International Registry for Women in Science

1. Name: Jillena Kolley
Company: Johnson & Johnson Medical
Job Title: Microbiologist
Area of Study: Biology
Personal information: BA in Microbiology from Miami University, Oxford, OH
4 years experience in the industrial microbiology field, including work in medical device, pharmaceutical, and beverage industries.


2. Name: Teresa Lappin
Company: University of Arizona Steward Observatory
Job Title: Research Specialist, CCD Lab
Area of Study: Earth and Space sciences
Personal information: I became interested in astronomy in 7th grade. I built my first telescope when I was in 9th grade. After graduating from high school, I went into the University of Arizona astronomy program. In my sophmore year I switched to physics. I graduated with a BS in physics in 1989. I have been very lucky to have always had a job in astronomy. My last job was operating a telescope at the Harvard-Smithsonian Whipple Observatory. I am very active in amateur astronomy and the local amateur astronomy organization, serving as president of the group for 3 years. Public education in astronomy is very important to me. I take my telescope to local schools so kids can look through it. In fact, once a month I go to the elementary school I attended to teach astronomy to students and their parents. My current job is a research specialist in the CCD Lab at Steward Observatory where we make CCDs for observatories around the world. (CCDs are in most instruments used on optical telescopes-they are very similar to what's in most video cameras.) My specialty is thin coatings on the CCDs and testing the CCDs. I use physics, astronomy, and chemistry in my job and use computers extensively.


3. Name: Dr. Christine H. Block
Company: Northeastern Ohio Universities College of Medicine
Job Title: Grants Facilitator
Area of Study: Medicine
Personal information: Neuroscientist, Histologist turned Grants Manager


4. Name: Shawnmarie Carpenter
Company: KGB School District
Job Title: 8th grade Science Teacher
Area of Study: Chemistry
Personal information: I have taught 8th grade science for six years in a small town in Alaska. I love my job and have a great interest in seeing all my students learn to look at the world through scientific eyes.


5. Name: Dr. Janet L. Earle
Company: Laredo Community College
Job Title: Faculty
Area of Study: Earth and Space sciences
Personal information: Geologist with long term, broad experience in petroleum, water development, environment, field work, teaching. Linked with social science through Ph.D. in cultural anthropology (people + natural resources -- use, abuse, availability, economics, politics). International experience, especially in Asia.


6. Name: Deborah A. Gaddis
Company: North Carolina State University
Job Title: Lead Facilitator--Project Learning Tree
Area of Study: Other
Personal information: Education
B.S. Forestry, Mississippi State University
M.B.A. Millsaps College, Jackson, Mississippi
Ph.D. candidate, Forest Policy, North Carolina State University

Job Experience
Forester, International Paper Company: Quitman & Canton, Mississippi, 1978-1992. Managed company lands, including harvesting, site preparation, thinnings, regeneration, hazard reduction burning. Worked as landowner assistance forester to manage private nonindustrial forestlands. Provided woodyard support in safety and quality.

Outstanding Young Forester--Mississippi society of American Foresters, 1991.

Current field of study: Wetlands regulation and Nonindustrial private forestlands.

Current job: Project Learning Tree--environmental education program with the North Carolina Cooperative Extension Service.

Interests: reading, sewing, cooking, museums, travel.

Personal: Divorced. One daughter, Becky, age 15.

Professional goal: Forestry Extension Specialist


7. Name: Patricia Elkins
Company: SmithKline Beecham Pharmaceuticals
Job Title: Investigator
Area of Study: Biology
Personal information: I am a protein crystallographer at a major pharmaceutical company. My work involves determining the structure of protein molecules and working with chemists to design drugs that bind to those proteins.
I have a Ph.D. in physical chemistry and did a postdoc as a crystallographer in a biotech company before getting my present job.


8. Name: Paula Flanagan
Company: Hingham High School
Job Title: Chemistry teacher
Area of Study: Chemistry
Personal information:


9. Name: Barbara Duhl-Emswiler
Company: bde BioPharmaceutical Resources
Job Title: Director
Area of Study: Chemistry
Personal information: I am an organic chemist (Ph.D.from Michigan State University, 1979), and have worked in the pharmaceutical industry for 19 years. My specialty was developing processes for large scale synthesis of peptide drug substances. I also managed a group of scientists responsible for developing analytical methods and manufacturing processes for new pharmaceuticals.

I now have a consulting company which provides guidance to people working on these kinds of projects in biotechnology and pharmaceutical companies. Some of the companies I work with are new companies just getting started; others are moving into new areas or more advanced stages of product development.

I like the challenge of having a variety of projects ongoing, and the flexibility of consulting work. I'm married to another scientist, and am a free-lance harpist in the other part of my life.


10. Name: Laura Allison
Company: Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation
Job Title: Science Education Officer/Double Helix Officer
Area of Study: Biology
Personal information: I am a special kind of science teacher, taking science to the Australian public through our excellent programs. These programs range from DNA Extraction to Electricity and Magnetism demonstrations, and are tailored for all ages, from kindergarten to adults.

I am also a state coordinator of the CSIRO's science club, The Double helix Club. I organise science based events for about 5000 members.


11. Name: Muffy Koch
Company: Innovation Biotechnology
Job Title: Managing Director
Area of Study: Biology
Personal information: I have just turned forty, have two children and a supportive husband, who is the main contributor to my success in, and enjoyment of, science. I trained as a microbiologist and during 12 years of research found myself applying plant genetic modification techniques to improvement of local crops. Five years ago I left formal employment and set up a biotechnology consultancy from my home. My contracts fall into three major areas: biotechnology education and training;
biotechnology networking in Africa and biosafety and public awareness for safe introduction of Genetically Modified Organisms.
This move has had enormous benefits for my family and has allowed me to grow in an area still uncommon in South Africa. My business supports a number of employees (scientists, teachers and support staff), many with flexible working hours to encourage a balanced home and working life. Our office is small, bright, busy and fun. The business is growing rapidly and we feel we make a difference to our communities and the biotechnology industry in this country.
Science training, followed by some good work experience and innovative thinking, can open doors to developing stimulating, family-friendly employment for women all over the world.


12. Name: Beatrice Mueller
Company: Kitt Peak National Observatory/ NOAO
Job Title: Research Associate
Area of Study: Other
Personal information: I am an astronomer. My field of studies are comets and asteroids.


13. Name: Donna S. Lutz
Company: Iowa State University
Job Title: Assistant Scientist/Limnologist
Area of Study: Biology
Personal information: I manage a water quality monitoring network on the Des Moines River in Iowa. With the use of a mobile lab, motorboat, snowmobile and a lot of other equipment we collect samples year-round at river and reservoir sites. Among the parameters we monitor are dissolved oxygen, suspended solids, ammonia, nitrates, trace metals and pesticides. Our project is one of the longest running monitoring programs in the Midwest, consequently I use computers to store, analyze and communicate results to others. I learned HTML so that we can maintain webpages describing the study. What I enjoy most about my position is the unique mix of field study, labwork and computer analysis.

I feel strongly that women need to be involved in science fields as we bring new perspectives to our fields of study and often make our work environments more humane. I am a founding member of the Central Iowa Chapter of the Association for Women in Science and organize annual hands-on science activity days for young girls. I work closely with our university's initiative Program for Women in Science and Engineering in career conferences and summer mentorships. {Websites: Central Iowa AWIS http://www.public.iastate.edu/~stu_org/AWIS/
National AWIS http://www.serve.com/awis/
ISU's Program for Women in Science and Engineering http://www.public.iastate.edu/~pwse_info/
ISU's Archives of Women in Science and Engineering http://www.lib.iastate.edu/spcl/wise/wise.html )

Want to fuel your curiosity for the rest of your life? Then work in a science, engineering or technology field. Start now by taking math and science classes, competing in science fairs, science olympiads, or Odyssey of the Mind competitions. And do whatever you can to expand your computer skills.


14. Name: Jessica R Young
Company: Western State College
Job Title: Assistant Professor
Area of Study: Biology
Personal information: My field is behavioral biology, evolution, ecology and conservation genetics. To see more information about me please check my web page
http://www.western.edu/bio/young/Welcome.html


15. Name: Linda Kondrick
Company: UALR
Job Title: graduate student and secondary math/science teacher
Area of Study: Physics
Personal information: I have been teaching math and physical sciences at the secondary level for 11 years. I love my students. Some of the greatest joys of my life are introducing young people to the pure elegance of a geometric constrution or the profound principals of physics.

I am presently working on my dissertation at the University of Arkansas at Little Rock (UALR). I am interested in the gender issues of math and science education. My career goal is to make a significant contribution toward the improvement of secondary and tertiary math and science instruction. I especially want to contribute to changes in our systems of education that will enable women to reach equity in their ability to pursue careers in math and science.

My own interest in physics is the theory of color. The present theory as presented in secondary and college-level textbooks is over-simplified. The Additive-Theory of Light is inadequate to expalin even simple phenomena that can be observed with blue-blocking sunglasses. This 2-dimensional theory is to percetual-3-D theories as Newton's theory of gravitation is to Einstein's theory of gravitation. The former, in each of these analogous pairs, is an effective model in some contexts, but it falls short of the universal experience of truth.


16. Name: Sharon L. Osowski
Company: Environmental Protection Agency Region 6
Job Title: Ecological Risk Analyst
Area of Study: Biology
Personal information: I am an ecologist by training and have many interesting experineces while conducting field studies (trapping rodents, foxes, radio-tracking antelope, wading through ponds looking for frogs, etc). I also have experience (through EPA) with using these field experiences to develop ways of comparing how (and what) different facilities/industries pollute and with protecting endangered species. I also work with a group called Science-by-Mail, in which I am a volunteer scientist pen-pal. If you'd like to know anything specific, please email me!!!


17. Name: Maria Gamino
Company: Marquette University
Job Title: Intern Engineering
Area of Study: Other
Personal information:


18. Name: Sharon C. Alden
Company: National Weather Service Fairbanks, Alaska
Job Title: Lead Forecaster/Fire Weather Forecaster
Area of Study: Earth and Space sciences
Personal information: I work in the National Weather Service Office in Fairbanks, Alaska. I have worked here since 1989. As a fire weather forecaster I provide weather forecasts to forest fire fighters to help them fight the fires. Sometimes I go and work at the fire camps with the fire fighters. I also write aviation, marine and public forecasts. I enjoy my job very much.

My interests aside from weather are skiing, hiking and reading. I love living in Alaska, even the long dark winters.


19. Name: Susan L Forsburg
Company: The Salk Institute for Biological Studies
Job Title: Assistant Professor
Area of Study: Biology
Personal information: I am a molecular geneticist by speciality, and my primary research interest is in the regulation of DNA replication using fission yeast as a model system. A introduction to my work can be found on my lab web site, at http://pingu.salk.edu/~forsburg/lab.html.

Also, you can visit the Women in Biology Internet Launch Page at
http://pingu.salk.edu/~forsburg/bio.html


20. Name: Valerie Barber
Company: University of Alaska Fairbanks
Job Title: Graduate student
Area of Study: Earth and Space sciences
Personal information:


21. Name: Megan H. Mehaffey, Ph.D.
Company: USEPA NERL-LV
Job Title: Ecologist - POST DOC
Area of Study: Biology
Personal information: I recently completed my doctoral degree in Ecology at the University of Kansas. I am currently working with the EPA at there Landscape Ecology Branch in Las Vegas Nevada. I am working on landscape and water quality indicators for use in Geographical Information Systems analysis. My current project is focused on issues of water quality for the city of New York. My special areas of interest are landuse impacts on water quality.


22. Name: Selina Heppell
Company: U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Western Ecology Division
Job Title: Post-doctoral Researcher
Area of Study: Biology
Personal information: I'm a biologist who uses computers and mathematics to help make descisions about how to save endangered species. I received my PhD in Zoology at Duke University in May 1998, and am currently working on amphibian and fish conservation in Oregon's Willamette Valley. I also work with the National Marine Fisheries Service in Miami, Florida, on sea turtle conservation. I have done field research on fish, insects and marine mammals and love to talk to school groups about my experience as a woman in science.


23. Name: Helene Horowitz
Company: NYU
Job Title: Undergrad in Biology
Area of Study: Biology
Personal information: I am interested in working in marine biology after I graduate, and probably after grad school, so far I've worked one summer as an intern at The Maritime Aquarium at Norwalk, CT and I loved it... can't wait till I get to do a job like that all the time.


24. Name: Gabriela Mora-Klepeis
Company: Centre for Isotope Studies, CSIRO Minerals Research Laboratories
Job Title: Research Officer
Area of Study: Earth and Space sciences
Personal information: My general research interests are in geochronology, isotope geology, geochemistry and tectonics of rocks.

I graduated as a geology engineer from "Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México" (UNAM) in 1986. Following my graduation I spent 10 months at the Geological Survey of Japan studying the K/Ar and Rb/Sr dating methods thanks to a scholarship provided by the Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA). On my return back home, I had the chance to work 2 yers at the Physics Institute of UNAM learning mass spectrometry techniques. This experience enabled me to obtain a scholarship from the Mexican government (CONACYT) to do a Master's Degree at the University of Texas at Austin. My research involved styding the volcanic rocks in NW Mexico and their relation to the opening of the Gulf of California.
Upon completion of my thesis, I worked 2 years at the State Survey of Baja California (CICESE) followed by a working opportunity at Bryn Mawr College to learn 40Ar/39Ar dating using the laboratory facilites at Princeton University.

