CAMDEN – A physicist and scholar of gender and race in science will deliver the free public lecture “Why Physicists Have Mistresses” at Rutgers University—Camden at 5 p.m. Thursday, Nov. 19.
Bug's lecture will address race and gender issues within the field, using history, natural and social science, demographics, and independent research on “the credibility and authority of men and women in the physics classroom.”
“We will try to tackle the issue of why the field is so lopsided in terms of race and gender—and what to do about it,” notes Bug.
Sponsored by the Rutgers–Camden Women’s Studies Program, this lecture is part of the colloquium “When Sex Meets Science,” which is funded through Rutgers University Faculty Advancement and Institutional Re-Imagination (RU-Fair) that seeks to promote women into science majors and into the sciences faculty.
“It is well known that women in the sciences face challenges related to gender that often leave them at a disadvantage in the hiring pool, in the classroom, and as applicants for post-doctoral grants and fellowships,” says colloquium organizer Laurie Bernstein, associate professor of history at Rutgers–Camden, where she directs the Women’s Studies Program.
The lecture will take place in room 110 of the Fine Arts Building, located on Third Street, between Cooper Street and the Benjamin Franklin Bridge on the Rutgers–Camden Campus.
The Camden Campus of Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, offers 34 undergraduate and 17 graduate programs, including the nation’s first PhD program in childhood studies; a nationally ranked and respected School of Law; an MFA in creative writing; and a MBA from southern New Jersey’s first internationally accredited business school. Rutgers–Camden is home to more than 250 faculty whose research, teaching, and service endeavors make positive impacts throughout the globe.
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Written by Courtney A. Preston.
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