Mentoring Program Targets Minority Women: Sistahs in Science |
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Sistahs In Science (Sistahs) is a student organization for minority women in the sciences, co-founded about five years ago by Dr. Sheila Browne, Professor of Chemistry at Mount Holyoke College and recipient of the 1998 Presidential Award for Excellence in Science, Mathematics, and Engineering in Mentoring. Sistahs demonstrates how to start and successfully operate a science mentoring program for minority women. Sistahs has more than 50 women science majors and offers peer mentoring, tutoring, and workshops to increase academic and career success. Nearly 30 science faculty serve as mentors. With only about 20% of U.S. Scientists being women, and an even smaller number being minority, Sistahs works to recruit, retain, and enable minority women to succeed and thrive in the scientific community. Kelly Wilkinson reports. (8:38)
This story features interviews with: Dr. Sheila Browne, Co-Founder and Professor of Chemistry, Mount Holyoke College, South Hadley, Massachusetts; Dr. Donna Nelson, Professor of Chemistry, University of Oklahoma, Norman, Oklahoma; Charity Bishop, Current Student in the Sistahs Program at Mount Holyoke College; and Le Ann Williams, Former Student, Research Associate, Department of Molecular Medicine, Boston University Medical Center, Boston, Massachusetts. |
For more information, please visit:
http://www.mtholyoke.edu/courses/sbrowne/sistahs/final/title.shtml
http://64.171.10.183/beta/pdf/nelsonhs.pdf
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