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The Clayman Institute welcomes Carrie A. McCabe as a member of our Advisory Council. Carrie is founder and CEO of Lasair Capital. Previously she was President and CEO of Blackstone Alternative Asset Management. She received an undergraduate degree in economics from Stanford and an MBA from Harvard.
On August 20-21, the Clayman Institute hosted a two-day seminar in op-ed writing with Catherine Orenstein, founder of the Op-Ed Project. Co-sponsored by the Office of the President, Office of Public Affairs, Humanities Center and others, the seminar was attended by a dozen female faculty and staff from the schools of humanities and sciences, education, and medicine. The aim of the Op-Ed Project is to increase the number and diversity of voices in opinion columns in newspapers and other media outlets.
In April 2008, Londa Schiebinger chaired the first all female Ph.D. committee in Stanford's Institute for Computational and Mathematical Engineering. It was a global effort: Professor Gunilla Kreiss was patched into Shalini Krishnamurthy's defense via Skype from the Royal Institute of Technology in Sweden! Other committee members were Professor Kiran Pande, Professor Sally Benson, and Professor Margot Gerritsen.
Institute Graduate Dissertation Fellows Sarah Richardson and Valerie Jones have been awarded prestigious dissertation fellowships for 2008-09 by the Association of American University Women (AAUW).
Michelle R. Clayman has been awarded the GSB Alumni Association's New York Excellence in Leadership Award for 2008, which recognizes extraordinary contributions made by alumni in the Business School and the corporate world. The awards dinner will be held in New York on April 2.
The archives of the Career Action Center, which was a peer organization founded in 1973 and which closed its doors in 2002, have been accepted by the Stanford University Library. These papers will complement the archive of the Center for Research on Women (CROW). Jing Lyman, a long-time supporter of the Clayman Institute, was on the CAC's Board and former Stanford President Richard Lyman was a member of the CAC's Business Advisory Committee. The Clayman Institute was responsible for bringing together the former leaders of the CAC and the Stanford Library.
Gretchen Daily, Professor of Biology and Institute faculty affiliate, has won Norway's prestigious Sophie Prize for exploring the potential profits of protecting the environment. The jury cited "her involvement, knowledge and merits as one of the world's forerunners in the debate on sustainable development and conservation of biological diversity."