I have been working at the Radiogenic Laboratory facilites of the Center for Isotope Studies since 1996. My job involves the day to day operation in isotope analyses for the Rb/Sr, Sm/Nd and common Pb methods. I instruct students the basics of the techniques involved and help them with their laboratory work. I am currently working on Sr, Nd and Pb data of samples from my thesis to further characterise the tectonic evolution of that part of North America.

Since 1997, I have been an Honorary Research Associate at the Division of Geology and Geophysics of Sydney University. This position has given me the chance to teach the Geology component of the Univesity Preparation Course in Science aimed to mature age students that want to obtain a Bachelor's degree from Sydney Univeristy upon successful completion of the course.


25. Name: Dr. Michelle Driessen
Company: Southwest Missouri State University
Job Title: Assistant Professor
Area of Study: Chemistry
Personal information: B.S. Chemistry, Mankato State University-1992
Ph.D. Physical Chemistry, University of Iowa-1997


26. Name: Joanne M. Gordon, Ph.D., RN, CS
Company: Department of Biomedical Sciences, Southwest Missouri State University
Job Title: Associate Professor
Area of Study: Other
Personal information: My research interest focuses on the effects of various inflammatory chemicals on connexin 43 in endothelial cells. I am using calf pulmonary artery endothelial cells and four cytokines: serotonin, basic fibroblast growth factor, tumor necrosis factor, and interleukin 1. Connexin 43 is a protein found in gap junctions found on cell membranes. I currently have two graduate students and one high school senior working with me in my lab.
My teaching responsibilities include human pathophysiology, human anatomy, and bioinformatics. Pathophysiology is the study of dysfunctional physiology. In the human anatomy course we are using human cadavers that make study of human anatomy very interesting. In the bioinformatics course, we explore resources on the Internet that help cell and molecular biologists learn more about DNA and proteins.
Besides my focus in the biomedical sciences, I am a registered nurse and an adult nurse practitioner. I maintain a clinical practice by volunteering at a senior center in Springfield where I am the primary health care provider.


27. Name: Tamera S. Jahnke
Company: Southwest Missouri State University
Job Title: Professor and Department Head
Area of Study: Chemistry
Personal information: I earned my Ph.D. from the University of Iowa in 1986 and joined the faculty at SMSU immediately after graduation. My research interests include organic synthesis, organic spectroscopy and chemical education. I am married and have two children. My current position allows for me to teach 1-2 courses each semester, work with students in my research lab and carry out the administrative duties necessary to run the department of chemistry. The SMSU Department of Chemistry has 18 faculty. We offer an ACS certified degree program and a master of science degree program.


28. Name: Terri O'Neill
Company: St Jude Children's Research Hospital
Job Title: Section Head/Clinical Cytogenetics Lab
Area of Study: Medicine
Personal information: I have worked at St Jude Hospital in Memphis, TN for sixteen years in the Cytogenetics Laboratory. The lab I supervise obtains bone marrow from the children at St. Jude who have leukemia. We then analyze the chromosomes to find abnormalities on the DNA that have possibly contributed to the patients cancer. My job is a very rewarding one knowing that I am doing my part to help these innocent children get rid of their disease. I am married to a wonderful husband and have 3 great children Amanda (12), Lauren (9), Stepson Mike (17). I hope more young women will become interested in the scientific field. I am very happy to see a Web Page devoted to women in science.


29. Name: Adele Diamond
Company: Eunice Kennedy Shriver Center
Job Title: Director, Center for Dev.al Cog. Neurosci.
Area of Study: Other
Personal information: I am both a developmental psychologist (Ph.D. in developmental psychology, Harvard) as well as a neuroscientist (postdoctoral fellow in neuroanatomy, Yale Med Sch). I received my B.A. from Swarthmore College back in 1975 with majors in both psychology and sociology-anthropology. My research focus is the functions of dorsolateral prefrontal cortex and the interrelated cognitive and perceptual-motor abilities that appear to require that neural system. My early work focused on the hypothesis that some of the cognitive advances seen in infants between 7.5-12 months of age are made possible by maturational changes in prefrontal cortex. By working with both macaque monkeys and children, and by studying both behavior and brain function, I was able to establish a direct link between cognitive development and the functions of a specific neural system.
One of the next set of questions was, "What exactly is changing in the prefrontal system during this time?" One possible answer was increasing levels of the neurotransmitter, dopamine. As an initial way of looking at the role of dopamine in prefrontal cortex in humans early in development, I have been studying children who there was reason to believe might have a selective decrease in dopamine in prefrontal cortex, without other abnormalities in the brain -- children treated early and continuously for phenylketonuria (PKU). We've shown that these children are impaired in the cognitive functions dependent on prefrontal cortex, while unimpaired on tests of the functions of parietal cortex or the medial temporal lobe. In an animal model, we investigated the underlying biological mechanism, and found, as predicted, that the problem appears to lie in the exquisite sensitivity of the prefrontally-projecting dopamine neurons to the modest reduction in CNS tyrosine levels found in these children. The dopamine neurons in the retina share this special sensitivity, and those neurons too appear to be affected in these children: Reduced dopamine in the retina is associated with impaired contrast sensitivity, and children treated early and continuously for PKU have reduced sensitivity to visual contrast. This was the first demonstration of a visual defect in these children. This work leads to treatment implications, which we are currently investigating.
In the current work of my lab we are trying to understand better the cognitive requirements of different tasks on which children show developmental changes at specific ages and which are linked to specific neural systems, and by using functional MRI neural imaging to obtain better information, in children, of the neural basis for various cognitive functions.
I'm a teacher as well as a researcher. I love to teach. When I'm not working I love to dance.

Honors I have received include:
1997 Named a Distinguished Scientific Lecturer by the American Psychological Association
1996 Elected a Fellow of APA, Division 6 (Behavioral Neuroscience & Comparative Psychology)
1995 Presented the Master Lecture on Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience at the Society for Research in Child Development Biennial Meeting, Mar 1995, Indianapolis, IN
1994 Tjossem Memorial Lecture at the University of Washington, Seattle, WA
McDonnell-Pew Visiting Fellow at the Salk Institute & UCSD, La Jolla, CA
1993 Elected a Fellow of APA, Division 7 (Developmental Psychology)
1975 Phi Beta Kappa


30. Name: Sheryl Coombs, Ph.D
Company: Parmly Hearing Institute, Loyola University
Job Title: Professor
Area of Study: Other
Personal information: I am a neurobiologist who studies sensory systems with a primary focus on comparative studies of vertebrate hair cell systems. Neurophysiological, behavioral, anatomical and computer modeling techniques are applied to questions of how the nervous system encodes information about the environment, as detected by fish auditory and lateral line systems. These two systems have in common the same type of sensory receptor cell, the hair cell, which responds with electrical changes in the membrane when the apical "hairs" (cilia) of the cell are bent.
Essentially, hair cells in the lateral line system of fish respond to water currents along the fish's body, such as those produced by nearby moving prey. Hair cells in the fish auditory system can respond to both local and more distant sources of water disturbance, including the propagated pressure changes normally associated with sounds. For more information about our research program , visit my web page at http://parmly-2.ls.luc.edu/parmly/coombs.html


31. Name: Heather Kimmel
Company: Emory University
Job Title: Research Associate
Area of Study: Biology
Personal information: I received my Ph.D. in Neuroscience in 1997. As a graduate student, I studied the effect of opioid-dopamine interactions on rat behavior. Since Oct. 1997, I have been a post-doctoral fellow in the laboratory of Dr. Michael Kuhar, and I have been studying the dopamine transporter protein. My interests include drugs of abuse, behavioral pharmacology, and neuroscience.


32. Name: Anna L. Kleinhaus, Ph.D.
Company: New York Medical College
Job Title: Professor
Area of Study: Other
Personal information:


33. Name: Christine H. Block, Ph.D.
Company: Northeastern Ohio Universities College of Medicine
Job Title: Grant Facilitator
Area of Study: Medicine
Personal information:


34. Name: Bakul Banerjee, Ph.D.
Company: Argonne National Laboratory
Job Title: Computer Scientist
Area of Study: Other
Personal information: My academic credentials include a Ph.D. degree in Geophysics from Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland, and a Master's degree in Mathematics from Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur, India. As a part of my mathematical pursuits, I did have a research fellowship in Mathematics at Ramanujan Institute for Advanced Studies in Mathematics, Madras, India. It was fun to work with many aspects of pure and applied mathematics, including signal processing, heat transfer, functional analysis and operator algebra. However, I spent most of my working life working with various aspects of large scale embedded electronic systems, particularly, systems for nuclear controls and telecommunications. I am active in the Institute for Electronic and Electrical Engineering (IEEE) Technical Subcommittee on Software Engineering.
Since joining Argonne about seven years ago, I am active in the Women in Science and Technology (WIST) program sponsored by Argonne's Laboratory management, particularly in its outreach efforts to young women. Currently, I am a member of the WIST Steering Committee.


35. Name: Cynthia Bradbury
Company: Micron Technology Inc
Job Title: Surface Scientist
Area of Study: Other
Personal information: B.S. Wilkes University in Physics
M.S. Old Dominion University Applied Physics

I started out teaching high school and adult math and science. My husband was in the U.S. Navy and teaching provided an opportunity to be employed as a professional as we moved around.

For my master's I was part of a research group at NASA Langely Research Center in Virginia. Our research was on the effects of electron radiation on polymeric materials. These materials will eventually be part of the composites used to build the space station. This was an exciting chance to see how science was really done.

After completing my degree, I was hired by the Navy in one of the Depot labs. At these facilities, aircraft are taken apart and repaired to extend their useful life. I was in the laboratory which was a full scale materials analysis lab. Here I learned about and how to operate a surface analysis instrument. We analyzed materials involved with production as well as engineering and crash investigations. This job required a great deal of knowledge about many different types of materials from oils to advanced composites.

Currently, I am involved in the same type of analysis only now with the materials involved in the manufacture of Dram. The samples here are also from production or engineering. It is amazing how similar the jobs are considering how different the end product is.

Also, I am working with a Boise State University instructor. She is teaching migrant farm workers math and computer skills to increase their skills to be eligible for better jobs. It is my job to show how math really is part of someone's work. Additionally, I have been part of the mentoring programs at Micron involving young women in junior and senior high school.

Right now I am taking courses in statistical methods and materials science. There is always something new!


36. Name: Chantelle Blackmer
Company: Micron Technology
Job Title: Surface Scientist
Area of Study: Chemistry
Personal information: I have a B.S Chemistry degree from Boise State University and am working on a M.S. Materials Science and Engineering degree from National Technological University. I have been at Micron for 6 years working in the Surface Analysis Lab as a Scientist. I primarily use a Secondary Ion Mass Spectrometer (SIMS) to analyze semiconductor materials.


37. Name: Marilyn S. Whittemore
Company: Buckman Laboratories / Lehigh University
Job Title: Synthesis Chemist
Area of Study: Chemistry
Personal information: My main focus right now is to finish my Ph.D. in Pharmaceutical chemistry.... I am one month away from defending my dissertation! Chemistry is a great field for women - lots of fun, lots of challenges and great job opportunities. I am married to an incredible fellow and we have one son, who is a dentist, and a wonderful daughter-in-law, who is a preschool teacher. My best advice: go to school when you are young- but never pass up an opportunity to learn new ways of thinking!


38. Name: Vanja M. King
Company: Buckman Laboratories International/R & D
Job Title: Manager/Discovery group
Area of Study: Biology
Personal information: I am a microbiologist with specialization in industrial microbiology, esp. pulp and paper, water treatment, leather, and biodegradation. I manage a group of scientist involved in inventing new molecules and technologies for preventing microbial growth in industrial systems. My doctorate is in microbiology, received in '87 from University of Memphis. I have two children in college.


39. Name: Lori Freeman
Company: Micron Technology, Inc.
Job Title: Lab Manager/Lab Director
Area of Study: Chemistry
Personal information: I currently work for Micron Technology in Boise, ID. I am the Lab Manager for the Analytical Chemistry Lab and the Lab Director for the on-site Medical Clinic Lab. I have a B.S. degree in Bacteriology and a minor in Chemistry. I use both areas of expertise every day which allows for a very diverse working environment.

Micron Technology is a manufacturer of computer DRAM and SRAM memory chips. We also have a subsidiary that makes personal computers. We currently have about 12,000 people employed in the State of Idaho.

In the Analytical Lab, I employ 19 technicians and chemists. We support all of Micron from incoming materials analysis to waste profiles.

In the Clinical Lab, I am in charge of all the lab testing and training that occurs in the clinic lab.

I have a strong interest in mentoring young women in the science fields. I am heavily involved with mentoring and lecturing of young women from junior high through college in my own community. I want these young women to know what a rewarding career a "science field" can offer.


