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ABSTRACT NIX, ANISHA MAHESH. Investigating
ABSTRACT NIX, ANISHA MAHESH. Investigating the Links Among Stereotypes, Self-Image, and Career Commitment to the Sciences. (Under the direction of Mary B. Wyer). Women have historically been underrepresented in the science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) fields. One reason for this continued underrepresentation might be existing stereotypes of STEM fields, as well as the lack of historical role models within these fields. A longitudinal analysis conducted over a one- semester period in an introductory Chemistry course was conducted to explore the effects of a curriculum intervention that introduced the contributions of women to chemistry on students’ stereotypes about STEM fields, self perceptions, and their commitment to STEM fields. Results indicate that stereotypes about scientists in this sample include masculine, feminine, and neutral characteristics and that there was some change in stereotypes after the intervention. Furthermore, women in the sample had higher career commitment to the sciences than men and women who were STEM majors had a better fit between stereotypes and self perceptions than did women who were not STEM majors. Investigating the Links Among Stereotypes, Self-Image, and Career Commitment to the Sciences by Anisha Mahesh Nix A thesis submitted to the Graduate Faculty of North Carolina State University in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Science Psychology Raleigh, North Carolina 2009 APPROVED BY: _______________________________ ______________________________ Dennis O. Gray Shevaun Neupert ________________________________ Mary B. Wyer Chair of Advisory Committee DEDICATION This work is dedicated to my family. To my mother, whose support and guidance have been invaluable in my education and my life. -
June 16, 1958, NIH Record, Vol. X, No. 12
NIK memmd DEPARTMENT OF June 16,1958, Vol. X, No. 12 PUBLIC HEALTH SERVICE HEALTH. EDUCATION, AND WELFARE NATIONAL INSTITUTES OF HEALTH DR. BURNEY ELECTED OSCAR" AWARDEDNCI COLLECTS RECORDS PRESIDENT OF W.H.O. OF CANCER PATIENTS Dr. Leroy E. Burney, Surgeon Case histories of thousands of General, PHS, was unanimously cancer patients are being compiled elected president of the World Health by NCI to provide a statistical basis Organization at its 11th annual as for evaluating cancer treatments and sembly in Minneapolis May 30. to learn more about rare forms of Dr. Burney, who is 51, began pre the disease. siding immediately after his elec Reports on 500,000 patients are tion. He is the chief U. S. delegate being submitted to NCI this year by to WHO. approximately 200 hospitals A commissioned officer in PHS throughout the country. The Cancer since 1932, Dr. Burney was Deputy Chemotherapy National Service Chief of the Bureau of State Services Center, NCI, is collecting the re before he became Surgeon General ports and will receive information on in August 1956. 50,000 new patients a year. When correlated, the data will provide NCI scientists with a basis Science Teachers Gain for comparing the results of chemo Dr. C. J. Van Slyke poses with his surprise Research Experience award, the "Van Oscar." (See story, page 4.) therapy with radiation and surgery in treating cancer. In NIH Laboratories Contracts totaling $223,812 have Seventeen high school science NIAMD COLLABORATES IN been awarded to 10 large medical teachers are gaining practical re STUDY OF RARE DISEASE institutions and five central regis search experience at NIH this sum tries. -
Letter from the President, January 2012 ALOHA! Phytochemistry and Related Sub-Dis- Ciplines Forward
