Volume 6-Winter 1999

30th Anniversary Celebration of Affirmative Action
Recommitment to Diversity at HMS/HSDM

A panel on Diversity in Research Careers: Looking Ahead is scheduled for March 4, 1999 from 3:00 to 5:00 p.m. in the Carl Walter Amphitheater, Tosteson Medical Education Center, Harvard Medical School. A reception for the panel and audience will follow in the MEC Atrium from 5 to 6 PM. This program is sponsored by the Division of Medical Sciences, the Joint Committee on the Status of Women and the Biomedical Minority Students of Harvard.

The panel will discuss successes, strategies, and challenges for the advancement of women and underrepresented minorities in developing research careers.

Panelists
Professor Virginia Valian, Author of the book, Why So Slow: The Advancement of Women, published in 1998 by MIT Press. Dr. Valian is a member of the psychology department at Hunter University in New York.

Professor Joe L. Martinez, Jr. of the University of Texas at San Antonio. Martinez was faculty assistant to the vice chancellor for affirmative action at UC Berkeley, and is currently professor of biology and director of the division of life sciences at UT San Antonio. He has been an advocate for increased diversity in the research sciences in a variety of settings.

Professor Deidre D. Labat of Xavier University in New Orleans is Vice President for Academic Affairs at Xavier. Dr. Labat trained in microbiology at Johns Hopkins University, Tulane University and Louisiana State University, and has spent the last twenty years of her professional career teaching and advising underrepresented minority science students and the faculty members who work with them.