'Who Will Do Science in the 21st Century?': STEMM Speaker Series with Alison Williams

Williams' talk will investigate the current status of the U.S. scientific pipelines. She will also suggest positive ways that the scientific community (from students to retirees) can participate in retention efforts.

Alison Williams is originally from Wooster, Ohio. She began her scientific career washing glassware and weighing manure in a dairy science research lab in high school.

Williams received her B.A. in chemistry from Wesleyan University and an M.S. and Ph.D. in biophysical chemistry from the University of Rochester. She has taught at Swarthmore College, Wesleyan University, Rutgers University and Princeton University. She has been nationally recognized for her outreach and mentoring efforts and has been named a Sigma Xi Distinguished Lecturer for 2006–2008.

As an administrator at Princeton, she has served as a dean of freshmen and sophomores and the associate director of the program in diversity and graduate recruiting for the Department of Molecular Biology. In her free time, she is a semiprofessional oboist and the mother of an 8-year-old-son and 4-year-old daughter.

What: STEMM Speaker Series with Alison Williams

Where: 500 Swift Hall – Don't know where Swift Hall is?

When: Monday, May 12, 5–6 p.m.

Whom to call for more information: Michael Riley, 513-556-5544

Free and open to the public.