7:58 a.m., Oct. 2, 2009----Maria Klawe, president of Harvey Mudd College in Claremont, Calif., will speak on the topic “Gender, Computing and Engineering” at 4 p.m., Wednesday, Oct. 14, in the Trabant University Center Theatre.

In her talk, Klawe will explore the attitude differences between women and men and the impact of those difference on career choices, and will discuss best practices for increasing and retaining women in computing. An informal reception will follow the talk.

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Klawe served as the dean of science at the University of British Columbia and the dean of engineering and applied science at Princeton University, and is currently the president of Harvey Mudd College.

She is a fellow of the Association for Computing Machinery and the first woman member of the board of directors of Microsoft.

Klawe has worked to increase the participation of women and other underrepresented groups in science and engineering. She was the first woman to serve on the board of the Computing Research Association and co-founded its Committee on the Status of Women. She has been a member of the board of the Anita Borg Institute for Women and Technology since its inception and was chair from 2003-2008.

For her efforts on behalf of increasing opportunities for underrepresented groups, she was given the Nico Habermann Award in 2004.

The Oct. 14 event is sponsored by WISE (Women in Science and Engineering) and the deans of the colleges of Agriculture and Natural Resources; Arts and Sciences; Earth, Ocean, and Environment; Engineering; and Health Sciences.