Dr. Linda Hayden, Director of the Center of Excellence in Remote Sensing Education and Research (CERSER) and Associate Director - Education and ECSU Operations for the Center for Remote Sensing of Ice Sheets (CReSIS), recently attended the Gender Summit sponsored by the National Science Foundation and others in Washington DC.

The aim of the 3rd Gender Summit is to join all relevant participants in a Call to Action to achieve positive change towards greater diversity in the Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM) workforce and leadership, and greater inclusion of biological sex and gender considerations or the "gender dimension" in research content and process. The event was held on the 13 - 15 November 2013 at the Washington Hilton in Washington DC.

Attendees pictured below left to right:

• Linda Hayden, Elizabeth City State University
• Loretta Moore, Jackson State University
• Cynthia Winston, Howard University
• Sonya Smith, Howard University
• Kelly Mack, University of Maryland Eastern Shore