DPE Weekly Newsletter

November 4, 2009 Edition

Cornell & DPE News

WHCU Morning Newswatch Podcasts Cornell Engineering--Oct 27, 2009 More women and minorities are entering Cornell's school of engineering. Interview with Mark Spencer, director of engineering admissions.

The Cornell Society of Women Engineers received a Gold level award for Outstanding Collegiate Section at their 2009 annual conference! http://www.news.cornell.edu/stories/Oct09/SWEaward.html

Cornell Engineering hits milestone putting it on track for reaching diversity goals! http://www.news.cornell.edu/stories/Oct09/EngrDiversity.html

Cornell Engineering is #4 on Hispanic Business magazine's 2009 list of Top 10 Engineering Schools for Hispanic students!  http://www.hispanicbusiness.com/news/2009/9/4/2009_top_10_engineering_schools_for.htm

Learn about the "Secret Life" of Material Science & Engineering Professor Rich Robinson, as profiled in Nova's "Secret Life of Scientists", a web-only series that shows what happens when the lab coats come off. http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/secretlife/

An Innovation Generation grant from the Motorola Foundation supports the CATALYST Academy, a one-week residential program engaging high school students in research and opportunities in engineering. http://www.news.cornell.edu/stories/June09/MotorolaCATALYST.html

'Why Do Diversity?' Perspectives from Rick Allmendinger, Associate Dean for Diversity & Faculty Development and Professor of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences. http://www.news.cornell.edu/stories/Feb09/AllmendingerPersp.html

Diversity Programs in Engineering celebrates students and faculty at our annual awards banquet. 'Slowly but surely the face of engineering is changing. While still underrepresented in most engineering fields, women, African-Americans and Hispanics are signing up in increasing numbers. Cornell recently celebrated their accomplishments, as well as those of students, faculty and staff who work to attract and support minorities in engineering.' http://www.news.cornell.edu/stories/May09/DiversityEng.re.html

A senior profile of 2009 graduate Sarah Villarreal, a Biological Engineering major from Corpus Christi, Texas. 'I come from a single-mother household. The day I got my financial aid letter, I cried. I knew that I could actually attend here like I wanted.' http://www.news.cornell.edu/stories/May09/sp.Villarreal.html

Diversity Programs in Engineering and the CU ADVANCE Center team up to present the EWISE (Empowering Women in Science & Engineering) Conference. 'EWISE was one step in addressing the underrepresentation of women in science and engineering fields at Cornell, organizers said. While there has been progress in leveling the playing field, EWISE organizers said they wanted the event to forge connections among women in such fields -- from faculty members to undergraduates' http://www.news.cornell.edu/stories/June07/ewise.conference.aj.html

Articles & Resources

"National Science Foundation - Video Profiles of Engineers" - Learn what it is really like to be an engineer and what engineers actually do.

"Engineer Your Life" - A guide to Engineering for high school girls and video profiles of engineers across several fields.

"The Shriver Report" - A Woman's Nation Changes Everything
This report describes how a woman’s nation changes everything about how we live and work today. Now for the first time in our nation’s history, women are half of all U.S. workers and mothers are the primary breadwinners or co-breadwinners in nearly two-thirds of American families. This is a dramatic shift from just a generation ago (in 1967 women made up only one-third of all workers). It changes how women spend their days and has a ripple effect that reverberates throughout our nation. It fundamentally changes how we all work and live, not just women but also their families, their co-workers, their bosses, their faith institutions, and their communities.

"In 500 Words or Less" - Point Made Films takes you on the journey to college with four very different young people (including one that enrolls at Cornell University) as they spend their last year with their families trying to figure out who they are and who they want to be...In 500 Words or Less.

"International Journal of Gender, Science, and Technology" - GST focuses on gender issues in and of science and technology, including engineering, construction and the built environment, and aims to explore the intersections of policy, practice and research.

"Retention by Design" - Raymond B. Landis, Dean Emeritus of Engineering at California State University at Los Angeles, writes on achieving excellence in minority engineering education.

"Making a Case for Diversity in STEM Fields" - Daryl E. Chubin and Shirley M. Malcom of the American Association for the Advancement of Science write make a case for diversity in STEM fields. From Inside Higher Ed, 6 October 2008

"Minding the Student Client" - If we want more minority PhD's in the sciences, we need to start listening to minority graduate students, writes Daryl E. Chubin. From Inside Higher Ed, 13 February 2006

"Cornell Continues 140 Year Commitment to Engineering and Technology" - Diversity/Careers Minority College Issue features Cornell University! From Diversity/Careers magazine, Winter2005/Spring2006

"Policy Forum: More Women in Science" - Science Magazine article discusses the status of Women in Science. From Science magazine, 19 August 2005