Upcoming and Recent Events
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Award-winning Science
Tuesday, May 5, 2009, 6 PM
Northeastern University, Mugar Life Sciences Building, Room 412 Campus Map
GWIS AO travel grant recipients will present their latest research results
Linnea van Griethuijsen, Department of Biology at Tufts University
Erin Hodges Trail, Department of Microbiology, Boston University School of Medicine
Refreshments will be served.
Everyone (men and women) welcome!
Effective Scientific Communication: How NOT to confuse and alienate people when presenting scientific data
Monday, February 9, 2009, 12 noon
Northeastern University, Mugar Life Sciences Building, Room 412 Campus Map
This informative and engaging workshop will be presented by Dr. Melissa Landon, postdoctoral fellow at Brandeis University.
Lunch served, RSVP to gwis@heimdall.org
Repair of Basic Laboratory Equipment
Charles Moses
Tuesdays, January 13 and 20, 2009, 7 - 9 PM
MIT Building 68 Room 077 Campus Map
Engineer Charles Moses will conduct a course on repair of laboratory equipment, geared toward but not limited to beginners. Equipment will include: electrophoresis units, spectrophotometers, motors on shakers and centrifuges, etc. General topics will also include: assessing the tools required to disassemeble, fix and reassemble a piece of equipment; tool quality; and rational disassembly of equipment when the function of some component is not known. Bring broken equipment on which to practice. Session starts at 7:00 p.m. in Project Lab, Bldg 68.
Strategies for Getting and Staying Organized, Tuesday, October 28, 2008, 6 PM
Denise King, of Clear the Clutter (www.mycleartheclutterhome.com) and a member of The National Association of Professional Organizers, will present strategies to get and stay organized in your home and professional lives.
Northeastern University, 114 Mugar (www.campusmap.neu.edu )
Download poster
Garden in the Woods Trip and Big
Bugs Exhibit, Saturday, October 11, 2008
meet at the Garden at 1 PM for a picnic lunch, followed by a tour.
Award-winning science and reception
Two Hours that will Make You a Better Speaker
Tuesday, May 13, 2008, 6:00 PM
412 Mugar, Northeastern University http://www.campusmap.neu.edu
"The Clownfish/Anemone Symbiosis: Further Lessons from Finding Nemo"
Ann Cleveland, Ph.D.
Associate Professor of Marine Biology
Chair, Corning School of Ocean Studies
Maine Maritime Academy
GWIS fellowship recipient
"The effects of HIV-Tat protein on brain and behavior"
Amanda Carey
Graduate student, Department of Psychology
Northeastern University
GWIS AO travel grant recipient
Refreshments will be served.
Everyone (men and women) welcome!
Tuesday, March 18, 2008, 6:30 PM
412 Mugar Hall, Northeastern University
http://www.campusmap.neu.edu
Beryl Loeb brings over twenty-five years of communication, leadership, and management skill-building experience to her current role as Loeb Group founder, senior-level consultant, trainer, and facilitator.
This workshop will help make you a better speaker!
You will learn to:
1. Engage your audience with your passion and conviction.
2. Connect emotionally – telling a story rather than reciting a list of bulleted points.
3. Think of your speech or presentation as a conversation – and constantly answer the questions, “so what?” and “who cares?”
Advance Assignment:
Everyone attending this workshop needs to prepare a very brief (one to two-minute) mini-presentation (no slides please) describing a time when you were a particularly successful speaker (either you just “felt it” or received positive feedback). During your mini presentation you need to convey one reason for why you were effective.
PLUS…For those interested in professional critique of the slides you currently use in your presentations, please bring 20 copies (color preferred) of a printout of your typical slides. We'll dedicate a portion of our workshop to exploring ways to enhance the impact of your slides.
Download flier with more details.
