Please help us keep track of  some of our women MIT that has made the news and where!  Please add to the top

(maybe at a later date, we can just have a heading here and a page about each MIT women)

News can also be found at our home  web site page. 

October 23, 2008

Margaret Freeman, '34 who spent more than four decades at MIT as a student and staff member, died Oct. 23, just weeks before her 100th birthday. [MIT News Article and Boston Globe Article]

 October 14, 2008

Dr. Rebecca Saxe '03 was named to Popular Science Magazine's annual Brilliant 10 list of the country's top young scientists to watch: http://web.mit.edu/newsoffice/2008/popsci-1014.html

Prof. Andrea Ghez '87, Physics, UCLA professor,  was named a MacArthur Fellow this year 2008,

http://www.macfound.org/site/c.lkLXJ8MQKrH/b.4537259/k.98D6/Andrea_Ghez.htm

October 10, 2008  in "Science News"

Prof. Janet Mertz,  '71 in courses 6 and 7, with son who also graduated from MIT.

recently wrote article:    "Culture may turn potentially high achievers away from math" 

http://www.sciencenews.org/view/generic/id/37505/title/Numbers_don%E2%80%99t_add_up_for_U.S._girls

short clip:  

A combination of peer pressure, gender stereotyping and low expectations contributes to turning potentially gifted kids — especially girls — away from mathematics, wasting a precious national resource, a new study suggests.

The study, by cancer biochemist Janet Mertz of the University of Wisconsin-Madison and her collaborators, appears in the November Notices of the American Mathematical Society. ....

From email from alumnae_bos@MAILMAN-ALUM.mit.edu,  9/25/08

event date" February 13, 2009", received September  25,2008   Event will feature a panel of contributors to a book of essays by women scientists of all ages, entitled "Motherhood: the elephant in the laboratory" published by the Cornell University press and edited by Dr. Emily Monosson (copied), see

http://sciencemoms.wordpress.com/motherhood-the-elephant-women-scientists-speak-out/

Emily also established and maintains a website with more complete information on the book and personal blogs at  www.sciencemoms.wordpress.com