PSNA News Phytochemical Society of North America Sociedad Fitoquímica de América del Norte Société Phytochimique de L’Amerique du Nord Volume 50, Number 1 January 2012 Letter from the President, January 2012 ALOHA! phytochemistry and related sub-dis- ciplines forward. It is my pleasure Hello to all continuing members to serve as president of the Society and to the wealth of new members during its 50th anniversary year. that joined at our 50th Anniversa- I first joined the PSNA in 1985 ry meeting this past December in and attended the conference in Pa- Kona, Hawaii. This was a significant cific Grove, CA (Asilomar) which milestone for our group that started was also my first professional con- out as the Plant Phenolics Group of ference. It was a wonderful experi- North America in 1961 and changed ence and I was pleased with the re- its name to the Phytochemical So- ception of my short talk. Including ciety of North America on January 1985, I have attended 20 of the 27 1, 1967. PSNA has a rich history of meetings and am always impressed hosting excellent meetings cover- with the science, the networking op- ing all aspects related to plant con- portunities, and the attention paid to stituents and for moving the field of younger members. ... continues on page 4 In this issue: Getting ready for for the 2012 meeting, review of the 50th! This is the printed version of the PSNA Newsletter. The web PDF version can be downloaded from the website: www.psna-online.org. PSNA News Page 1 January 2012 PSNA News The PSNA EXECUTIVES January 2012 Phytochemical President Cecilia A. -
MEDICINE Edition
in Focus Winter 2006/07 MEDICINE edition THIS ISSUE 3 New Dean Looks to the Future, Builds on the Past 4 McGill Luminary: Dr. Eric Fombonne 5 The McGill Medical Simulation Welcoming Centre opens its doors 6 The McGill Cancer Centre and the VP Health Affairs and New Cancer Pavilion 8 McGill’s International Masters for Dean Richard I. Levin Health Leadership 9 Dr. Fuks Returns to the Classroom Faculty Update 10 News from Development and Alumni Relations Canada Post Corporation 11 Homecoming Publications Mail Agreement 40613662 FACULTY OF MEDICINE NEWSLETTER Winter 2006/07 Editor Michèle Joanisse Executive Director, Development Faculty of Medicine Co-Editor and Coordinator France Cardin Communications Officer, Faculty of Medicine Copy Editor / Editorial Advisor Helen Dyer Judy Walgreen Communications Officer, Office of Development, Alumni and University Relations here are very few institutions that have survived the history of 1,000 years. Universities and their schools of medicine are among them, at once describing our talents, tenacity Writers T and the valuation of our work by society. To be successful and conserve that extraordinary Bronwyn Chester value, to simultaneously guard history and invent the future, we must change constantly. Jennifer Westlake It was with a sense of profound honor and great enthusiasm that, on September 1, 2006, Contributors I became the 26th Dean of the Faculty of Medicine. McGill is Canada’s leading medical Melanie Derynck research university. It is known internationally for its strength in medical education and Melanie Lane biomedical sciences and, because Montreal, Quebec and Canada have unique strengths, Annette Mahon we are positioned to maintain our international leadership in medical advances and discovery into the future. -
Major Contracts Signed by Wagdi Habashi
0 N C 0 R D I A,S ~PORT VOL. 2I NOVEMBE R 7, I996 N ° 5 Major contracts signed by Wagdi Habashi a gas turbine engine (for Pratt & tant to Pratt & Whitney for 19 BY SYLVAIN COMEAU Whitney). years, will develop software with the rofessor W agdi Habashi scored For CAE Electronics, Habashi following applications: in-flight icing P a research coup last month, will develop software with which the performance of engines, aero-elastic signing research contracts with the company can create a flight simula ity (combining the efforts of struc Montreal offices of two high-tech tor to train helicopter pilots to land tural and fluid engineers), conjugate giants. The contracts, with CAE on navy ships. heat transfer (for cooling blades and Electronics and Pratt & Whitney, "Landing on these ships can be other engine components), and aero provide . one-year funding of extremely dangerous," he explained. acoustics (for reducing the noise lev $100,000 and $155,000, respectively. "Helicopter pilots have to deal with els of engines). "It's quite a nice coincidence that winds blowing from varying direc "This program will be multidisci two projects, which were discussed tions at a range of speeds, causing plinary," he said. "Every time you and negotiated separately, were vortices to form behind the ships' change something in an engine, it signed on the same day," H abashi superstructures. They have difficulty affects something else. For example, said las t week. N egotiations for deciding when and how to land. if a blade is made to curve some way both had been carried on through That takes a lot of training." CAE to reduce the noise, that may affect C oncordia's Industrial Liaison will construct a simulator to fulfill a its strength, and it may break. -