Equity in Science: Progress and Prospects
GWIS at the AAAS Meeting
Friday, February 15, 2008, 12 noon - 1:30 PM
Sheraton Boston, Third Floor, Fairfax B, 39 Dalton Street, Boston
Professor Nancy Hopkins will speak on an assessment of progress in gender equity at MIT and beyond, and expectations for the future. She is the Amgen, Inc. Professor of Biology at MIT and among her many honors is her membership in the National Academy of Sciences. She is also an Honorary Member of SDE/GWIS. Professor Hopkins has made outstanding contributions to the fields of vertebrate developmental biology, retroviral genetics and bacteriophage genetics.
Professor Hopkins was also the driving force in establishing the MIT Committees on Women Faculty in the School of Science. These committees were established to study gender equity issues in faculty resources in the MIT School of Science. Professor Hopkins chaired the First Committee and served on the Second Committee. This initiative has had a tremendous impact on the careers of female scientists at MIT and elsewhere.
Project Management 101
Tuesday, January 29, 2008, 3-4:40 PM
MIT 35-225 Campus Map
Co-sponsored with the MIT Postdoctoral Scholars Advisory Council
Panelists: Claude Canizares, Peter Dedon, Steve Winig, Maria Zuber
A panel of faculty researchers and administrators discuss what project management means and how it can be applied in an academic setting either at the laboratory level or individual level; learn about allocating resources, using and tracking resources to achieve goals such as publishing a paper, obtaining a grant or completing experiments in a desired time frame.
Repair of Basic Laboratory Equipment
Charles Moses
Wednesday, January 23, 2008, 6 - 9 PM
MIT 68-077 Campus Map
Engineer Charles Moses will conduct a course on repair of laboratory equipment, geared toward but not limited to beginners. Equipment will include: electrophoresis units, spectrophotometers, motors on shakers and centrifuges, etc. General topics will also include: assessing the tools required to disassemeble, fix and reassemble a piece of equipment; tool quality; and rational disassembly of equipment when the function of some component is not known. Bring broken equipment on which to practice. Session starts at 6:00 p.m. in Project Lab, Bldg 68.
Persuasion in Collaborative Environments
Bruce Godzina
Monday, December 17, 2007, 6:00-7:00 PM
MIT Bldg E51 Rm 372 (Tang Center) (whereis.mit.edu)
Bruce Godzina is an MBA candidate from the University of Notre Dame who will graduate in 2008. He is also an attorney who has specialized in immigration law for several years, representing asylum seekers in immigration court. His undergraduate degree is from Rice University in Houston, Texas, where he studied economics and management. Bruce has had experience in large organizations as well as small ones. He has been a solo practitioner in his own law firm, but he has also worked for the federal government during the massive mobilization of disaster relief funds after hurricanes Katrina and Rita in 2005. His international experience includes comparative law programs at McGill University in Canada and Oxford University in England. He has also been part of a team organized by the Department of State sent to Serbia to establish a legal aid clinic at a local university. Bruce is very interested in how incentive systems are set up in organizations to make them run more effectively.
Managing Difficult People: getting others to do what *you* want
You know you'd be really productive... if it weren't for all those people in the way! Come find out how to get the most out of your peers, your staff, your boss, and maybe even your mom. A conversation with Mary Rowe, MIT Ombudsperson.
Wednesday, October 24, 2007, 6 PM, MIT 1-375
Resources for managing difficult people, courtesy of Mary Rowe.
“Women Don’t Ask” book discussion and BBQ
Friday,
June 1, 6:30 PM, Email beuning at neu dot edu for directions and more
information.
Award-winning Research
GWIS Travel Grant Award winner Sharotka Simon and GWIS
Fellow Jocelyn Muller
Thursday, April 12, 206
Egan, Northeastern University, 6 PM
Award-winning Research
GWIS Travel Grant Award winners Marielle Postava-Davignon
and Leila Shokri will present their research
Tuesday, March 20, MIT Bldg 4 Rm 231, 6 PM
Career Profiles:
Academic Careers
Prof. Becky Rosengaus, Dept of Biology, Northeastern
University, PECASE awardee,
will speak about her career and her research on disease
susceptibility in complex insect societies.
