KUDOS to all AWIS members who helped with
the Dedham Middle School Girls in Science program part I. It was
an outstanding success! Frauke Geil, Dayse Sena and Joanne Kamens
participated and special thanks to "mystery science guest" Nancy
Evans. Others will participate on March 30. This was a great
model for future K-12 outreach efforts. See this site for the news
story: http://www.dailynewstranscript.com/homepage/x1567528986
Events in this Email:
GWIS Award-Winning Science, March 20 and
April 12
Berkeley's new Maternity Program for grad
students!
Teaching at a Liberal Arts College, Mar 13 or 15
The Crisis in Computer Science, March 15
Funding your research, Sources steps and
strategies, March 22
WITI EAST at The Women's Congress, March 29-30
SWE Conference, Apr 14
The Estrogen Elixir, Apr 19
Job Opportunities and Fellowships:
*AWIS extends deadline for internship program
*MIT Midcareer acceleration program
Other job listings
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Award-Winning Science
GWIS Travel Grant Award winners Marielle Postava-Davignon and Leila Shokri
will present their research
Tuesday, March 20, MIT Bldg 4 Rm 231 (http://whereis.mit.edu), 6 PM
"Nest architecture and disease susceptibility: the influence of social
behavior and nest microclimate on the survival of the dampwood termite
Zootermopsis angusticollis (Hagen)" Marielle Postava-Davignon
"Interactions of T7 Gene 2.5 Protein with DNA from Single Molecule
Stretching" Leila Shokri
Upcoming Events:
Award-winning Science Part II GWIS Travel Grant Award winner Sharotka Simon
and GWIS Fellow Jocelyn Muller
Thursday, April 12, 206 Egan Center, Northeastern University, 6 PM
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Look what Berkeley is doing for women graduate
students: Paid Maternity leave!
http://www.berkeley.edu/news/berkeleyan/2007/03/07_maternity.shtml
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Teaching at a Liberal Arts College
Thursday, Mar 15, 12:00-1:30 pm in the Office of Career Services, Harvard,
54 Dunster Street.
OR Tuesday, Mar 13, MIT, Bldg 68 Rm 180, 4 PM
The speaker is Amy Cheng Vollmer PhD College, who will speak about what
it is like to teach science at a liberal arts college.
At Harvard, Lunch will be served and space is limited. **To register
for the Harvard session, students should email Robin Mount at rmount@....
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The Crisis in Computer Science: What Can We Do? Mar 15
Lenore Blum, Distinguished Career Professor of CS, Carnegie Mellon University
Thursday, Mar 15, 2007, 4:00 - 5:00 pm Harvard University, Lessin Auditorium
33 Oxford St, G115 Cambridge
Lenore Blum, well known for her work in increasing the participation of
girls and women in mathematics and scientific fields, will discuss solutions
for stemming the dramatic downturn in undergraduate enrollments in computer
science.
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FUNDING YOUR RESEARCH: SOURCES, STEPS AND
STRATEGIES
DATE: March 22, 2007 TIME: 4-6 PM CONTACT
EMAIL: malishes@...
As a graduate student or postdoctoral fellow,
having your own training grant or funded fellowship is a great start to
your career as an independent researcher.
Funding Your Research: Sources, Steps, and
Strategies is a symposium for graduate students and postdoctoral fellows
on the basic principles of grant writing, the submission processes, and
researching funding sources. Learn more about training grants and fellowships
at NIH, including the K99/R00 Pathway to Independence award, and about
other agencies (both federal and private) that have grants for graduate
students and postdoctoral fellows. Finally, discuss strategies with an
NIH program administrator and a panel of successful grant writers at the
graduate, postdoctoral, and junior faculty level.
Registration for this event is free, but
limited. To register, go to http://sciencecareers.sciencemag.org/meetings/workshops
and click on the "Funding Your Research" link.
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WITI EAST at The Women's Congress, March 29-30
WITI Women & Technology EAST at The Women's Congress Boston - March
29-30
Boston Convention & Exhibition Center
Kirsten Dixson WITI Presents: Building Your On-Line Identity for Career
Success Kirsten Dixson, Founding Partner and Brand Strategist, Brandego
William Arruda, Personal Branding Guru, Reach Digital impressions matter.
Consider the statistics: 75% of recruiters use search engines to research
candidates and 23% of professionals Google people before meetings. Are
you digitally distinct or digitally disastrous? Whatever your starting
point, building and managing your online brand is a critical business
competency in the Digital Age. Experts will offer their insight into how
to leverage the Internet to build and manage your personal brand for
career and business success. www.witi.com
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SWE Conference at Northeastern on Saturday, April 14th
Register for the regional conference of the Society of Women Engineers
at
http://www.coe.neu.edu/Groups/swe/swe_conf/index.htm
The 2007 Conference theme is Reach for the Stars! to compliment our
evening keynote speaker, former astronaut Kathryn Thornton, now associate
dean of the engineering school at the University of Virginia. Several
of
the presentations have space-related themes. Six tracks are
offered,
each with four presentations. Lee Silvestre is featured on a panel
on
Managing Managers, and Beth Wilson joins the SWE president, Jude Garzolini
and others on a panel on Navigating Your Career. Northeastern is
offering
tours of the nanotechnology project and three other cutting edge areas.
Check out the web site for further details!
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HGWISE Women, Science, and Society Seminar Series
Thursday, April 19
The Estrogen Elixir: Women and Science in the Making and Unmaking of
Hormone Replacement Therapy
Elizabeth Watkins, PhD, Associate Professor of History of Medicine and
Health Sciences, University of California, San Francisco.
6-7:30 p.m., The Conference Center at Harvard Medical School, HIM Room.
