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by Eva Schernhammer
The following report was written by
Eva Schernhammer, M.D., an
Austrian working at Harvard Medical School and Brigham and Women’s
Hospital in Boston, Massachussetts. She was invited to the
Alpbach Technology Forum 2005 to give a speech at the workshop
"Excellence in Science - a Matter of Gender?"
The following is a summary of her impressions of the working group:
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by Caroline Adenberger
Since her earliest days as a drama
student in Vienna in the 1960s, Gitta Honegger has always been on the
move: being a stage member of the famous Viennese Burgtheater during
her student years while, at the same time, pursuing her stage career at
theaters in Germany and Switzerland. When she got the opportunity to go
west, conducting research for her doctoral thesis on Eugene O’Neill in
the hot spot of New York City, she didn’t have to think twice. Leaving
post-World War II Austria and its old fashioned classic traditions
behind her, Ms. Honegger couldn’t wait to discover the “New World” –
especially New York City, at that time the place to be for theatrical
innovation and home of many experimental theater companies.
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Imagine the following situation:
Terrorists have just laced the water supply of a major metropolis with
a chemical so lethal that only small amounts are needed to kill
thousands of people. But the chemical never reaches its targets. Tiny
liquid phase sensors at strategic points in the city’s water mains
detect the chemical as it passes and tell a computer to close down the
affected pipes.
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The OST network of Austrian
scientists abroad was established by the Office of Science &
Technology (OST) at the Austrian Embassy in Washington, DC, and
focuses on the outreach of government-related agencies to Austrian
scientists in North America. Its main objective has been to support the
scientific community with information and specific advice wherever
necessary and requested.
Encouraged by the OST, an independent association – ASciNA (Austrian
Scientists and Scholars in North America) – was founded in 2002 with
local chapters being established all over the US and Canada. For
further information about ASciNA please visit www.ascina.at.
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