August 30, 2005
WIMSE website blog experiment
As Lisa explained in an earlier post, a group of us from various departments are working together to build a website that will serve to promote mathematics, science and engineering to women.
But if you've stumbled upon this blog and tried to wander around the site, you've probably noticed that it's not finished. In fact it's barely even begun.
When the project is complete, this blogspace will serve as an area for discussion on the overall topic. But until that time we are going to use the blog as a tool to help develop the site itself.
As those of you who've read the Web Development blog know, it takes a lot of planning—with a focus on the goals of both developer and potential site visitor—to map out the web site map and start creating the content. One of the ideas I've suggested in the past is to do market research or even just talk to members of your target audience to see what they would want to find on your site.
In keeping with that idea, we'll be using this blog to share ideas with the project team as well as anyone else interested in the site. Our goal is to create a site that will showcase the many opportunities available to women in these fields, demonstrate how other women have succeeded, and advise young women on how to persue an education in one of these areas. We hope this will be a useful tool for young women considering an education at Case as well as for any other girls or young women with an interest in mathematics, science or engineering.
We look forward to your input.
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August 29, 2005
Welcome to WIMSE
So there's been some debate lately over whether or not women are well-suited for math and science careers. I think we have an opportunity here at Case to show that women indeed can pursue such careers - and even *excel* at them. I'd like to highlight the incredible women - faculty, students, staff, and alumni - here who are leaders (or future leaders) in math, science, and engineering.
One of them, Heather Morrison, an astronomy professor at Case, is an advisor for WISER (Women in Science and Engineering Roundtable) and when she's not discovering new galaxies, she's working hard to build a community here that provides mentoring and coaching of future female scientists and engineers.
There are a number of campus groups and resources that exist at Case to provide a supportive environment for Case women interested math, science, and engineering. So in talking with various people on campus, we've decided to build a Web site and blog that could link us together. It's all a work in progress, so we welcome your active input in helping to build our community.
Welcome to WIMSE!
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