The HGWISE Women, Science, and Society Seminar Series is an exciting
year-long series that aims to provide background and context for current
debate surrounding issues of gender in science. Speakers include
both
social scientists who study gender and science and women scientists who
are active in scientific research and women in science issues. The
series is sponsored by HGWISE, GSAS, and the Office of the Senior Vice
Provost for Faculty Development and Diversity, and the Committee on
Degrees in Studies of Women, Gender, and
Sexuality. For more information, please contact Linda Schneider at
linda_schneider@... or (617) 495-9904.
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Job Opportunities and Fellowships
AWIS has just extended the deadline to apply for the Multicultural Undergraduate
Internship Program.
With the generous support of the W.K. Kellog Foundation, AWIS is offering
summer internships in Washington D.C. for female undergraduate students
who are members of typically underrepresented ethnic groups.
The Multicultural Undergraduate Internship Program is intended for
currently enrolled undergraduate female students in any one of the STEM
disciplines.
The internships are intended specifically for outstanding female
undergraduate students who are members of groups currently
under-represented in the STEM disciplines: individuals of African
American, Latino/Hispanic, Native American, and Pacific Islander descent.
Internships provide training and work experience in areas such as
marketing and communications, public policy, fund raising, grants
administration, and information technology. Opportunities to develop
professional leadership skills are also encouraged.
For more program details and information on how to apply, visit
http://www.awis.org.
MIT Midcareer Acceleration Program
Contemporary careers must be built—and rebuilt—to
meet the demands of rapidly-changing fields. The new MIT Midcareer Acceleration
Program (MAP) can help you sharpen the skills essential to relaunch or
retool your engineering, science or technology career.
This ten-month, part-time program is designed
as a series of educational experiences that will connect students with
emerging technological fields and help them create a strategic career plan
that leverages their strengths. The program incorporates career and personal
development, a technical skills refresher, a semester-long MIT course,
and an internship or research project. Students will complete the program
with either a job or a plan to find a professional position that matches
their abilities and ambition.
If you left your career path for personal
reasons and are now ready to return, or are looking to retool your career
for a challenging new position, MAP can help you achieve your goal.
Find out how MAP can help you: visit http://midcareer.mit.edu
Website: http://midcareer.mit.edu
Calendar: August 2007—May 2008
Time: one-quarter time over ten months
Location: MIT campus; internships at company
sites
Tuition: $9,850* + $100 Student Life fee
Application: Apply online by July 1
Credits: MIT certificate and MIT course credit
*There is an additional fee of $5,000 + $100
Student Life fee if the student elects to stay at MIT to do research in
the spring. This fee covers spring semester registration of up to 9 units.
Study on campus for a semester or more via
the Advanced Study Program (http://advancedstudy.mit.edu),
or choose from over
35 short courses on engineering, science
and technology topics geared for professionals at the Professional Institute
(http://professionalinstitute.mit.edu).
The University of Vermont has openings for both Ph.D. and Post-doctoral
training in fields related to blood coagulation research encompassing
vascular biology, hemostasis, hemorrhagic diseases and thrombosis.
Programs extend over a broad range of basic and applied science. Graduate
students and MD and PhD fellows are invited to apply for positions in an
NIH sponsored training program leading to either the Ph.D. degree or
post-doctoral studies.
Participating mentors are in the fields of Biochemistry, Pathology,
Cardiology, Hematology, Epidemiology, Genetics and Cell Biology.
Applicants must be citizens, noncitizen nationals or permanent residents
of the US. Additional information can be found on our websites
(http://biochem.uvm.edu, www.med.uvm.edu/lcbr,
http://www.fletcherallen.org/Medicine/Cardiology/index.html,
http://www.med.uvm.edu/pathology and
http://www.fletcherallen.org/Medicine/Cardiovascular_Research/index.html).
Minority applicants and women are encouraged to apply. Send inquiries
to:
Dr. Kenneth G. Mann, Biochemistry Department, University of Vermont,
College of Medicine, 208 South Park Drive Suite 2 Room T227, Colchester,
VT 05446 or email to kenneth.mann@....
Executive Director, Federation of American Societies for Experimental
Biology. Coordinates, implements and executes all activities of the
International Society for Analytical Cytology including the management
of
daily operations. Assists the Board to develop policies and strategies
that will address the goals of the society, and then works with the ISAC
staff to effectively implement those action items. Assists the Director
of
Finance with the preparation of the budget and financial reports. Other
duties include:
Serves as Executive Director of the International Society for Analytical
Cytology.
Works with the President to achieve the organizational goals set by the
Board.
Works with the Director of Finance to prepare a budget that reflects the
associationWorks with the Board to allocate the associationDevelops,
edits, updates and supervises maintenance of web site.
Manages production, coordination, and distribution of newsletters and
other documents including content and design. May serve as editor.
More information at http://www.faseb.org/faseb/WhatIsFASEB.html
POSTDOCTORAL FELLOWSHIPS AT THE
NEW ENGLAND COMPLEX SYSTEMS INSTITUTE
The New England Complex Systems Institute (NECSI) is an
independent educational and research institution dedicated
to advancing the study of complex systems.
NECSI welcomes applications for postdoctoral positions for
research projects on unified approaches relevant to describing
and analyzing complex systems. The research may have a
focus or primary application in a particular discipline.
In addition to general projects, specific projects with anticipated
openings include research in: multiscale representations,
evolutionary theory, bioinformatics and functional genomics,
distributed computing, meteorology, non-equilibrium dynamics,
agent based modeling, engineering design, cognitive modeling,
healthcare, management/organization science and education of
complex systems concepts.
NECSI Postdoctoral fellows may also receive joint appointments
at MIT, Harvard or other local academic institutions.
For more information go to: http://necsi.org/education/postdoc.html
NECSI is an equal opportunity employer.
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