Intel official to deliver Denton Distinguished Lecture

Genevieve Bell, Intel Fellow and director of interaction and experience research at Intel Corp., will deliver the Denice D. Denton Distinguished Lecture at the University of Wisconsin–Madison on Monday, Oct. 24.

The event, sponsored by the Women in Science and Engineering Leadership Institute (WISELI), will be held at the Wisconsin Institutes for Discovery, 330 N. Orchard St.

Bell has written more than 25 journal articles and book chapters on a range of subjects focused on the intersection of technology and society. She received her bachelor’s degree in anthropology from Bryn Mawr College in 1990 and her master’s and doctorate degrees in anthropology from Stanford in 1993 and 1998, respectively.

The lecture is free and open to the public. It will begin at 2 p.m. in the H.F. DeLuca Forum at the Wisconsin Institutes for Discovery. A reception will follow.

In the evening, there will be a dinner with Bell at Steenbock’s on Orchard from 6–8:30 p.m. The dinner will cost $50 per person. Registration is required.

For more information, visit http://wiseli.engr.wisc.edu/denton/denton-lecture2011.php.

Denton was a professor of electrical and computer engineering at UW–Madison from 1987–96. She moved on to become dean of the University of Washington College of Engineering, and in 2005 she was named chancellor of the University of California–Santa Cruz, the position she held at the time of her death on in 2006.

This is the fifth lecture in the series. It is generously funded by the Denice Denton Memorial Fund and WISELI.