WST Center News


Danish Media and Culture Summer 2009 Study Abroad Trip

energeia, published by NSF ADVANCE

Talking About the Future
Georgia Tech President Wayne Clough led a discussion with alumni, faculty
and students on March 28, 2003, about the direction Tech will take in the next 50
years. Read about it.

Constructing a New Future for Women Scientists
By Shayna Sobol, an article from CareerTech that features the WST minor.
 
Trailblazers and Torchbears
By Anne Garrison, an electronic exhibit about Women in Science and Technology at Georgia Tech.

SWS Feminist Lecturer 2000
By Mary Frank Fox, SWS Feminist Lecture, "Women, Science, and Academia."

WST Community Flourishes
By Julia Trapold, Technique: "The South's Liveliest College Newspaper"

Women at Tech mark a golden anniversary
The Whistle, the faculty newspaper, printed a front-page article about the 50th anniversary of women at Georgia Tech.

Mary Frank Fox Awarded WEPAN Award for Research
Mary Frank Fox, NSF ADVANCE Professor of Sociology and WST Co-director, has been awarded the WEPAN (Women in Engineering Programs) Betty Vetter Award for Research. The award-citation states: "Recognizing notable achievement in research on women in engineering, Dr. Fox was selected for her 20+ years of research focused on the study of women in science and engineering, including how institutional and organizational factors impact participation, performance, and assessment. Her research has appeared in more than 40 scholarly journals and publications, has played a key role in developing institutional policy and practice, and has had positive impacts on attracting, retaining, and developing women in the technology fields."

A New Book Series: WOMEN, GENDER, AND TECHNOLOGY
Published by University of Illinois Press.

Series Editors: .Sue V. Rosser, Mary Frank Fox, Deborah Johnson / Georgia Institute of Technology

Volumes in the Women, Gender, and Technology Series bring together women’s studies and technology studies, focusing upon women and technology, feminist perspectives on technology, and/or the gendering of technology and its impact upon gender relations in society. Volumes may be written from multiple perspectives and approaches, reflecting and aimed toward audiences including women’s studies, science and technology studies, ethics and technology, cultural studies of science and technology, history of technology, and public policy.

Topics focus upon:

  • Cultures and societies: comparative approaches in the study of gender, science, and technology; representations of gender and technology; politics and the state as they reflect and reinforce patterns of gender, science, and technology.
  • Institutions: gender in technological training; structures of education and outcomes; work and organizational contexts among women in technology; programs and interventions to support gender equity.
  • Individuals: social psychology of gender, science, and technology; interactions, expectations, identities, and networks as they are embedded in institutions (e.g., education and work) and outcomes of science and technology; effects of technology on human development and life-span development between generations.

Send inquiries and proposals to:

Sue V. Rosser
Dean, Ivan Allen College, Georgia Tech, Atlanta, Georgia 30332-0525

Mary Frank Fox
Professor of Sociology, School of Public Policy, Center for Study of Women, Science, & Technology, Georgia Tech, Atlanta, Georgia 30332-0345

Deborah Johnson Olsson
Professor of Applied Ethics Technology, Culture, and Communication, University of Virginia,
P.O. Box 400744, 351 McCormick Road, Thornton Hall, Charlottesville, Virginia 22904-4744