Women's roles in the sciences

Very interesting, topical and timely conference coming up next week at the Georgia Center:

Top women who study topics in medicine, global hunger and obesity will share their experiences at the ninth annual Global Educational Forum on March 19 at the University of Georgia Center for Continuing Education.

This year's conference theme, "Women in Science and Medicine: Challenges, Achievements and Way Forward," brings experts from around the globe to delve into a multicultural, multi-discipline event. Forum topics include women in African medicine, global hunger, breast cancer and patient diversity, gendered politics of health and obesity epidemics around the world.

The annual forum focuses on women in scientific fields because they are, traditionally, an underrepresented group, said Rose Chepyator-Thomson, a professor in the College of Education's sport management program and organizer of the conference.

See the link for the full roster of speakers. The ebbs and flows of societal progress can be dizzying, if also dismaying from time to time. So it's important to move beyond celebrating achievements and initiatives and continue to point the way forward. These experts sharing their work and its impact in the world are doing just that. We listen, learn, build expectations and new ambitions about improving the world by positively effecting the people in it.