Success Strategies From Women in STEM, Second Edition: A Portable Mentor

500 Pages·2015·5.579 MB·English

by  Peggy A. Pritchard MLIS, Christine Grant

Success Strategies
From Women in STEM
A Portable Mentor
Second edition
http://booksite.elsevier.com/9780123971814
Success Strategies From Women in STEM: A Portable Mentor
Edited by Peggy A. Pritchard and Christine S. Grant
A companion site for this title provides authoritative content on issues relating to women in STEM, including
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Success Strategies
From Women in STEM
A Portable Mentor
Second edition
Edited by
BA/BPHE, MLIS
Peggy A. Pritchard
University of Guelph, Guelph,ON,Canada
PhD
Christine S. Grant
College ofEngineering,North Carolina State University,
Raleigh, NC, USA
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List of Contributors
Margaret-AnnArmour FacultyofScience,UniversityofAlberta,Edmonton,AB,
Canada
SusanM.Barnett CollegeofHumanEcology,CornellUniversity,Ithaca,
NY,USA
IleneJ.Busch-Vishniac MechanicalEngineeringDepartment,Universityof
Saskatchewan,Saskatoon,SK,Canada
M.ElizabethCannon UniversityofCalgary,Calgary,AB,Canada
EmilyS.Darling BiologyDepartment,UniversityofNorthCarolinaatChapelHill,
ChapelHill,NC,USA
ChristineS.Grant CollegeofEngineering,NorthCarolinaStateUniversity,
Raleigh,NC,USA
LoriL.Isom UniversityofMichiganMedicalSchool,AnnArbor,MI,USA
JorethaG.Johnson AdvancedTransformationalTechnologiesManagement
Consultants,NorthCarolina,USA
ElizabethLee T-STEMInc.,Orlando,FL,USA
PamelaMcCauley IndustrialEngineeringandManagementSystems,Universityof
CentralFlorida,Orlando,FL,USA
PeggyA.Pritchard UniversityofGuelph,Guelph,ON,Canada
JodieL.Rummer ARCCentreofExcellenceforCoralReefStudies,JamesCook
University,Townsville,QLD,Australia
KathleenSendall AlbertaClimateChangeandEmissionsManagementCorporation,
Canada
DorothyTovell FacultyofScience,UniversityofAlberta,Edmonton,AB,Canada
ElaineWethington DepartmentofHumanDevelopment,CornellUniversity,Ithaca,
NY,USA
WendyM.Williams DepartmentofHumanDevelopment,CornellUniversity,
Ithaca,NY,USA
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About the Contributors
Margaret-Ann Armour PhD
AssociateDeanofScience(Diversity),FacultyofScience,
UniversityofAlberta,Edmonton,AB,Canada
Dr. Margaret-Ann Armour is an internation-
ally recognized expert in chemical safety and
the disposal of hazardous wastes and an
award-winning educator, mentor, and advo-
cate for the promotion and advancement of
girls and women in STEM. Born in Scotland
and trained at the University of Edinburgh, she worked for five years
asa researchchemistin the paper-making industry before emigrating
to Canada to complete her PhD in physical organic chemistry at the
University of Alberta. A member of the American Chemical Society,
the American Association for the Advancement of Science, the New
YorkAcademyofSciences,andaFellowoftheChemicalInstituteof
Canada, she currently sits on the Board of Directors of the Pacific
Basin Consortium on Hazardous Wastes and is President of the
Board of the Canadian Centre for Women in Science, Engineering,
TradesandTechnology.
Many prestigious awards and honors have been bestowed on
her, including the 3M Teaching Fellowship from the Society for
Teaching and Learning in Higher Education, the McNeil Medal of
the Royal Society of Canada, and the Governor General’s Award in
Commemoration of the Persons Case. The latter recognizes
Dr. Armour’s work in improving the situation of Canadian women
in science and engineering and remembers the 1929 landmark deci-
sion of Canada’s highest court to recognize women as “persons.”
She is a member of the Order of Canada. In spite of all her achieve-
ments, Dr. Armour is eminently approachable and unassuming.
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Her love of science and passion for teaching led naturally to a
career in academe, where she has inspired generations of under-
graduate and graduate students to pursue their dreams. As one of
the founding members of WISEST (Women in Scholarship,
Engineering, Science and Technology), an organization established
over 30 years ago at the University of Alberta to address gender
inequities in science, she has dedicated herself in particular to
encouraging and supporting girls and young women. She grew up
assuming that women can do anything they wish. Her hope is for
all women to believe this.
Susan M. Barnett PhD
VisitingFellow,CollegeofHumanEcology,CornellUniversity,
Ithaca,NY,USA
Dr. Susan Barnett is aretired business consul-
tant, a part-time academic researcher and
writer, a competitive runner, and the mother
ofthree.Sheearned her undergraduate degree
in Experimental Psychology from Cambridge
University and her MBA from Harvard. After
several successful years pursuing a demanding business career she
returned to academia to earn an MA and PhD from Cornell in
DevelopmentalPsychology.ShewasaVisitingScholarintheFaculty
of Education at Cambridge University, and is now back at Cornell as
