Professors Sally Chapman, Dina Merrer, Marisa Buzzeo '01 and their students speak about faculty research, mentoring women in science and making chemistry accessible. Watch Video
We may not believe that men are from Mars and women are from Venus anymore, but the idea that gender differences are hardwired into our biology has long been a scientifically—and socially—accepted fact. With the publication of her groundbreaking new book, Brain Storm: The Flaws in the Science of Sex Differences, Barnard women's studies professor and sociomedical scientist Rebecca Jordan-Young may be about to change that.
"I am very pleased that the department and the College has seen fit to put me in Lucyle Hook's shoes, as it were, because she had a formidable presence while she was at Barnard," says Kim Hall, professor of English. Hall recently assumed the newly endowed Lucyle Hook Chair in honor of this beloved English faculty member, a scholar of seventeenth-century literature and drama who passed away in 2003 at the age of 102. "I feel a kind of kinship [with her]," says Hall, citing Hook's scholarly interests as well as her love of international travel and dedication to women's issues.
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