Fonds 3 Cabinet Du Recteur / Office of the Rector - Txt
AUO – FONDS 3 CABINET DU RECTEUR / OFFICE OF THE RECTOR - TXT ARCHIVES DE L’UNIVERSITÉ D’OTTAWA / ARCHIVES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF OTTAWA INSTRUMENT DE RECHERCHE / FINDING AID FONDS 3 CABINET DU RECTEUR / OFFICE OF THE RECTOR Inventaire préliminaire des documents textuels - Textual records preliminary inventory 1 Le document est sujet à des mises à jour périodiques. Veuillez consulter un archiviste. / This document is subject to periodic updates. Please consult with an archivist. Ce document appartient aux AUO. Aucune reproduction ne sera permise sans son consentement. / This document is the property of the AUO. No reproduction will be accepted without its consent. AUO – FONDS 3 CABINET DU RECTEUR / OFFICE OF THE RECTOR - TXT TABLE DES MATIÈRES – TABLE OF CONTENTS NOTES AUX CHERCHEURS / NOTE TO RESEARCHERS .......................................... 3 NOTE GÉNÉRALE / GENERAL NOTE ........................................................................... 4 LISTE DES DOCUMENTS / LIST OF RECORDS .......................................................... 5 2 Le document est sujet à des mises à jour périodiques. Veuillez consulter un archiviste. / This document is subject to periodic updates. Please consult with an archivist. Ce document appartient aux AUO. Aucune reproduction ne sera permise sans son consentement. / This document is the property of the AUO. No reproduction will be accepted without its consent. AUO – FONDS 3 CABINET DU RECTEUR / OFFICE OF THE RECTOR - TXT NOTE AUX CHERCHEURS Note sur le classement et la description: Ce fonds d’archives n’est pas classé. L’inventaire préliminaire qui suit contient la liste des titres des dossiers tels que reçus de l’unité administrative ou scolaire ainsi que les individus qui les ont créés. Note sur la langue des documents : Les titres des dossiers sont dans la langue choisie par l’unité ou l’individu pour nommer ces dossiers. -
Capital Campaign Exceeds $77 Million
G.oncordia 's urs ort VOL. 24, N ° 3 OCTOBER 7, 1999 http://pr.concordia.ca/ctr/ An enthusiastic crowd raises dollars for scholars The Houses of Loyola and Williams celebrate their union page 6 page 7 Capital Campaign exceeds $77 million oncordia's Campaign for a $76,825,599 - and then, dramati 16-piece band led by Music Profes University's 25th anniversary year. nications. CNew Millennium aimed high cally, it was revealed that an sor Andrew Homzy. It included Our current preoccupation with One of the highlights of Home but reached even higher, · far anonymous $250,000 gift had sent the premiere of a piece written by space spilled over into Homecom coming was the awarding of the excee9-ing the goal of $55 million. pledges soaring past the $77-mil Homzy for Concordia's 25th birth ing. Visitors on Saturday were Loyola Medal, one of the Universi The campaign wound up last lion mark. (To see some of the day and the centenary of Duke given a tour of both campuses by ty's highest honours, to l. Jacques Friday in a flourish of jazzy brass at more recent gifts and what they Ellington's birth. well-informed student guides, and Menard, known to some Montreal the Concordia Concert Hall, soon will go toward, please see page 5). It has been a busy week for Con they were given a historical map of ers these days as Mr. Baseball, but to be officially named after Oscar The closing ceremonies on Fri cordians past and present, as they the University, hot off the presses, to most Concordians as a tireless Peterson. -
Chair's Report
