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Appendix 1-1
Committee on Gender Differences in Careers of Science, Engineering,
and Mathematics Faculty
Biographical Information
Dr. Claude Canizares (Co-Chair) is the Vice President for Research and Associate
Provost and the Bruno Rossi Professor of Physics at MIT. He has overall responsibility for
research activity and policy at the Institute, overseeing more than a dozen interdisciplinary
research laboratories and centers including the MIT Lincoln Laboratory, the Broad Institute, the
Plasma Science and Fusion Center, the Research Laboratory of Electronics, the Institute for
Soldier Nanotechnology, the Francis Bitter Magnet Laboratory, Haystack Observatory and the
Division of Health Sciences and Technology. He oversees several offices dealing with research
policy and administration; he chairs the Research Policy Committee and serves on the Academic
Council and the Academic Appointments committee among others. He serves on the National
Research Council (NRC) committees on Science Engineering and Public Policy and Science
Communication and National Security, and he has served on the Council of the National
Academy of Sciences and as chair of the Space Studies Board. He is on the Board of Directors
of the L-3 Communications, Inc. Professor Canizares is a member of the National Academy of
Sciences and the International Academy of Astronautics and is a fellow of
the American Academy of Arts & Sciences, the American Physical Society, and the American
Association for the Advancement of Science. Professor Canizares is the Associate Director of
the Chandra X-ray Observatory Center and a principal investigator on NASA's Chandra X-ray
Observatory, having led the development of the Chandra High Resolution Transmission Grating
Spectrometer. His main research interests are high resolution x-ray spectroscopy and plasma
diagnostics of supernova remnants and clusters of galaxies, X-ray studies of dark matter, X-ray
properties of quasars and active galactic nuclei, and observational cosmology. He is author or
co-author of more than 200 scientific papers. Professor Canizares earned his BA, MA and PhD
in physics from Harvard University. He came to MIT as a postdoctoral fellow in the Physics
Department in 1971 and joined the faculty in 1974. Professor Canizares has received several
awards including decoration for Meritorious Civilian Service to the United States Air Force, two
NASA Public Service Medals, and the Goddard Medal of the American Astronautical Society.
Dr. Sally Shaywitz (Co-Chair) is the Audrey G. Ratner Professor in Learning Development at
the Yale University School of Medicine and Co-Director of the Yale Center for Learning,
Reading and Attention, and the newly formed Yale Center for Dyslexia & Creativity.
Dr. Shaywitz, an elected member of the Institute of Medicine of the National Academy of
Sciences, has served as Chair of her Section and on the Membership Committee of the IOM. In
recognition of her scientific contributions, she was awarded an honorary Doctor of Science
degree from Williams College; the Townsend Harris Medal of the City College of New York;
the Annie Glenn Award for Leadership from the Ohio State University; the Achievement Award
in Women’s Health of the Society for the Advancement of Women’s Health Research; and the
Distinguished Alumnus Award of the Albert Einstein College of Medicine. In recognition of her
contributions to the National Academy of Sciences, Dr. Shaywitz was named a National
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Associate of the National Academies. Dr. Shaywitz served on the Advisory Council of the
National Institute of Neurological Diseases and Stroke (NINDS), on the National Research
Council Committee on Women in Science and Engineering and the Scientific Advisory Board of
the March of Dimes; she currently serves on the National Advisory Board of Recordings for the
Blind and Dyslexic and on the National Board of the Institute for Educational Sciences of the
Department of Education. Dr. Shaywitz currently co-chairs the National Research Council
Committee on Gender Differences in the Careers of Science, Engineering and Mathematics
Faculty; she most recently presented at the Gordon Research Conference on the Auditory Cortex
and served on: the Institute of Medicine Committee on Understanding the Biology of Sex and
Gender Differences; the National Reading Panel and the Committee to Prevent Reading
Difficulties in Young Children of the National Research Council. Dr. Shaywitz is the author of
over 200 scientific articles, chapters and books, including, Overcoming Dyslexia (Knopf, 2003).
Her research provides the basic framework: conceptual model, epidemiology and neurobiology
for the scientific study of dyslexia. Dr. Shaywitz originated and championed the “Sea of
Strengths” model of dyslexia which emphasizes a sea of strengths of higher critical thinking and
creativity surrounding the encapsulated weakness found in children and adults who are dyslexic.
Dr. Shaywitz received her AB (with Honors) from the City University and her MD from Albert
Einstein College of Medicine.
