Award-Winning Science A Joint AWIS/GWIS
event
Wednesday, April 26, 5:30 PM, MIT Bldg 1 Rm 150 Recent graduate
student awardees will present their research.
Ying Wei, Northeastern University, winner of the 2005 GWIS Alpha Omega
travel grant
"High Precision, Selective Prediction of Interaction Sites in Proteins"
Ying Wei earned a bachelors degree in chemistry from Fudan University (China)
in 1999. She came to the US and earned her masters degree in Information
Systems in 2002. She is currently in the PhD program of computational chemistry
at Northeastern University.
Elizabeth O'Day, Boston College, Winner of the Undergraduate Poster Award
at the 2005 Northeast Student Chemistry Research Conference
"The design and synthesis of aspartate transcarbamoylase inhibitor
compounds"
Elizabeth O'Day is a senior biochemistry major at Boston College and both
a Barry M. Goldwater Scholar and Beckman Scholar. She was selected by the
Northeastern section of the American Chemical Society for a GermanExchange
Program in 2005, and has been awarded a Winston Churchill Scholarship.
TO REGISTER FOR THIS EVENT http://www.acteva.com/booking.cfm?bevaid=108895
This event is free for members of GWIS/AWIS and students. We will
charge $10 for non-members and non-students.
Join one of our forming K-12 outreach
committees
Contact Joanne Niewood to get involved!!!
1) Committee to coordinate requests for volunteers
from other organizaitons.
LeAnn Williams has already offered to step
up and help coordinate AWIS volunteers for women in science and girls in
science events (we get these requests all the time). You can let us know
if you would like to be on her list of volunteers or if you would like
to help her in coordinating as well.
2) Committee to work on a "visiting
AWIS scientists" program
We have so many talented women working in
so many areas that we thought we might be able to coordinate school visitors
and event visitors with demos or presentations on many areas of science.
I think Nadien Gaab and Natalie Catlett already offered to get started
in this area so again we could use volunteers and other coordinating committee
members to figure out how to go forward.
3) Committee to work on forming our own AWIS
Science Club for Girls SCFG has curricula for girls in K-12 with a program
that develops girls to start helping lead the program of younger girls
in 8th grade and above. Seems like we can use there programs and start
our own "club" maybe at Shelly's school! We will need some people
to help chair this effort and figure out how to get started!
Be a MentorNet Mentor!
Reach out and help other women who are trying to get started in scientific
careers by supporting this online mentoring program. Go to the MentorNet
website (mentornet.com) and sign up to become an "email" Mentor.
Contact Joanne Niewood with questions.
Job Opening at Abbott--Hybridoma generation
Abbott Bioresearch Center is looking for
a Senior Scientist to generate hybridoma cell lines and characterize monoclonal
antibodies to support therapeutic antibody research and development programs.
Education Requirements, Applicant should have a PhD with 1-3 years
experience, with at least 1 year in a hybridoma lab. Proficient at tissue
culture and hybridoma techniques, immunoassay development, including ELISAs,
antibody purification, immunoprecipitation, Western blot, FACS analysis.
Must be a bench scientist with excellent organizational skills and must
be able to work on several projects independently and simultaneously. Team
contributor. Desired Skills: Familiarity with Biacore, Strong presentation
skills, supervisory experience For more information go to http://abbott.com/career/job_search.cfm
and search for jobs in Worcester, MA.
Other Events of Interest:
Women Entrepreneurs in Science and Technology:
Beyond Hello-Connecting through Conversation with Elaine Crowley,
The Crowley Group
Management Nuts & Bolts: Session 3 WEST
offers a new series of programs essential for successful managerial leadership
- designed especially for scientists and engineers. April 27: Beyond
Hello - Connecting through Conversation with Elaine Crowley, The Crowley
Group
Master "small talk" protocols to
lay the foundation for effective networking and leadership. Solve
the mystery of what to say next. Elaine has been building leadership
skills in Biotech and High Tech for 25 years.
For details and to register visit http://westorg.org/programs.calendar.php?page=2006apr
WOMEN IN BIOTECHNOLOGY: MANAGEMENT, CONSULTING,
AND BUSINESS DEVELOPMENT
DATE: April 10, 2006, TIME: 5:00 PM, CONTACT EMAIL: lauren@...
LOCATION: Harvard Medical School, Building C, Cannon Room, Boston, Massachusetts
The Women in Biotechnology series will be an excellent opportunity to meet
with successful women who have taken different approaches to science and
have all excelled. This panel will examine the possibilities of business
management, consulting and management as a career for scientists. The three
major themes for the panel discussion will be: How these successful women
go to where they are now, how they overcame any extra challenges they faced
in their career, and how did they deal with the issues surrounding the
creation of a healthy balance between professional success and family development.
Please join us for an interactive and educational discussion.
The Panelists:
Jenny E. Freeman MD, President and CEO, HyperMed, Inc.
Sandra Glucksmann PhD, Vice President, Millenium Pharmaceuticals Inc
Sarah Smith-Cairns PhD, Vice President, Boston Consulting Group
Women/Science in the News::
Federal Inquiry on Women in Science
This summer, the U.S. Education Department
plans to begin detailed investigations of whether selected colleges and
universities are complying with federal anti-bias laws in their treatment
of women in math and science. As reported by Inside Higher Education, the
inquiries will cover how women are treated as students (at both the undergraduate
and graduate levels) and as faculty members (including questions about
hiring, promotion and tenure). The investigations will be conducted by
the Education Department's Office for Civil Rights as full "compliance
reviews," which look broadly at institutional policies and practices.
The reviews will be conducted under the department's authority to enforce
Title IX of the Education Amendments of 1972, which bars sex discrimination
in education programs receiving federal funds. One driver behind the new
effort is a July 2004 study http://www.gao.gov/new.items/d04639.pdf by
the Government Accountability Office on gender issues in the sciences.
Senators Ron Wyden, D-Ore., and Barbara Boxer, D-Calif., requested the
report, which concluded that the Title IX-required compliance reviews "have
largely been neglected." For more information, please visit: http://insidehighered.com/news/2006/03/28/women
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