Dr. Lydia Villa-Komaroff

Anne P. Nicholson ’40 Distinguished Lecturer Series
Spring 2004

Lydia Villa-Komaroff

Lydia Villa-Komaroff, vice-president for research and chief operating officer of the Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research in Cambridge, Massachusetts will deliver a lecture entitled “When Turtles Want to Fly…A Life in Science” on Wednesday, March 3, 2004 beginning at 7pm in the Founder’s Room of the Ferry Administration Building at Pine Manor College.

Dr. Villa-Komaroff has been named one of the fifty most influential Hispanics in Business and Technology and one of the one hundred most influential Hispanics in the United States today. She is a member of the Hispanic Engineer National Achievement Hall of Fame and a fellow of the Association for Women in Science. She has served on review committees for the National Institute of Health, and was a participant in the Forum on Science in the National Interest sponsored by the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy.

Dr. Villa-Komaroff is a member of the National Advisory Neurological Disorders and Stroke Council, the Institute of Medicine/National Research Council Committee on Assessing the Structure of NIH, and is an elected member of the board of directors of the American Association for the Advancement of Science.

Dr. Villa-Komaroff is also deeply committed to the recruitment and retention of minorities in science. She is a founding member of the Society for the Advancement of Chicanos and Native Americans in Science and has been both a board member and a vice-president.

Dr. Villa-Komaroff’s presentation is sponsored by Pine Manor College’s Anne P. Nicholson ’40 Distinguished Lecturer Series and the BA program in Biology. The talk is free and is open to the general public and there is ample parking on the Pine Manor College campus.

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