2009 Keynote Speaker

Dr. Kristi Ambroz

The 2009 February Forum is scheduled for February 10, 2009 at the Cornhusker Hotel. The keynote speaker will be Dr. Kristi Ambroz, Director of Reagent Product Development & Manufacturing at LI-COR Biosciences of Lincoln. Her presentation will be: How to get your dream job in science, when you don't know what that is!

February Forum, an annual event coordinated and hosted by the University of Nebraska–Lincoln's Center for Science, Mathematics and Computer Education, has been recognizing outstanding undergraduate women since 2005. Initially created as a symposium in 1977 by the Chapter of the Graduate Women in Science (GWIS), the forum has grown into a campus tradition to honor outstanding junior and senior women majoring in scientific fields.

UNL's science-related departments are invited annually to select outstanding undergraduate women to be honored. The department chair traditionally introduces their students at the forum and presents certificates attesting to their excellence. Other attendees include professors and family members. A program that features a keynote speaker follows the banquet. One hundred forty-two attended the buffet banquet to honor sixty-nine students from 15 departments in 2008.

Schedule

• 5:30 - Social time
• 6:30 - Banquet

Contact Information

For more information or to nominate an outstanding undergraduate woman, please contact her department chair or the UNL Center for Science, Mathematics and Computer Education at 251 Avery Hall or
402-472-8965.