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| Vol. 16, No. 38 | Aug. 7, 1997 |
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| Vol. 16, No. 38 | Aug. 7, 1997 |
Joan Barchi Odell, assistant University secretary, was one of 75 participants from the United States, Canada, Nigeria and South Africa to attend the Summer Institute for Women in Higher Education Administration, held on the Bryn Mawr College campus June 2 2 through July 18.
The institute was established 22 years ago to improve the status of women at the middle and executive levels of higher education administration, where women have traditionally been underrepresented.
Program participants are provided with the skills and information necessary to the management and governance of colleges and universities, with special regard to teaching, research, and service.
"I found the Summer Institute at Bryn Mawr to be intellectually stimulating, professionally challenging and personally rewarding," Odell said.
The institute seeks both to build a network of women administrators who are committed to working together and supporting each other, and to expand opportunities for women in higher education. The annual sessions are sponsored jointly by the Higher Educati on Resource Services, Mid-America and Bryn Mawr College.
The Higher Education Resource Services, Mid-America sponsors professional development activities designed to improve the status of women in higher education. Bryn Mawr College, established in 1885, was the first women's college in the country to offer bot h bachelor's degrees and a full range of graduate programs leading to a Ph.D.
Odell has been at the University since 1989. She received her undergraduate degree from Chestnut Hill College and her master's degree from George Mason University.
Ten Chinese pharmaceutical executives are receiving training on intellectual property rights (IPR) at UD through May 16.
The group spent its first week in Washington, D.C., participating in seminars conducted by lawyers from leading IPR firms.
The second week included additional lectures on IPR policies and procedures and taking field trips to leading pharmaceutical companies, including DuPont Merck and SmithKline Beecham. During its third week, the group will visit pharmaceutical companies in New Jersey.
"It's reassuring, given the amount of negative publicity China has received lately in the IPR arena, to see this interest regarding patents and trademarks," Lawrence P. Donnelley, international programs and special sessions, said.
"We have trained a number of other Chinese pharmaceutical groups in the past and have more coming this year, but this is the first group looking strictly at IPR."
