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Professor Mimi Koehl
University of California Berkeley
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Professor Mimi Koehl will lead an informal discussion about the career paths women scientists follow, comparing notes about the challenges we all face. She will discuss various approaches that have helped her and her colleagues meet those challenges over the course of their careers. She will stress the importance of having mentors and mentoring others, and will explain how small groups of women scientists can help each other figure out ways to solve the problems that arise in their work and in balancing family duties with careers. Professor Koehl has been meeting with such a group of women scientists for many years, and what they have learned from problem-solving together is described in a book: “Every Other Thursday”, by Ellen Daniell (Yale University Press).
This event is part of the Li Ka Shing Foundation Women in Science Distinguished Speaker Series established at University of California, Berkeley in 2007.
About the Li Ka Shing Foundation:
For almost three decades, the Li Ka Shing Foundation has sought to enhance the impact of its philanthropy through two strategic objectives- to nurture a culture of giving and to foster creativity, constructive engagement, and sustainability. Education and medicine form the key areas of work for the Li Ka Shing Foundation. Shantou University is a cornerstone project of the Li Ka Shing Foundation. It is uniquely the only public university that is supported by private funds and its mission is to engineer education
reform and to promote global learning in China. The Li Ka Shing Foundation and other charities established by Mr. Li Ka Shing have supported grants, sponsorships, and commitments of nearly HK$10 billion.
The Li Ka Shing Foundation Women in Science Distinguished Speaker Series at UC Berkeley was established to create academic exchanges in science and foster collaboration between women scientists in the United State and China.
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| Bio: |
Mimi Koehl is the Robert and Virginia Gill Professor in the Department of Integrative Biology at the University of California, Berkeley. She is a member of the National Academy of Sciences and of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and she is a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. Professor Koehl has won many accolades for her research including a Presidential Young Investigator Award, a Guggenheim Fellowship, a MacArthur “genius grant”, the Borelli Award (American Society of Biomechanics, for “outstanding career accomplishment”), and the Rachel Carson Award (American Geophysical Union).
She earned her Ph.D. in Zoology from Duke University, and after postdoctoral work at Friday Harbor Laboratories (University of Washington) and in England (University of York), she was on the faculty at Brown University before moving to Berkeley. She has also been a Visiting Scholar at Oxford University (UK) and a Visiting Professor at Universitat Basel (Switzerland). Professor Koehl is the heroine of a children’s book (Nature’s Machines) that is part of the National Academy of Sciences’ series “Women’s Adventures in Science”.
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| Date: |
18 Sept 2008, Thu
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Unfortunately this seminar has had to be postponed. Further announcement and fresh arrangements will be made in due course. |
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