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Associations

• Association for Women in Science (AWIS)
• ASCB Women in Cell Biology
• Association for Women in Mathematics (AWM)
• Society of Women Engineers (SWE)
• Graduate Women in Science (GWIS)

Conferences & Seminars

• "LMU and the F-Word: Deconstructing Feminism on Campus," Tuesday, March 18, 2008, 7:00 PM, The Marymount Center, University Hall, Suite 3002. A Panel of LMU Professors will give their personal experiences as women in their areas of study and work, from each college on campus, with a Q&A after involving the students in the audience.
• Women in Bionformatics Seminar Series, sponsored by Montana State University, including live wecasts
• Gender & Science:
  A public conference exploring the intersections between science and power and how these intersections shape lives
  Friday, February 23, 2007
  Sponsored by the UCLA Center for the Study of Women
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Studies, Reviews, Commentaries, Online Discussions

• Help Women Stay in Science: A Female Scientist Gives her Top 10 List of Tips for her Male Colleagues (Laura L. Mays Hoopes; 2007; posted on TheScientist.com)
• Teaching Cell and Molecular Biology for Gender Equity (Jill C. Sible, Dayna E. Wilhelm, and Muriel Lederman, 2006; full text freely available at CBE: Life Sciences Education web site)
• White Privilege and Male Privilege: A Personal Account of Coming to See Correspondences Through Work in Women's Studies (Peggy McIntosh, 1988; pdf 40k)
• The Male Privilege Checklist (Compiled by Barry Deutsch in imitation of Peggy McIntosh)
• Student Ratings of Professors are not Gender Blind (Association for Women in Mathematics Newsletter, Sept.-Oct. 1994)
• Sexism in Peer-review of Postdoc Fellowship Applications, (Nature, May 22, 1997; pdf 1,054k)
• A Study on the Status of Women Faculty in Science at MIT (March 1999)
• Impact of Gender on the Review of the CV of Job Applicants and Tenure Candidates (Sex Roles, 1999, 41: 509-528; pdf 255k)
• Universities Urged to Improve Hiring and Advancement of Women ( Science, September 22, 2006)
• Gender Similarities in Mathematics and Science ( Science, October 27, 2006)
• Women in Science: A Disappearing Act? (ASCB Newsletter, October 2006; pdf 172k))
• Contrast the above with the transcript of remarks at NBER Conference on Diversifying the Science & Engineering Workforce by Larry Summers, former president of Harvard University (January 14, 2005)
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Biographies

• Rosalind Franklin and the Secret of Photo 51 (PBS NOVA program based on the biography by Brenda Maddox)
• Laura L. Mays Hoopes, Breaking Through the Spiral Ceiling: An American Woman Becomes A DNA Scientist
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Science and Women's Art

• A Gallery of Crocheted Hyperbolic Models, The Institute for Figuring
• Fabric Brain Art by Marjorie Taylor , Karen Norberg, and Patricia Jauch
• Virus Doilies by Laura Splan
• A Slice of Life Scarves (commercial site)
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LMU Courses

• MATH 398: Women and Mathematics, Dr. Jacqueline Dewar

Women Faculty in Science, Mathematics, and Engineering at LMU

Biology	Chemistry & Biochemistry	Civil Engineering & Environmental Science	Electrical Engineering & Computer Science	Mathematics	Natural Science
Wendy Binder	Tina Choe	Rachel Adams	Stephanie August	Alissa Crans	Hawley Almstedt
Kam Dahlquist	Rebecca Crawford		Lei Hwang	Jacqueline Dewar	Sarah Strand
Philippa Drennan			Barbara Marino	Lily Khadjavi	Caroline Viviano
Michelle Lum				Suzanne Larson
Cathy McElwain				Chien-Ling Tseng
				Connie Weeks

Erika Camacho, a tenure-track Assistant Professor of Mathematics from 2004-2007 left LMU for Arizona State University.