Thanks again to Rosa Melendez and Rita Lim for arranging our great event with speaker Dr. Elga Wasserman. Her talk was entertaining and inspiring and we had our biggest event yet with 50 people attending!
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MASS AWIS 2006 PLANNING AND CHAPTER ELECTIONS
Information will be distributed soon about this upcoming event. This is a members only event so join awis now at www.awis.org!!!
All members are invited to come and give input on every aspect of programming for the coming year and formally elect our first chapter board. Last year our chapter only had 4 members at the time of our planning meeting and this year we have over 60! Come get to know the other chapter members, help form sub-committees and please, give us your input. Contact Joanne for more info: joanne.niewood@...
Other items of interest:
-"The Challenges and Rewards for Women in Science"--Harvard Center for Astrophysics Event
-Needed: Middle School Science Olympiad Volunteers
-Call for Mentors and info on Mentornet
-Professional Skills Development Workshops for Women Physicists
-Science Panel: Barnard Women in Science
-Items of interest from the National AWIS Washington Wire
The Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics FREE EVENT
Thursday, November 17th in Hall D of the Harvard University Science Center. Beginning at 7:00 p.m., a panel of
distinguished female researchers will discuss "The Challenges and Rewards for Women in Science."
We highly encourage young women who are considering a career in science to attend this event! Please note that seating is first-come, first-served, so we recommend early arrival.
Dr. Jennifer Sokolowski, Moderator - NSF Astronomy and Astrophysics, Postdoctoral Fellow at CfA
Dr. Andrea Dupree - Senior Astrophysicist at CfA and past president of the American Astronomical Society
Dr. Kate Kirby - Director of the Institute for Theoretical Atomic, Molecular and Optical Physics
Dr. Faith Vilas - Chief of a NASA planetary astronomy group and Director of the MMT Observatory in Arizona
Ms. Nitya Kallivayalil - Graduate student in the Harvard Department of Astronomy
Full details and directions are online at http://www.cfa.harvard.edu/ep/women.html
More information is available by calling (617) 495-7461 or sending e-mail to pubaffairs@...
Needed: Middle School Science Olympiad Advisers/Volunteers
Our 6th-8th grade students are seeking guidance with preparation for their second Science Olympiad state competition. Would you be willing to share your interest in science? If yes, we would like you to be a volunteer adviser to the Science Olympiad team preparing for this year's State competition. The role of a volunteer adviser is to assist with research, to troubleshoot, and to serve as a sounding board to students in the science event of your choice.
Volunteer advisors need to make a once/week commitment, for about 1.5 hours/week. All event preparation meetings will take place at the Tobin School (Vassal Lane, Cambridge), after school.
If interested, contact Kathryn Hollar via email at hollar@... or Tad Sudnick at tsudnick@....
Make sure to visit the official Science Olympiad website for more information at: www.soinc.
CALL FOR MENTORS
The MentorNet One-on-One Mentoring Programs are a chance to make a big difference in the life of a student with as few as 1 or 2 emails/month.
MentorNet seeks science and engineering professionals in industry and government, either currently active, on leave, or retired, to mentor engineering and science community college, undergraduate, and graduate students, particularly women, who are interested in pursuing a professional future in the male-dominated fields of engineering and science.
Mentors are especially needed in the biological sciences and bio-engineering fields.
Though mentors volunteer their time to benefit the protege, they can also find a rewarding experience for themselves. "I hope [my student] is getting as much out of it as I am," is how one MentorNet mentor puts it. Well over 90% of participants would recommend MentorNet's e-mentoring programs to a friend or colleague.
Mentoring relationships last 8 months. Because mentors and students communicate entirely by email, they can communicate wherever and whenever they choose. MentorNet's research-based programs have proven effective by providing "real world" information, encouragement, advice, and access to networks for students, and particularly for women. "My mentor always gives me the encouragement that I need," says one MentorNet student. "Sometimes those few words make a big difference to me."
How can you volunteer to be a mentor (or sign up as a protege)?
1) Join the MentorNet Community (http://www.mentornet.net/join)
2) Follow the One-on-One Mentoring Programs links to create a mentor profile.
Professional Skills Development Workshops for Women Physicists
The American Physical Society will offer one-day workshops for tenure track and newly-tenured women physicists on March 12 (Baltimore) and April 21 (Dallas), in association with the 2006 APS annual meetings. The workshops are limited to 30 people and will offer professional training on effective negotiation, communication and leadership skills, as well as a special opportunity for networking. Participants may receive a stipend of up to $800 towards hotel and travel expenses. Details are now posted on the CSWP website at http://www.aps.org/educ/cswp/skills/, along with information on how to apply.
SCIENCE PANEL: BARNARD WOMEN IN SCIENCE, November 15, 2005, 7pm
1501 Beacon Street, Brookline, $15 per person, RSVP by November 7 to Rosalie Reszelbach at rosalieres@...
This panel couldn't be timelier, with Harvard president Larry Summers' recent controversial comments about women in science, and all the ensuing headlines about the progress of women in science and medicine. Among the topics to be covered in this panel, we will explore: work/family balance; what strategies work in advancing a career in science and medicine; and what challenges remain to women entering the field.
Panelists include:
Judith Herzfeld, Ph.D., M.P.P. '67, professor of biophysical chemistry, Brandeis University
Phyllis Kornguth, M.D., Ph.D. '61, department of radiology, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center
Lisa Najavits, Ph.D., '83, associate professor in psychiatry, Harvard Medical School
Dagmar Ringe, Ph.D. '63, Markey professor of chemistry, Brandeis University.
Moderator: Dolores Kong, CFP(R), '82, former Boston Globe medical reporter and Pulitzer Prize finalist in public service for series on medical research
Directions: 1501 Beacon Street is 1/2 way between Coolidge Corner and Washington Square on the eastbound side of Beacon Street with ample parking. It is also on the Green "C" T-line.
Items of Interest from the AWIS Washington Wire (Join AWIS to get the full editions!)
2005 NIH Director's Pioneer Awardees Announced National Institutes of Health Director Elias A. Zerhouni named 13 new recipients of the Pioneer Award, an award designed for exceptionally creative scientists who take innovative approaches to major challenges in biomedical research. This year, six of the 13 are women and more than half are at relatively early stages of their careers (the associate professor level or below). The awardees will receive $500,000 in direct costs per year for five years to pursue new research directions that may be risky but groundbreaking. For details on the recipients, visit http://nihroadmap.nih.gov/pioneer/Recipients05.aspx.
Nobel Prizes Remain a Male Preserve If you are a woman scientist, don't hold your breath waiting for a Nobel prize. There have been 320 prizes presented to distinguished physicists and chemists since 1901, but only five times have women been on the receiving end. The last female winner was Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin who took the 1964 chemistry award for her work on the structures of biochemical substances. Since then, male domination has been absolute. (AWIS President Betty Ivey is quoted in this article.) Visit http://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory?id=1168933.
Women Pierce the "Polycarbonate Ceiling" in Chemistry Careers University of Oregon professor Geri Richmond has reported mentorship successes in the journal Nature. Nine out of 10 women who have taken workshops aimed at helping them improve their careers report reduced workplace stress as a result. Richmond said, "Achieving success in science is challenging enough without the gender biases that negatively impact these women's careers." For more on these workshops directed at women chemists, visit http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2005-09/uoo-wlh092105.php
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