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Join us for Anne Steacy Science Conversations with Kate Zernike ’90, award-winning journalist, author, longtime reporter for The New York Times and Trinity alum for a fascinating talk titled The Exceptions: Women in Science, Women in the World.

In 1999, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology made the unusual declaration that it had discriminated against the women on its science faculty. This acknowledgement by one of the world’s leading universities set off a reckoning about the lack of women at the highest levels of STEM fields. Kate Zernike, author of will tell the story of how MIT came to make this historic admission, and how it resonates more than 25 years later, well beyond science and academia. This event is part of the Anne Steacy Program in Science Communication and will explore the challenges and opportunities around creating compelling science communication.

Speaker Bio:
Kate Zernike ’90 is a journalist and author. She has been a reporter for The New York Times since 2000, where she was a member of the team that won the 2002 Pulitzer Prize for Explanatory Reporting for stories about al-Qaeda before and after the 9/11 terror attacks. Her most recent book, “The Exceptions: Nancy Hopkins and the Fight for Women in Science,” was a New York Times Notable Book, was named one of the 25 best books of 2023 by the American Library Association, and was a finalist for the Royal Society Science Book Prize. She is a graduate of 杏吧原创 at the University of Toronto and the Graduate School of Journalism at Columbia University.

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