40. Name: Jennifer Lai
Company: IBM Research
Job Title: User Interaction Designer - Speech Interface Specialist
Area of Study: Other
Personal information:


41. Name: Dr. Malinda E.C. Fitzgerald
Company: Christian Brothers University and UT-Memphis
Job Title: Associate Professor
Area of Study: Biology
Personal information: I teach full time at CBU in the Biology Department. The courses I teach are: Principles of Biology, Vert. Phys., Neuroscience, and Mentored Research. I also conduct research on the importance of ocular blood flow for retinal health. The laboratory I work in is at UT in the Department of Anatomy and Neurobiology.

I have one child. She is in the 4th grade.


42. Name: Maude Taylor McGraw
Company: Buckman Laboratories International, Inc.
Job Title: Corporate Safety Director
Area of Study: Other
Personal information: Hi, I'm the mother of an active and bright 4 year old named Miesha. Due to the nature of my job, Miesha has a passport and has traveled with me to Europe and Australia. My area of study was chemical engineering, but I wanted something non-traditional. I found my speciality in safety and enjoy it very much.


43. Name: Elizabeth Simmons
Company: Department of Physics, Boston University
Job Title: Associate Professor of Physics
Area of Study: Physics
Personal information:


44. Name: Gina L. Hoatson
Company: College of Willaim and Mary
Job Title: Associate Professor of Physics
Area of Study: Physics
Personal information: Experimental Condensed Matter Physics, Nuclear Magnetic Resonance


45. Name: Laurie McNeil
Company: University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Job Title: Professor
Area of Study: Physics
Personal information: I am an experimental materials physicist, I use light scattering to study the properties of materials such as semiconductors. I am a Professor of Physics and of Applied and Materials Sciences, and I teach students at a
ll post-secondary levels from first-year college students to postdoctoral researchers. I am married (no children), and I enjoy choral singing and bicycling when I am not in the lab or the classroom. I live in Chapel Hill, North Carolina, which is a very
nice place. I grew up in the Midwest, and went to college in the Boston area. I am happy to communicate with young women who want to know what it is like to be a woman in a male-dominated scientific field (which physics certainly is).


46. Name: Irene Wagner-Doebler
Company: National Research Institute for Biotechnology (GBF)
Job Title: Project leader/Research
Area of Study: Biology
Personal information: My field of interest is microbial ecology. Together with my students we are currently studying microbial mercury reduction and its use as a mechanism to clean up mercury containing industrial waste streams, the structure of biofilm communities in polluted streams, and community structure of marine habitats with the aim to isolate new bacteria and retrieve interesting new genes.


47. Name: Suzanne Willis
Company: Northern Illinois University
Job Title: Professor
Area of Study: Physics
Personal information: My research is in the field of experimental high energy physics; I do research at the Fermi National Accelerator Lab in Batavia, Illinois, and at the European High Energy Physics Lab in Geneva, Switzerland. I am the divorced mother of an 8-year-old son. My other interests include classical music,
science fiction (Live long and prosper!), and running.


48. Name: Anne-Marie Novo-Gradac
Company: The United States Naval Academy
Job Title: Assistant Professor
Area of Study: Physics
Personal information: I am a civilian faculty member at the United States Naval Academy. I have taught physics here for 4 years and also conduct research on lasers. I study fluoride and oxide crystals to determine whether they can be made into lasers. I usually have several undergraduate students working on research projects in my laboratories.

When I am not teaching or in my lab I like to hike, fish, sew, paint, and cook gourmet meals. I am also an amateur radio operator and am the faculty advisor to the radio club at the Naval Academy. My callsign is AC4OQ.


49. Name: Rhonda Stroud
Company: Naval Research Lab
Job Title: Research Physicist
Area of Study: Physics
Personal information: 1996 Ph.D. Washington University, St. Louis
1991 A. B. Cornell University

A research physicist is a great thing to be. I get to conduct experiments to understand how the world works and then share my new knowledge with colleagues all over the world. There is no time to get bored, becuase I am always learning something new. Currently I am working on oxide materials. I try to figure out how the structure (the way the atoms are arranged) affects the magnetic and optical properties of the materials. Making new things, like computer disks that can store more information or pocket telephones, starts with people like me who study the physics of new materials.

But physics is only part of my life. I also love traveling, photography, cooking, sewing, going to concerts, scuba diving and spending time with my husband.


50. Name: Elizabeth Sumner Wafler
Company: St. Mary's Episcopal School, Memphis, Tn.
Job Title: Lower School Science Teacher, Dept. Chair
Area of Study: Other
Personal information: I teach science to all of the Second, Third, and Fourth Grade "Girls In Science" at St. Mary's, and sponsor the Ecology Club.I coordinate science programs for the lower school, and love to implement technology into the science curriculum.


51. Name: Zoa Conner
Company: George Washington University at Mount Vernon Colelge
Job Title: Program Coordinator/Assistant Professor
Area of Study: Physics
Personal information: B.S. in Physics, Carnegie Mellon University, 1991
Ph.D. in Physics, University of Maryland, 1997
My thesis work was on a solar neutrino experiment. With my postdoc fellowship, I work in the field of gamma-ray astronomy. I am interested in supporting women in science and improving science education (especially for young kids). I am married and have dealt with finding two scientific jobs in the same city.


52. Name: Lidija Sekaric
Company: Cornell University
Job Title: Graduate Student
Area of Study: Physics
Personal information: Please see http://www.people.cornell.edu/pages/ls63


53. Name: Dr. Karen S. Bjorkman
Company: University of Toledo
Job Title: Assistant Professor of Astronomy
Area of Study: Earth and Space sciences
Personal information: Personal web page: http://ardbeg.astro.utoledo.edu/~karen


54. Name: Mary Anne White
Company: Dalhousie University
Job Title: Professor
Area of Study: Chemistry
Personal information: BSc in Chemistry, University of Western Ontario, 1975
PhD in Chemistry, McMaster University, 1980
Postdoctoral Fellowship, Oxford University, 1979-81
Assistant Professor, University of Waterloo, 1981-83
Assistant then Associate then Full Professor, Dalhousie U, 1983
Killam Research Professor in Materials Science, 1996-
research interests in thermal properties of materials
interested in science for the general public
married to fellow chemist, and we have two children (16 and 13)


55. Name: Martha B. Holt
Company: Buckman Laboratories
Job Title: Group Leader-Water Treatment
Area of Study: Biology
Personal information: My field of study is microbiology. My career allows me to increase my knowledge of microorganisms specific to the water industry.

My duties include indentification of microrganisms that contaminate industrial water sources. I also perform analytical testing of liquid and solid samples associated with industrial boilers and cooling systems. I enjoy my field of study daily because of the non-rountine nature of my job duties.

I work for a specialty chemicals manufacturer that provides products such as microbicides, corrosion/scale inhibitor, etc.


56. Name: Ann Viano, Ph.D.
Company: St. Jude Children's Research Hospital and Rhodes College
Job Title: research fellow and assistant professor of physics for research
Area of Study: Physics
Personal information: My interests are in materials physics and medical imaging, specifically magnetic resonance imaging of patients with metallic implants. I work at a children's cancer hospital, and I also teach astronomy labs at a nearby college. I enjoy my work immensely because I feel that I am using my science education to help people: patients receive better medical imaging because of my work and my students realize, hopefully, that science can be fun and exciting and there's no reason to fear learning new things.


57. Name: Dr. Diane E. Albert
Company: Los Alamos National Laboratory
Job Title: Technical Staff Member, Team Leader of Mechanical Testing Lab
Area of Study: Other
Personal information: My specialty is mechanical behavior of materials. I use electron microscopes in my research. In addition to my scientif work, I'm interested in science and technology policy, environmental issues, and diversity issues.

For fun, I like to bike, run, swim, ski, skate, blade, lift weights. I compete in traithlons, and like to race, both biking and running. I teach spinning at a local YMCA.

I like to learn foreign languages (I speak French, Spanish, and Russian) and I love to travel.

I live a simple life - I don't own a car or a TV!


58. Name: Meg Urry
Company: Space Telescope Science Institute
Job Title: Astronomer; Head, Science Program Selection Office
Area of Study: Earth and Space sciences
Personal information: MY WORK IN ASTRONOMY

I have been an astronomer at the Space Telescope Science Institute (STScI) since 1987. STScI carries out the science program of the Hubble Space Telescope for NASA. My scientific research concerns active galaxies, which are galaxies with unusually luminous cores that are likely powered by very massive black holes. To understand these objects, I make observations throughout the electromagnetic spectrum, from radio waves to infrared-optical-UV light to X- and gamma-rays, using satellite experiments and ground-based observatories. My work on active galaxies focuses on some of the most energetic and catastrophic phenomena known in the universe, and in recent years I have identified one of the principal causes of this extreme activity: relativistic jets probably formed in the vicinity of supermassive black holes at the heart of active galaxies.

In addition, I head the STScI Science Program Selection Office, which solicits HST observing proposals from the international astronomical community and oversees their review and final selection. We do this on a yearly cycle; for example, in 1996 we called for proposals in June, sending out a thick package of documentation on telescope and instrument capabilities, guidelines for proposing, and additional information. In response, we received nearly 1300 proposals by the deadline, September 13. These were
sent to approximately 140 proposal reviewers --- well-known astronomers from all over the world --- who then met at STScI in November to determine the HST observing program for Cycle 7 (observing dates July 1997 through June 1998). Letters of approval and rejection were sent to proposers in December; the approved programs require a second proposal submission (with much more details about the specific observations), due in the February/March 1997 time frame. Meanwhile, this January we in SPSO began prepari
ng for the next cycle, writing documentation (and Web pages) describing the new proposal procedures.

I have also maintained a long interest in the issue of women in science, and I was the chief organizer of the 1992 conference on Women in Astronomy which led to the Baltimore Charter (visit our Web page at http://www.stsci.edu/pubinfo/BaltoCharter.html).

HOW AND WHEN I CHOSE ASTRONOMY

I decided to be an astronomer much later than many of my colleagues --- really not until I applied to graduate school in my senior year at college. I was always interested in science, and found physics challenging, but was also attracted to mathematics and chemistry (not to mention English, history, languages, ...) Following my junior year at college (Tufts University), where astronomy was a very minor part of the physics department, I spent a summer as a student intern at the National Radio Astronomy Observatory in Charlottesville, Virginia. That was my first real contact with astronomy. It was there that I learned how interesting and how much fun astronomical research could be. The people were fun, too. I saw science not as a solitary pursuit but as a group activity, one that was social as well as rigorous.

The following year, I applied to graduate schools in astronomy and physics, and ended up planning to go in the fall to the Johns Hopkins University department of physics and astronomy, probably to pursue astronomy but still perhaps going into high energy
physics or some other field. In the summer before graduate school, I worked with an X-ray astronomy group at the Center for Astrophysics at Harvard. More interesting science, more fun! This confirmed that when I went to Johns Hopkins, I should look seriously into doing astronomy. I later got summer jobs at the nearby Goddard Space Flight Center working with the X-ray astronomy group. This led directly to my thesis research, and the combined scientific excellence and low-key friendliness of that group is probably the reason I got through the stresses and pressures of graduate school.

In my experience, college classes, while useful, were never as important as on-the-job experience. What I know and use now in my work, for example, has completely replaced the dated information from my early training. The important thing is the approach, and the constant learning of new skills and constant improvements in understanding.

HOW DID I (NOT) PREPARE TO BE A SCIENTIST AND WHAT WOULD I ADVISE A YOUNG WOMAN TODAY?

I didn't do anything as a kid, frankly, that prepared me for this job. I enjoyed school, was always interested in every subject, advanced in mathematics at every opportunity (which in retrospect, was very important, though I didn't think about it at the time). I never liked science fiction, unlike many of my colleagues. I did like reading and writing a great deal, and I think that has helped me in writing scientific papers and in the communications needed to support the HST project. When I was quite young, in 3rd grade or so, I read a lot of biographies, including some of famous women --- doctors, scientists, pioneers. Quite frankly, the hardest part of getting to where I am in my career today has been developing the confidence that there IS a role for me, for women, in science, and in overcoming the insidious training I had, as does any girl in our society, to be a quintessentially female: to be self-effacing, to avoid "bragging," to support others even at the expense of taking appropriate credit oneself --- all wonderful, polite things, but very much at odds with the dominant scientific culture today, at least in the U.S. Reading about successful women, especially in fields where they had to fight to establish their right to be there, was a great morale boost and a great support. Finding a few women ahead of me and more in my peer group and even more coming up behind, has been critical to my staying in astronomy.

THE PERSONAL SIDE

I think it's really important to have a life besides a career. I like science a lot, but it isn't the most important thing. My family is -- I have two adorable daughters, Amelia, who is 7, and Sophia, who is nearly 5 years old. I love them more than it is possible to explain. It's tough to manage the family plus job sometimes, and the only reason I can is because my husband, who is an astrophysicist at the Goddard Space Flight Center, is an equal partner in our marriage. To young girls who want a career of any kind I would say: marry the right guy! I am really surprised sometimes when I hear intelligent young women agreeing to shoulder the greater part of the burden, agreeing to subordinate their careers and aspirations to those of the men in their lives, for no reason other than that is the way it is always done or that is the way their husbands and boyfriends have assumed it will be. I hope young girls grow up valuing their dreams and their futures as much as young boys do.

