Public Lectures 2000-2001: Women in Science and Technology - Text Only
Sandra Harding
Philosophy of Science Professor and Director of the UCLA Center for the Study of Women
Gender Issues in the Sciences:
How Do Sciences Benefit?
Thursday, January 25, 7 pm
Performing Arts Center
Phillips Hall, Cal Poly
Sandra Harding, renowned theorist of gender and science, will launch the Women in Science & Technology Lecture Series 2001. Harding is Professor of Social Sciences and Comparative Education and Director of the UCLA Center for the Study of Women. Her published works on the topics of gender, science and diversity are among the most influential in the field and include Whose Science? Whose Knowledge: Thinking From Women’s Lives (1991) and Is Science Multicultural? (1998). Her teaching and research interests also include feminist and postcolonial theory, epistemology, and research methodology.
The Women in Science & Technology Lecture Series 2001 will also feature Materials Science & Engineering Professor, Dr. Julia Weertman, Historian of Science, Joann Eisberg, Roboticist, Margo Apostolos and Cardiologist, Dr. Amparo Villablanca. Dates and times of these events to be announced.
Julia Weertman
Northwestern University
Women in Engineering:How to Succeed Without Giving Up Too Much
Tuesday, February 6,6 pm
Performing Arts Center
Phillips Hall, Cal Poly
[refreshments will precede
lecture at 5:30 pm]
Julia Weertman, Engineer and Physicist, will address issues of women and engineering in the second lecture of the Women in Science and Technology Series 2001. Drawing on a lifetime of achievement as a scientist, Weertman will explore issues confronting women as scientists generally and as engineers in particular. Weertman, a specialist in the mechanical behavior of metals and alloys, is a member of the National Academy of Engineering and serves on its Council. She is a member of the Committee on Women in Science and Engineering and received the Achievement Award from the Society of Women Engineering in 1991. She is currently Walter P. Murphy Professor Emerita at Northwestern University.
The Women in Science & Technology Lecture Series 2001 will feature Historian of Science Joann Eisberg, Roboticist Margo Apostolos and Cardiologist Dr. Amparo Villablanca. Dates and times of these events to be announced.
Joann Eisberg
Astronomer & Historian of Science, Citrus College
Lovers of the Universe: A
History of Women in Science
Friday, March 2, 4 pm
Fisher Science Building
33-286, Cal Poly
Astronomer and Historian Joann Eisberg will address issues of the history of women in science in the third lecture of the Women in Science & Technology Lecture Series 2001, titled "Lovers of the Universe: A History of Women in Science." In the spirit of Women's History Month, this talk celebrates women scientists from Mary Somerville, Scottish polymath and "Queen of Nineteenth Century Science," to America's prestigious National Academy of Sciences. Eisberg will focus on the lives and achievements of great women scientists, the circumstances in which they worked and the obstacles they encountered and overcame. Joann Eisberg earned her Ph.D. at Harvard and has worked at the National Air and Space Museum, the University of Wisconsin at Madison, and UC Santa Barbara. In 1992, she was the founding director of the UW Women in Science
Margo Apostolos
Sensual Science:
From Stage Performance to Space Telerobotics
Wednesday, April 11, 7 pm
Performing Arts Center
Phillips Hall, Cal Poly
Can scientific inquiry be merged with artistic creation? Roboticist and Dancer Margo Apostolos will address issues of science and aesthetics in the fourth lecture of the Women In Science and Technology Lecture Series 2001. “Sensual science” is a unique combination of art and technology. Apostolos will use her varied interdisciplinary training as both a scientist and a dancer to explore the possibilities of what it means to think scientifically in a “non-technical” fashion. She will address the various methods of inquiry between art and science, and will explore the implications of employing alternative approaches to problem solving. Apostolos work interrogates the historical, philosophical and sociological implications involved in the union of art and technology.
Margo Apostolos is Associate Professor and Director of Dance at USC. Apostolos received her Ph.D. in Physical Education at Stanford University. She was research engineer in space telerobotics at NASA and has been contracted by Walt Disney Imagineering as a choreographer. In 1994, Apostolos was on the cover of LIFE magazine as the subject of a feature article on robotics.
Amparo Villablanca
Associate Professor of Cardiovascular Medicine at UC Davis
Challenges and Opportunities
Tuesday, May 15, 5pm
Graphic Arts Building 26, Room 104
Cal Poly
What are the challenges and opportunities for women in medicine today? Cardiologist Amparo Villablanca will address issues of women in medicine in the fifth and final lecture of the Women in Science and Engineering Lecture Series 2001. Drawing from her extensive experience as an internist, a cardiologist and an advocate for women’s health issues, Villablanca will explore the current situation of women in medicine. She will address some of the barriers and obstacles to women’s success in medicine, as well as some of the newest and most exciting opportunities in the field. Dr. Amparo C. Villablanca is Associate Professor of Cardiovascular Medicine in the Department of Internal Medicine at UC Davis, and a recognized expert in heart disease in women. In 1994, she founded and was named Director of the Women’s Cardiovascular Health Program and Clinic at UC Davis, and helped develop the Women’s Center for Health, where she now serves on the Center’s Executive Steering Committee and as coordinator of educational programs. She recently completed a fellow at the Hedwig van Ameringen Executive Leadership in Academic Medicine (ELAM) Program for Women conducted by the National Center of Leadership in Academic Medicine, and currently serves in the School of Medicine as Faculty Assistant to the Dean.
