Angela V. Olinto, a world-renowned astrophysicist and founding member of the Advisory Board of the Women’s Leadership Center at Williams Bay, will become the next provost of Columbia University starting April 1, 2024. The appointment is recognition of Dr. Olinto’s breakthrough work as researcher, academic, mentor, and leader. Since 2018, she has been Dean of…
HerStories is a podcast series hosted by The Chicago Network (TCN), an organization focused on empowering women leaders in Chicagoland. In 2023, TCN interviewed Ann for a feature called “Designing a Better Future for Women” in which she told the story of her unexpected rise from middle school English teacher to one of America’s leading…
If you follow astronomy news, you’re aware of the vastly more powerful telescopes now peering into space both from earth and high above our planet. As we look through them, we’re seeing so much more deeply into the very heart of the universe—into the very nature of us—even though humans have been gazing at these…
Navigating the demands placed on women by both workplace and family has never been easy. Now, award-winning research is showing how generations of women have tried to balance these expectations in differing ways yet with an enduring result that’s impacted career trajectories and pay. Dr. Claudia Goldin—Henry Lee Professor of Economics at Harvard University—is now…
The Giant Magellan Telescope Could Rewrite Our Understanding of Space—and Earth. There’s a desert mountaintop in Chile—poised between the peaks of the Andes and the Pacific Ocean—that I visited recently. There, scientists are building the Giant Magellan Telescope, or GMT, which will be the most powerful ground-based telescope ever engineered. Its job will be to…
As a fresh year opens, it feels like time to hope once more. In December, I attended a two-day summit and special exhibit hosted by Hillary and Chelsea Clinton at the Clinton Presidential Center in Little Rock, Arkansas. Both the summit and the exhibit focused on what Hillary called “the unfinished business of the 21st…