COM Outlook Spring 2020

NOVA SOUTHEASTERN UNIVERSITY | 11 Clockwise from top left: Klimas with daughter Cady; Klimas enjoys a moment with her daughter Ellie; Klimas’s daughters (from left) Casey, Cady, and Ellie; Klimas, center, with her UM professors Janet Canterbury, left, and Mary Ann Fletcher at the wedding of Klimas’s daughter Ellie. “ We stuck together, and more importantly, the very few female faculty members stuck up for us. There were lectures with nude women tucked among the slides and lots of tasteless pranks by a small handful of men. But the female faculty members, led by Janet Canterbury, Ph.D., and Mary Ann Fletcher, Ph.D., dealt with the discrimination. Very quickly, things changed for the better.” —NANCY KLIMAS