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| Thursday, April 18 | |
| 12:00 - 1:00 p.m. | Registration (Pollard Auditorium Lobby) |
| 1:00 p.m. | Leave Pollard
for Oak Ridge National Laboratory Tours (Bus transportation from Pollard to ORNL provided.) |
| 1:30 - 2:00 p.m. | Conference Opening Speakers: Wayne Stevenson, Director, Science and Engineering Education Program, ORISE; and Lee Riedinger, Deputy Director for Science and Technology, Oak Ridge National Laboratory |
| 1:30 - 4:30 p.m. | Oak
Ridge National Laboratory Tours (Bus transportation from ORNL back to Pollard provided.) |
| Friday, April 19 (Pollard Auditorium) | |
| 8:30 - 9:00 a.m. | Check-in and Late Registration |
| 9:00 - 9:15 a.m. | Welcome: Gail Singh, Vice President of Business Operations and Chief Financial Officer, ORAU; and Margaret Marrow, Deputy for Operations, Oak Ridge Operations Office |
| 9:15 - 10:15 a.m. | Keynote
Speaker: Dabney
Johnson, Life Sciences Division, ORNL
Topic: "Using Mice to Ask Questions About Human Health and Gene Function" |
| 10:15 - 10:30 a.m. | Break |
| 10:30 - 11:45 a.m. | Panel Session
Discussion: "Paths
Women Have Taken"
Participants: Vivian Baylor, ORNL; Sandra Davern and Jane Howe, Postdocs at ORNL; Janice Watkins, ORAU |
| 11:45 a.m. - 12:45 p.m. | Lunch (provided at Garden Plaza Hotel) |
| 12:45 - 1:15 p.m. | Applying to Graduate School--Celeste Brooks and Kay Reed, University of Tennessee, Knoxville |
| 1:15 - 2:15 p.m. | Breakout Scientific Sessions: Women researchers and scientists discuss their specific research and respond to questions. Students will pick one of four topic areas: Social Sciences, Chemistry, Life Sciences, Mathematics and Computing. |
| 2:15 - 2:30 p.m. | Break |
| 2:30 - 3:30 p.m. | Keynote
Speaker: Tina
Riedinger, Physics Instructor, University of
Tennessee, Knoxville
Topic: "Women in Astronomy" |
| 3:30 - 4:30 p.m. | Graduate Schools and Funding
Sources Exhibits
Graduate Schools Attending: University of Tennessee, Knoxville Virginia Tech Providing Information on Graduate Funding Sources: National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowships Program Oak Ridge Institute for Science and Education Oak Ridge National Laboratory |
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