NATIONALLY KNOWN EDUCATOR TO SPEAK ON SCIENCE EDUCATION AT UCSC

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

SANTA CRUZ, CA--For fifteen years, Shirley Malcom has striven to find ways to increase public support for science education and to encourage students, especially young women and minorities, to pursue careers in science. She will share her thoughts on these ongoing challenges in a free public lecture at UC Santa Cruz at 4 p.m. Tuesday, April 19, in the Stevenson College Fireside Lounge. Her talk is entitled "Human Resources for Science: Who, What, When, Where, How?"

The lecture is the second in the Chancellor's Distinguished Seminar Series on Mission, Quality, and Diversity, established in the fall by Chancellor Karl S. Pister and the Academic Senate, UCSC's faculty body. Pister created the seminar series to encourage campus dialogue on themes that he views as critical to UCSC's success. The series is the public part of a program in which prominent women and minorities spend a day with faculty and students at UCSC to discuss how to improve the quality of higher education in the United States.

Malcom headed the Office of Opportunities in Science at the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) from 1979 to 1989. Since then, she has led the AAAS Directorate for Education and Human Resources Programs. She oversees AAAS programs in education, activities for underrepresented groups, and public understanding of science and technology. Malcom has been recognized for her efforts to improve the education of young women and minorities by involving community organizations and parents in education reform.

Malcom served on the Clinton-Gore transition team, chairing a task group on vocational and technical education for the Departments of Education and Labor. Before joining the government, she was an assistant professor of biology at the University of North Carolina at Wilmington.

For more information, call the UCSC Public Information Office at (408) 459-2495.

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