Department of Chemistry Fall 2006 | Volume 25 Chair’s Report The response to the first newsletter was over- whelming. Some 57 alumni wrote back including Telling the Story – Staying in Touch news from Madeleine Reines Jacobs (BA’68) who 25 Years of Chemistry Department began working as a science writer for the Smith- Newsletters sonian News Service, Robert Brasted (BS ’38), who was directing the General Chemistry pro- his issue of the GW Chemistry gram at the University of Minnesota, and G. Lee Robert Brasted Prof. King Department Newsletter marks the Southard (MS ’62), who was president of his own Ttwenty-fifth consecutive departmen- research laboratories in New Brunswick, NJ. The 1981 newsletter tal newsletter we’ve published. Its primary also described the recruitment of Prof. Akbar Montaser as our new goal has always been to assist in remaining connected to our analytical chemist. alumni. It was in 1980 that co-editors, Robert Vincent and Theodore Perros set out to “inform you of our current activities, 1982 told of the beginning phases of the renovation of Corcoran to trace the wanderings of our graduates, and to report where they Hall and plans for an alumni reunion. A complete renovation, are and what they are doing.” Bob and Ted had no idea whether bringing the building up to code and adding a means of egress from their goal of informing and being informed would succeed when the large teaching labs, ultimately took place in 1987. Among the they set out on to tell the marvelous story of this department and its reports from our alumni, we learned that Joel Selbin (BS’53) was alumni, but some 25 years later I think it is fair to say it was a win- serving as Director of Graduate Studies at LSU and James Pavlik ning effort. -
April 16, 1968, NIH Record, Vol. XX, No. 8
ecor U . 5. DEPARTMENT OF April 16, 1968 N ATIONAL INSTITUTES OF H EA L TH H EALfH. EDU CATION. AND WELFARE Vol. XX, No. 8 P U B L IC HEALTH SERVICE 2 New NIH Components, Five NIH Employees Honored at April 11 Dr. S. Spiegelman BHM and NLM, to Add Departmental Annual Awards Ceremony Dr. Carl M . Eklund, who recently retired from the National linstitute Is Dyer Lecturer Over 1,000 Employees of Allergy and I nfectious DiS<'ases' Rocky Mountain Laboratory, was 'l'he Bureau of Health Manpow awarded the Distinguished Service Medal at the DREW Annual Awards Here April 24 er , one of the two new components Ce1·emony, April 11. assigned to NIH under the April DI'. Eklund was honored fol' Dr. Sol Spiegelman, University 1 reot·ganization of DHEW health "outstanding research in arbivirol Dr. Camerino Appointed of Illinois microbiologist who 3 activities by Secretary-designate ogy and pioneer investigations of years ago demonstrated in t he test Wilbur J. Cohen, will add 713 full slow viral infections." The award, NIAMD Branch Chief tube how a viral nucleic acid repli t ime and 189 other than permanent the highest De Dr. G. Donald Whedon, Director cates itself, will deliver the 17th emnloyees to NIH rolls. partmental honor of the National Institute of Arth,-i annual Dyer Lectuxe on April 24. The Bureau was established by for Commissioned His lecture, "Test-tube Studies the then Secretary, John W. Gard Officers, was pre tis and Metabolic Diseases, recently announced the appointment of Dr. of a Self-Duplicating RNA l'llole ner, on J.muary 1, 1967. -
Cancer Research
@ @\ CANCER RESEARCH VOLUME 18 SEPTEMBER 1958 NUMBER 8 Tissue Culture in Cancer Chemotherapy Screening* ERICH HIRSCHBERG (Institute of Cancer Research and Department of Biochemistry, Columbia University Collegeof Physicians and Surgeens, New York 8@,N.Y.) The sponsorship of this Symposium represents on a secure basis and the availability of trans the first formal joint venture of the Tissue Culture plantable tumors facilitated the first attempts Association and the American Association for Can to develop systematic approaches to cancer chemo cer Research. As these two groups meet together therapy. today to appraise each other's problems and The year 1907 was an important one in both accomplishments, it is appropriate to recall that fields of investigation. Paul Ehrlich (@6) laid the tissue culture and experimental cancer research foundations of modern chemotherapy in his Har had their beginnings at about the same time and ben Lectures in London; Ross Harrison (40) made have developed over the years in close chronologi tissue culture a practical tool by explanting