Dr. Linda Abriola is Dean of Engineering and Professor of Civil and Environmental
Engineering at Tufts University. Prior to that appointment, she was the Horace Williams King
Collegiate Professor of Environmental Engineering at the University of Michigan. Dr. Abriola
received Ph.D. and Master's degrees in Civil Engineering from Princeton University and a
Bachelor's Degree in Civil Engineering from Drexel University. Her primary research focus is
the integration of mathematical modeling and laboratory experiments to investigate and elucidate
processes governing the transport, fate, and remediation of nonaqueous phase liquid organic
contaminants in the subsurface. Dr. Abriola’s numerous professional activities have included
service on the US Environmental Protection Agency Science Advisory Board, the National
Research Council Water Science and Technology Board, and the US Department of Energy’s
NABIR (Natural and Accelerated BIoremediation Research) Advisory Committee. An author of
more than 130 refereed publications, Dr. Abriola has been the recipient of a number of awards,
including the Association for Women Geoscientist's Outstanding Educator Award (1996), the
National Ground Water Association’s Distinguished Darcy Lectureship (1996), and designation
as a ISI Highly Cited Author in Ecology/Environment (2002). She is a Fellow of the American
Geophysical Union and a member of both the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and the
National Academy of Engineering. Dr. Abriola is an elected member of the American Society of
Engineering Education Engineering Dean’s Council and the NAE governing Council.
Dr. Jane Buikstra is a bioarchaeologist and is a Regents’ Professor at Arizona State University
where she also directs the Center for Bioarchaeological Research within the School of Human
Evolution and Social Change. She was formerly the Leslie Spier Distinguished Professor of
Anthropology at the University of New Mexico, and the Harold H. Swift Distinguished Service
Professor of Anthropology at the University of Chicago. She received her Ph.D. from the
University of Chicago. She was elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 1987. Her
research interests include paleopathology, human skeletal biology, paleodemography, forensic
anthropology, genetic relationships within and between paleopopulations, paleodiet, and funerary
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archaeology. She teaches Human Osteology, Paleopathology, Bioarchaeology, Forensic
Anthropology, Archaeology of Death, and Field Archaeology. She is a past President of the
American Anthropological Association, the American Association of Physical Anthropologists,
and the Paleopathology Association and is currently President of the Center for American
Archeology. She has received numerous research grants from National Science Foundation, the
National Endowment for the Humanities, the Wenner-Gren Foundation, the National Geographic
Society, and the Smithsonian Institution. She has authored or edited 19 books, including the
Bioarchaeology of Tuberculosis: A Global View of a Re-Emerging Disease (2003) with
Charlotte Roberts, and Bioarchaeology: The Contextual Approach to the Study of Human
Remains (2006) with Lane Beck. In addition, she has published over 100 articles or chapters on
a variety of subjects, including bone chemistry in eastern North America, ancient treponematosis
and tuberculosis in the Americas and in Egypt, diet and health of Argaric peoples (Bronze Age,
Spain) australopithecine spinal pathology, trauma in Copan’s founding dynasty (Maya), coca-
chewing, cranial deformation, tuberculosis, and funerary rituals of ancient Andeans.
Dr. Alicia Carriquiry, B.S. (Ag Engineering) Universidad del Uruguay, M.Sc. (Animal
Genetics), University of Illinois, M.Sc. (Statistics), Iowa State University, Ph.D. (Statistics and
Animal Science), Iowa State University, is Professor of Statistics and has served as Associate
Provost, Iowa State University. Dr. Carriquiry is an Elected Member of the International
Statistical Institute, a Fellow of the American Statistical Association and a Fellow of the Institute
of Mathematical Statistics. She is Past President of the International Society for Bayesian
Analysis, and served on the Executive Committee of the Institute of Mathematical Statistics. She
has been a Trustee of the National Institute of Statistical Sciences since 1997, and has served in
its Executive Committee. She is currently Vice President of the American Statistical Association
and a Member of the Council of the International Statistical Institute. Dr. Carriquiry is Associate
Editor of Statistical Sciences and Associate Editor of The Annals of Applied Statistics and serves
on the editorial boards of two Latin American Journals in mathematics and statistics. She
currently serves in the Human Subjects Review Board of the US Environmental Protection
Agency and is a consultant to the Chilean government on the upcoming National Health Survey.
Dr. Carriquiry has published over 90 refereed articles and technical reports and has co-edited
four books. Her research interests are in the development of Bayesian methods and applications
in public health, nutrition, traffic safety and genetics. She has also collaborated in research
projects in the area of stochastic volatility and other non-linear models for time-dependent data.
