Flora Stone Mather
Center for Women

We Welcome Mary Rouse, Associate Director for Women in Science and Engineering

Welcome Mary Rouse, our new Associate Director for Women in Science and Engineering.  Her main responsibilities include coordinating and expanding the WISER (Women in Science and Engineering Roundtable) extracurricular support program for both undergraduate and graduate women students in STEM fields.  (See the Center’s WISER pages for more information about the program.)

Mary recently served as Education Director at the Nature Center at Shaker Lakes.  Previously she worked at Lakeland Community College as Site Director for a NASA science/math education enrichment program for under-served students grades K-12. During her prior time as an epidemiologist with the Ohio Department of Health, she performed research in the areas of environmental health, HIV/AIDs and women’s health issues. Mary has a B.S. in Science Education and a Masters in Public Health from the Ohio State University.

Mary is an active volunteer in the community and schools, especially with the Girl Scouts. She enjoys anything outside, especially gardening, running, and camping.  She has completed 4 marathons since 2004, including the Boston Marathon in 2006.

Women of Achievement Luncheon and Mather Spotlight Awards

September 26
12:30-2pm, Thwing Ballroom.

Keynote by President Barbara Snyder

The Future of Higher Education: Attracting and Advancing All of the Best Talent

This event will present awards to eight women scholars chosen by their schools for academic excellence, and celebrate those women faculty who have achieved tenure, promotion, named professorships, and important administrative appointments in the past year.
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All are invited. RSVP to: Denise.Lin@case.edu

Women Staff Leadership Development Initiative (WSLDI)

Women Staff Leadership Development Initiative (WSLDI) is a new year-long program offered to full time women staff at Case Western Reserve University. The program aims to nurture and develop talent, while helping women staff cultivate their leadership skills.

Applications are due Tuesday, September 2, 2008. Click here for more information

The Women Staff Leadership Development Initiative is made possible through the Flora Stone Mather Center for Women and the Human Resources Department.

“Women, Make Your Mark – The Voting Process”

September 27, 11-12:30pm, Strosacker Auditorium
+ 12:30-2pm, Adelbert Gym

What you Always Wanted to Know about Voting but were Afraid to Ask!

>> click here to register for the event <<

~ Film ~ Music ~ Hip Hop

Dramatic Performance by Students from the Cleveland School of the Arts

~ Amazing Facts about YOU!

~ How YOU can MAKE A DIFFERENCE!

Program followed by Lunch, Prize Drawings*
And Voter Registration in Adelbert Gym
First 200 persons who register will be eligible for a drawing for a flat-screen TV

Free and Open to the Public

*To be eligible for the drawing, you MUST register in advance >>click here to register for the event <<

Current Co-Sponsors (List still growing):
LINKS, Cuyahoga County Board of Elections, The League of Women Voters, Ohio Votes, The Greater Cleveland Voter Coalition, Cleveland State University, plus many other schools and organizations

“Reproducing Our Bodies, Ourselves: Birth Control and the Women’s Health Movement"

Wendy Kline speaking on
Our Bodies, Ourselves

Thursday Sept. 25. The lecture begins at 6:00PM and is to be followed by a reception in the Powell Room of the Allen at 7:00PM.

The Dittrick Medical History Center will offer the Anton and Rose Zverina Lecture featuring Wendy Kline, Ph.D.   Professor Kline will present “Reproducing Our Bodies, Ourselves: birth control and the women’s health movement.” 
The lecture is free to the public and will be held in the Herrick Room of the Allen Memorial Medical Library (corner Euclid Avenue and Adelbert Road). 

The lecture is free and open to the public and RSVP is required to 216-368-3649 or e-mail: jennifer.nieves@case.edu by September 22nd.

Looking Back to Look Forward in a Different Voice   THE VIDEO!

Carol Gilligan, professor at New York University speaks on her interdisciplinary work on girls' moral development and how gendered notions of care and justice has influenced many fields of inquiry around the world.

>>Click here to see the video recording<<

Recorded February 27, 2008 in Nord Hall at Case Western Reserve University.

Introduced by Dorothy C. Miller