Women in Science Project

“A Lady Alone-Elizabeth Blackwell, MD: First Woman Doctor in America”

Kathy Weaver — Tue, 17 Nov 2009 15:04:17 +0000

A play by N. Lynn Eckhert, MD, Dr.PH, Harvard Medical School, performed by Linda Gray Kelley. Presented by C. Everett Koop Institute.

When: Thursday, December 3 at 7 PM

Where: Dartmouth 105

Please join us for this celebration of women in medicine. Free and open to the Dartmouth Community.

This one-person play chronicles Blackwell’s daring and courageous pursuit of a medical career in the 1850s as a woman. After facing initial rejection by the medical community because of her gender, Blackwell graduated top of her class from Geneva Medical College in New York and ultimately founded the New York Infirmary for Women and Children. As the first woman doctor in medicine and as a social activist, Blackwell went on to start other medical schools for women.

WISP lunch with playwright and global health leader Dr. N. Lynn Eckhert

Deb Delmore — Tue, 17 Nov 2009 14:18:28 +0000

When: Friday, December 4, 12 - 1:30 PM

Where: 101 Collis

Limited seating available. Please blitz WISP to RSVP by Wednesday, December 2.

Dr. N. Lynn Eckhert, MD, DrPH, is a physician at Harvard Medical School who has served as the dean of international and public health programs and has held numerous positions in academic medicine. A modern pioneer herself, Dr. Eckhert currently travels for Harvard International opening medical schools in third world countries. For more information on Dr. Eckhert, click here.

Dartmouth Women Attend Grace Hopper Conference for Women in Computing

Deb Delmore — Thu, 12 Nov 2009 15:57:53 +0000

During the week of September 27th, 2009, the Dartmouth Computer Science Department sent five undergraduate and graduate women to the Grace Hopper Conference for Women in Computing. More than 1,600 women who study or work in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, and Information Technology attended the conference. Linden Vongsathorn ‘10 tells us more. Read on…

L’Oréal & Unesco: Young Women in Science

Farzeen Mahmud — Fri, 23 Oct 2009 20:40:26 +0000

When we are growing up, we often imagine ourselves doing certain jobs: firefighter, sports star, lawyer, farmer, doctor. But the twists and turns that we encounter as we travel down life’s road often take us in very different directions from those we expected. Some of the women featured in this booklet knew that they wanted to be scientists. But many didn’t. They discovered their enjoyment of science through trial and error, through chance or fate. The road ahead is not always clear, but it is often more interesting and fun to make your own path, as these women have done, rather than follow the same road that everyone else is on.

All of the young women profiled in this booklet are unique. They come from many countries around the world, from diverse cultures, and often from very different backgrounds. Each has faced obstacles—poverty, discrimination, political unrest—but all have overcome these difficulties, even growing stronger for having faced them.

As there are differences, so are there similarities. (Read more…)