She has served on several National Academy of Sciences committees, in addition to the present
one. She participated in the Subcommittee on Interpretation and Uses of the Dietary Reference
Intakes; the standing Committee on Applied and Theoretical Statistics; the Committee on
Assessing the Feasibility and Technical Capabilities of a National Ballistics Database; the
Committee on Eligibility for the Women and Infant Children Program; and the Committee on
Ethics and Scientific Validity of Toxicity Studies Involving Human Subjects. She currently
serves on the standing Committee on National Statistics and on the standing Committee on the
Use of Evidence in Public Policy. She was recently a reviewer of Beyond Bias and Barriers
Dr. Ronald G. Ehrenberg is the Irving M. Ives Professor of Industrial and Labor Relations and
Economics and a Stephen H. Weiss Presidential Fellow at Cornell University, as well as the
Director of the Cornell Higher Education Research Institute. He currently is an elected member
of Cornell’s Board of Trustees and from July 1, 1995 to June 30, 1998 served as Cornell’s Vice
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President for Academic Programs, Planning and Budgeting. Dr Ehrenberg received his B.A in
mathematics from Harpur College (Binghamton University) in 1966, a Ph.D. in economics from
Northwestern University in 1970, and an Honorary Doctor of Science from the State University
of New York in 2008. A member of the Cornell faculty for 33 years, Dr. Ehrenberg has authored
or coauthored over 120 papers and authored or edited 20 books. He is a research associate at the
National Bureau of Economic Research, a past president and fellow of the Society of Labor
Economists, a fellow of the TIAA-CREF Institute, a fellow of the American Educational
Research Association a member of the National Academy of Education and a member of the
National Academy of Social Insurance. Dr. Ehrenberg previously chaired the AAUP committees
on the economic status of the profession and on retirement, and served on the American
Economic Association’s Committee on the Status of Women in the Economics Profession. At the
NRC he previously served on the Committee on Dimensions, Causes and Implications of Trends
in Early Career Events for Life Scientists, the Committee on Methods for Forecasting Demand
and Supply of Doctoral Scientists and Engineers, the PGA Oversight Committee and the OSEP
Advisory Board. He previously chaired the NRC’s Board on Higher Education and the
Workforce and is a National Associate of the National Academies.
Dr. Joan Girgus is Professor of Psychology and Special Assistant to the Dean of the Faculty for
gender issues at Princeton University. She has also served as Chair of the Psychology
Department and Dean of the College at Princeton. Prior to coming to Princeton, she served as a
faculty member and dean at the City College of CUNY. Girgus has done research and written
books and papers on perception and perceptual development, personality development, the
transition from childhood to adolescence, and the psychosocial basis of depression. She has also
written papers on undergraduate science education and on women in science. Her research has
been supported by the National Science Foundation, the National Institute of Mental Health, the
National Institute of Child Health and Human Development, the Ford Foundation and the City
University of New York. Girgus is one of the principals of The Learning Alliance, the first just-
in-time provider of strategic expertise to college and university leaders. From 1993-2003, she
was a member of the executive committee of the Pew Higher Education Roundtable and its
successor, the Knight Higher Education Roundtable, which worked with a broad range of
colleges and universities to identify “best practices” for academic restructuring, and was a
consulting editor of Policy Perspectives, which published essays on major issues in higher
education. From 1987-99, she directed the Pew Science Program, a national program to improve
undergraduate science education sponsored by the Pew Charitable Trusts. Girgus is currently a
trustee of Adelphi University, the Wenner-Gren Foundation, and McCarter Theatre. She has also
served on the Board of Trustees of the American Association on Higher Education (AAHE) and
Sarah Lawrence College. Girgus received her B.A. from Sarah Lawrence College and both her
M.A. and Ph.D. from the Graduate Faculty of the New School for Social Research in New York
City.
Dr. Arleen Leibowitz is Professor of Public Policy at the UCLA School of Public Affairs. Dr.