ner cal parallel and with increasing mutual interaction. vous tissues in a simple assembly and observing The history of both of these fields dates back their development in isolation. By 1910 and 1911, a little more than two generations, to the 1880's.' Alexis Carrel and Montrose T. Burrows (16, 17) During that decade, many attempts were made had started to maintain chick embryo fibroblasts to grow tissues or cells outside the body, as continuously in tissue culture and were cultivating illustrated by the work of Wilhelm Roux, who tumors in vitro; cancer chemotherapy also entered in 1885 achieved the isolation and maintenance a period of intense activity following the reports of the medullary plate of the chick embryo in of August von Wassermann and his associates warm saline solution (cf. -
AUTUMN 2003 MEDICINE Edition
in Focus AUTUMN 2003 MEDICINE edition THIS ISSUE 3 Health(y) Associations 4 740 Dr. Penfield Opening 5 McGill Luminary: The McGill Cancer Centre: Dr. Phil Gold 6 The McGill Cancer Centre: 25 Years! 25 Years of Discovery 8 Student Driven: The McGill Journal of Medicine 9 Faculty Updates Canada Post 10 News from Development Corporation Publications and Alumni Relations Mail Agreement 40613662 11 The Class of ’63 Scholarship FACULTY OF MEDICINE Dean of the Faculty of Medicine, NEWSLETTER Abraham Fuks Autumn 2003 Editor Nadine Saumure Co-Editor Patrick McDonagh Writer Photo: Nadine Saumure Patrick McDonagh Contributors Dear Graduates and friends, Scot DeJong Nadine Saumure n this issue of the Faculty of Medicine newsletter, you will read about many of our latest research successes and activities. The McGill Cancer Centre celebrates Design and Editorial Advisor Iits 25th anniversary, and Dr. Phil Gold, an esteemed member of the Faculty, Helen Dyer, is featured as our McGill Medical Luminary. Associate Dean Robert MacKenzie Communications Associate, highlights the broadening of the concept of health research in our Faculty, McGill Development and and throughout Canada, by noting the work of colleagues in the areas of research Alumni Relations related directly to human diseases. The Innovation Centre at 740 Dr. Penfield was officially opened in September. Layout This initiative, made possible by a partnership that unites the provincial government, McGill Instructional the federal government, the City of Montreal, Génome Québec, our hospital net- Communications Centre work and private donors, is an example of ways in which institutions and individuals can combine to achieve extraordinary goals. -
The Collecting Net VOL
CHEMICAL MEDICAU S. SCIENTIFIC PERIODICALS ANDBOOKS_ rrvwmfmmmmmm iRfli^iB^nwwa ! ' ? 9 ? • « ? ? ? ? VOL. 1. NO. 1 WOODS HOLE, MASS., WEDNESDAY, JULY 21,1926 TEN CfeNTS ACUSHNET'S BOATS LIVING CONDITIONS FOR SAVE FREIGHTER'S CREW LABORATORY WORKERS Coal Laden Meteor, Ashore AOZOTORP The completion of the new ^with similar aims were welcomed. brick laboratory, with adequate , vv naiever seemed Off Block island In High necessary to library, and splendid facilities further the development of bet- Sea, Sinks To Bottom If hunting is classed as one and service for a large group of ter opportunities for workers in In 15 Minutes of the sports, then the sportiest investiators, supplemented by the laboratory was done with place at M. B. L. is the Proto- the considerable plant which had sacrifice of time and effort in zoology Lab., for the hunt is on. already been built up, has finally ithose days of meager income. On Sunday, July 11, unknown On June 29th, the class of '19 brought about a state of basic The work came first. Comforts to most of our scientific inhabit- was introduced to what Prof. stability which assures the fu- of living, even some necessities ants. Woods Hole witnessed the Gary N. Calkins, the Director, ture efficiency of the laboratory. of the cities were lacking. It rescue of a shipwrecked crew. termed as the "Beginning of It has all been a gradual, de- was easiest to persuade some At 11:30 in the morning the six weeks of fun". In the main termined upbuilding by a devot- Woods Hole resident to give you Acushnet, at dock here, picked the course seems to consist of a ed group which has grown larger a room in her home.