Cambridge Coffee Hour
Date and Time
March 31, 2011
04:00PM - 05:00PM EDT
Location
Pierce 100F
CAMBRIDGE COFFEE HOUR WITH MELISSA FRANKLIN: "QUESTIONS I ASK MYSELF WHILESITTING UNDER MY DESK"Thu, Mar 31, 4 - 5 pmPierce 100FPlease join HGWISE and Women in Physics for a very special joint event onThursday March 31:Coffee Hour with Melissa Franklin: "Questions I ask myself while sitting undermy desk"Take a break from your daily drudgery and come hear about the Adventures ofProfessor Franklin from grad school to the Chair of the Harvard PhysicsDepartment. Find out how she got through the battlefield that is grad school,became the first tenured woman in the physics department, juggled parenthoodand professorship and all of this at a time when the Harvard Physics Departmentwas still described as a male club that was "something out of an old Englishnovel".We promise you oodles of entertainment and much food for thought...and if that'snot enough to whet your appetite we will be serving the most amazing coffee anddelicious pastries from Crema Cafe!Please RSVP to kahawala@physics.harvard.edu