September 24, 2006

NEWS IN A MINUTE: Wayne County

DETROIT: Wayne State to host UN panel on girls schooling A panel discussion on "The Education of Girls in the Developing World" will be held from 11 a.m. - 12:30 p.m. Tuesday, Sept. 26, at the Wayne State University Law School 's Spencer M. Partrich Auditorium. Dr. Pamela Trotman Reid, provost and executive vice-president at Roosevelt University in Chicago , will highlight WSU's initiatives to encourage female participation in science, mathematics and engineering. She is a founder of the GO-GIRL (Gaining Options-Girls Investigate Real Life) program at WSU. The U.S. Mission to the United Nations is sponsoring the discussion with Gretchen Bolton, wife of U.S. ambassador John Bolton, moderating. A UN panel of international experts will examine issues relevant to the educational advancement of girls in developing nations. The article mentions that Wayne State President Irvin D. Reid is Pamela Trotman Reid's husband.

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