aVisitingFellow.Dr.Barnettstudiesthedevelopmentandapplication
of reasoning ability (intelligence and transferable learning) and their
educational, societal, and policy implications, including the relation-
ship to women’s career paths. Her publications include articles in
Psychological Bulletin on transferoflearning and women’s underrep-
resentationinscience,aswellasnumerousotherarticlesandchapters.
When not busy with these endeavors, Dr. Barnett also serves on the
boards of several nonprofit organizations working to improve educa-
tional and career opportunities for underprivileged children and
women.
In her spare time she likes to run (a lot), ski, play soccer
(badly), walk her dog, and hang out with friends and family. She
lives in lovely Ithaca, NY, a place populated by interesting people
from all around the world and surrounded by beautiful countryside.
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Ilene J.Busch-VishniacPhD
MechanicalEngineeringDepartment,University
ofSaskatchewan,Saskatoon,SK,Canada
A widely respected scientist and dynamic
and inspiring leader, Dr. Ilene Busch-
Vishniac’s passion for excellence in engi-
neering research and education has been a
positive driving force in every context in
which she has worked. Her success in
advancing all aspects of her career, while enjoying a fulfilling
personal and family life, is a tribute to her vision, commitment, and
wonderfulsenseofhumor.
An early interest in music inspired Dr. Busch-Vishniac to pursue
a career as a pianist. But a first-year course on the physics of music
at the University of Rochester so captivated her imagination and
intellectual curiosity that she immersed herself in the sciences and
graduated with degrees in physics and mathematics. Her fascination
with acoustics and the engineering problems associated with sound
led her to the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, where she
earned her master’s and doctorate degrees in mechanical engineer-
ing. After two years at Bell Laboratories in the Acoustics Research
Department, she joined the faculty at the University of Texas,
Austin, and for nearly two decades dedicated herself to research,
teaching and mentoring. Her excellence was recognized by the
SocietyofWomenEngineersin1997, whenthey presented her with
theirhighesthonor:theAchievementAward.
The following year, Dr. Busch-Vishniac was appointed Dean of
Engineering at Johns Hopkins University—one of the first female
deans of engineering in the United States. There, she continued to
distinguish herself. During her tenure, she was named the
Lemelson-MIT Program Inventor of the Week (2001) and awarded
the Silver Medal in Engineering Acoustics (Acoustical Society of
America, 2001). The Whiting School of Engineering was ranked
one of the top engineering schools in the country (US News and
WorldReport).
She resigned her Deanship in 2003 to take up the Presidency of
the Acoustical Society of America and return to research. Over the
next few years, she and her colleagues did groundbreaking work
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on noise control in hospital environments. In 2007 Dr. Busch-
Vishniac became the Provost and Academic Vice-President of
McMaster University in Ontario—at the time the only female
Provost of a research-intensive university in Canada. After just a
few years Dr. Busch-Vishniac was asked to Chair the Ontario
Council of Academic Vice-Presidents.
After serving a 5-year term at McMaster, Dr. Busch-Vishniac
left to assume the Presidency of the University of Saskatchewan,
another of the research-intensive Canadian universities. She served
in that capacity from 2012 to 2014 and then joined the faculty of
the Mechanical Engineering Department.
M. Elizabeth Cannon PhD
PresidentandVice-Chancellor,UniversityofCalgary,
Calgary,AB,Canada
An internationally recognized expert in
geomatics engineering, Dr. Elizabeth
Cannon’s research has been on the fore-
front of Global Positioning Systems
(GPS) since 1984 in both industrial and
academic environments, and she has
commercialized technology to over 200 agencies worldwide. In
2006, Dr. Cannon was named the Dean of the Schulich School of
Engineering at the University of Calgary and in 2010, President and
Vice-Chancellor of the University of Calgary. She is the first
woman to hold both of these positions. Dr. Cannon was selected in
1998 as one of Canada’s Top 40 Under 40; in 2006 she was named
one of Canada’s Top 100 Most Powerful Women by the Women’s
Executive Network; and in 2009 was recognized with the ASTech
Outstanding Contribution to Alberta Science and Technology
Communityaward.
Dr. Cannon is a Professional Engineer, a fellow of the Royal
SocietyofCanada,afellowoftheCanadianAcademyofEngineering,
and an elected foreign associate of the National Academy of
Engineering. Currently, she serves as the Chair of the Canada
Research Knowledge Network, as Vice-Chair of Universities Canada,
and of the U15 Group of Canadian Research Universities. She is also