Monday, February 12, 2007
412 Mugar, Northeastern University, 6 PM
Repair of Basic
Laboratory Equipment
Engineer Charles Moses will conduct a
course on repair of laboratory
equipment, geared toward but not limited to beginners. Equipment will
include: electrophoresis units, spectrophotometers, motors on shakers and
centrifuges, etc. General topics will also include: assessing the tools
required to disassemble, fix and reassemble a piece of equipment; tool
quality; and rational disassembly of equipment when the function of some
component is not known. Bring broken equipment on which to practice.
Tue Jan 9 and/or Wed Jan 17, 7-9:00pm,
MIT 68-077
Don’t Miss our Mentoring Panel, focusing on academic careers
“Getting
the Mentoring you Need and Being an Effective
Wednesday, November 8, from 3:00 to 4:30 p.m. at the
Co-sponsored
with the MIT Postdoctoral Scholars Advisory Council
Featuring:
Melissa
Franklin, Physics,
Jonathan
King, Biology, MIT
Marc
Muskavitch, Biology,
Carol
Warner, Biology, Northeastern University
Communicating
Evolution
October 17, 6 PM, MIT, Bldg 10
Rm 250
Norman Johnson, Department of Plant, Soil, and Insect Sciences
UMass, Amherst
Norman will suggest strategies for scientists to communicate the
importance of evolutionary biology to the general public and to explain
how Intelligent Design theory does not fit with accepted scientific
evidence. He will also highlight what molecular evolutionary studies can
tell us about the natural history of our species.
Lotte Bailyn speaks
on Women in the Work Place
IF YOU GO TO ONE MASS AWIS/GWIS EVENT THIS YEAR--MAKE THIS THE ONE!!
Membership open house--members and non-members welcome--bring a friend.
DATE: Sunday, September 17th, 7:00 PM
LOCATION: MIT Campus, Room 56-114
Co-sponsored with AWIS (Association for Women in Science)
Xenotransplantation: Lessons, experiences and the future
Dr. Julia Greenstein-Bleicher, Life Science Advisors
Tuesday, May 23,
5:30 PM, MIT Bldg 1 Rm 135
Award-Winning Science
Wednesday, April 26, 5:30 PM, MIT Bldg 1 Rm 150 Recent graduate student awardees will present their research.
Ying Wei,
Elizabeth O'Day,
Everything you ever wanted to know about graduate school, but were afraid to ask
Graduate Student Panel, Thursday, March 23, 2005
Northeastern University, Room 305 Shillman Hall, 5:30 PM
Is graduate school right for you? What inside information will help prepare
you
for success in grad school? Come and learn from a panel of current grad
students in all fields of science from universities throughout the
"
Paola Malanotte-Rizzoli, Professor of Physical Oceanography in the
Department of Earth, Atmospheric and Planetary Sciences at MIT
Thursday, February 23, 5:30-6:30 PM
MIT Bldg 68 Rm 374 (http://whereis.mit.edu)
Italian desserts will be served.
Paola
Malanotte-Rizzoli is a physical oceanographer interested in climate, the
general ocean circulation and ecosystem models, which she studies through development
of mathematical numerical models and assimilation of different datasets into
models. She also has worked to solve the problems facing
Repair of Basic Laboratory Equipment
Engineer
Charles Moses will conduct a course on repair of laboratory
equipment, geared toward but not limited to beginners. Equipment will
include: electrophoresis units, spectrophotometers, motors on shakers and
centrifuges, etc. General topics will also include: assessing the tools
required to disassemble, fix and reassemble a piece of equipment; tool
quality; and rational disassembly of equipment when the function of some
component is not known. Bring broken equipment on which to practice.
For more information, contact sgodzina@mit.edu.
Wednesdays, Jan 11 and 25, 2006, 6-8 PM, MIT Bldg 68 Rm 077
Career Profiles: Deborah Douglas,
Includes MIT Museum Tour, brief talk, and
time for networking and refreshments
Tuesday, Dec 6, 2005, 4:30 PM, MIT Museum (265 Massachusetts Ave, Cambridge,
MA)
Co-sponsored by GWIS and the NESACS
Younger Chemists Committee
View and Download Event Poster!
