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International Women's Day Celebration

March 8, 2021
via Zoom Webinar
 

International Women's Day Event Recording
Click link below for video:
https://mediaspace.illinois.edu/media/t/1_j87sno0x
(1:17)

SPEAKER LIST
U.S. Senator Tammy Duckworth
Recognized Woman: Edith Nourse Rogers

Timothy Killeen
President, University of Illinois System
Recognized Woman: Jocelyn Bell Burnell

Steven Anderson
School of Social Work
Recognized Woman: Leymah Gbowee

Maimouna Barro
Center for African Studies
Recognized Woman: Khadidiatou Dia

Sulagna Chakraborty
Program in Ecology Evolution & Conservation Biology
Recognized Woman: Mary Guinan

Jerry Dávila
Illinois Global Institute
Recognized Woman: Bertha Lutz 

Sean Garrick
Vice Chancellor for Diversity, Equity & Inclusion
Recognized Woman: Nancy "Rusty" Barcelo

Harley Johnson
College of Engineering
Recognized Woman: Judith Liebman

Maureen Marshall
Russian, East European, and Eurasian Center
Recognized Woman: Karen Rubinson

Susan Martinis
Vice Chancellor for Research
Recognized Woman: Mildred Rebstock

Wendy Rogers
Kinesiology and Community Health
Recognized Woman: Lillian Gilbreth

Lila Sharif
Asian American Studies
Recognized Woman: Yen Le Espiritu

Rebecca Smith
Department of Pathobiology
Recognized Woman: Alice Evans

Recommended Links

• Edith Nourse Rogers
  •  “ROGERS, Edith Nourse” (website) 
  •  “Edith Nourse Rogers” (film)
• Jocelyn Bell Burnell
  • “A Quaker Astronomer Reflects: Can a Scientist also be Religious” by Jocelyn Bell Burnell (book)
  • “Jocelyn Bell Burnell” (website) 
  • Jocelyn Bell Burnell Special Public Lecture: The Discovery of Pulsars (live lecture)
  • “I Changed Astronomy Forever. He Won the Nobel Prize for it.” (documentary)
• Leymah Gbowee
  • “Mighty Be Our Powers: How Sisterhood, Prayer, and Sex Changed a Nation at War” by Leymah Gbowee (book)
  • “Leymah Gbowee Biographical” (website) 
  • “Leymah Gbowee: A Call from God” (podcast) 
  • “Leymah Gbowee: Nobel Lecture” (live lecture)
• Khadidiatou Diallo
  • “L’œuvre romanesque d'Alex La Guma: Effets esthétiques et littéraires (French Edition)” by Khadidiatou Diallo (book)
• Mary Guinan
  • “Adventures of a Female Medical Detective: In Pursuit of Smallpox and AIDS” by Mary Guinan (book)
  • “Dr. Mary Elizabeth Guinan” (website) 
  • “Global Health Chronicles: Mary Guinan” (documentary)
• Bertha Luz
  • “Brazilian Species of Hyla” by Bertha Lutz (book)
  • “Observations in the Life History of the Brazilian Frog Oocormus microps” by Bertha Lutz (scholarly article)
  • “Bertha Lutz - Ciência em Gotas (English version)” (animated video)
  • “Brazilian female diplomat was essential to the inclusion of gender equality in the UN Charter” (video)
• Nancy "Rusty" Barceló
  • ​​​​​​​“Latina/o College Student Leadership: Emerging Theory, Promising Practice” by Nancy “Rusty” Barceló and others (book)
  • “Guide to the Nancy V. ‘Rusty’ Barcelo Papers” (biography and essays written by Barceló) 
  • “Diversity Keynote Speaker- Pres. Nancy ‘Rusty’ Barceló” (speech)
  • “Nancy ‘Rusty’ Barceló, PhD: We are here to stay” (video interview)
• Judith Liebman
  • ​​​​​​​“Q&A with CEE’s first woman faculty member: Judith Liebman” (interview) 
  • “Modeling and Optimization With Gino” by Judith Liebman and others (book)
  • “Judith Liebman: First tenure-track female faculty in Industrial Engineering at Illinois” (video)
  • "Women and Ideas in Engineering: Twelve Stories from Illinois" by Laura D. Hahn and Angela S. Wolters
• Karen Rubinson
  • ​​​​​​​“Nomads and Networks:  The Ancient Art and Culture of Kazakhstan (Institute for the Study of Ancient World Exhibition Catalogs)” by Karen S. Rubinson and others (book)
  • “Trowelblazers: Karen Rubinson” (website) 
  • “ARISC President’s Distinguished Lecture: Dr. Karen S. Rubinson on Horses in the Bronze Age South Caucasus” (lecture)
• Mildred Rebstock
  • ​​​​​​​“Mildred Rebstock: Profile of the Medicinal Chemist Who Synthesized Chloramphenicol” by David M. Aronoff (scholarly article) 
• Lilian Gilbreth
  • ​​​​​​​​​​​​​​“Making Time: Lillian Moller Gilbreth – A Life Beyond ‘Cheaper by the Dozen’” by Jane Lancaster (book)
  • “As I Remember: An Autobiography” by Lillian Moller Gilbreth (book)
  • “Lillian Gilbreth: Pioneering Inventor” (video)
  • “Lillian Gilbreth: First Lady of Engineering” (video)
• Ye Le Espiritu
  • ​​​​​​​“Body Counts: The Vietnam war and Militarized Refugees” by Yen Le Espiritu (book)
  • “Asian American women and men: labor, laws, and love” by Yen Le Espiritu (book)
  • “Critical Refugee Studies: Militarism, Migration, and Memory-work" (panel) 
• Alice Evans
  • ​​​​​​​​​​​​​​“Alice C. Evans: breaking barriers.” by R. R. Colwell (scholarly article) 
  • “Brucellosis (Undulant Fever)” by Alice Catherine Evans (book)
  • “Alice Catherine Evans, the Pioneer of Safe Milk” (video)
  • "The Memoirs of Alice Evans" (memoir)

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Credit: Darrell Hoemann