Douglass Project to Celebrate its 21st BirthdayBirthday party will honor biologist and former Douglass dean Jewel Plummer Cobb
| WHAT: | A celebration of the coming of age of the Douglass Project, which supports women and girls interested in studying the sciences, technology, engineering or math |
| WHO: | Guest of honor: Jewel Plummer Cobb, cell biologist and former dean of Douglass College; Honorees: Ellen Mappen, founder, the Douglass Project, and Mary Hartman, former dean of Douglass College and director of Institute for Womens Leadership Introduction by Carmen Twillie Ambar, dean of Douglass Residential College Speaker: Regina Riccioni, director, Douglass Project |
| WHEN: | Saturday, Sept. 29, 12:30 p.m. |
| WHERE: | Bunting-Cobb residence hall for women in science, technology, engineering and math, Douglass Campus, 47 Dudley Road, New Brunswick |
BACKGROUND: The Douglass Project is an award-winning program created in 1986 to support girls and women who want to major in the sciences, technology, engineering or math. The Douglass Project sponsors a four-year hands-on science program for girls in grades 9 to 12. It also provides peer, faculty and graduate student mentoring as well as research, intern and job-shadowing opportunities for women and girls.
Jewel Plummer Cobb, born in 1924, is a cell biologist and physiologist who has received multiple honors for her research on cell pigmentation and for her distinguished educational work on behalf of minorities and women. From 1978 to 1981, Cobb was a professor of biology at Douglass College, where she also served as dean.
This event is sponsored by the Office for the Promotion of Women in Science, Engineering and Mathematics at Rutgers University, under the leadership of associate vice president Joan W. Bennett and the associate director of the office, Catherine Duckett.
Contact: Patricia Lamiell
732-932-7084, Ext. 615
E-mail: plamiell@ur.rutgers.edu
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