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WITS presents: Patty Dooley, "Chemistry in a Time of War"
When: Wed Sep 24 • 7:00 pm
Where: Clark Auditorium, Fisher Science and Academic Center
Patty Dooley, Colonel, PhD, will be giving a talk as part of a lecture series from Women in the Sciences
Everyone is invited!
Wednesday, September 24, 7pm
Clark Auditorium (Fisher)
In the summer of 2006, Colonel Patricia A. Dooley, Deputy Head of the Department of Chemistry and Life Science, United States Military Academy, West Point, NY, deployed to Kabul, Afghanistan in support of Operation Enduring Freedom to augment the National Military Academy of Afghanistan (NMAA) Implementation Team, a cohort of eight military personnel advising and assisting the nascent academy patterned after West Point. Her mission was to serve as an advisor and mentor to the Head of the Basic Science Department in order to establish a laboratory program and chemistry demonstrations to accompany the one-semester general chemistry course taught to first-year cadets at NMAA. In a country reviving itself after 27 years of occupation, civil war, and governance by the Taliban, and still combating an insurgency, the lack of textbooks, chemicals, reliable utilities, analytical instruments, functioning laboratory space, and instructor experience with experimental procedures demanded a creative response to these challenges.
***Delicious refreshments will be served!!!***
(apple cider and doughnuts)
Everyone is invited, and everyone should come!
Everyone is invited!
Wednesday, September 24, 7pm
Clark Auditorium (Fisher)
In the summer of 2006, Colonel Patricia A. Dooley, Deputy Head of the Department of Chemistry and Life Science, United States Military Academy, West Point, NY, deployed to Kabul, Afghanistan in support of Operation Enduring Freedom to augment the National Military Academy of Afghanistan (NMAA) Implementation Team, a cohort of eight military personnel advising and assisting the nascent academy patterned after West Point. Her mission was to serve as an advisor and mentor to the Head of the Basic Science Department in order to establish a laboratory program and chemistry demonstrations to accompany the one-semester general chemistry course taught to first-year cadets at NMAA. In a country reviving itself after 27 years of occupation, civil war, and governance by the Taliban, and still combating an insurgency, the lack of textbooks, chemicals, reliable utilities, analytical instruments, functioning laboratory space, and instructor experience with experimental procedures demanded a creative response to these challenges.
***Delicious refreshments will be served!!!***
(apple cider and doughnuts)
Everyone is invited, and everyone should come!