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Mass AWIS is very excited to welcome this very special guest speaker--don't miss this great opportunity--if you go to one event this year...this is the one to attend!
DATE: October 6, 2005
TIME: 5:30 – 7:30 pm, RSVPs not necessary...just come!
PLACE: The McGovern Auditorium, Whitehead Institute
ADDRESS: Nine Cambridge Center, Cambridge, MA
SPEAKER: Elga R. Wasserman, Senior Research Scholar at Yale Law School, the author of "The Door in the Dream: Conversations with Eminent Women in Science", a book based on her interviews with women members of the National Academy of Sciences.
TITLE OF TALK: "The Past, Present and Future of Women in Science"
SHORT BIO: A summa cum laude graduate of Smith College, Wasserman earned a Ph.D. degree in organic chemistry from Harvard (Radcliffe) in 1949. She began her career as a research chemist. She subsequently served as Assistant Dean of the Yale Graduate School and later oversaw the transition of Yale College to coeducation. In 1976 Wasserman earned a J.D. from the Yale Law School. After clerking on the Second Circuit Court of Appeals, she practiced law and divorce mediation for almost 20 years. In 2004 she was elected an AWIS Fellow in recognition of her achievements on behalf of women at Yale and in science. Wasserman is currently lecturing and writing about women in academia and beyond.
DIRECTIONS:
By T, exit at Kendel sq station, walk away from the Longfellow bridge. Pass MIT Coop, and Legal SeaFood. Cross Ames St. Pass the giant constuction building. WI is the next smallish dark chocolate building on the same side.
Driving, from Boston, get on Longfellow bridge, to Broadway, left on Ames, right on Main, make U turn to get on the other side of Main, find parking at 68 lot or drive farther down pass the T station for Hayward St lot on the right.
From Boston via Mass Ave bridge, go pass MIT dome, right on Vassar St. right on Main st, find parking at 68 lot or drive farther down pass the T station for Hayward St lot on the right.
From Cambridge, Mass Ave, take left to Main St (shortly after passing through Central Sq). Pass about 2-3 traffic lights before
reaching 68 lot.
More directions: http://www.wi.mit.edu/about/directions.html
Parking map: http://whereis.mit.edu/map-jpg?selection=P3;selectfield=Loc_ID;selectlayer=Parking;zoom=level3;centerx=711123;centery=496385.5
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