Abstract
Eugenia Wang's career represents a string of dogged, hard-earned achievements in transcending differences in gender, ethnicity, language, and culture. An authority on the study of programmed cell death and aging, Wang is a cell biologist at the University of Louisville School of Medicine in Kentucky, where she is starting up the future Gheens Center for Aging and Age-Related Diseases. She co-organized the Gordon Research Conference on the biology of aging in March 2003 and has coordinated National Institute on Aging-sponsored workshops on senescence. Her colleagues say she's earned a reputation as a hard-driving scientist with high standards, yet she's warm and caring as well. One can't help wondering how Wang does it all--have a family, run a lab, and handle all her administrative tasks. Her secrets include a supportive spouse, a can-do attitude, and people-managing skills that she gleaned from reading the biographies of military leaders.
Publisher
American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)
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