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In April 2008, Londa Schiebinger chaired the first all female Ph.D. committee in Stanford's Institute for Computational and Mathematical Engineering. It was a global effort: Professor Gunilla Kreiss was patched into Shalini Krishnamurthy's defense via Skype from the Royal Institute of Technology in Sweden! Other committee members were Professor Kiran Pande, Professor Sally Benson, and Professor Margot Gerritsen.
Institute Graduate Dissertation Fellows Sarah Richardson and Valerie Jones have been awarded prestigious dissertation fellowships for 2008-09 by the Association of American University Women (AAUW).
Michelle R. Clayman has been awarded the GSB Alumni Association's New York Excellence in Leadership Award for 2008, which recognizes extraordinary contributions made by alumni in the Business School and the corporate world. The awards dinner will be held in New York on April 2.
The archives of the Career Action Center, which was a peer organization founded in 1973 and which closed its doors in 2002, have been accepted by the Stanford University Library. These papers will complement the archive of the Center for Research on Women (CROW). Jing Lyman, a long-time supporter of the Clayman Institute, was on the CAC's Board and former Stanford President Richard Lyman was a member of the CAC's Business Advisory Committee. The Clayman Institute was responsible for bringing together the former leaders of the CAC and the Stanford Library.
Gretchen Daily, Professor of Biology and Institute faculty affiliate, has won Norway's prestigious Sophie Prize for exploring the potential profits of protecting the environment. The jury cited "her involvement, knowledge and merits as one of the world's forerunners in the debate on sustainable development and conservation of biological diversity."Clayman Institute Faculty Affiliate Scott Klemmer, Assistant Professor of Computer Science, was recently awarded a Sloan Research Fellowship by the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation. The Sloan Research Fellowships were established in 1955 to give financial support to early career scientists. Klemmer’s research concerns ubiquitous computing, and he teaches on human-computer interaction.
The SpelBots Robotics Team from Spelman College, Atlanta, Georgia, brought their four-legged robots road-show to Stanford in November 2008. SpelBots founder Professor Andrew Williams was interviewed for by Charles Ivan King for the KZSU radio show "Finding Your Way" on Saturday November 10; and the team was interviewed by Ross McGowan for the KTVU channel 2 television show "Mornings on Two" on Tuesday November 13. Watch a video of the SpelBots Team in action.
"Under the Skin", a multi-media, interdisciplinary dance project part-funded by the Clayman Institute during 2006-07, will be performed at the Dance Mission Theater in San Francisco on March 14-16, 2008. For more information about this project, see www.hopemohr.org
Andrea Henderson was interviewed for NPR's "Marketplace" program as part of a story on dual career academic couples on June 18, 2007.
