Women in Science and Engineering
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“A ship in port is safe, but that is not what ships are for. Sail out to sea and do new things.” That quote was from someone for whom this was not a metaphor, rear-admiral (and mathematician) Grace Hopper. She was also the developer of the first compiler of a programming language and played a key role in developing COBOL, one of the first high-level languages. I am confident that the women students and faculty of the College of Engineering at Cornell will not play it safe, will race against the winds of science, and do great things.
With the end of the NSF ADVANCE award in 2013, the torch has been handed back to the WISE group. Worthy goals remain for us to pursue: continuing to advocate for more women faculty, improving the situation for dual-career hires, reducing student bias against women and under-represented faculty teachers, and encouraging more women to continue to advanced degrees and to pursue faculty careers."
Paulette Clancy
The Samuel & Diane Bodman Chair of Chemical & Biomolecular Engineering.
A brief history of Women in Science and Engineering at Cornell< br /> by Paulette Clancy
Our Faculty
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Beth A. Ahner Department of Biological and Environmental Engineering |
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C. Lindsay Anderson Department of Biological and Environmental Engineering |
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Nelly Andarawis-Puri Sibley School of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering |
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Alyssa B. Apsel School of Electrical and Computer Engineering |
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Ludmilla Aristilde Department of Biological and Environmental Engineering |
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Kavita Bala Department of Computer Science |
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Rebecca Barthelmie Sibley School of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering |
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Nicole Benedek Department of Materials Science and Engineering |
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Ilana Brito Nancy E. and Peter C. Meinig School of Biomedical Engineering |
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Claire T. Cardie Department of Computer Science |
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Tanzeem K. Choudhury Department of Computer Science |
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Paulette Clancy Robert Frederick Smith School of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering |
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Susan Daniel Robert Frederick Smith School of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering |
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Christina Delimitrou School of Electrical and Computer Engineering |
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Eve Lorraine Donnelly Department of Materials Science and Engineering |
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Lara A. Estroff Department of Materials Science and Engineering |
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Kit-Yee Daisy Fan Department of Computer Science |
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Silvia Ferrari Sibley School of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering |
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Claudia Fischbach-Teschl Nancy E. and Peter C. Meinig School of Biomedical Engineering |
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Elizabeth Fisher Sibley School of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering |
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Arpita Ghosh Department of Computer Science |
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Carla P. Gomes Department of Computer Science |
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Delphine Gourdon Department of Materials Science and Engineering |
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Jean B. Hunter Department of Biological and Environmental Engineering |
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Teresa Eileen Jordan Department of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences |
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Suzanne Mahlburg Kay Department of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences |
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Katie Keranen Department of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences |
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Lena F. Kourkoutis School of Applied and Engineering Physics |
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Hadas Kress-Gazit Sibley School of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering |
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Lillian Jane Lee Department of Computer Science |
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Chekesha M. Liddell Watson Department of Materials Science and Engineering |
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Rowena B. Lohman Department of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences |
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Natalie M. Mahowald Department of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences |
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Andreea C. Minca School of Operations Research and Information Engineering |
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Nozomi Nishimura Nancy E. and Peter C. Meinig School of Biomedical Engineering |
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Linda K. Nozick School of Civil and Environmental Engineering |
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Perrine Pepiot Sibley School of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering |
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Kirstin Hagelskjær Petersen School of Electrical and Computer Engineering |
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Lois Pollack School of Applied and Engineering Physics |
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Ruth E. Richardson School of Civil and Environmental Engineering |
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Christine Ann Shoemaker School of Civil and Environmental Engineering |
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Meredith Silberstein Sibley School of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering |
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Éva Tardos Department of Computer Science |
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Madeleine Udell School of Operations Research and Information Engineering |
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Marjolein van der Meulen Sibley School of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering Nancy E. and Peter C. Meinig School of Biomedical Engineering |
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Jane Wang Sibley School of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering |
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Mingming Wu Department of Biological and Environmental Engineering |
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Huili (Grace) Xing School of Electrical and Computer Engineering Department of Materials Science and Engineering |
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Qing Zhao School of Electrical and Computer Engineering |
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Roseanna N. Zia Robert Frederick Smith School of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering |