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Assistant Dean of the College Stephanie H. Kenen highlighted the need for students to feel invested in the evaluation process...
Phillipa Kafka certainly wasn't. Kafka, 70, a former professor of English literature at Kean University in Union, N.J., and her husband Oliver Kenen, 56, a former high school physics teacher, moved to Boulder City, Nev., after retirement. There they turned a long-standing passion for design, decoration and fixing up old homes into a business by starting Boulder City Upgraders. Since 2000, the two have renovated and sold one house and have begun work on three others in Nevada and California. After expenses, the business brings in from $50,000 to $75,000 a year, according to Kafka...
...unclear why women undergraduates are particularly attracted to their discipline. One possible cause could be the more “woman-friendly culture” in their department that differs sharply from the atmosphere in hard sciences such as chemistry or physics, says head tutor Stephanie H. Kenen...
...have more women faculty and graduate students, which helps because they can act as mentors to the undergraduates,” Kenen says. And the emerging prominence of women faculty has gradually altered course offerings in the department, she says. “The department takes questions of gender in the sciences quite seriously, and there has been a significant rise in courses relating to gender over the past 10 years as the faculty has changed,” she says...
...additional motivation for women is that the concentration enables them to “keep one foot in the door of science” while investigating the subject from a more humanities-like social and cultural perspective, Kenen says. Specifically, Kenen says history and science attracts a lot of pre-meds interested in fulfilling their scientific requirements in a unique way. “Many women who study history of science find it a comfortable environment that allows them to fulfill pre-med requirements within a broader framework,” says Lucy R. Stackpool-Moore...