Investigation PANELS
Friday, May 9, 2008, 10:30am

The two panels are designed to engage the community in a conversation about the work that alumnae and faculty are doing in emerging fields and the role that a liberal arts and a single-sex education plays in preparing women for these fields. We invited women to participate in these panels who have successful careers in fields in which either the work they were doing was in an emerging field at the time that they began to pursue it or their entrance into a particular field as a woman was groundbreaking, as well as younger women who are currently engaged in fields that are addressing interesting, emerging questions and issues. In addition, we designed the panels to hear from Wellesley faculty who can discuss the ways in which Wellesley prepares its students for the creative and intellectual challenges that will emerge in the future.

Panel One, Science Center, Room 277

Leila Toplic '01, Microsoft Consumer Strategy Manager. Read Full Bio.

Martha McClintock '69, who is at the University of Chicago and is Director of the Institute for Mind and Biology, co-director of the Center for Interdisciplinary Health Disparities Research (CIHDR), and holds joint appointments in the Department of Psychology, the Committee on Biopsychology, the College Committee on Evolutionary Biology, the Committee on Neurobiology, and the Committee on Human Development. Read Full Bio.

Brian Tjaden from the Wellesley College Computer Science Department. His research is in the field of Computational Biology. His work focuses on the design, analysis, and implementation of algorithms with applications in molecular biology. Read Full Bio.

Kaye Peterman (moderator) Biological Sciences, Wellesley College. Read Full Bio.


Panel Two, Jewett Auditorium

Liz Ogbu '98, an architect who focuses on sustainable design, she is designer and project manager of Public Architecture, which helps make sure “the resources of architecture [are] in the service of the public interest.” Read Full Bio.

Phyllis McGibbon, Professor of Studio Art and co-director of the Architecture program at Wellesley College. She teaches all levels of drawing and printmaking and some intermediate courses, including a studio seminar, “Art and Travel” as well as “Spatial Investigations,”
supported in part by a grant from the Mellon Foundation. Read Full Bio.

Rob Paarlberg, Betty Freyhof Johnson Class of 1944 Professor of Political Science at Wellesley College and Associate at the Weatherhead Center for International Affairs at Harvard University. His principal research interests are international agricultural and
environmental policy. Read Full Bio.

C. Megan Urry, the Israel Munson Professor of Physics and Astronomy, Director of the Yale Center for Astronomy and Astrophysics, and Chair of the Physics Department. Her scientific research focuses on super-massive black holes in galaxies, and she has published over 145 articles in scientific journals. Read Full Bio.