Leibowitz has conducted research in health and labor economics since obtaining her Ph.D. in
Economics at Columbia University. Dr. Leibowitz's research centers on investments in human
capital and in health. She has examined the role of maternal education in investments in children,
educational outcomes for children, the demand for child care, the effect of education on women's
labor force participation, secular trends in women's labor supply, and the effect of maternity
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leave on new mothers' return to work. As a member of the Health Insurance Experiment team at
RAND, she worked extensively in health economics and policy, studying the effect of cost-
sharing on medical care expenditures, children’s health care use, birth rates, expenditures for
prescription and over-the-counter drugs, and managed care. Dr. Leibowitz led the economics
team of the HIV Cost and Services Utilization Study. Currently, Dr. Leibowitz heads the Policy
Core of the UCLA Center for HIV Identification, Prevention, and Treatment Services, where her
research examines how public policies, such as Medicaid and ADAP, and private policies, such
as managed care, affect the amount and kind of medical care obtained by persons living with
HIV. Dr. Leibowitz is one of the core participants in the Blue Sky Group, which seeks to
redirect the discussion of health care reform from an exclusive focus on incremental
improvements in medical care and in insurance to a more comprehensive vision of the health
system. Dr. Leibowitz served on the Committee on National Statistics of the NRC (CNSTAT)
from 2001 to 2004.
Dr. Thomas N. Taylor is Roy A. Roberts Distinguished Professor in the Department of Ecology
and Evolutionary Biology at the University of Kansas. He is also Senior Curator of the Natural
History Museum and Biodiversity Research Center, and Courtesy Professor for the Department
of Geology. He has served as Director of the State of Kansas NSF Experimental Program to
Stimulate Competitive Research (EPSCoR) Program. Dr. Taylor holds a B.A. degree in botany
from Miami University (Oxford) and a Ph.D. in botany from the University of Illinois (1964).
He was a postdoctoral fellow at Yale University. He has served on numerous state, national and
international committees including: the National Science Foundation - Education and Human
Resources Advisory Committee, National Science Foundation -GPRA-Performance Assessment
Advisory Committee, National Science Foundation - MPSAC/EHRAC Committee to Review
Undergraduate Education in the Math and Physical Sciences, Chair of the Strategic Planning and
Assessment Committee for NIH BRIN KU Medical Center, Senator Pat Robert’s Advisory
Committee in Science, Technology, Future Kansas Implementation Advisory Committee,
Bioinformatics Core Advisory Committee. He served on the Polar Research Board for the NRC
and as Faculty Advisor to the Chancellor of the Ohio Board of Regents, and on the Government-
University-Industry Research Roundtable for the State of Ohio. Dr. Taylor has published over
380 peer reviewed research papers and authored or 8 edited books on various aspects of the
paleobiology of Antarctic fossil biotas, biology and evolution of fossil microbes, and evolution
of early land plants. Dr. Taylor has received numerous honors including the Research
Achievement Award in the State of Kansas, Distinguished Scholar Award and Teaching Award
from Ohio State University, Merit Award from the Botanical Society of America. Dr. Taylor is a
member of the National Academy of Sciences, and is currently a member of the National Science
Board where he serves on the Committee on Education and Human Resources, Subcommittee on
Polar Issues, and Committee on Strategy and Budget.
Dr. Lilian Shiao-Yen Wu, is Program Executive, Worldwide University Relations, IBM
Technology Strategy and Innovation and a research scientist. In this position she manages IBM’s
portfolio of investments in projects to support research collaborations between IBM and
universities. These research collaborations often also include governments, foundations, or
companies. Prior to this position she was Consultant for Corporate Technology Strategy
Development and for most of her career a research scientist in applied mathematics at the IBM
T.J. Watson Research Center in Yorktown Heights, NY. Her major research interests are
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mathematical modeling and risk analysis, particularly for the services industry and the electric
and energy industries. She holds a BS in Mathematics from the University of Maryland, College
Park and MS and PhD degrees from Cornell University. Her professional services include: Chair
of the National Research Council's Committee on Women in Science, Engineering, and
Medicine; member of the S&E Workforce Committee of the Government-University-Industry
Research Roundtable of the National Research Council; and member of NSF’s Advisory
Committee on International Science and Engineering and NSF’s Corporate Alliance.
She was a member of President Clinton's Committee of Advisors on Science and Technology
(PCAST), NSF’s Committee on Equal Opportunity in Science and Engineering and served on the
Advisory Committee of NSF's Engineering Directorate. Among her other professional services,
she served on AAAS's Committee on Public Understanding of Science and Technology and
DOE’s Secretary of Energy's Laboratory Operations Advisory Board. She received her PhD in
Applied Mathematics from Cornell University. Her major research interests are analysis and
modeling of technology enabled and people intensive complex systems, particularly in the
services sector. She is also a member of the Board of trustees of the New School University, the
President’s Council of Olin College, and the Global Advisory Board of Fordham University
School of Business.
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