Mini Grant Events & Programs

Mark your calenders! Our mini-grant recipients have been hard at work scheduling events for the Fall semester. Please check back for updated location information and added events!

Women of Color Scholars Project: Building an Intellectual Space at Rutgers University
Organized by Drs. Robyn Rodriguez & Zaire Dinzey-Flores
Given the challenges faced by women of color faculty, we have created a one-year program that aims to foster a nurturing academic community for women of color faculty at Rutgers University. 

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"Social Complexity and the Evolution of Intelligence"
Dr. Kay Holekamp
Friday, November 13th, 2009
1:30 pm – 3:30pm
Fiber Optics Auditorium, Busch Campus
Organized by: Drs. Danielle McCarthy & David Vicario
Psychology Department, New Brunswick

Kay Holekamp, Ph.D., Director of the  interdisciplinary program in Ecology, Evolutionary Biology & Behavior and Professor of Zoology at Michigan State University will give a keynote lecture open to the university community and sponsored by the SAS Psychology Department. Dr. Holekamp will present her ground-breaking behavioral ecology research on gender equity in spotted hyenas, a species in which gender status follows a pattern opposite to that of other mammals; females are dominant. Dr. Holekamp will also conduct a lunch seminar on professional development issues for women in science targeted for graduate students and post-doctoral fellows in the social and biological sciences at Rutgers but also applicable to those in physical and mathematical sciences and in engineering. Dr. Holekamp teaches a course on professional development issues and will highlight the issues of particular relevance for women in the sciences at this luncheon.  Dr. Holekamp will also meet with junior faculty and graduate students in individual and small group meetings to discuss research and professional development issues.

"No Laughing Matter: Scientific Life among the Hyenas"
Hyena Science Lunch Discussion
Monday, November 16th, 2009
12:00 pm – 2:00pm
Pre-registration required; register online here.
Cook Campus Center, Multipurpose Room B
Organized by Drs. Danielle McCarthy & David Vicario
Psychology Department, New Brunswick

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"Why do physicists have mistresses? When sex meets physical science"
Dr. Amy Bug
Professor of Physics
Swarthmore College
Thursday, November 19th, 2009
5:00 pm – 7:00 pm
Fine Arts Building, Room 110
314 Linden Street
Rutgers University, Camden Campus
Camden, NJ 08102
Reception to follow.
Organized by: Dr. Laurie Bernstein, "When Sex Meets Science"

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Dr. Amy Rossman
Research Leader for the Systematic Mycology & Microbiology Laboratory, USDA
Friday, December 4th, 2009
12:30 pm - 1:30 pm
Organized by Dr. Ning Zhang
Foran Hall, Room 138A