The Chicago Council on Science and Technology (C2ST) in partnership with the Association for Women in Science (AWIS) Chicago Chapter have come together to bring you its first ever all-day Women in Science Symposium 2010: Building an Identity. The symposium, to be held on April 17th, 2010 will allow women scientists, at the academic, industry and government levels, to better recognize the number and diversity of their counterparts; create a sense of solidarity, and; broaden the spectrum of opportunities for women in Chicagoland.

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Kapila Viges, Chief Executive Officer, Mithra Venture

Lynne E. Rueter, Ph.D., Associate Director II, Neuroscience Research GPRD, Abbott

Andrea Hunt, Vice President, Regenerative Medicine, Baxter Healthcare

Kawtar Hafidi, Ph.D., Nuclear Physicist, Argonne National Laboratory

The Chicago Council on Science and Technology (C2ST) in partnership with the Association for Women in Science (AWIS) Chicago Chapter have come together to bring you its first ever all-day Women in Science Symposium 2010: Building an Identity. The symposium, to be held on April 17th, 2010 will allow women scientists, at the academic, industry and government levels, to better recognize the number and diversity of their counterparts; create a sense of solidarity, and; broaden the spectrum of opportunities for women in Chicagoland.

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Melissa Gilliam, MD, MPH, Professor of Obstetrics/Gynecology and Pediatrics, University of Chicago; Chief, Family Planning; Associate Dean for Diversity, Division of the Biological Sciences

Romila Singh, Ph.D., Associate Professor, Lubar School of Business and Associate Director of the Center for the Study of the Workplace, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee

Pauline Maki, Ph.D., Professor of Psychiatry and Psychology, Director of Women’s Mental Health

Some scientists believe that the Higgs boson, a never-before-seen subatomic particle is the fundamental building block of the universe that gives mass to matter