WiGS founding member Joanna Kelley receives L’Oreal Women in Science fellowship

Dr. Joanna Kelley, a genome sciences alumna who contributed to the formation of Women in Genome Sciences, is one of five early career scientists to earn the 2012 L’Oreal Women in Science Fellowship. Since finishing her Ph.D. work in Willie Swanson’s lab, Joanna has done postdoctoral work with Molly Przeworski …

Equal Pay Day summary

The seminar WiGS hosted in honor of Equal Pay Day just finished less than an hour ago and it really got me thinking. Our speaker was Dr. Laura Meyers, a recent doctoral graduate from the UW’s College of Education. She discussed her dissertation research on the contributing factors to the gender …