Favorite pasttimes: I get a lot of exercise --- usually on a stationary bike and/or doing weight lifting, first thing in the morning, before everyone else is up (there isn't any other free time!). When the weather is nice, we really like to go bicycling. My husband and I did a lot more before the kids were born, with long rides almost every weekend, and now that the girls are getting older, we're getting back into it (courtesy of our tandem and trailer bikes). I also read a tremendous amount, mostly current or classic fiction --- we make trips to the library a weekly family activity. The girls now love reading as much as we do. It's wonderful to watch Amelia read to her little
sister Sophia.


59. Name: Janet Tucker, RN, BSN, ACCE
Company: Presently not working in Nursing
Job Title:
Area of Study: Medicine
Personal information: My speciality for 12 years has been in Obstetric Nursing. I am a nationally certified Childbirth Educator through ASPO/Lamaze.
I have worked High risk OB in three labor & deliveries, worked for midwives and High Risk Obstetricians in an office setting,& orked for a home fetal monitoring company. I taught childbirth classes for 11 years-private practice and for hospitals. I was childbirth education coordinator for 4 hospitals. Our three children were delivered utilizing lamaze breathing techniques.
I'll be willing to answer questions in this specialty.


60. Name: Lisa DuFur
Company: Craigmont High School
Job Title: Planetarium Teacher
Area of Study: Earth and Space sciences
Personal information: The main objective of the planetarium is to spread the knowledge of astronomy and related disciplines in the school curriculum and among the general public at all levels of age and interest.

I've been involved in a variety of activities such as holding public observing sessions with the Memphis Astronomical

Society at Craigmont High School to create a relationship with the surrounding community. I also take a special interest in seventh and eighth grade students at Craigmont teaching them astronomy in the unique environment of the planetarium.

My field has taken me out of town on many occasions to conduct workshops such as the French Camp Academy Observatory. I was also chosen to study with the Harvard Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics department and became a SPICA agent. SPICA stands for Support Program for Instructional Competency in Astronomy and assists teachers in the area of astronomy education.

Other projects I have been involved in include "The Private Universe Project" now called "Minds of Their Own" in which I served as coordinator. This was in conjunction with the Harvard Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics department and focused on the many misconceptions students have about science. As a result of these 9 live interactive video conferences held at Craigmont High School there are now a series of video tapes that teachers can use to try and clear up some of the most common misconceptions students have about science.

I was also coordinator of "Tomorrow's Astronauts" which allowed middle school students from the Memphis area to talk live via video conference to an astronaut who demonstrated various physics experiments.

I am editor of an elementary astronomy newsletter called "Twinkles." This newsletter includes articles written by Craigmont students and contains activities teachers can use in the classroom.

The most challenging project I've been involved in is the creation of educational web sites for the "Thinkquest" contest.
Each team consisted of three students from different schools and three coaches who collaborated to create and interesting and educational web site for grades 7-12. Coaches are only allowed to coach. The students must complete all the work.
Last year, our students won fifth place out of over 500 entries with their entry called TOPS (The Online Planetarium Show.) Each student won $3,000 and each teacher and school won $500.

The 1997 ThinkQuest web page was called Mission to Mars. Students attend the Mars Academy online to learn more about the red planet and then get to launch their own spacecraft to Mars. Mission to Mars got first place in the international competition! Each student received $15,000 in scholorship money. Each coach and school received $2,500. We are very proud of this accomplishment.

Last, but not least is a web page in progress called "Women In Science" which will focus on women in the field of science, both past and present. A mentoring section where students will be able to ask female scientists questions about their area of study will be available. Electronic field trips will be taken by students online so that they can get a closer look at various types of laboratories they might not otherwise get to see.

My involvement in astronomy education has allowed me to expose the subject to a wide range of people from four year old children to senior citizens. The planetarium's three dimensional atmosphere makes astronomical concepts much easier for all to understand.

Awards

Think Quest National finalist, fifth place award winner - each student received $3,000, each coach received $500 and each institution received $500 for creating an educational Web Page to be used on the internet.

Think Quest International finalist, first place award winner - each student received $15,000, each coach received $2,500 and each institution received $2,500 for creating an educational Web Page to be used on the internet.

Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics Award
duPont de Nemours Award - Science Teaching Excellence

University of Tennessee Sigma Xi Research Scientists Award

Tennessee Academy of Sciences Award - Science Teaching Excellence


61. Name: Julieann Warren
Company: Missouri Department of Natural Resources
Job Title: Chief, Site Evaluation Unit
Area of Study: Chemistry
Personal information:


62. Name: Sheri Waldron
Company: University of Oklahoma
Job Title:
Area of Study: Other
Personal information: I am a nontraditional student currently seeking a BS degree in
computer science. I work 32 to 34 hours a week as a cashier/cook, and I take 12 credit hours a semester. I have 3 children ages 17, 15, and 10; two girls and a boy, respectively.


63. Name: Kailar Cooper
Company: Craigmont Highschool
Job Title: hostes/cashier
Area of Study: Biology
Personal information: BA in Microbiology from Miami University, Oxford, OH
4 years experience in the industrial microbiology field, including work in medical device, pharmaceutical, and beverage industries.


64. Name: Dr. Ann M. Hirsch
Company: University of California-Los Angeles
Job Title: Professor of Molecular, Cell and Developmental Biology
Area of Study: Biology
Personal information: My research is involved with plant-microbe interactions, specifically with the interactions between symbiotic nitrogen-fixing bacteria and plants. We also study the association between symbiotic fungi and plant roots. Our goal is to understand why some plants allow certain bacteria and fungi to enter their cells and establish growing colonies for the benefit of both organisms. To do this, we utilize the tools of molecular biology and genetics. For more information, please see our web site: http://stratus.lifesci.ucla.edu/mcdbio/Faculty/Hirsch/index.html.


65. Name: Lilian Ofulue
Company: No company
Job Title: Protein Chemist
Area of Study: Other
Personal information:


66. Name: Kim Chamberlain
Company: No company
Job Title: full time student
Area of Study: Chemistry
Personal information: I graduated form the University of Rochester with a B.S. in Chemical Engineering. I then worked in industry for about 2 1/2 years as a process engineer before deciding to go back to school for my Master's in Education. I plan to teach high school chemistry and physics and look forward to encouraging more young women to enter scientific fields.


67. Name: Alrena Lightbourn
Company: Radian International
Job Title: Toxicologist/Associate Scientist
Area of Study: Biology
Personal information: I also have a MS degree in Environmental Toxicology.

Ethnicity: Black

Country of Origin: Bahamas



68. Name: Dianna V. Matthias
Company: Diablo Valley College, Pleasant Hill, CA
Job Title: Instructor of Biology and Oceanography
Area of Study: Biology
Personal information: Ph.D. Northern Arizona University. 13 years teaching experience at the college level. San Ramon Rotary Educator of the Year 1995.


69. Name: Sonali P. Kolhatkar
Company: Infrared Processing and Analysis Center, California Institute for Technology
Job Title: research assistant
Area of Study: Other
Personal information: My interests are in materials physics and medical imaging, specifically magnetic resonance imaging of patients with metallic implants. I work at a children's cancer hospital, and I also teach astronomy labs at a nearby college. I enjoy my work immensely because I feel that I am using my science education to help people: patients receive better medical imaging because of my work and my students realize, hopefully, that science can be fun and exciting and there's no reason to fear math and science.


70. Name: kathryn orvis
Company: University of Wisconsin-Madison
Job Title: Graduate research assistant
Area of Study: Other
Personal information: Bachelor's degree in Botany from Michigan State University, Master's in Plant Breeding and Plant Genetics from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Currently working on PhD in same program. Research involves the health aspects of onions, and its relation to the field of horticulture. Trying to build bridges between agriculture and medicine. Would like to do the same when I am Dr. Orvis! :) Looking for alternative careers with flexibility. Eat your veggies!!!


71. Name: Jody Halterman
Company: Capistrano Unified School District
Job Title: Teacher
Area of Study: Biology
Personal information: I teach 7th grade science in the capistrano unified School district. I am currently working on my Masters in Teaching, Science at California State University, Fullerton. I am conducting research to determine what factors lead to persistence in science for women.


72. Name: Kathleen Farley
Company: Pharmacia and Upjohn
Job Title: Senior Research Chemist
Area of Study: Chemistry
Personal information: I work in the Research division of a large pharmaceutical company in Kalamazoo, MI. I have a M.S. in Chemistry and I am a nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) spectrocopist. Basically, I determine the structure of proteins and potential drugs bound to the proteins by placing the compounds in a large magnetic field.


73. Name: Carolyn M. Primus
Company: Primus Consulting
Job Title:
Area of Study: Other
Personal information: PhD in Materials Science & Engineering, specialty is ceramics


74. Name: Rebecca Boulanger
Company: none
Job Title: student
Area of Study: Other
Personal information: Personal web page: http://ardbeg.astro.utoledo.edu/~karen


75. Name: kathleen farley
Company: No company
Job Title:
Area of Study: Biology
Personal information:


76. Name: Sofia DeFernandez
Company: SRA International/The George Washington University
Job Title: Software Engineer/Doctoral Student
Area of Study: Other
Personal information: B.S. Computer Science, Metropolitan University, PR
M.S. Computer Science, The George Washington University, DC
Ph.D. Student Computer Science, also at GWU

Brownie Girl Scout Troop Leader, Samoyed Owner, Scuba Diver,
Runner


77. Name: Hanna Wagner
Company: Ohio Northern Universtiy
Job Title: Student
Area of Study: Physics
Personal information: I am currently a sophomore at Ohio Northern University. I absolutely love it here and I love the field of Physics. My future goals are graduating from here in two more years wtih a BS in Physics, moving to Arizona (out of the white stuff which will remain unnamed), becoming a high school teacher, becomming a fast pitch softball coach, and continuing my education. In addition to this, I want to help spread the word that it's ok to be a female and be intelligent, especially in the sciences and math.


78. Name: Alison Peck
Company: New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology
Job Title: graduate research assistant
Area of Study: Physics
Personal information: I'm currently a PhD student at New Mexico Tech, and a pre-doctoral fellow at the National Radio Astronomy Observatory.


79. Name: Terri Mengelt
Company: Baxter International
Job Title: Research Assistant II
Area of Study: Other
Personal information: I am an electron microscopist. I have been in the field for almost five years. At Baxter, I look at all types of samples, either biological or material with the help of an electron microscope. My goal now is that I would like to go and get my BSE in broadfield science. I really enjoy science and math and would like to interest todays youth in these subjects.


80. Name: (Dr) Jean S Fleming
Company: University of Otago
Job Title: Senior Lecturer
Area of Study: Biology
Personal information: See http://www.otago.ac.nz/Physiology/Individuals/fleming.htm for research interests

Molecular endocrinology and reproduction


81. Name: Evelyn Boettcher
Company: University of Maryland
Job Title: Graduate Research Assit.
Area of Study: Physics
Personal information:


82. Name: Marlene A. Hilkowitz
Company: Project 2061
Job Title: K-12 Science Education Supervisor
Area of Study: Biology
Personal information:


83. Name: Jessica Beth Rogers
Company: Lubbock High School
Job Title: AP Chemistry Teacher
Area of Study: Chemistry
Personal information: I am teaching pre-AP and AP chemistry at the academic magnet school in Lubbock, Texas. This is an outstanding program with an exceptional pool of students. I am able to accelerate the pacing and the depth of the courses and really challenge the kids.


84. Name: Benedetta B Gigliotti
Company: The Scripps Research Institute
Job Title: Research Technician
Area of Study: Biology
Personal information:


85. Name: April Crommett
Company: The University of Mississippi
Job Title: Graduate Assistant
Area of Study: Other
Personal information: I am a doctoral student in exercise science at the University of Mississippi. I am interested in bariatrics (obesity) and physiological aspects of health.

I got my undergraduate degree from Mississippi State University in 1991 and went on to get my master's from Memphis State University in 1993. I have been working on my Ph.D. since 1996 and hope to finish in the year 2000. One of my interest areas in bariatrics is substrate utilization during resistance training for the purpose of weight control. I hope to contribute to the field of science as a woman by either teaching at a university or doing clinical research.


86. Name: Tracy Jo Litzi
Company: Origene Technologies, Inc.
Job Title: Research Associate
Area of Study: Biology
Personal information:


87. Name: Sunia Lausberg
Company: Westfaelische Wilhelms-Universitaet, Muenster, FRG
Job Title: PhD student - GeoScience - esp. Palaeobotany
Area of Study: Earth and Space sciences
Personal information: 29, female. Working on Permian floras in WSW Germany, special regard to conifers, interested in museology, esp. Museums of Natural History and all other possibilities to connect research with communication.
Interested in women-related topics.