Starting in Our Own Backyards: How Working Families Can
Build Community and Survive the New Economy
Prof. Ann Bookman, Executive Director of the
MIT Workplace Center
Thursday, Nov 10, 2005, 4 PM, MIT Bldg 68 Rm 274
Prof. Ann Bookman is a social anthropologist who will discuss her new
book, Starting in Our Own Backyards: How Working Families Can Build
Community and Survive the New Economy (Routledge 2004), which extends the
discourse on work-family integration to include issues of community
involvement and civil society. Bookman has held a variety of teaching,
research, and administrative positions and has also worked in government,
as a presidential appointee during the first term of the
administration, as Policy and Research Director of the Women's Bureau at
the U.S. Department of Labor, and as Executive Director of the bipartisan
Commission on Family and Medical Leave.
Co-sponsored by the MIT Postdoctoral Advisory Council
The (Un)Changing Face of the Ivy League, presentation and discussion
Monday, May 16, 2005, 6:30 pm
Despite recent initiatives to increase the representation of women in
academia, from 1993 to 2003, the percentage of women in tenure-track
positions at Ivy League universities went from 31% to 34%.
Women average only 1 in 5 tenured faculty.
We invite you to a presentation and discussion of the report,
"The (Un)Changing Face of the Ivy League", with Kate Clancy, PhD
student
and one of the report's authors.
The full text is at:
http://www.yaleunions.org/geso/reports/Ivy.pdf
This report was also covered in the New York Times
("Little Advance is Seen in Ivies' Hiring of Minorities and Women",
March 1, 2005).
http://map.harvard.edu/mapindex.cfm?mapname=camb_allston
Sponsored by GWIS (Graduate Women in Science) and HGWISE
(Harvard Graduate Women in Science and Engineering).
For more info, please contact gwis@mitvma.mit.edu.
Career Profiles: Nutrition Science Research in Industry
Marge Leahy, Ph.D. will discuss her career path to Ocean Spray, challenges and benefits of working in industry, as well as the science behind the health benefits of cranberry juice and cranberry products.
Wednesday, April 27, 2005 12:30 -1:30 PM
Rm
118 Jaharis,
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Everything you ever wanted to know about graduate school, but were afraid to ask
Graduate Student Panel, March 29, 2005
Northeastern University, Room 135 Shillman Hall, 5:30 PM
Is graduate school right for you? What inside information will help prepare
you for success in grad school? Come and learn from a panel
of current grad students in all fields of science from universities throughout
the
There will be free pizzas and drinks. Everyone is welcome!
Careers in Industry for Scientists, February 22, 2005
Dr. Gail Martino, Gillette Advanced
MIT Bldg 56 Rm 114, 6:30 PM
Considering
a career in industry?
Wondering about the tradeoffs involved in doing research in a
company vs academia?
How do you build and maintain your network while working in
industry?
Dr. Martino, who has experience as a researcher in both
academia and industry, will address these issues and more in her
dynamic and engaging presentation.
Basic Scientific Instrument Repair, January 12, 2005
MIT, Bldg 68, Project Lab (Basement), 6:30 PM
Winter Social
Wednesday, December 1, 2004, 6:30 PM
306 Egan
(#60 on map),
Great Food and Door Prizes!
Everyone is welcome!
“Can Scientists Speak Truth to Power? Issues in US
Energy Policy”
Scott Olson, Energy Delivery and Management Consultant, Nexant,
Inc
Monday, November 1, 2004, 6:30 PM
MIT Bldg 4 Rm 231
“The New Politics of Science Policy”, Prof. Sheila Jasanoff, Ph.D., J.D.,
Pforzheimer
Professor of Science and Technology Studies,
Tuesday, October 19, 2004, 6:30 PM
MIT Bldg 4 Rm 237
Garden in the Woods Trip and Big Bugs Exhibit, Saturday, October 16, 2004, meet at the Garden at 11 AM
GWIS Summer BBQ, Saturday August 28
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