Comments for WiGS http://depts.washington.edu/womengs/wordpress Women in Genome Sciences Fri, 16 Mar 2012 20:30:41 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.4.1 Comment on Get involved in science fairs! by Leslie http://depts.washington.edu/womengs/wordpress/2012/02/get-involved-in-science-fairs/#comment-235 Leslie Fri, 16 Mar 2012 20:30:41 +0000 http://depts.washington.edu/womengs/wordpress/?p=574#comment-235 A representative from one of the Washington science fairs contacted me to let me know that we're missing a few of the state's fairs. You can find information about all five Washington state science fairs at this site: http://depts.bellevuecollege.edu/sciencefair/resource-center/wasciencefairs/ Three of the fairs are already over (Central Sound Regional Science & Engineering Fair March 10th and Mid-Columbia Regional Science and Engineering Fair March 8-10 and Southwest Washington Regional Fair March 3) but there are still two remaining to participate in, so here's their information: South Sound Regional Science Fair: March 24th in Tacoma Washington State Science and Engineering Fair: March 30-31st in Bremerton A representative from one of the Washington science fairs contacted me to let me know that we’re missing a few of the state’s fairs. You can find information about all five Washington state science fairs at this site:

http://depts.bellevuecollege.edu/sciencefair/resource-center/wasciencefairs/

Three of the fairs are already over (Central Sound Regional Science & Engineering Fair March 10th and Mid-Columbia Regional Science and Engineering Fair March 8-10 and Southwest Washington Regional Fair March 3) but there are still two remaining to participate in, so here’s their information:

South Sound Regional Science Fair: March 24th in Tacoma
Washington State Science and Engineering Fair: March 30-31st in Bremerton

]]> Comment on Understanding current causes of women’s underrepresentation in science by Leslie http://depts.washington.edu/womengs/wordpress/2011/02/understanding-current-causes-of-women%e2%80%99s-underrepresentation-in-science/#comment-26 Leslie Mon, 11 Jul 2011 21:03:45 +0000 http://depts.washington.edu/womengs/wordpress/?p=354#comment-26 You'll find another interesting response to the Ceci & Williams paper at a blog by Mike the Mad Biologist. He adds that women in academia, from grad students to post docs, to faculty members, often get tasked with cleaning up institutional messes. As a grad student contributing more than my fair share to making my department more supportive of women, I can certainly see his point. See the blog post here: http://scienceblogs.com/mikethemadbiologist/2011/02/science_gender_and_cleaning_up.php You’ll find another interesting response to the Ceci & Williams paper at a blog by Mike the Mad Biologist. He adds that women in academia, from grad students to post docs, to faculty members, often get tasked with cleaning up institutional messes. As a grad student contributing more than my fair share to making my department more supportive of women, I can certainly see his point.

See the blog post here:
http://scienceblogs.com/mikethemadbiologist/2011/02/science_gender_and_cleaning_up.php

]]> Comment on Understanding current causes of women’s underrepresentation in science by Leslie http://depts.washington.edu/womengs/wordpress/2011/02/understanding-current-causes-of-women%e2%80%99s-underrepresentation-in-science/#comment-12 Leslie Thu, 24 Feb 2011 23:22:55 +0000 http://depts.washington.edu/womengs/wordpress/?p=354#comment-12 The article mentioned above has incited yet another heated debate about whether discrimination against women in science is "over". The Association for Women in Science highlights some of the flaws of the Ceci & Williams study and provides links to several detailed analyses of the paper, from a few different viewpoints. http://www.awis.org/displaycommon.cfm?an=1&subarticlenbr=421 The article mentioned above has incited yet another heated debate about whether discrimination against women in science is “over”. The Association for Women in Science highlights some of the flaws of the Ceci & Williams study and provides links to several detailed analyses of the paper, from a few different viewpoints.

http://www.awis.org/displaycommon.cfm?an=1&subarticlenbr=421

]]> Comment on Recent books debunk myths about brain differences in the sexes by Leslie http://depts.washington.edu/womengs/wordpress/2010/12/recent-books-debunk-myths-about-brain-differences-in-the-sexes/#comment-10 Leslie Wed, 05 Jan 2011 22:07:36 +0000 http://depts.washington.edu/womengs/wordpress/?p=245#comment-10 There's another interesting review focusing on Fine's "Delusions of Gender". You can find it at PLoS Biology: http://www.plosbiology.org/article/info%3Adoi%2F10.1371%2Fjournal.pbio.1001005 There’s another interesting review focusing on Fine’s “Delusions of Gender”. You can find it at PLoS Biology: http://www.plosbiology.org/article/info%3Adoi%2F10.1371%2Fjournal.pbio.1001005

]]> Comment on New WiGS website! by wakimoto http://depts.washington.edu/womengs/wordpress/2010/12/new-wigs-website/#comment-9 wakimoto Fri, 17 Dec 2010 06:36:17 +0000 http://depts.washington.edu/womengs/wordpress/?p=17#comment-9 Check out the UW's new Diversity Portal web site. Posted there is the new Diversity Blueprint, a really good plan (I think) to strengthen diversity campus-wide. http://www.washington.edu/diversity/ Check out the UW’s new Diversity Portal web site. Posted there is the new Diversity Blueprint, a really good plan (I think) to strengthen diversity campus-wide.

http://www.washington.edu/diversity/

]]> Comment on Contact by erosen http://depts.washington.edu/womengs/wordpress/contact/#comment-8 erosen Wed, 15 Dec 2010 17:17:40 +0000 http://depts.washington.edu/womengs/wordpress/#comment-8 The new website is awesome. Thanks for all the hard work to get this up and running. The new website is awesome. Thanks for all the hard work to get this up and running.

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