Fourth Annual Women in Science Symposium

EOHSI hosted the Fourth Annual Women in Science Symposium on Thursday, October 25, 2001. The theme for the half day symposium was "Children and Behavioral Development." Dr. Deborah Cory-Slechta, Dean of Research and Director of the NIEHS Center at the University of Rochester was presented with the Women in Science Award for 2001 following her presentation entitled, "Developmental Toxicity of Lead and Pesticides: Differential Targeting of Brain Dopamine Systems." Dr. Joan Cranmer, Professor of Pediatrics at the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences kicked off the program with her keynote address entitled, "A Perspective on Animal Studies and Children's Development." A panel session on "children and behavioral development" followed and included Nancy Fiedler, Ph.D., UMDNJ-Robert Wood Johnson Medical School and EOHSI; Kenneth Reuhl, Ph.D., Rutgers University and EOHSI; and Paromita Hore, M.P.H., Doctoral Student, UMDNJ-School of Public Health

Assemblywoman Rose Marie Heck, NJ State
Assembly, welcomes the crowd to the 4th Annual
Women in Science Symposium

Following the formal symposium, speakers, Women in Science Committee members, and invited guests enjoyed dinner at the home of Ms. Linda Stamato, Acting Dean of Douglass College. The Speakers and Committee members then participated in an informal roundtable about the role of women in science at Bunting Cobb, an undergraduate all girls science and math dormitory at Douglass College.

Dean Linda Stamato, Douglass College (left) presents the
Women in Science Award to Dr. Deborah Cory-Slechta

The concept of an annual symposium dedicated to women in science is based on the recognition that despite the many women who have made significant contributions to science, there is a sense that many young women feel alienated from science and would appreciate the demonstration that women work actively and productively in leadership positions in the sciences. This program is devoted to a demonstration of the many accomplishments of women in science by offering a scientific symposium featuring women scientists and by highlighting the career of a distinguished woman scientist.

The symposium is co-sponsored by EOHSI, the Douglass Project for Rutgers Women in Math, Science and Engineering, the Department of Environmental and Community Medicine, UMDNJ-Robert Wood Johnson Medical School, the Joint Graduate Program in Toxicology, the Joint Doctoral Program in Exposure Assessment, Rutgers University, the UMDNJ-Robert Wood Johnson Medical School and the UMDNJ-School of Public Health.

Left to right: Paromita Hore, M.P.H., Doctoral Student, UMDNJ-School
of Public Health; Deborah Cory-Slechta, Ph.D., University of Rochester
School of Medicine and Dentistry; Kenneth Reuhl, Ph.D., Rutgers
University and EOHSI; Joan Cranmer, Ph.D., University of Arkansas
for Medical Sciences; Joanna Burger, Ph.D., Chair Women in Science
Committee, Rutgers University and EOHSI; and Nancy Fiedler, Ph.D.,
UMDNJ-Robert Wood Johnson Medical School and EOHSI.