Archive for August, 2007

Gifted women in science: Danica McKellar on being girly and tech savvy

Tavis Smiley: Danica McKellar has enjoyed a successful career in television, first on the “Wonder Years.. and more recently on the “West Wing.” Along with acting, one of her other great passions is math. She is actually a renowned mathematician who has a physics theorem named after her. How concerned are you about the future [...]

Enjoying being gifted women in science and technology

Caltech’s women students At Caltech [in Pasadena, CA], a record number of women have enrolled this fall… 87 women are entering a freshman class of 206 students in September. That 37% share is Caltech’s highest since it began admitting undergraduate women in 1970, when pioneering females comprised 14% of the entering class. [Photo no longer [...]