88. Name: Eleanor Vallier-Talbot
Company: National Weather Service
Job Title: Senior Meteorologist/K-12 Education Coordinator
Area of Study: Earth and Space sciences
Personal information: I've been with the NWS for 14 years (in 1999), currently in Charleston, SC, my 4th station. I also worked in Providence, RI; Portland, ME and Boston/Taunton, MA. While stationed in Boston, I developed what became a VERY active School Outreach program. I visited numerous K-12 schools, had countless students in for office tours, and developed a website that has many good resources for students and teachers to use to learn more about the weather. I have recreated this page here in Charleston (see the link above). I am also an author...well, co-author, actually. I wrote a chapter in a book called "Weather-The Nature Company Guides," which was published in April 1996.

I was married to my long time sweetheart, Dean, in 1992. We have no children, but our cats are our "kids"! We have two now...our first is Bogey (9 yrs.). She is a DSH, but looks like a Russian blue with polydactical paws! Our new addition is Charly (7 mos.). He's an orange tabby.

If anyone has any questions about weather in general, or a career in meteorology in particular, please contact me!


89. Name: Diane Webster
Company: Monash University
Job Title: Post Doc
Area of Study: Biology
Personal information: Botany, edible vaccines, viruses


90. Name: Jane Halverson
Company: Herkimer County Community College and G&H Biotec, LLC
Job Title: Instructor, President
Area of Study: Chemistry
Personal information: BS in Chemical Engineering, MS in Environmental Management, future PhD in Environmental Engineering. Married, live in central New York State. Orginally from Australia. DOB is
June 5, 1973. I teach Chemistry and have a company that remediates contaminated soil using microbes and plants.

Love science/engineering, music (all kinds), and the outdoors.


91. Name: Mary Hall Reno
Company: University of Iowa
Job Title: Associate Professor
Area of Study: Physics
Personal information: Theoretical particle physics


92. Name: Shirley Rodgers
Company: Butler County Community College
Job Title: Technical Specialist/Part-time Instructor
Area of Study: Other
Personal information: I teach CADD, Technical Mathematics and Physics in addition to maintaining computer lab.


93. Name: Sharon King
Company: The Mad Science Group
Job Title: Director of Research and Development
Area of Study: Other
Personal information: I am a microbiologist by training but current lead a team of science educators who create fun hands-on inquiry based activities for children in elementary schools all over the world to help spark their interest in science and science careers.


94. Name: Kayla Perryman
Company: No company
Job Title:
Area of Study: Physics
Personal information: Right now I'm in junior high but I have the highest science average in my school. I plan to try and go to MIT when I go to college. I hope to study every part of science I can.


95. Name: Mary Viano-Paulson
Company: Adeza Biomedical
Job Title: Chief Medical Technologist
Area of Study: Medicine
Personal information: Born and raised in Santa Clara, California.
B.S. Micobiology San Jose State University
ASCP Residency Santa Clara Valley Medical Center, San Jose CA
CA State Internship Santa Clara Valley Medical Center
4 years at Stanford Medical Center in Clinical Microbiolgy
Currently at Adeza Biomedical in Uterine Receptivity Research


96. Name: Aileen Erickson
Company: University of Wisconsin-Madison
Job Title: graduate student
Area of Study: Other
Personal information: I am a graduate student in Molecular and Cellular Pharmacology at the University of Wisconsin-Madison


97. Name: Carmen Berg
Company: John G. Diefenbaker H.S.
Job Title: High School Physics Teacher
Area of Study: Physics
Personal information: I am a high school physics and general science teacher in Calgary, Alberta, Canada. I have an honours degree in Biophysics from the University of Toronto and an education degree from the University of Alberta.


98. Name: Geeta Datta
Company: University of Alabama at Birmingham
Job Title: Research Associate
Area of Study: Other
Personal information: I am Ph.D. in Biochemistry from India and have recently started my career a second time in the USA. I am interested in Research and wish to make a contribution in the Health Sciences.


99. Name: De Rimma Bektursunova
Company: The Queen's University of Belfast
Job Title: postdoctoral research fellow
Area of Study: Physics
Personal information:


100. Name: Kathy Gallardo
Company: University of California, Irvine
Job Title: MD/PhD student
Area of Study: Medicine
Personal information: I have a PhD in Pharmacology, and I am finishing my MD. I am interested in Developmental Neuroscience, and plan to practice medicine in the field of Pediatric Neurology; I hope to carry out research as well.


101. Name: Joan King, Ph.D.
Company: Beyond Success
Job Title: Professor Emeritus now Personal/Professional Coach & Workshop Leader
Area of Study: Biology
Personal information: After 20 years at Tufts University School of Medicine in Boston, MA, as a researcher in Neuroendocrinology, I took early
retirement to support other women in academia, women executives
and women in transition. I am a Personal/Professional Coach who uses the telephone to work with clients world wide. Check my website for a coaching interview and a list of workshops.


102. Name: Cynthia Nau Cornelissen
Company: Virginia Commonwealth University
Job Title: Assistant Professor
Area of Study: Medicine
Personal information:


103. Name: Janice M. Hicks
Company: Georgetown University
Job Title: Associate Professor
Area of Study: Chemistry
Personal information: My work involves the use of lasers to study surfaces of crystals such as ice, and also biological surfaces. My group has studied the reactions that occur on ice particles in clouds that lead to polar stratospheric ozone depletion. We have also developed new methods for studying chirality (handedness) of biological surfaces such as proteins embedded in membranes. In addition, we are developing new laser methods for the study of biological cells, especially brain cell receptors.

I am an alum of Bryn Mawr College (which I recommend heartily to women interested in science); my PhD is from Columbia University and I also did postdoctoral study at the University of Pennsylvania. I was a Clare Boothe Luce Assistant Professor at Georgetown University, and after being promoted to Associate Professor, I did a sabbatical in a neuroscience lab at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine. I teach courses in physical chemistry. Other interests include environmental science.


104. Name: Susan Elena Pickett
Company: University of Tokyo
Job Title: Research Associate
Area of Study: Other
Personal information:


105. Name: Pamela Pippin Vaughan
Company: USEPA-NERL
Job Title: Research Associate
Area of Study: Chemistry
Personal information: B.S., Chemistry, University of Flordia
Ph.D., Analytical Chemistry,University of Maryland
Currently a NRC research associate at the EPA in Athens, GA.


106. Name: Carmen Masanneck
Company: C.& O. Vogt Institute for Brain Research
Job Title: PHD Student
Area of Study: Biology
Personal information: I studied biology in Germany, Bielefeld, went to Switzerland, Zürich for 1 Year, and started my PhD here in neuroscience.
I´m interested in Brain Research, Brain Mapping, Learning and Memory; Feminism, and Issues concerning the Internet, Computer and Communication.


107. Name: Lucille Tamm
Company: US Bureau of Land Management
Job Title: Senior Staff Geologist
Area of Study: Earth and Space sciences
Personal information: B.S. in Physics, Carnegie Mellon University, 1991
Ph.D. in Physics, University of Maryland, 1997

I am currently the Program Coordinator for a residential program for undergraduate women (at GW@MVC) interested in science, engineering, and technology called Women and Power Leadership Program - Women in Science and Technology.

My thesis work was on a solar neutrino experiment: Super-Kamiokande. With my Robert R. McCormick Postdoctoral Fellowship at the University of Chicago, I worked in the field of gamma-ray astronomy.

I am interested in supporting women in science and improving science education (especially for young kids). I am married, have a baby boy, and have dealt with finding two scientific jobs in the same city.


108. Name: Cathy L. Neeley
Company: East Kentucky Center For Sci., Math., & Tech.
Job Title: Outreach Program Specialist
Area of Study: Earth and Space sciences
Personal information: BS. Geology - Eastern Kentucky University
Geologist - US Geological Survey, Reston VA.
Environmental & Geological educator - The Earth Mobile, Richmond, KY
Presently conduct school and community programs, teacher workshops on Aerospace, Agriculture, Air Quality, Astronomy, Chemistry, Energy, Environment, Geology, Marine Science, Physical Science, Plant Science, Science & Culture, Solid Waste, Water Quality, Weather, & Wildlife.


109. Name: HEIDY GUADALUPE RIVASPLATA MALDONADO
Company: UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL DE TRUJILLO-PERU
Job Title: BIOLOGIST-MICROBIOLOGIST
Area of Study: Biology
Personal information: I AM A YOUNG SCIENTIST.I AM PERUVIAN AND I AM 25 YEARS OLD.
I HAD FINISHED MY STUDIES IN 1 997.I HAD PRACTICED AT SUGAR INSTITUTE OF PERU,AT SOUTHERN PERU COPPER CORPORATION,AT MY UNIVERSITY.ACTUALLY I'M TRYING TO APPLY AT SOME SCOLARSHIP OR BECA,BUT IT IS SO DIFFICULT.I'M LOOKING FOR A JOB,BUT THERE IS NO PLACE TO A MICROBIOLOGIST IN MY COUNTRY.WORKERS USUALLY WANT AN EXPERIENCED PERSON,BUT IF NO ONE WANTS TO GIVE US THE OPPORTUNITY HOW CAN I GET ONE???
I'M INTERESTED ABOUT ENVIRONMENTAL BIOTECHNOLOGY,FOOD SCIENCE RELATED TO MY CAREER.


110. Name: Mirjana Milic
Company: Institute of Nuclear Sciences "Vinca",Belgrade, Yugoslavia
Job Title: research assistant
Area of Study: Physics
Personal information:


111. Name: Alice Deutsch
Company: Bioscreen Inc.
Job Title: President
Area of Study: Medicine
Personal information: I started up my own company which is in diagnostics of male fertility and is about 12 years old.I am active in Association for Women in Science (AWIS).I have a Ph.D. in Biology, 1977 from City University of New York. I am Contributing Editor on Web Sites for the AWIS Magazine.I live and work in New York City.


112. Name: Vera Brudny
Company: Universidad de Buenos Aires
Job Title: Professor
Area of Study: Physics
Personal information: I am proffesor at the Physics Department of the University
of Bs As. I am presently spending a sabbatical at the Universidad del Estado de Morelos, in Mexico. My research
interest include condensed matter (non linear optical properties
of matter) and electromagnetic scattering.


113. Name: Karla de Souza Torres
Company: Universidade Federal de Viçosa
Job Title:
Area of Study: Other
Personal information: I'm student of Science Computer in Brazil and I'm interested to know better the Woman In Science. If it's possible send me a mail please.
Thanks.
Karla



114. Name: Nicole Jackson
Company: Mansfield University of Pennsylvania
Job Title: Graduate Assistant
Area of Study: Earth and Space sciences
Personal information: Education:
I received my B.S.E. in May of 1999. I am certified to teach Earth & Space and General Science. I am currently pusuing a master's degree while I look for a teaching position.

Experience:
As an undergaduate I had many wonderful opportunities. I helped develop the web pages for the Geology and Geography classes on campus and helped to create the university's first on-line course, Environmental Geology. I was also able to make presentations at regional and national meetings of the National Science Teachers Association(NSTA.)

Personal:
My husband, my two sons and I operate a family dairy farm.


115. Name: Maria Conrelisse
Company: University Nijmegen The Netherlands
Job Title: teacher trainer and research chemistry education
Area of Study: Chemistry
Personal information: I am a techer trainer and in service trainer. I do research about chemistry textbooks. I have always been busy in de Dutch Women and Science Organisation.
I like to email with someone from the Unites States, withh the same interests.


116. Name: Barbara E. Tobey
Company: Central Michigan University
Job Title: Student
Area of Study: Earth and Space sciences
Personal information: I am a senior with several majors and minors, but my focus is in meteorology. I plan to attend graduate school through the Ph. D. level and follow a career in research. For 10 weeks in the summer of 1999, I had the opportunity to work at the Oklahoma Weather Center under the mentorship of David Stensrud at the National Severe Storms Laboratory (NSSL), conducting research in numerical weather prediction. I'm still unsure of the area of meteorology that I wish to focus on, but at this point in my career, that is probably healthy.

On a personal note, I am happily married to a wonderful and understanding man who will follow me wherever I need to go in my career and who is understanding enough to be comfortable with me taking 10 weeks of the summer a thousand miles away from home. He supports me in all possible respects as the current career student that I have to be.

I have many interests and hobbies including and besides weather. As of this summer, I am an enthusiastic storm chaser. I write creatively--poems and stories. I sing when I have the opportunity, and remain active in music through Sigma Alpha Iota, International Music Fraternity for Women.

For more information and details about me, please see my website: http://www.angelfire.com/mi/cyndertobey


117. Name: Laura Hlinak
Company: Capital High School
Job Title: science teacher
Area of Study: Biology
Personal information: I am a science teacher at Capital HS in Santa Fe, New Mexico.
I am teaching physical science and biology here, and previously taught chemistry and biology in California. Before I went into teacher, I was a genetics researcher and biochemist.


