March 2, 2001
St. Louis native Virginia Valian, Ph.D., will deliver the last Science and Society lecture for the 2000-2001 series at 4 p.m. Thursday in the School of Medicine's Moore Auditorium.
Valian, professor of psychology and linguistics at Hunter College in New York, is a cognitive scientist whose research focuses on language acquisition in 2-year-olds, second-language acquisition and sex differences in cognition.
She also is author of the book, "Why So Slow? The Advancement of Women," a meta-analysis of research on the status of women in business, law, medicine and academia.
Valian's work has been featured in The New York Times, Nature, Scientific American and various other journals and magazines. She also has been interviewed on the BBC and National Public Radio and has lectured internationally.
The goal of the Science and Society series is to enhance awareness of policy and ethical issues facing scientific and medical professionals.
Valian's lecture is sponsored by the Academic Women's Network, the Career Resource Program, the Division of Biology and Biomedical Sciences, the Program for Women in Science and Medicine and the Washington University chapter of Women in Neuroscience.
For more information, call Debbie Sinak at 362-3364.
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