Women in Science Site
This month the United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organisation in partnership with L’Oreal created and launched a website that serves as a platform for discussion about women in science. This website is a new piece of the ongoing Women in Science program sponsored by UNESCO and the French cosmetics company. The existing posts, written by Nobel Prize winners and women scientists among others, discuss education and the role women play in science, encourage us to step through the barriers of sexism and to create more girl power in the field. Further discussions are slated to include women’s role in, and importance to, the environment.
Jennifer Veilleux
Dr. Jennifer Veilleux is a geographer, writer, and artist. For more than a decade, she has worked on scientific research and security issues facing water resources shared across political boundaries. Research and curiosity has taken her to more than 50 countries on 5 continents, often to remote locations and marginalized communities. Veilleux takes portraits of people she encounters in her field work and recently released a collection, Portraits from Rivers of Change, that can be viewed here: www.jenniferveilleux.com. These portraits highlight two separate communities, one on the Mekong River the other on the Blue Nile River, facing relocation due to dam development. Dr. Veilleux works for Florida International University as a post doctoral associate for the Institute of Water and Environment and manages SELVA, the Serengeti-Lake Victoria Sustainable Water Initiative, a research project on water security of the Mara River in the Upper Nile basin of Tanzania. She maintains a blog, The Way of Water, dedicated to news and commentary about development on the Nile and Mekong, general water resources issues, and special topics related to women in science. She lives in Miami with her cat Mr. FC Sweet Tea.
