Tom Levenson & Nancy Hopkins

Tom Levenson - Filmmaker and Prof of Science Writing at MIT - talks with Nancy Hopkins, Amgen professor of biology at MIT about molecular biology, cancer research, Jim Watson, Rosalind Franklin, the 'leaky pipeline' for women in the sciences and more.

Tom writes about it here:

VS Science is hosted in Second Life by Cal Tech Virtual Astronomy Group

Links

• "The Changing Status of Women in Science at MIT: 1999-2011"

• http://sciencelife.uchospitals.edu/2011/06/08/the-leaky-pipeline-of-women-in-science/

• http://mit150.mit.edu/keynote-address-status-women-science-and-engineering-mit

• http://www.mit.edu/~biology/facultyareas/facresearch/hopkins.html

• http://ki.mit.edu/people/faculty/hopkins

• https://inversesquare.wordpress.com/2012/10/17/for-a-good-time-on-the-intertubes-women-scientists-in-binders-self-aggrandizement-alert/ball

• http://www.balloon-juice.com/2012/10/17/for-a-good-time-on-the-intertubes-women-scientists-in-binders-self-aggrandizement-alert/#comments