Contact: Maridith Geuder
STARKVILLE, Miss.--An engineer who is among the nation's leading historians on women in science and technical fields visits Mississippi State Tuesday [Oct. 14].
Jill Tietjen, president and chief executive officer of Technically Speaking Inc., will be speaking at several public events and signing copies of her books. She also is meeting with the university's engineering faculty members and women leaders.
"She's being extraordinarily generous with her time," said Lynne Cossman, who directs MSU's Gender Studies Program and the Ellen Bryant Women's Resource Center.
A frequent keynote speaker, Tietjen founded her Littleton, Colo.-based consulting firm to help improve opportunities for women and girls to have more career options in technology.
Her visit is sponsored by MSU's Office of Research and Economic Development, College of Arts and Sciences' Gender Studies Program, Shackouls Honors College, and Bagley College of Engineering.
"Setting the Record Straight" and "Her Story: A Timeline of Women Who Changed America" are among Tietjen's books.
Her Tuesday presentations, all open to the public, include:
--12:30 p.m. brown-bag lunch, Bryant Women's Resource Center (Rice Hall, lower level), "Not Without the Women," part of the Gender Studies Lecture Series.
--3:30 p.m., 100 McCain Hall, "Discovering Women Like Me," sponsored by the Society of Women Engineers.
--7 p.m., Shackouls Honors College, Griffis Hall, "Her Story: A Timeline of the Women Who Changed America." A book signing and reception follow.
Gender-research related projects by various departments will be displayed during Tietjen's visit.
For more information, contact Cossman at 662-325-7880 or 325-1466.