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Dear Geography undergraduate students, Please see the invitation below related to a Women in Science event to held this Friday. Inexpensive tickets are available through the College on a first come first served basis starting on Tuesday. Best wishes, DA /<http://web.utk.edu/~utkgeog/> ________________________________ From: Boake, Christine R B Sent: Friday, March 08, 2013 10:13 AM Subject: Invitation to events highlighting Women in Science - please share Dear Colleagues, There will be a reading of a play titled "The Feeblemindedness of Woman," which is about Gerty Cori, the first American woman to win a Nobel Prize in science. It takes place in the evening of Friday 15 March. We in the College office imagine that graduate and undergraduate students might be interested in attending the play reading, and in order to help them do that we will provide 20 tickets at the low low price of $5 each (the College is covering the difference). These will be available to any graduate or undergraduate student whose major is in A&S. The tickets will be distributed starting at 10:30 AM on Tuesday 12 March on a first-come, first-served basis at the College reception desk in Ayres. Please forward this message to graduate and undergraduate majors in your department who might be interested in these events. I'm sending the message to all departments because I don't want to assume that only scientists will be interested. Regards, Chris *********************************************** Christine R. Boake Associate Dean, College of Arts & Sciences Professor of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology The University of Tennessee Knoxville TN 37996 865 974 4378 (office) 865 974 4352 (fax) www.artsci.utk.edu<https://tmail.utk.edu/owa/UrlBlockedError.aspx> *********************************************** You are Invited to Two Events in March Celebrating Women in Science Stories of Women in Science: Four distinguished local scientists tell their own personal storiesabout a life in science Sunday March 10, East Tennessee History Center, Downtown Knoxville 2:00-4:00 pm, all ages welcome FREE EVENT! A panel of four notable women scientists from our own region will each share stories about the personal relationships and discoveries that inspired their own careers in science, and "reports from the field" of the experience of women in the professions of science. This free informal event will take place in the auditorium of the East Tennessee History Center in downtown Knoxville from 2:00-4:00 pm on Sunday, March 10. The public is invited to attend. The panel includes Dr. Theresa Lee, a behavioral neuroscientist and Dean of the College of Arts and Sciences, Dr. Cynthia Peterson, a cell and molecular biologist and Associate Dean of the College of Arts and Sciences, Dr. Karla Matteson, a biochemical geneticist, and co-director of the UT Medical Center's Genetics Center, and Dr. Suzanne Lenhart, an applied mathemetician and co-director of UT's National Institute for Mathematical and Biological Synthesis. Local playwright Staci Swedeen will moderate. Staci is the author of the play "The Feeblemindedness of Woman," about the Nobel Prize-winning biochemist Gerty Cori, and a specialist in the history of women in science. The panel discussion will be followed by open questions from the audience and a reception. This is a great event to encourage aspiring students to learn firsthand about the unique lives of practicing scientists and some of the many paths to success in science. All ages are welcome. Parking is free downtown in the Market Square or Locust Street garages. For information, email Jamey Dobbs at [log in to unmask]<mailto:[log in to unmask]>. ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ "The Feeblemindedness of Woman" - A special performance about the first American woman to win a Nobel Prize in Science Friday March 15, Hilton Knoxville You are invited to aprofessional staged reading of The Feeble-Mindedness of Woman, a humorous and inspiring new "play within a play" telling the story of Gerty Cori, the first American woman to win a Nobel Prize in science. Cori and her husband, Carl, who was her partner in research, shared a 1947 Nobel in Physiology or Medicine for their discoveries about sugar and starch metabolism that later led to treatments for diabetes. The title is an ironic reference to a notorious anti-feminist pamphlet, published in 1900, which argued that women were physically and mentally inferior to men. · WHEN? Friday, March 15, 2013, Showtime at 8:00 p.m. Tickets include an appetizer and dessert buffet beginning at 7:00 p.m. · WHERE? Hilton Knoxville, 501 West Church Avenue, free parking at the Walnut Street Garage. · HOW MUCH? Tickets are $30 in advance and $35 at the door. Advance tickets may be purchased online at http://lwvknoxville.org/Fundraiser.html. · WHO BENEFITS? The League of Women Voters of Knoxville-Knox County and their nonpartisan citizen education programming Who was Gerty Cori? · Gerty Theresa Radnitz Cori was born in Prague in 1896. She belonged to a generation of women who had few opportunities for education, especially in the sciences. She and Carl married soon after they graduated from medical school in 1920. In 1922, they emigrated to the U.S., becoming citizens in 1928. · In their first job, at what is now the Roswell Park Cancer Institute in Buffalo, the Coris published more than 50 scientific papers together. In 1931 the Coris moved to Washington University of St. Louis, where they spent the rest of their careers. · They focused on carbohydrate metabolism and discovered the path by which the sugar glucose is broken down to lactic acid in muscle cells and then re-synthesized and stored as “animal starch,” or glycogen, which in turn, can be broken down to glucose, when energy is needed. This pathway is now called the Cori Cycle. · Despite the recognized value of her research, few universities would employ Gerty Cori with her husband. The 1930s and 1940s were a time when it was rare for even the most talented professional woman to continue her career, and even rarer for a husband and wife to collaborate in their careers. One interviewer told Carl that it was “un-American” for a husband and wife to work together. The Coris defied the limitations together, with spirit. · Gerty Cori was only the third woman to receive a Nobel Prize in science and the FIRST woman to receive a Nobel in Physiology or Medicine. ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ Contact for events: Jamey Dobbs, [log in to unmask]<mailto:[log in to unmask]> [cid:[log in to unmask]] -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- To review the archives of CLUBGGY or Join/Leave the list go to: http://listserv.utk.edu/archives/clubggy.html