Dean, Ivan Allen CollegeWednesday, February 11, 2008
Success Center (Clary Theatre)
3:30 p.m.
In all countries, across all sectors and in all fields, the percentage of women obtaining patents is not only less than their male counterparts but it is less than the percentage ofwomen in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) in these countries. Failure to patent hurts women’s career advancement and deprives society of unique and useful products and innovations, as well as possible critiques of the commercialization of science. Strategies to make patenting more female friendly will be shared for faculty, institutions and their technology transfer offices, corporations and venture capitalists, and women scientists.
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Sue V. Rosser has edited collections and written 120 journal articles and eleven books on the theoretical and applied problems of women, science, technology and women’s health. Since July 1999, she has served as Dean of Ivan Allen College, the liberal arts college at the Georgia Institute of Technology, where she is also Professor of Public Policy and of History, Technology, and Society. She holds the endowed Ivan Allen Dean’s Chair of Liberal Arts and Technology.
Dean Rosser has held several grants from the National Science Foundation, including serving as co-PI from 2001- 2006 on a $3.7 million ADVANCE grant from NSF; she currently serves as PI on InTEL: Interactive Toolkit for Engineering Learning, a $900,000 NSF grant. During the fall of 1993, she was Visiting Distinguished Professor for the University of Wisconsin System Women in Science Project; during 2007-2008 she served as a Clayman Fellow at Stanford University.
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