Next AWIS Event
MEMBERS ONLY EVENT--CHAPTER ELECTIONS AND 2006 PROGRAM PLANNING, NOVEMBER 29, 8-10 PM IN THE HARVARD MEDICAL AREA
NOW is the time to join MASS AWIS the Boston area and Massachusetts chapter of the Association for Women in Science!
JOIN MASS AWIS at www.massawis.org!! Our chapter is growing--join us at an event soon.
We will be having our first chapter elections. We are lucky to have a strong slate of women eager to join in coordinating the work of our chapter! The slate of officers with short biographies will be sent out in a separate email.
Please attend and share your ideas on future programming for our growing chapter! You never know where your next opportunity will come from...come meet the people trying to make a difference for women and girls in scientific fields! Even if this is your first AWIS meeting, we are eager to have your opinions and input!
99 Brookline Avenue, Entrance on Overland Street (near Fenway Park)--Directions will be distributed closer to the event.
There is no charge for this event, RSVPs are not necessary, but nice. Email Joanne.Niewood@...
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INTERESTING ITEM FROM THE MEDIA:
http://content.nejm.org/cgi/content/full/353/16/1650?query=TOC
See this fascinating perspective in the New England Journal of Medicine by Susan Wood, Ph.D., who recently resigned from the Office of Women's Health at FDA.
"On August 31, 2005, I resigned my post of assistant commissioner for women's health and director of the Office of Women's Health at the Food and Drug Administration (FDA). The agency leadership had chosen to delay indefinitely a decision about switching emergency contraception to nonprescription status. I believed that in doing so, they were disregarding the scientific and clinical evidence and the established review process and were taking an action that harms women's health by denying them appropriate access to a product that can reduce the rate of unplanned pregnancies and the need for abortions....."
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Local events of interest (see below for details):
-WEST event: Capture and Communicate Your Value To Manage Your Career
-Graduate Women in Science (GWIS) Business Meeting
-Barnard Women in Science panel
-The Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics "The Challenges and Rewards for Women in Science."
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WEST event: Capture and Communicate Your Value To Manage Your Career
Saturday, October 29, 2004, 9:00 a.m. - 3:00 p.m. Lunch and refreshments will be provided.
First Floor Conference Room, One Main Street, Cambridge, MA
www.westorg.org to register on line, Members: $125 Before October 24th; $150 After Oct. 25th; Non-Members: $200 At this intensive one-day workshop Sarah Cardozo Duncan will provide you with tools that will guide you to the next phase of your professional development. If you are currently in transition, if you are considering a work transition, or looking to leverage your experience into new areas, this session is for you. Invest a day in yourself and discover how to successfully move your career forward with clarity and results that reflect your value proposition.
Graduate Women in Science (GWIS) Business Meeting, Monday, Nov 7
All Business Meetings begin with refreshments at 5:45 PM
At MIT, Building 68, Rm 151 (near the Kendall Sq T station, at the corner of Ames and Main Sts in Cambridge).
Campus Map: http://whereis.mit.edu Everyone is welcome!
Barnard Women in Science panel, November 15, 2005, 7pm
1501 Beacon Street, Brookline, $15 per person
RSVP by November 7 to Rosalie Reszelbach at rosalieres@...
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 IsraelDeaconess Medical Center
Lisa Najavits, Ph.D., '83, associate professor in psychiatry, HarvardMedical School
Dagmar Ringe, Ph.D. '63, Markey professor of chemistry, BrandeisUniversity.
Moderator: Dolores Kong, CFP(R), '82, former Boston Globe medical reporter and Pulitzer Prize finalist in public service for series on medical research.
The Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics "The Challenges and Rewards for Women in Science."
Thursday, November 17th in Hall D of the Harvard University ScienceCenter, 7:00 p.m. FREE
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@...
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