Randall Seminar Series

Since 2004 the Randall Seminar Series has featured one or two seminars per year by accomplished women in a variety of scientific fields. These seminars are accompanied by scheduled opportunities for undergraduate and graduate students, postdoctoral fellows and faculty to visit more informally with the speakers and talk about career and personal issues facing women in the sciences today.

This interdisciplinary seminar project is funded by Dr. Jan Randall, a member of the science faculty at San Francisco State University and an alumna of the University of Idaho Department of Biological Sciences. One of the most important themes in Dr. Randall’s career has been her concern for the professional development of women, and particularly women in scientific fields. In 2003, she and her husband, Bruce McEvoy, presented the Department of Biological Sciences of the University of Idaho with an endowment to be used over the subsequent five years toward academic enrichment for women in science at UI. This five year gift was renewed in 2008 and again in 2013.

Upcoming Randall Seminar

Dr. Mary Lidstrom, University of Washington
Spring, 2019

RWiS: Inclusion, Diversity and Equality Alliance (IDEA)

Discussions on inclusion and diversity in STEM fields and general professional development will continue during Spring semester are from 4:00 pm - 5:00 pm in IRIC 305 as follows:

February 28, 2018   Introduction, Medicine: Pages 3-44
March 28, 2018       Biology & the Environment: Pages 47-82
April 25, 2018         Genetics & Development: Pages 85-151

These monthly meetings are for all interested graduate students, post-docs, and faculty.

Upcoming co-sponsored seminar

Seminar cosponsored by IBEST and Randall Seminar Series 

Contact the organizers:

Celeste Brown, (chair)
Donna Holmes
Diana Mitchell
Sarah Hendricks
Jill Johnson
Gina Tingley
Eva Top