118. Name: Carol A. Larson
Company: University of Nebraska Medical Center
Job Title: Assistant Professor, Division of Medical Technology
Area of Study: Medicine
Personal information: BS - Medical Technology (Nebraska Methodist Hospital - affiliated with Univ of Nebr Medical Center)
MSEd - Instructional Technology (Univ of Nebr at Kearney)

I worked as a Medical Technologist for 12.5 years at Good Samaritan Hospital in Kearney, NE before becoming an instructor in UNMC's Med Tech program. My role now is to teach students how to become Medical Technologists (aka Clinical Laboratory Scientists).

I enjoy computers, finding information on the Internet related to my profession, reading, hiking, and music.


119. Name: Margarida Maria Knobbe
Company: Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Norte - Brasil
Job Title: The new intelligentsia
Area of Study: Other
Personal information:


120. Name: Joyce C. Miller
Company: Mount Vernon Nazarene Collge
Job Title: Assistant Professor
Area of Study: Chemistry
Personal information:


121. Name: Michelle Mac
Company: Lakeland College
Job Title: Assistant Professor of Chemistry and Physics
Area of Study: Chemistry
Personal information: I am currently in my second year of teaching at a small liberal arts college in northeastern Wisconsin and love every minute of it!!

I did my Ph.D. in physical chemistry at Michigan State (1996) and was an NIH post doctoral fellow at Columbia University (1996-1998). My current research interests include the use of electron magnetic resonance techniques to understand the structure of radicals involved in biological electron transfer reactions.


122. Name: Erin Pias
Company: LSUMC-S
Job Title: Ph.D Student
Area of Study: Other
Personal information: Ph.D. Candidate in the Department of Molecular and Cellular Physiology


123. Name: Dr. Nancy J. Pelaez
Company: Department of Biological Sciences
Job Title: Assistant Professor
Area of Study: Biology
Personal information: Dr. Pelaez has recently assumed a position as Assistant Professor in the CSUF Biology Department. She previously taught Biology and Chemistry for the Indianapolis Public Schools and she developed and directed the scope and sequence for K-12 science education at Colegio Los Nogales in Bogota, Colombia. She is hoping to find ways to link teachers with scientists to develop more rigorous and rewarding science education programs. She received a B.S. in Biology from Newcomb College of Tulane University in 1976, a k-12 single subject teaching credential in both Life Science and Physical Science from Mills College in 1989 and a Ph.D. in Physiology and Biophysics with a research focus on vascular muscle physiology from Indiana University School of Medicine in 1999. She teaches classes in Biology for Pre-service teachers and Physiology at CSUF.


124. Name: Kathleen Schmidt
Company: Department of Energy
Job Title: Physical Scientist
Area of Study: Biology
Personal information: I currently work in the Office of Environment, Safety and Health at the Department of Energy. Prior to joining the Department of Energy, I worked as a senior enviromental scientist and as a supervisor on projects associated with the National Envrionmental Policy Act for the Army and Air Force.

I received my B.S. in 1971 in Biology, and my M.A. in 1976 in Biological Sciences.


125. Name: Elizabeth Fabel
Company: University of Minnesota
Job Title: Scientist
Area of Study: Biology
Personal information: MA in ecology. Over 8 years lab research in molecular biology and immunology.


126. Name: Manijeh Nikakhtar,M.D.,M.P.H.
Company: SAT Health center (Substance Abstinence Treatment)
Job Title: Medical Director,CEO
Area of Study: Medicine
Personal information: Please go to:
WWW.SATHEALTHCENTER.COM


127. Name: Kristina Havas
Company: The University of Dundee, Scotland
Job Title: Ph.D. student
Area of Study: Biology
Personal information: I am a graduate student studying the mechanisms of chromatin remodeling and the possible links to cancer


128. Name: Marge Hevezi
Company: Semiconductor
Job Title: Process Engineer
Area of Study: Other
Personal information: Semiconductor process engineer working in field for 9 years. Masters degree in chemical engineering.


129. Name: NOWBUTH Manta Devi Dr. (Miss)
Company: University of Mauritius
Job Title: Lecturer
Area of Study: Earth and Space sciences
Personal information: Research work currently being carried out in the field of groundwater resources, hydrology and Geographical Information Systems. Actively involved in UNESCO funded projects (IHP) dealing with water resources in developing countries.


130. Name: Kim Swanson
Company: Oregon State University
Job Title: Graduate Student
Area of Study: Other
Personal information: I am currently finishing my M.S. in Bioresource Engineering, with an emphasis in groundwater engineering


131. Name: Brooke Myers
Company: University of Denver
Job Title: graduate student (GRA)
Area of Study: Physics
Personal information: I received my BS in Physics from Le Moyne College (Syracuse, NY) in 1997. Currently, I am working on a dual Master's degree in Physics and Materials Science.

My current thesis research is in the field of Atmospheric Physics at the University of Denver. I am studying water vapor in the atmosphere using infrared spectroscopy in the long wavelengths. This research will further our knowledge of water vapor's important role in the atmospheric radiation budget.

My next thesis project (also at the University of Denver) will deal with micrometeoroid impacts on the ISS (International Space Station), the space shuttle, and artificial satellites in space orbit. I will be performing fracture analysis and other tests simulating micrometeoroid debris impacts on spacecraft. This information will be used for the design and implementation of a permanent patch for such impacts.

I plan on earning my PhD., but am not sure in which field at this time. I would like to study the space sciences/engineering further and some day work at a NASA center. I plan to be involved directly with future space mission projects and hopefully, the proposed mission to Mars. Since childhood I have maintained and fostered the dream of becoming a payload or mission specialist.


132. Name: Katrina Machusick
Company: John Carroll University
Job Title: student
Area of Study: Physics
Personal information: I am majoring in both interdisciplinary physics and biology. I worked in the physics department for my professor, as a research assistant. If there is anyone out there that help me out finding a summer internship in some aspect of bioengineering or biophysics, that would be great


133. Name: Maria Wolters
Company: Universität Bonn
Job Title: junior lecturer
Area of Study: Other
Personal information: I'm a phonetician, which means that I work right at
the interface between the sciences and the humanities.
Phonetics can be both very physics- and biology-oriented
(the study of speech sounds, their production and perception)
or very linguistics-oriented (the sound system of languages).


134. Name: Ms Angela Wallace
Company: Cooperative Research Centre for Discovery of Genes for Common Human Diseases
Job Title: Education Officer
Area of Study: Biology
Personal information: I am 24yo living in Brisbane, Australia. Upon graduating high school in 1992 I accepted a scholarship with the CSIRO. Over the last few years I have had exoerience in a number of areas of science, but only recently have found my true area of interest - Science Communication. I would love to hear from other women in Science, particularly in the Medical Research, Genetics or Education/COmmunication fields !!


135. Name: Jessica M. Cote
Company: US Geological Survey
Job Title: Ocean Engineer
Area of Study: Other
Personal information: B.S. Mechanical Engineering, Tufts University, 1993
M.S. Civil/Ocean Engineering, Oregon State University, 1999


136. Name: Shelley Arvin
Company: Indiana University of Bloomington, Indiana
Job Title: Graduate Student in Information Science
Area of Study: Other
Personal information: I am very interested in the plight of women in science today and the social and political regard it receives from the general public. I have an undergraduate degree in biology, which I received after dropping out of school (not flunking out) and then returning. Because of this, I consider myself an "expert" :)
on women leaving or losing interest in the sciences. I am the current local Chairman of AWIS and am studying for my MIS because I am interested in the availability and evaluation of information and evidence. I would encourage this site to attract those in "soft" sciences as well. Maybe they will be the better for it.


137. Name: Britt Rosendahl Hansen
Company: University of Copenhagen
Job Title: Student
Area of Study: Physics
Personal information:


138. Name: Diana Markley
Company: Eastern Michigan University and Wayne-Westland Schools
Job Title: Science Educator
Area of Study: Physics
Personal information: I am a Science educator of both Middle School students and Elementary and Middle School teachers. I teach 8th grade Science full time, and I also teach General Science classes for educators part-time through Eastern Michigan University. I have earned a Master's degree in General Science, and am currently involved in continuing my education through post-graduate work.


139. Name: Shelley Epperson
Company: Mattoon High School
Job Title: honors Biology teacher
Area of Study: Biology
Personal information: Teaching high school for 17 years. I have been teaching freshmen in Biology 1, Zoology, and advanced human genetics/microbiology


140. Name: Barbara Eddy
Company: William X. Wall Experiment Station
Job Title: Chemist III
Area of Study: Chemistry
Personal information:


141. Name: Neivi Andrade González
Company: Instituto Tecnológico de Saltillo
Job Title: M.S. Student
Area of Study: Other
Personal information: I am studying a Master degree in Materials Science.
I have been working in Aluminum.
I do research for FORD.
I am going to study a Ph.D. in Metallurgy next year (September 2001).


142. Name: Neivi Andrade González
Company: Instituto Tecnológico de Saltillo (MEXICO)
Job Title: Full time student (Master in Materials Science)
Area of Study: Other
Personal information: B.S. in Materials Science
Candidate for Ph.D. studies in Metallurgy
Work experience in Aluminum Alloys
Work in R&D in Non ferrous alloys (Al in solid state)
Experience in Teaching English as a Foreign Language
Awarded as the best student of Mexico in Science during (94-99)
Memeber of ASM/TMS/AFS
Managment Studies


143. Name: Carrie Turunen
Company: McGill University
Job Title: PhD candidate
Area of Study: Biology
Personal information: BES U Waterloo 1997
MSc University of Joensuu 2000
Current research - Coastal wetlands and climate change


144. Name: Beronda Montgomery
Company: University of California, Davis
Job Title: Graduate Researcher
Area of Study: Biology
Personal information:


145. Name: Annaliese Franz
Company: University of California, Irvine
Job Title: Graduate Researcher
Area of Study: Chemistry
Personal information:


146. Name: Marina Tzvetkova
Company: Animus Association
Job Title: assistant in prevention and education
Area of Study: Other
Personal information: Interested in gender, reace and ethnicity issues, research and education;
Admitted at the doctoral program in Sociology - urban sociology
Work: prevention of trafficking in women in Central and Eastern Europe;


147. Name: Dawn C.P. Ambrose
Company: TamilNadu Agricultural University
Job Title: Scientist
Area of Study: Other
Personal information: I've done my masters in Agrl.Engg.and presently a scientist under Indian Council of Agrl.Research.


148. Name: Vanessa Thomas
Company: BrassRing Inc.
Job Title: Assistant Editor
Area of Study: Earth and Space sciences
Personal information: I am a science educator and science journalist. I work full-time as Assistant Editor for Careers magazines, but I also work part-time as a Teaching Assistant at the Boston Museum of Science and I freelance in science journalism. I have a bachelor's degree from MIT in science journalism and planetary science, and I have held various positions in astronomy, planetary science, journalism, and publishing.


149. Name: Jenny F. de la Hoz
Company: Monterey Bay Aquarium
Job Title: Education Specialist
Area of Study: Biology
Personal information:


150. Name: Joy L. Frestedt
Company: Orphan Medical, Inc.
Job Title: Manager of Busulfex Clinical Development
Area of Study: Biology
Personal information: Doctorate from the Department of Laboratory Medicine and Pathology in the University of Minnesota Medical School studying infant leukemia and the genes and proteins involved in carcinogenesis. Currently exploring a career change from bench scientist (after 20 years at the bench in clinical laboratory sciences) to management and consulting especially in the areas of clinical medicine and financial consulting.


151. Name: Dr. Tasha N. Sims
Company: University of Alerta
Job Title: Post-Doc Fellow
Area of Study: Medicine
Personal information: BSc Cellular Molecular Biology, U of Calgary, Alberta, Canada
PhD in Immunology, University of Alberta, Canada
PDF in Immunology, Washington Univ. in St. Louis, MO

I love immunology and I am also a long-distance runner. I ballroom dance in my spare time. I encourage my students to think about science everyday, whether or not it is a career choice for them.


152. Name: Sutripta Sarkar
Company: NIRJAFT,ICAR
Job Title: Research Fellow
Area of Study: Biology
Personal information: I'm a charming little girl from India doing my research on enzymes produced by fungi used for upgrading Jute.I'm much interested in my field and I plan to make it big oneday.


153. Name: magda rodriguez
Company: colorado state university
Job Title:
Area of Study: Earth and Space sciences
Personal information:


154. Name: Sharon Henss
Company: University of Texas
Job Title: Undergraduate Student
Area of Study: Other
Personal information: I am a student at UT, graduating in December 2000 with a degree in botany. I am involved in many on-campus activities, including Women In Science (Past President) and SURGe (science undergraduate research group - secretary). I am planning on applying to graduate school for fall 2001, to study plant-people interactions or some other form of plant science. Last spring I was an intern at the Lady Bird Johnson Wildflower Center, and would like to eventually have a job in either a similar organization, a botanical garden, or a university. I would love to hear from fellow women in the sciences!


155. Name: Sheena Lao
Company: Assumption College (Makati City, Philippines)
Job Title: student
Area of Study: Other
Personal information: I am 16 years old and a freshman in Assumption College in Makati city, Philippines taking up Bachelor of Science in Commerce Major in Management.


156. Name: Karin Posthuma
Company: Horticulture Research International
Job Title: Ph.D. Student
Area of Study: Biology
Personal information: I am a molecular plant virologist. At the moment I am still working on the detection of a rhabdovirus, strawberry crinkle virus in strawberry plants.


