Sue V. Rosser, Former Dean of Ivan Allen College will be honored through a special event, hosted by Ivan Allen College Dean Jacqueline J. Royster and Don P. Giddens, Dean of the College of Engineering.

The event will highlight Rosser’s research and leadership in attracting and retaining women in science, technology, and engineering.

Reception - 3:30pm
Lecture - 4:00pm

"Gendered Innovations in Science and Engineering,"
By Londa Schiebinger, the John L. Hinds Professor of Science and Director of the Gendered Innovations in Science, Medicine, and Engineering Project in the Department of History at Stanford University.

Abstract:

In this talk I set out three distinct levels for analyzing issues concerning women and gender in science. These are:  1) efforts to increase the number of women in science; 2) programs to remove bias and barriers from the institutions of science; 3) analyses of sex and gender in knowledge or research results. I will treat each aspect in this analysis but give special attention to the third level—the knowledge level, or what I call Gendered Innovations. “Gendered Innovations” means employing methods of sex and gender analysis as a resource to create new knowledge.  I will present several concrete examples of how gender analysis can profoundly enhance excellence in science and engineering.

I will introduce the Stanford Gendered Innovations Project where we are developing state-of-the-art “Methods of Sex and Gender Analysis” for basic and applied research in science, medicine, and engineering. Gendered innovations—fueled by sophisticated gender methods—stimulate the creation of new gender-responsible science and technology, and by doing so enhance the lives of both men and women around the world.