NOW IS A GOOD TIME TO JOIN AWIS--WE
NEED YOU!!! STUDENTS CAN JOIN NATIONAL AWIS AND THE CHAPTER FOR ONLY
$35.00.
Your membership supports our work
and all of our free programs, take a minute to register now at www.awis.org!
SEE OUR NEW CHAPTER WEBSITE FOR INFO AND
DETAILS WWW.MASS-AWIS.ORG
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In this Email:
November Panel discussion at the Whitehead
with the AWIS NATIONAL BOARD!!
AWIS Leadership Workshops--Details for the Second Workshop
HGWISE Women, Science and Society Seminar Series **NOTE LOCATION
CHANGE**
Annual GSAS Harvard Biotechnology Club Career
Fair
GWIS events: Communicating Evolution
and Mentoring Panel Discussion
Harvard-MIT HST An Evening of Anatomy at
the Bodyworlds Exhibit
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MASS AWIS hosts the National AWIS Board Meeting--Brunch and Panel Discussion,
The Leaky Pipeline
Mass AWIS is proud to be hosting this year's national AWIS board meeting.
This gives us a unique opportunity to meet and network with the amazing
women that make up the national board. Please join us for this Special
Brunch and Panel Discussion event.
"The Leaky Pipeline, What Do We Need To Do to Plug It?" with
guest panel the National AWIS Board (see http://www.awis.org/about/board.html)
Sunday, November 5th, 10AM-Noon
Whitehead Institute, Nine Cambridge Center, Cambridge, MA
This event is free for members...Suggested donation of $5.00 for non-members
payable at the door
Register here for this event http://www.acteva.com/booking.cfm?bevaid=119562
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MASS AWIS Leadership Workshops
The second workshop is "Oral
Communication Skills--Good Presentation as a Key to Advancement!"
Wednesday, November 29, 6-8pm
Broad Institute (same location as the first workshop although the room
may change depending on numbers registered)
Dr. Robert Weinberg will be the first speaker and a second speaker will
be announced.
Dr. Weinberg is a founding member of the
Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research and MIT professor of biology
affiliated with the Center for Cancer Research. He has had many major
achievements and awards. Dr. Weinbergs key work led to identification
and characterization of both the first oncogene and first tumor suppressor
gene. He is a member of the U.S. National Academy of Sciences, recipient
of the National Medal of Science, the Wolf Prize in Medicine and recently
the Kirk A. Landon-AACR Prize for Basic Cancer Research. MASS AWIS
is pleased to welcome him to our program!
Come to work on the skills you need--light
dinner provided!
There will also be a limited but larger enrollment
for this event, so sign up early--YOU CAN REGISTER FOR THIS EVENT AT
THIS ACTEVA LINK
http://www.acteva.com/booking.cfm?bevaid=120349
The first AWIS Leadership Workshop is FULL!!
We are sorry to say that the Communication Skills Workshop is completely
full with 50 attendees signed up (well, we're not that sorry it is full,
but we are sorry you can't attend if you didn't register in time)! We
hope to offer it again in the future.
If you signed up, make sure to show up as there were MANY more people who
wanted to attend.
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Women, Science and Society Seminar Series
Thursday, October 19th, 6pm **Location Change** Jefferson Laboratory
250, 17A Oxford St., Cambridge
Dr. Phoebe Leboy
Dr. Leboy is a Professor of Biochemistry
in the School of Dental Medicine, at the University of Pennsylvania and
is also secretary of the NATIONAL AWIS EXECUTIVE BOARD
"Analyzing the Leaky Pipeline: Why are Women Scientists Under-represented
in Senior Positions?"
Last month, a panel convened by the National Academy of Sciences pointed
out that women in science and engineering are hindered by "outmoded
institutional structures in academia". Dr. Leboy will describe existing
policies and procedures in academic institutions that have built-in gender
biases. Some of these, such as "family-unfriendly" policies
that hinder professional advancement during the childbearing years, have
been the subjects of considerable study in recent years. Other problematic
policies and procedures have been ignored. Notably, the trend towards faculty
evaluations that emphasize quantity of publications and grants rather than
quality of scholarship has a disproportionate negative impact on careers
of women scientists.
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ANNUAL GSAS HARVARD BIOTECHNOLOGY CLUB
CAREER FAIR!
DATE: October 25, 2006 1-5 PM
CONTACT EMAIL: jess@...
LOCATION: HMS, NRB 3rd Fl Rotunda, Boston, Massachusetts
FREE for job seekers / attendees!
We have a total of 18 companies that have already registered to be at the
Career Fair. These companies include Biotechnology and Pharmaceutical companies,
Patent Law and Consulting firms. We will also have a series of short
25-min company presentations given during the Career Fair.
Check out the Career Fair website for an updated company list & for
the day's agenda: www.thebiotechclub.org
The Career Fair is the Biotech Club's biggest event of the year. For 2006,
we anticipate a huge turnout so we hope to see you there!
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GWIS events
Communicating Evolution
October 17, 6 PM, MIT, Bldg 10 Rm 250 (http://whereis.mit.edu)
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.
Getting the Mentoring you Need and Being
an Effective Mentor
A panel discussion emphasizing mentoring issues in academic careers to
be held on Wednesday, November 8, from 3:00 to 4:30 p.m. at the MIT
Stata Center, 32-141 Co-sponsored with the MIT Postdoctoral Scholars
Advisory Council
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The Harvard-MIT Division of Health
Sciences and Technology (HST) Fundraising Event for Student Support
November 13, 2006, 5:30 PM, An Evening
of Anatomy at the Boston Museum of Science
Dinner by Wolfgang Puck Catering and Lecture
by Professor Farish Jenkins, Ph.D.
Body Worlds 2: The anatomical exhibition
of real human bodies. The exhibition explores human and comparative
anatomy in health and disease. Enjoy this unprecedented opportunity
to see the exhibit and to enjoy it with special docents to lead your tour.
Different levels of sponsorship are available--tickets
are limited!
Go to http://hst.mit.edu/mos
for more information.
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