Can You Nurture Women's Excellence?

October 2011

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This month African women triumphed as Nobel Peace Prize winners, we lost an innovative technology icon and we learned who put the X (and Y) in sex chromosomes. In this newsletter, we look at women's spatial abilities in India and reflect on last month's Women in Science: Negotiating a Successful Academic Career forum. We also celebrate National Chemistry Week and ask that if you or any of the women or girls in your life have participated in this event, please share your story with us. Lastly, women in science are blogging all over the internet and we have the top blogs you should be reading (in addition to ours). Autumn is in the air and we have all the cool articles on women in science you won't want to miss.

Conference Recap

Reflections on Women in STEM and Negotiation

September 22nd, I went to CUNY Graduate Center's event, "Women in Science: Negotiating a Successful Academic Career," at the Segal Theatre, which was moderated by Dr. Gillian Small, CUNY's Vice Chancellor for Research, and featured an animated address from keynote speaker Dr. Maribel Vazquez. Also on board was a distinguished panel of experts...

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Articles

Nuturing Women's Spatial Ability

Nurture scored another point in August in its long-raging battle with nature. A study of villagers in eastern India suggests that social norms are responsible for how well women solve simple puzzles -- and its author hopes it will help us learn how to let women do their best.

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Top Blogs You Should be Reading 2011

Last year, we covered a few blogs we thought you should be reading as a supporter of women and girls in science, technology, engineering, and math. This year we've updated the list to make sure you have access to the most current blogs and ideas.

In Memoriam

Remembering Steve Jobs - An Influential Visionary

In the past we had Edison, Bell, Ford, Franklin. This was the Steve Jobs era -- a wonderful time to see how the tech industry grew in the past decade.

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UnderTheMicroscope.com, a website funded by the National Science Foundation and built by IBM, collects stories from women interested or involved in science, technology, engineering, and math. A selection of the stories submitted to the website will ultimately be published in a survival guide by the Feminist Press. We invite you to check out our story guidelines and read stories already submitted to the site. UnderTheMicroscope.com also publishes interviews, news, and tips for women in science.

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