157. Name: Mary Jane Owens
Company: Valspar Corporation
Job Title: R&D chemist
Area of Study: Chemistry
Personal information: Chemistry BS in 1995, MS in 1997 from Illinois State University. Joined Valspar, a coatings manufacturer, in August of 1997 as a chemist in polymer development. Major area of involvement is emulsion polymerization.


158. Name: Crystal Campbell
Company: Mayo High School for Math, Science and Technology
Job Title: Full time high school student
Area of Study: Other
Personal information:


159. Name: Karen M. Frank
Company: University of Chicago
Job Title: Assistant Professor
Area of Study: Biology
Personal information:


160. Name: Cathie Zurek
Company: Trinity International University
Job Title: Pre-service Biology and Chemistry Teacher
Area of Study: Biology
Personal information: I am a single mother of one, 23, and pursuing a career in biology and chemistry education at the high school level. I believe that anyone can be all that they want to be if they are given a chance.


161. Name: Susan Davis Young
Company: MDL Information Systems
Job Title: scientific data analyst
Area of Study: Chemistry
Personal information: After 10 years of work as an analytical chemist and 4 years as a pharmaceutical compounder, I've currently hung up my lab coat and am working for a great software company writing material safety data sheets (MSDS).


162. Name: Omokaro Obire
Company: Rivers State University of Science & Technology
Job Title: Senior Lecturer
Area of Study: Biology
Personal information: Graduated in 1987 with a Ph.D Industrial/Environmental Microbiology from the University of Benin, Benin City, Nigeria.Currently, a Senior Lecturer at the Rivers State University of Science and Technology, Port Harcourt, Nigeria. My current area of research involves the study of how the process of bioremediation can be used to cleanup petroleum contaminated soil, Water & Sediments in the Oil Producing Region of Nigeria ( The Niger Delta).


163. Name: Lombardi Tiziana
Company: University of Pisa (Italy)
Job Title: Researcher and Teacher in Botany
Area of Study: Biology
Personal information: My field researches are: Plant Biology and Systematic, Seed Germination and environmental conditions, salt and heavy metal stress on growth of wild species, ecology of salt marshes.


164. Name: Doris Gruber
Company: university of vienna - department of geography
Job Title: University Lecturer
Area of Study: Earth and Space sciences
Personal information: I'm a geographer working and teaching mainly in the fields of geographic information science, modelling and physical geography. In the moment I work on my PHD, which will include the use of NewMedia in geography.


165. Name: Joanne Kulinski
Company: University of Pennsylvania
Job Title: Research Specialist
Area of Study: Biology
Personal information:


166. Name: Tanvi Akkad
Company: BBN Technologies
Job Title: Software Developer
Area of Study: Other
Personal information: I graduated in May 2000 with a Bachelors of Science in Computer Systems Engineering from University of Massachusetts, Amherst. I currently work in the Mobile Network Systems Group at BBN Technologies as a software developer. I am also pursuing a Masters of Science Degree in Electrical and Computer Engineering at Columbia University, NY, USA. I plan to specialize in Wireless Networks.


167. Name: Robyn Toole
Company: Purdue University
Job Title: student
Area of Study: Physics
Personal information: I am currently a junior and I am seeking information on any research assistance positions that may be available.


168. Name: Jennifer Coats
Company: Chevron USA
Job Title: Geologist
Area of Study: Earth and Space sciences
Personal information: My background is in stratigraphy and organic geochemistry. I work in the petroleum industry.


169. Name: Annelyn Torres-Reveron
Company: Ponce School of Medicine
Job Title: Graduate Student
Area of Study: Biology
Personal information: In the laboratory we are interested in the neural circuts that mediate extinction of conditioned fear.


170. Name: retard
Company: No company
Job Title:
Area of Study: Biology
Personal information:


171. Name: Rachel Borgatti
Company: Smithsonian Environmental Research Center
Job Title: Head Biological Technician
Area of Study: Biology
Personal information: B.S. in Environmental Science from Antioch College, Yellow Springs, OH

I am currently working a project studying the effect of increased CO2 on plants.


172. Name: Dr.Valsala .S.
Company: Annamalai University
Job Title: Reader in Zoology
Area of Study: Biology
Personal information: Interested in -areas as herbal medicines-effect on mammalian systems-Contraceptive plant drugs on learning memmory forgetting,antioxidants ,anticholesterol drugs.Other areas are
women activities,distance education and science .Possess Masters degrees in science and Education and Doctoral degree in Mammalian Reproductive Endocrinology.Aged 43 years.Wish to continue teaching and research in science


173. Name: Tanja Juffernholz
Company: FSU Jena, Germany; VU Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Job Title: Graduate student
Area of Study: Biology
Personal information: I am a graduate student in biology. Doing research in ecotoxicolgy, working with collembolla species at the VU Amsterdam, but studied biology in Germany before.


174. Name: Licia Verde
Company: Princeton University
Job Title: research associate
Area of Study: Other
Personal information: I have just finished my PhD from the University of Edinburgh (UK) and started my forst postdoc in Princeton (NJ). My area of research is astrophysics and in particular cosmology.


175. Name: Mirna Daouk
Company: MIT
Job Title: Graduate Student
Area of Study: Other
Personal information:


176. Name: Dr. Terrie L. Kielborn
Company: State University of West Georgia
Job Title: Assistant Professor of Middle Grades Science
Area of Study: Earth and Space sciences
Personal information: My PhD is in Science Education from Florida State University, Tallahassee, FL. My dissertation is on how field-based science investigations influence sixth graders' perceptions of science and scientists. I currently teach middle and secondary science methods courses at West Georgia.
I taught for 20 years in Florida as an elementary teacher and as a middle grades science teacher. I was Florida's Outstanding Middle School Science Teacher in 1997.
I have had the best of both worlds - experience as a science teacher and experience as a scientist. Two of my experiences as a scientist were conducted at the Silver River State Park in Ocala, FL. First, I conducted field research on cogangrass, an exotic grass which takes over native grasses, and second, I located trees in the park which had evidence of the Southern Pine Beetle. My third experience was working in the summer of 1997 with Dr. Edward Phlips, professor of research in phycology and aqatic microbiology at the University of Florida, Gainesville, FL. During this third experience I truly felt a transformation of teacher to scientist/learner. I was able to conduct my own mini research project on the effects of salinity on two types of phytoplankton in Florida - Skeletonema costatum and Synechococcus. Because of this experience, I believe that students should be involved in authentic field-based science investigations to make science meaningful.


177. Name: Magda Lahodova, Dr. Ing.
Company: Nuclear Research Institute Rez, Czech republic
Job Title: research worker
Area of Study: Other
Personal information: I work as a rsearch worker in a branche of the computer modelling of nuclear fuel behaviour.


178. Name: Cornelia Denz
Company: Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität Münster
Job Title: Prof.
Area of Study: Physics
Personal information: Professor in Applied Physics, main research fields:
Nonlinear Optics, nonlinear physics, optical data storage and information processing

short curriculum vitae:
1988: Diploma thesis in wave mixing
1992: PhD thesis in optical neural networks, Darmstadt University of Technology
2000: tenure in optical pattern formation, Darmstadt University of Technology
2001: Professor at the Institute of Applied Physics, University of Muenster


179. Name: Elsa Salazar Cade
Company: University of Lethbridge
Job Title: lecturer in Education dept.
Area of Study: Biology
Personal information: For over 20 years, I have worked with my husband on the Texas field cricket and co-published the work a few years ago. I also compiled an insect collection for Agriculture Canada of insects in the Niagara vineyards. I taught science education at the junior high level in Buffalo, New York and co-taught science methods education course for three years at S.U.N.Y Buffalo. In 1995, I was selected as one of the top ten science teachers in the U.S. by NSTA. I also have worked on National Science Foundation projects bringing scientists and educators together in the design of science education courses. We have moved to Alberta due to my husband getting the presidency of the University of Lethbridge. As the President's wife, I have some limits placed on my employment, but work on the the web as much as possible. I have continued to be involved in science education at the U. of L. as a lecturer and supervisor of student teachers. I also have maintained a website promoting the study of insects in the classroom called Crickets in the Classroom. http://members.attcanada.ca/~ecade/cricket_n_classroom.html I am a consultant to various students, teachers and parents who write me with questions about insects and behavior. I also answer questions for the Mad Scientist web site.
I am very interested in subject of women in science especially Hispanic woman in science. I am a member of AWIS. I am planning a web page on Hispanic women in Science as there doesn't seem to be much on the web on the subject. So If you are a Hispanic woman in science write me!


180. Name: Ibolya Gyorosi
Company: Tubingen, Germany
Job Title:
Area of Study: Earth and Space sciences
Personal information: Finishing my second thesis on environmental science in Germany.


181. Name: Kristy Kallback-Rose
Company: Miami University of Ohio
Job Title: Graduate Student
Area of Study: Physics
Personal information: I am entering physics a bit late in life, I will begin graduate studies in Physics this fall (August 2001) at age 29. For 6 years, after finishing an undergraduate degree in Japanese, I worked in IT. I enjoyed the problem solving aspect of the work however, I had a lingering "itch" to study science that went back to at least junior high school. I finally decided to take a chance and complete a second undergraduate degree in physics (May 2001). I look forward to continuing my studies at the graduate level and expanding my understanding of physics.


182. Name: Pat Mackin
Company: EOA Scientific Systems, Inc.
Job Title: Director of Curriculum and Development, Geologist
Area of Study: Earth and Space sciences
Personal information: I am a geologist with a new media twist. I work at an educational software development company that creates new media science resources (CDs and web sites) for students grades 6-12. My job is to think up, design, and produce engaging inquiry-based activities that students want to use to learn science. I work with a team of talented and committed programmers, artists, animators, and subject matter experts, and together we have produced wonderful educational resources that are sold across North America. This is a great job! On a personal note, I also write and create kits for students to discover the world around them.

If anyone has a science activity they would like to share - I would be delighted to talk to you. Just drop me an email.


183. Name: Cynthia Post-McCallion
Company: Notre Dame High School, Belmont California
Job Title: chemistry teacher
Area of Study: Chemistry
Personal information: Trying to make chemistry curriculum more interesting and inspire the girls to appreciate science


184. Name: Katrina Miller
Company: Jonesboro High School / Clayton County Public Schools
Job Title: Science Teacher
Area of Study: Chemistry
Personal information:


185. Name: Terri Mengelt
Company: Baxter Healthcare
Job Title: Research Associate
Area of Study: Other
Personal information: I have an Associates Degree in Electron Microscopy. I was in the first graduating class in 1994 from the program in Wisconsin. I am interested in continuing my education in biology. I use both a Scanning Electron Microscope and Transmission Electron Microscope. I enjoy my work because not only do I look at biological samples but also material samples and combinations of the two. I would like to get more young people,especially women, interested in science and enjoy giving tours to high school students throughout the school year. I think that it encourages young people to search out different aspects of science that they may not have thought about.


186. Name: Radha Kandula
Company: IMCB
Job Title: Research officer
Area of Study: Biology
Personal information: I'm a bio-programmer in the bioinformatics group
at the institute of Molecular and Cell Biology at the national
university of Singapore,Singapore.


187. Name: Soledad Abner
Company: Housatonic Community College
Job Title:
Area of Study: Other
Personal information: I am a freshman majoring in computer science.


188. Name: Angela Kay Bailey
Company: Shelby County Schools
Job Title: Biology Teacher
Area of Study: Biology
Personal information:


189. Name: Claire Micallef
Company: University of Malta
Job Title: Student
Area of Study: Other
Personal information: I am a B.Ed. 3rd year student at the University of Malta stadying to become a teacher. I am specialising in science education. As a dissertation, i am conducting a research upon "science career choice and experience of science at school" This research aims to discover the degree of influence schooling has on a student when s/he comes to choose a career in science and which factors influence him/her most.


190. Name: Jennifer Cipollini
Company: Seton Hill College
Job Title: unemployed
Area of Study: Chemistry
Personal information: I am a recent graduate with a BS in biochemistry. I have two daughters, a husband, four cats and one dog. I am seriously considering entering into a teaching certification program for secondary education. I have a strong desire to promote science to children, especially girls. I feel most females have not had the opportunity for success in science due to a lack of self esteem in their abilities.


191. Name: Michelle Weiss
Company: St. Thomas University
Job Title: Student
Area of Study: Biology
Personal information: I am a Biology student interested in Medicine. Eventually I will be going on to Med. School.


192. Name: Dra. Martha Helena Ayora Camara
Company: Instituto Tecnologico de Merida
Job Title: Dra in Chemical sciences.
Area of Study: Chemistry
Personal information: I like to recieve information about new advances in chemical engineering.
I teach reactors and separation process in chemistry in the Tecnology Merida Institute in Merida Yucatan, Mexico.
Level degree in chemical ingeneering.


