Where: Spine Auditorium between Buildings 2 & 3
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This one-hour panel discussion will feature four WEP Speakers on the topic of women's contribution in science and society over time.
About the speakers:
Dava Sobel
Sobel was born on June 15, 1947, in The Bronx, New York City. She graduated from The Bronx High School of Science and Binghamton University. She wrote Longitude: The True Story of a Lone Genius Who Solved the Greatest Scientific Problem of His Time in 1995. The story was made into a television movie. Her book Galileo's Daughter: A Historical Memoir of Science, Faith, and Love was a finalist for the 2000 Pulitzer Prize for Biography or Autobiography. She holds honorary doctor of letters degrees from the University of Bath and Middlebury College.
Karen Ashe
Karen Ashe, MD, PhD, is the director of the N. Bud Grossman Center for Memory Research and Care and holds the Edmund Wallace and Anne Marie Tulloch Chairs in Neurology and Neuroscience at the University of Minnesota. She received her MD from Harvard University, and her PhD from MIT. Her mouse models of Alzheimer's disease have been used the world over for validating genetic linkage studies, for understanding disease pathogenesis, for seeking markers of early disease processes, and for testing candidate therapies. Among many honors, she has received the MetLife Award for Alzheimer’s disease research, the Potamkin Prize of the American Academy of Neurology, the Khalid Iqbal Lifetime Achievement Award of the Alzheimer’s Association, and is a member of the National Academy of Medicine.Noëmi Daucé
Noëmi Daucé joined Agence France-Muséums in October 2014, as Curator in charge of Archaeology. A graduate of the Ecole du Louvre and the Université Paris I Panthéon Sorbonne, she has conducted research on the brick architectural decoration of the palace of Darius in Susa. Several missions in Tehran and Susa allowed her to complete this initial work and to publish it in the book edited by J. Perrot, Le Palais de Darius à Suse (PUPS Paris, 2010). In 2006, she obtained the grant from the Leon Levy Shelby White Foundation Program for Archaeological Publication that allowed her to coordinate the online publication of reports by Roland Mecquenem, Director of Archaeological Missions in Susa from 1912 to 1939, for which she obtained the Jacques Morgan award. Laureate of the competitive entrance exam to become museum curator, she entered the National Heritage Institute (INP) in 2009 and joined the Museum of Fine Arts and Archaeology of Besançon in 2010, participating in its renovation, the management of its reserves and the coordination of related collectionsRelated Events
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Dava Sobel
Sobel was born on June 15, 1947, in The Bronx, New York City. She graduated from The Bronx High School of Science and Binghamton University. She wrote Longitude: The True Story of a Lone Genius Who Solved the Greatest Scientific Problem of His Time in 1995. The story was made into a television movie. Her book Galileo's Daughter: A Historical Memoir of Science, Faith, and Love was a finalist for the 2000 Pulitzer Prize for Biography or Autobiography. She holds honorary doctor of letters degrees from the University of Bath and Middlebury College.
Karen Ashe
Karen Ashe, MD, PhD, is the director of the N. Bud Grossman Center for Memory Research and Care and holds the Edmund Wallace and Anne Marie Tulloch Chairs in Neurology and Neuroscience at the University of Minnesota. She received her MD from Harvard University, and her PhD from MIT. Her mouse models of Alzheimer's disease have been used the world over for validating genetic linkage studies, for understanding disease pathogenesis, for seeking markers of early disease processes, and for testing candidate therapies. Among many honors, she has received the MetLife Award for Alzheimer’s disease research, the Potamkin Prize of the American Academy of Neurology, the Khalid Iqbal Lifetime Achievement Award of the Alzheimer’s Association, and is a member of the National Academy of Medicine.
Noemi Daucé
Noëmi Daucé is currently Chief Curator at Louvre Abu Dhabi in charge of Archaeology. She is also managing the Research policy of the museum. A former student of the National Heritage Institute in Paris (INP), she is a graduate of Archaeology and Art History at the University of Paris I Panthéon Sorbonne and the Ecole du Louvre. In 2010, she was appointed Curator for Archaeology in the French Museum of Fine Arts and Archaeology of Besançon and participated to the renovation of the museum and to the construction of the new storage area. She has been involved in the project of the Louvre Abu Dhabi since 2014 when she joined Agence France Museum as the curator for Archaeology and settled in Abu Dhabi to prepare the opening of the LAD. She has developed the LAD collection with major acquisitions, overviewing their conservation treatment, study and valorization through associated interpretation tools. She has supervised the installation of the collection of the French Loans in the First Wing of the Permanent Galleries, running from Prehistory to Late Antiquity. Being in charge of local and international loans, she has fostered international cooperation with other institutions in the UAE but also with Jordan, Oman and Saudi Arabia.
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