DATE: Jan. 28, 2010

TIME: 4:30 p.m. to 6:30 p.m.

LOCATION: UNLV Marjorie Barrick Museum Auditorium

DETAILS: Free and open to the public

Londa Schiebinger, director of the Clayman Institute for Gender Research at Stanford University, will discuss women's participation in scientific fields, how gender may affect scientific research and the structure of scientific institutions.

Schiebinger is the John L. Hinds Professor of History of Science and the Barbara D. Finberg Director of the Clayman Institute for Gender Research at Stanford University.

She is the author of several books including "The Mind Has No Sex? Women in the Origins of Modern Science," "Nature's Body: Gender in the Making of Modern Science; Has Feminism Changed Science?", "Gendered Innovations in Science and Engineering" and "Agnotology: The Making and Unmaking of Ignorance."

This event is sponsored by The Women's Research Institute of Nevada, Nevada Humanities, the Eleanor Kagi Foundation, UNLV's Office of the Executive Vice President and Provost, the Public Lands Institute, the UNLV college of sciences, and the UNLV department of history.

For additional information, please visit http://wrin.unlv.edu or call (702) 895-4931