AWIS Announcements:

Book club and Mentoring Kick Off Next Week - Tuesday April 1^st

Evelyn Murphy WAGE project event Monday, April 28^th – Sign up now!

Upcoming May networking event  - Watch for details and sign up soon!

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AWIS Book Club and Mass-AWIS Mentoring Circle Kick Off Event

Join MASS AWIS next Tuesday for a book club discussion featuring "Every Other Thursday: Stories and Strategies from Successful Women Scientists" by Ellen Daniell

Tuesday, Apr. 01, 2008
6:30 PM  - 8:00 PM
BIDMC Research North Building
99 Brookline Ave, Boston, MA 02215

Register here - http://www.acteva.com/booking.cfm?bevaid=153872

Link to the book on Amazon - http://www.amazon.com/Every-Other-Thursday-Strategies-Successful/dp/0300113234

The conference room at BIDMC Research North is located at 99 Brookline Avenue, almost across from Fenway Park. The entrance is on Overland Street, which is off of Brookline Avenue. There is street parking available on both Brookline Avenue and Beacon Street as well as parking behind the building ($10). BIDMC Research North is accessible by the T with the two nearest stops being Kenmore Square Green Line and Longwood Medical Area D Line stops.

 How to join the MASS AWIS Mentoring Circle Program

·         You must be a MASS AWIS chapter member to participate as a Mentee, student rates are available Join MASS AWIS on the national AWIS website: www.awis.org

·         You must apply online by filling out the Mentor or Mentee surveys.  Here are the links:

o   Survey for potential MENTEES

o   Survey for potential MENTORS

Who can be a mentor?

Anyone who is willing to help guide the group…it could be a post-doc guiding grad students, a young faculty member guiding post-docs or industry scientists, an industry person guiding those wanting to enter this field…you can be a mentor and mentee!

What is an AWIS Mentoring Circle?

A Mentoring Circle is a small group of women scientists committed to meeting regularly and supporting one another with advice, support and information.  Each circle will consist of 3-5 peers and be coordinated and supported by at least one more experienced mentor.

Who will be in my circle?

The MASS AWIS mentoring committee will review submitted surveys and match you with a circle based on interest, career goals, geography and other factors.

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Mass AWIS Presents: The WAGE Project Workshop

Monday April 28, 2008 6:00 - 9:00 PM

Evelyn Murphy returns to Mass-AWIS to conduct a workshop on the Wage Gap!

Novartis Institutes for BioMedical Research
100 Technology Square
Cambridge, MA 02139 

We are very excited to host this first ever Wage Project Workshop focused on scientists.  The workshop will be geared towards negotiating your initial salary as well as future raises.  There will be a charge to help cover the cost of materials and light dinner ($20 for MASS AWIS chapter members and $35 for non-members).

 

Evelyn Murphy is President of The WAGE Project, Inc., a national organization to end wage discrimination against working women, and Resident Scholar in the Women's Studies Research Center at Brandeis University, where she has researched and authored a book on women's wages entitled Getting Even: Why Women Don't Get Paid Like Men and What To Do About It, published by Simon & Schuster in October 2005. 

Sign up now: http://www.acteva.com/booking.cfm?bevaid=156766

Directions to 100 Technology Square (Kendall T is on the map):  http://www.nibr.novartis.com/Downloads/About/directions_to_NIBRI.pdf

Larger Map:  http://www.nibr.novartis.com/Downloads/About/CambridgeCampus.pdf
Please enter from the Main Street entrance, between the Citibank and the railroad tracks.

There is a lot of metered parking on Main Street and the Technology Square hourly garage is nearby (see map).

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Other Announcements:

Thursday April 3 - WEST event "Life Science Patent Strategies"

Saturday April 26^th – Sunday May 4^th - Cambridge Science Festival

Career break survey

L'Oreal's Booklet "Beating the Odds: Remarkable Women in Science."

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DESCRIPTION: This event is designed for women and men who want to better understand how to build effective intellectual property strategies in the biotechnology and pharmaceutical industries, including:

1. Patent Overview: What are patents, how are they valued, and how are they used strategically 2. Using patents as marketing tools: How to leverage IP to raise money, how the IP of others effects the value of your product 3. Role of IP in bigger pharmaceutical companies: Developing effective IP directed to early R&D vs. late product development, importance for clinical and marketing efforts.

Speakers include three leading attorneys from the law firm of Lowrie, Lando & Anastasi, LLP including: Diana Collazo, J.D. Ph.D., Laurie Butler Lawrence, J.D., and Catherine McCarty, J.D.

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Cambridge Science Festival Saturday April 26^th – Sunday May 4^th

http://cambridgesciencefestival.org/Home.aspx

Check out this unique local event!

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NSF-sponsored survey on women in career breaks

Catherine Mavriplis <Catherine.Mavriplis@...> is conducting a NSF-sponsored survey on women in career breaks.  Women who have a PhD in science/engineering/math/social science who are in a career break should contact Catherine if interested in participating.

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Interesting online resource-

L'Oreal's Booklet "Beating the Odds: Remarkable Women in Science."
http://sciencecareers.sciencemag.org/career_development/tools_resources/l_oreal_women_in_science_booklet