Helen Brooke Taussig (1898-1986): a biography of success / Laura Malloy -- Frankenstein's native / Elizabeth Stassinos -- Women becoming mathematicians: constructing a professional identity in post-World War II America / Margaret A.M. Murray -- Strategies for teaching "female-friendly" science to women: using history and research to guide instruction / Valerie N. Morphew -- Successful strategies for teaching math to college women / Ruth O'Keefe -- Factors that increase persistence of female undergraduate science students / Michelle Smoot Hyde and Julie Gess-Newsome -- Perspectives from a female undergraduate student on successfully integrating learning and researching science with leading organic chemistry workshops / Nermana Ligata and Madeline Adamczeski -- A peer mentoring program for underrepresented students in the sciences / Casey Clark [and others] -- Gender bias in biological theory formation / Colleen M. Belk -- Defending feminist territory in the science wars / Maureen Linker -- Strong objectivity and the language of science / Andrea Nye -- Feminist theories of knowledge: the good, the bad, and the ugly / Jody Bart -- Gender and physical science: a hard look at a hard science / Amy Bug -- Inventing the future: women in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics at Purdue University Calumet / Barbara Mania-Farnell and Colette Morrow