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Biography:
Helen Moore graduated from the NC School of Science and Mathematics and UNC at
Chapel Hill. She received her PhD in mathematics from SUNY at Stony Brook in 1995,
where she served as Associate Director of Project WISE (Women in Science and
Engineering). She took a tenure-track position at Bowdoin College in Maine, and created
and taught a course on Women in Science. She left Bowdoin for a lecturer position at
Stanford University, and taught talented minority engineering students in the Stanford
Summer Engineering Academy. For the past four years, she has been the Associate
Director of the American Institute of Mathematics (AIM), in Palo Alto, CA, and in charge
of increasing the participation of under-represented groups in research activities at AIM.
Dr. Moore’s research involves mathematical modeling of diseases such as HIV and
leukemia, and optimization of drug therapies. She has just accepted a position to
continue her research at Genentech, focusing on cancer drug therapies. |
Abstract: |
Controlled studies can reveal interesting and often unintentional biases. I'll talk about a
few studies related to testing of mathematical and spatial ability and their implications. |
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