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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Suzanne Malec-McKenna, Senior Counsel to Jasculca Terman and Associates, Inc., and Director, Regional Trees Initiative, Morton Arboretum;

Vicky Prince, Ph.D., Associate Dean and Director, Office of Graduate Affairs, Biological Sciences Division, The University of Chicago;

Teresa Woodruff, Ph.D., Watkins Professor of Obstetrics & Gynecology, Feinberg School of Medicine and Professor of Biochemistry, Molecular Biology and Cell Biology, Weinberg College of Arts and Sciences, Northwestern University

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