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4th Annual Margaret L. Kripke Legend Award Lecture

Nancy Hopkins, Ph.D., the recipient of the 2012 Margaret L. Kripke Legend Award for Promotion of Women in Cancer Medicine and Cancer Science sponsored by Women Faculty Programs, will give a lecture and receive the award. A reception will follow in Onstead Foyer.

Title of the address:

Engineering Equity for Women Faculty in Science and Engineering: The MIT Story

Date: 3/22/12, 4pm to 5pm
Time: 3/22/12, 4pm to 5pm
Location: Onstead Auditorium, Basic Science Research Building, Floor 3, near Elevator J, (S3.8012)
Format: Lecture
Speaker: Nancy Hopkins, Ph.D.
Speaker Bio: Nancy Hopkins is the Amgen, Inc. Professor of biology at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. She is a member of the National Academy of Sciences, a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and a member of the Institute of Medicine of the National Academy. Hopkins obtained a Ph.D. from Harvard University and was a postdoctoral fellow at Harvard and at the Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory. She joined the MIT faculty in 1974. Her lab has worked in three areas: mechanisms of leukemogenesis by mouse RNA tumor viruses; genetics of early vertebrate development using the zebrafish; and use of the zebrafish as a cancer model. Hopkins became an advocate for women in science after being appointed chair of the first Committee on Women Faculty in the School of Science at MIT in 1995-97. A summary of her committee’s findings was published in 1999 and led to many improvements in the status and number of women faculty at MIT. In 2000 she was appointed to the MIT central administration as co-chair, with then Provost Robert Brown, of the first Council on Faculty Diversity
Sponsor: Elizabeth L. Travis,Ph.D.
Contact: Abby Mitchell - (713) 792-6142 - abbymitchell@mdanderson.org

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