from the National Science Foundation, including "A USC System Model for Transformation of Science and Math Teaching to Reach Women in Varied Campus Settings" and "POWRE Workshop"; from 2001-2006 she served as co-PI on a $3.7 million ADVANCE grant from NSF. She currently serves as PI on InTEL: Interactive Toolkit for Engineering Learning, a $900,000 NSF grant. During the fall of 1993, she was Visiting Distinguished Professor for the University of Wisconsin System Women in Science Project. |
 Dr. Beverly Daniel Tatum
Scholar, teacher, author, administrator and race relations expert Dr. Beverly Daniel Tatum is the ninth president of Spelman College. Prior to her appointment to the Spelman presidency in 2002, she spent 13 years at Mount Holyoke College, serving in various roles during her tenure there- as professor of psychology, department chair, dean of the College and acting president.
Dr. Tatum is a clinical psychologist whose areas of research interest include black families in white communities, racial identity in teens, and the role of race in the classroom. For over 20 years, Dr. Tatum taught her signature course on the psychology of racism. She has also toured extensively, leading workshops on racial identity development and its impact in the classroom.
In her critically acclaimed 1997 book, "Why Are All the Black Kids Sitting Together in the Cafeteria?" and Other Conversations about Race, she applies her expertise on race to argue that straight talk about racial identity is essential to the nation. Using real life examples and the latest research, she not only dispels race as taboo, but gives readers a new lens for understanding the emergence of racial identity as a developmental process experienced by everyone. Her latest book, Can We Talk about Race? and Other Conversations in an Era of School Resegregation, released in 2007, explores the social and educational implications of the growing racial isolation in our public schools.
She is also the author of Assimilation Blues: Black Families in a White Community (1987). In addition, she has published numerous articles, including her classic 1992 Harvard Educational Review article, "Talking about Race, Learning about Racism: An Application of Racial Identity Development Theory in the Classroom." |
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