After D.C. politicians were targeted with anthrax-laced envelopes in 2001, Russell led a Department of Health and Human Services taskforce to stockpile treatments and vaccines against many bio-terrorism agents.
Russell has also worked with GW professor Peter Hotez to develop viral vaccines and further research on the Human Hookworm Vaccine Initiative.
Mildred
Dresselhaus
Mildred Dresselhaus, a professor at MIT in Cambridge, Mass., is no stranger to honorary degrees and awards.
Having received about two-dozen honorary doctorates in science and the National Medal of Science, Dresselhaus has built an impressive reputation during her nearly 45 years at MIT.
She has co-authored four books on carbon science and has conducted extensive research in the field of solid-state physics.
"I started thinking (as a child) I was going to be a school teacher," she said. "But as I moved through the academic pattern, I met teachers and they encouraged me to specialize in the sciences."
Through her nearly half-century of advanced research in physics, Dresselhaus said she found herself surrounded by men, many of whom viewed women as intrinsically less suited for science. Harvard President Lawrence Summers came under fire earlier this year for suggesting that men were naturally better suited to study math and science.
"I didn't have a choice of being a man or woman and being in science," Dresselhaus said. "So I pursued science like everyone else because I liked it and had some aptitude for it."
"There are already large numbers of women in science and it's increasing every year, and they are successful at it," she added. "I'm very optimistic."
Dresselhaus serves as chair of the governing board of the American Institute of Physics. She previously acted as president of the American Association for the Advancement of Science and the American Physical Society.
Russell has also worked with GW professor Peter Hotez to develop viral vaccines and further research on the Human Hookworm Vaccine Initiative.
Mildred
Dresselhaus
Mildred Dresselhaus, a professor at MIT in Cambridge, Mass., is no stranger to honorary degrees and awards.
Having received about two-dozen honorary doctorates in science and the National Medal of Science, Dresselhaus has built an impressive reputation during her nearly 45 years at MIT.
She has co-authored four books on carbon science and has conducted extensive research in the field of solid-state physics.
"I started thinking (as a child) I was going to be a school teacher," she said. "But as I moved through the academic pattern, I met teachers and they encouraged me to specialize in the sciences."
Through her nearly half-century of advanced research in physics, Dresselhaus said she found herself surrounded by men, many of whom viewed women as intrinsically less suited for science. Harvard President Lawrence Summers came under fire earlier this year for suggesting that men were naturally better suited to study math and science.
"I didn't have a choice of being a man or woman and being in science," Dresselhaus said. "So I pursued science like everyone else because I liked it and had some aptitude for it."
"There are already large numbers of women in science and it's increasing every year, and they are successful at it," she added. "I'm very optimistic."
Dresselhaus serves as chair of the governing board of the American Institute of Physics. She previously acted as president of the American Association for the Advancement of Science and the American Physical Society.
