5:00 PM
to 6:00 PM
Powerful Latinas Interview Series
4 Attendees
Location
Online-Teleconference
About PowerfulLatinas.com will interview an impressive lineup of Latinas in the sciences during the month of March! Each interview will take place on Wednesday evening at 5 p.m. PST, and is broadcast on the internet, as well as on a teleconference line. Listeners can sign up to receive a study guide to follow along with each call, as well as submit questions in real time during the course of the interview on the web. To find out more, go to PowerfulLatinas.com to sign up for the newsletter to be advised of upcoming interviews. The March 4 interview features Marina La Grave - Marina works as a translator and outreach coordinator in The University Corporation for Atmospheric Research's (UCAR's) Education and Outreach group, a close team of scientists and educators who strive to build bridges between NCAR's (National Center for Atmospheric Research) scientific research and K-12 education. She does everything from organizing workshops for bilingual science teachers to traveling to Mexico to help scientists from around the world share their research with teachers and students during a major field study of air pollution. She was in Mexico for the spring 2007 joint assembly in Acapulco of the American Geophysical Union and participating societies from across Latin America, for example.
Pre-Registration Required To log in to the teleconference, visit http://instantTeleseminar.com/?eventid=6161241; dial info: 419-400-0202 / 127976# or sign up for the newsletter at PowerfulLatinas.com
Audience High School, Adults, Science Professionals, Teachers
Host organization PowerfulLatinas.com
Tags online interview
5:00 PM
to 4:00 PM
Powerful Latinas Interview Series
2 Attendees
Location
Online-Teleconference
About PowerfulLatinas.com will interview an impressive lineup of Latinas in the sciences during the month of March! Each interview will take place on Wednesday evening at 5 p.m. PST, and is broadcast on the internet, as well as on a teleconference line. Listeners can sign up to receive a study guide to follow along with each call, as well as submit questions in real time during the course of the interview on the web. To find out more, go to PowerfulLatinas.com to sign up for the newsletter to be advised of upcoming interviews. The March 11 interview features Ines Cifuentes - Dr. Cifuentes, a Ph.D. in Seismology, and former Director of the Carnegie Academy for Science Education (CASE) won the 2008 Hispanic Heritage Award for Math and Science in recognition of her role in creating CASE. Now at the American Geophysical Union, Ines won the 2006 National Hispanic Scientist of the Year award from the Museum of Science and Industry in Tampa, Florida.
Pre-Registration Required To log in to the teleconference, visit http://instantTeleseminar.com/?eventid=6161367; dial info: 419-400-0202 / 127976# or sign up for the newsletter at PowerfulLatinas.com
Audience High School, Adults, Science Professionals, Teachers
Host organization PowerfulLatinas.com
Tags online interview
5:00 PM
to 6:00 PM
Powerful Latinas Interview Series
3 Attendees
Location
Online-Teleconference
About PowerfulLatinas.com will interview an impressive lineup of Latinas in the sciences during the month of March! Each interview will take place on Wednesday evening at 5 p.m. PST, and is broadcast on the internet, as well as on a teleconference line. Listeners can sign up to receive a study guide to follow along with each call, as well as submit questions in real time during the course of the interview on the web. To find out more, go to PowerfulLatinas.com to sign up for the newsletter to be advised of upcoming interviews. The March 18 interview features Adriana Manzi - Adriana E. Manzi, Ph.D. has over 25 years of experience in biomolecules R&D. She is President and Principal Consultant of Manzi & Associates where her consulting work has spun the areas of recombinant proteins, dendritic cell vaccines, biosimilars, analytical methods, CMC, and selection and management of CMOs. Previously, as Sr. Director of Research for Baxter Healthcare Corp. Dr. Manzi was responsible for the design and execution of the analytical component of bio-pharmaceutical development leading 35 scientists supporting global programs.
Pre-Registration Required To log in to the teleconference, visit http://instantTeleseminar.com/?eventid=6161430; dial info: 419-400-0202 / 127976# or sign up for the newsletter at PowerfulLatinas.com
Audience High School, Adults, Science Professionals, Teachers
Host organization PowerfulLatinas.com
Tags online interview
5:00 PM
to 6:00 PM
Powerful Latinas Interview Series
2 Attendees
Location
Online-Teleconference
About PowerfulLatinas.com will interview an impressive lineup of Latinas in the sciences during the month of March! Each interview will take place on Wednesday evening at 5 p.m. PST, and is broadcast on the internet, as well as on a teleconference line. Listeners can sign up to receive a study guide to follow along with each call, as well as submit questions in real time during the course of the interview on the web. To find out more, go to PowerfulLatinas.com to sign up for the newsletter to be advised of upcoming interviews. The March 25 interview will feature Lydia Villa-Komaroff, CEO of Cytonome, a company building the first optical cell sorter capable of supporting rapid, sterile sorting of human cells for therapeutic use. Dr. Villa-Komaroff received a Ph.D. in Cell Biology. She is a member of the Hispanic Engineer National Achievement Hall of Fame and a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) and of the Association for Women in Science. She has served on review committees for the National Institutes of Health and National Science Foundation.
Pre-Registration Required To log in to the teleconference, visit http://instantTeleseminar.com/?eventid=6161556; dial info: 419-400-0202 / 127976# or sign up for the newsletter at PowerfulLatinas.com
Audience High School, Adults, Science Professionals, Teachers
Host organization PowerfulLatinas.com
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5:00 PM
to 6:00 PM
Powerful Latinas Interview Series: Interview with Astronaut Ellen Ochoa
4 Attendees
Location
Online-Teleconference
About PowerfulLatinas.com will interview an impressive lineup of Latinas in the sciences during the month of March! Each interview will take place on Wednesday evening at 5 p.m. PST, and is broadcast on the internet, as well as on a teleconference line. Listeners can sign up to receive a study guide to follow along with each call, as well as submit questions in real time during the course of the interview on the web. To find out more, go to PowerfulLatinas.com to sign up for the newsletter to be advised of upcoming interviews. The March 25 interview will feature astronaut Ellen Ochoa -- As a doctoral student at Stanford, and later as a researcher at Sandia National Laboratories and NASA Ames Research Center, Dr. Ochoa investigated optical systems for performing information processing. She is a co-inventor on three patents for an optical inspection system, an optical object recognition method, and a method for noise removal in images. As Chief of the Intelligent Systems Technology Branch at Ames, she supervised 35 engineers and scientists in the research and development of computational systems for aerospace missions. Dr. Ochoa has presented numerous papers at technical conferences and in scientific journals. Selected by NASA in January 1990, Dr. Ochoa became an astronaut in July 1991. Note: Dr. Ochoa's interview will be prerecorded. Please send questions to be posed to her to info@powerfullatinas.com prior to March 10.
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Audience High School, Adults, Science Professionals, Teachers
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