Every year since 1987, March has been considered Women's History Month. What started as International Women's Day in 1911 became National Women's History Week in 1980 and then a month designated to learning about and celebrating what women have contributed to history. Since we are approaching the end of Women's History Month, I thought was appropriate to write a few women in science who were, or are, Christians. Officially they are a small group -- according to an article published in Christianity Today, only ~7% of … [Read more...] about Science Corner: Christian Women in Science
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Find Your Voice and Own It: Women and the Academic Life
Thank-you to J. Nathan Matias (@natematias), Research Assistant, MIT Media Lab Center for Civic Media, for venturing into and reporting on Women and the Academic Life as part of his Urbana12 series.* We're looking forward to your responses to this material -- any seminar participants with thoughts to add? Note: In addition to ESN's mentoring resources, be sure to visit The Well -- a website designed to support women in graduate and professional schools and women faculty as they seek, in their full and complex … [Read more...] about Find Your Voice and Own It: Women and the Academic Life
The Well: How open are you about your faith?
I've mentioned The Well here on the blog before —it's a terrific resource put together by our colleagues with InterVarsity's Women in the Academy and Professions. While their focus is, well, women in the academy and professions, anyone interested in the navigating the intersection between Christianity and the academy ought to be reading The Well. One of their regular features is Dear Mentor, which poses a question to several experienced mentors from academia and the professional world. This month's The Well email … [Read more...] about The Well: How open are you about your faith?
Where did you find your megaphone?
This is the first of four guest posts from Janine Giordano, a graduate student and ESN member from the University of Illinois, on the topic of cultivating your voice and finding your audience while in graduate school. When she is not teaching, she spends most of her time working on her dissertation, Between Religion and Politics: The Working Class Religious Left, 1886-1936. … [Read more...] about Where did you find your megaphone?
Week in Review: Behold the Man Edition
What are you reading, watching, thinking about this week? As usual, here's a few which have been on our mind. Let us know your thoughts on any/all of them. If you have items you'd like us to consider for the top five, add them in the comments or send them to Tom or Mike. 1. Christine Sine posted Godspace's Complete Lenten Series for 2010, including material for Good Friday and Easter. Thank-you to Christine for organizing this great resource for followers of Christ on their Lenten journey. Photo: "Ecce Homo" … [Read more...] about Week in Review: Behold the Man Edition