193. Name: Athena Fannin
Company: Antioch College
Job Title:
Area of Study: Other
Personal information: I am finishing my undergrad degree in a self-designed major called bioenergy. I am currently trying to complete my senior project in The role of human breastmilk in inducing apotosis in tumor cells. I would like to find employment in science but I am pregnant and fear discrimination. I hope to one day optain an MD PhD. Personal areas of interest are transferance of ectopic pregnancies into the uterus to produce viable pregnancies, cancer, molecular biology, biochemistry, and the fields of energies in our bodies taken from a small particle and quantum mechanics perspective.


194. Name: Marcy Prchal
Company: University of Illinois
Job Title: archaeologist
Area of Study: Other
Personal information: 26, married, 2 dogs, archaeologist for University of Illinois' Public Service Archaeology Program, planning to start Masters program in Archaeology at University of Glasgow, Scotland in Fall of 2002


195. Name: Catherine Gautier
Company: University of California Santa Barbara
Job Title: Professor and Director
Area of Study: Earth and Space sciences
Personal information:


196. Name: Ivana Fuckalot
Company: Boston College
Job Title: Chemistry Teacher
Area of Study: Chemistry
Personal information: My favorite color is orange and I like to have wild sex with women.


197. Name: Peggi Lee Badten
Company: City of Aberdeen, South Dakota Wastewater Treatment Plant
Job Title: Microbiologist/Water Quality Chemist
Area of Study: Biology
Personal information: B.S. Microbiology, South Dakota State University.

I have worked in the environmental field for 11 years. My job involves performing water quality analyses and microbial identifications on the unit processes at the Wastewater Treatment Plant and on the stream to which the plant discharges. I also enforce environmental regulations (local ordinances and the Clean Water Act)as they pertain to the industries that discharge to the Wastewater Treatment System. I have been involved in assisting the EPA in the criminal prosection of an industry which repeatedly violated the Clean Water Act.

The best thing about my job is that it is far from routine! I may spend one day looking through the microscope and the next day I am testifying in a Federal criminal court proceeding.


198. Name: Nicola Wallis
Company: Astex technology
Job Title: Group Leader
Area of Study: Biology
Personal information:


199. Name: Latha Poonamallee
Company: Case Western Reserve University
Job Title: student
Area of Study: Biology
Personal information:


200. Name: Erin Bank
Company: University of Rochester
Job Title: Undergrad student
Area of Study: Biology
Personal information: I'm a junior majoring in biochemistry. I don't really know what I want to do after college yet. My dream job would be somewhere by the ocean, researching a little and playing a little =)
I participated in the LSSURP program at the University of Minnesota last summer. This was a great opportunity to see what lab research is like: I recommend this or a similar research program to anyone! Go to http://www.nsf.gov/home/crssprgm/reu/reulist.htm if you're interested!
In addition to spending hours studying biochem, I find time to compete on the varsity track and field team as a pole vaulter! I also play the piano and love spending time with my friends and boyfriend!


201. Name: Naomi Harley
Company: New York University School of Medicine
Job Title: Research Professor
Area of Study: Other
Personal information: researcher in natural and artificial radiation and radioactivity, radation carcinogenesis, and radiation and radioactivity measurement


202. Name: elise temple
Company: Cornell University
Job Title: Assistant Professor
Area of Study: Biology
Personal information: I study brain devlopment and brain function in children using brain imaging.


203. Name: Karen Lynn Noyes
Company: Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Job Title: graduate student
Area of Study: Chemistry
Personal information: I have a bachelor's degree in nuclear engineering from MIT
and I am currently working on a PhD, also from MIT. I love
what I do and everyone in my lab is dedicated to bringing
more young scientists into our field.


204. Name: Raeghan Graessle
Company: Loyola University Chicago
Job Title: student
Area of Study: Physics
Personal information: I am actually a student in education, learning to become a
high school physics teacher. I hold an MS in physics from
University of Illinois (UIUC) and my BS is from MIT. I hope to
teach high school physics somewhere in the Chicago area.


205. Name: Selabe Gloria
Company: medical university of southern africa
Job Title: post-graduate student
Area of Study: Other
Personal information: post-graduate student doing MSc in microbiology
address: box 211 medunsa 0204
cell: 082 514 2697


206. Name: Sheeba Arnold
Company: Brookhaven National Laboratory
Job Title: Research Associate
Area of Study: Medicine
Personal information: I am currently working towards my Ph.D in Biomedical Engineering. The project is on functional MRI.


207. Name: Angela M. Baldo
Company: USDA-ARS Center for Agricultural Bioinformatics
Job Title: Computational Biologist
Area of Study: Biology
Personal information: BS, MS Biology; PHD Genetics.

Plus lots of extra math and computer programming.

Interests: Structure, function, and evolution of the genome.



208. Name: Eva Czerwiec
Company: Marine Biological Laboratory
Job Title: Staff Scientist
Area of Study: Biology
Personal information: Engineer in Biotechnology, Ph. D. in Applied Biological Sciences
Research: Study of gamma-glutamyl carboxylase in marine animals. Use of marine animals as a model system for the mammalian system (see : http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2001/08/0807_wireseamed2.html)


209. Name: Frances Rena Bahjat
Company: University of Florida
Job Title: Graduate Assistant
Area of Study: Biology
Personal information:


210. Name: anamarija dzidic
Company: Technical University München
Job Title: Ph D student
Area of Study: Biology
Personal information:


211. Name: Gina McShan, Ph.D.
Company: Hobson Associates
Job Title: Biotechnology and Pharmaceutical Recruiter
Area of Study: Biology
Personal information: Ph.D. 1996 Texas A&M Health Science Center
Postdoctoral Research: Harvard Medical School (Signal Transduction/Tyrosine Kinase/EGF Receptors)
Fox Chase Cancer Center (Colon Cancer/Tumor Suppressor LKB1)
After taking 2 years off to take care of my son, I re-entered science as a recruiter, applying my expertise in molecular and cancer biology to making placements of scientists in the biotechnology and pharmaceutical industries.


212. Name: Laura Castelnoble
Company: University of Technology, Sydney
Job Title: Master student
Area of Study: Medicine
Personal information: 2nd year Master student doing research at the Hypertension and Stroke Research Laboratories in NSW, Australia.


213. Name: Kitrina Luce-Carlson
Company: University of Missouri, Columbia
Job Title: PhD Student
Area of Study: Biology
Personal information: I am in my last year of my PhD program. I recently had my first child.


214. Name: Monica
Company: ICMAB
Job Title: Researcher
Area of Study: Chemistry
Personal information:


215. Name: Stephanie Brooks
Company: Cal Poly Pomona
Job Title: Student
Area of Study: Other
Personal information:


216. Name: maria stauroulaki
Company: University of Thessaly
Job Title: student
Area of Study: Physics
Personal information:


217. Name: Deborah J. Clifton
Company: Department of modern Languages / University of Louisiana at Lafayette
Job Title: Adjunct Instructor
Area of Study: Other
Personal information: Ph.D. Francophone Studies, May 2000
Research on Type II Diabetes. Interests in social scienes, communication, medical anthropology, linguistic anthropology and information sciences


218. Name: Dimitria Stefanopoulos
Company: AtheroGenics, Inc.
Job Title: Associate Scientist
Area of Study: Biology
Personal information: I currently work in the pharmaceutical/biotech field in Alpharetta, Georgia. I graduated from Roger Williams University (Bristol, RI) in 1998 and have a BS degree in Biology/Pre Vet Med. I previously attended Long Island University (Southampton, NY) as a marine biology major.


219. Name: Tracey K. Graham
Company: Dana Elementary School
Job Title: 5th Grade Teacher
Area of Study: Earth and Space sciences
Personal information: I am a 5th grade science teacher. I challenge my students to go beyond the typical elementary science curriculum. Students learn about all of the sciences in my classroom. We are involved in the Invention Convention, Science Fair, and COSI Science Classes. We take many field trips in order to conduct "field" experiments.


220. Name: Dorri Breher
Company: Universal Weather & Aviation, Inc./ImpactWeather
Job Title: Staff Meteorologist
Area of Study: Earth and Space sciences
Personal information: I work for a private company who provides weather forecasts and information to customers all over the world. Most of my forecasting has dealt with marine and tropical meteorology.

I have been fascinated with weather and the outdoors ever since I can remember. I consider myself one of the luckiest people to have a job that doesn't feel like work.


221. Name: a
Company: s
Job Title: s
Area of Study: Chemistry
Personal information: s


222. Name: Allie Ford
Company: Monash University
Job Title: Post Doctoral Researcher
Area of Study: Physics
Personal information: I did my BSc in Chemistry and Astrophysics at Keele University in the UK, followed by a PhD in Astrophysics. I did a one year postdoc at The Open University in the UK, and now I'm working at Monash University as the observational astronomy specialist.


223. Name: Cornelia Ryan
Company: Little Scientists of Metro Richmond
Job Title: President
Area of Study: Physics
Personal information: After stints as a computer consultant and a chemist, I chose to start an educational consulting firm that would encourage children to study science. I purchased Little Scientists of Metro Richmond and have been running the company, creating and writng lessons and maintaining its website. It's a labor of love!


224. Name: Elizabeth Harmon
Company: Arizona State University
Job Title: Graduate Student
Area of Study: Other
Personal information: I am a graduate student in the field of paleoanthropology. I study early human evolution by studying fossils, particularly the postcranial fossils of the species Australopithecus afarensis. I also participate in fossil hunting expeditions in Ethiopia.


225. Name: Chasity Malatesta
Company: West Salem High School
Job Title: Anatomy and Physiology/ Biology Instructor
Area of Study: Biology
Personal information: Cross Country Coach
Multicultrual Coordinator


226. Name: Francesca Matteucci
Company: Trieste
Job Title: Full professor
Area of Study: Physics
Personal information: i am full professor of stellar physics,department of astronomy,university of Trieste


227. Name: Siham Sghir
Company: FSC
Job Title: intern
Area of Study: Other
Personal information: I'm a computer science major


228. Name: Vineeta Singh
Company: University of California at San Francisco
Job Title: Assistant Clinical Professor
Area of Study: Medicine
Personal information: I was born in 1966 in India in a lower middle class family. I am married to a software engineer and a proud mother of three daughters ages 11, 6 and 5.


229. Name: Lula Rosso
Company: nyu
Job Title: graduate student
Area of Study: Chemistry
Personal information:


230. Name: jaimealmonte
Company: Columbia I
Job Title: www.columbia.edu
Area of Study: research technician
Personal information:


231. Name: rosanna
Company: No company
Job Title:
Area of Study: Biology
Personal information: 15 yaers old


232. Name: Vera V. Gesite
Company: East Side Cadet Academy
Job Title: Science Teacher
Area of Study: Biology
Personal information: I am an Exchange Teacher from the Philippines where I taught Biology for 10 years. This is my second year of teaching here in the United States.


233. Name: Jana Ziegelheimova
Company: Czech Technical University in Prague
Job Title: PhD course
Area of Study: Other
Personal information: At the moment I am studying PhD course at the Faculty of Mechanical Engineering the Department of Materials Engineering at the Czech Technical University in Prague. In September 2003 I will conclude my 3rd year of study and I would like to graduate from PhD course. I am focused on new steel and aluminium materials in automotive industry. Two months ago I passed a doctoral state examination in following subjects: metallurgy, application of materials and experimental methods of material’s structure studying.


234. Name: Hala Sultan Saif Al-Easa
Company: Qatar University
Job Title: Dr.
Area of Study: Chemistry
Personal information:


235. Name: Angela R. Amarillo-S
Company: University of Kentucky
Job Title: Graduate Student
Area of Study: Biology
Personal information:


236. Name: Chinwe Udechukwu
Company: The Shell Petroleum Development Company of Nigeria Limited
Job Title: Technical Assistant
Area of Study: Physics
Personal information: I have a B.Sc. in Physcis and Industrial Physics and i'm interested in furthering to M.Sc. Medical Physics or Information Technology.


237. Name: Kristen Kroll, PhD
Company: Washington University School of Medicine
Job Title: Assistant Professor
Area of Study: Biology
Personal information: I am a developmental biologist, working on body axis patterning of vertebrate embryos. We are particularly interested in the molecular pathways that establish the brain and spinal cord during very early embryonic development. For more information about me or my lab, see my web site: //molecool.wustl.edu/krolllab/

My husband is a research scientist working for a small biotechnology company and we have two sons (currently 4 yrs. and 6 mos. old).


238. Name: Ann A. Kiessling, PhD
Company: Bedford Research Foundation, Inc.
Job Title: Director
Area of Study: Biology
Personal information:


239. Name: Anna Nagurney
Company: University of Massachusetts at Amherst
Job Title: John F. Smith Memorial Professor
Area of Study: Other
Personal information: Professor Anna Nagurney has devoted her career to education surrounding engineering and management. She is the author or co-author of 8 books including "Sustainable Transportation Networks" and "Network Economics: A Variational Economic Approach." She has published over 100 papers and serves as the editor of the book series "New Dimensions in Networks." She is also the Director of the Virtual center for Supernetworks (http://supernet.som.umass.edu) at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst.


240. Name: Angela Clow
Company: University of Westminster
Job Title: Professor of Psychophysiology
Area of Study: Other
Personal information: I am married with 2 sons


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