Dr. Margaret Mathies, Sidney J. Weinberg, Jr., Chair in the Natural Sciences at Scripps College, will speak on "75/2 years = M2: Intersections and Reflections," on Tuesday, April 9, at 7:00 p.m. in the Hampton Room of the Malott Commons on the Scripps campus. This event is free and open to the public.
Dr. Mathies has been a professor with the Joint Science Program at Scripps, Claremont McKenna, and Pitzer Colleges since 1965, teaching courses in biology, genetics, immunology, and bioethics. She has been a recipient of a Mellon Grant to develop a bioethics course; a Sloan Grant to introduce biotechnology into the science curricula; and numerous Keck Grants for summer research projects in the field of natural sciences. In 1992 Mathies earned distinction within The Claremont Colleges community for her outstanding professional contributions-in teaching and curricular leadership and within her field of research-and was awarded the prestigious Sidney J. Weinberg , Jr., Chair in the Natural Sciences, the first and only endowed chair in the Joint Science Program.
In addition to her career in education, Mathies has been published in numerous scientific journals and has worked on a variety of projects with research teams at the Imperial Cancer Research Fund Laboratories in London, UK, City of Hope Hospital and National Medical Center in Duarte, California, and at such prestigious academic institutions as Caltech, UCLA, and University College in London.
Dr. Mathies earned a bachelor’s in zoology from Colorado College and a doctorate in microbiology from Case Western Reserve University. She will retire from the Scripps College faculty at the end of the 2001-2002 academic year.