Getting Girls to the Lab Bench

摘要

Lucie yueqiguo and Xianlin Li are proof that girls can love science,too.The two seniors at North Carolina School of Science & Mathematics.,a high school in Durham,won the US100,000 grand prize in the team category of the 2004-05 Siemens Westinghouse Competition in Math,Science,& Technology for a project studying the effect of DNA methylation on breast cancer.(Got that?) "Both of us have been interested in science ever since we were very young," says Guo."Neither of us ever felt our gender was a detriment."Their perspective is welcome amid the furor over a now-notorious speech by Harvard University President Lawrence H.Summers.At a Jan.14 conference on the paucity of women in the sciences,he suggested there may be "innate differences" between male and female brains that make it harder for women to excel in math and science.He quickly backed down.