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Upcoming events in the area
WATCH FOR DETAILS..SPECIAL AWIS EVENT on
June 5th--National Book Award winning author Allegra Goodman will read
from her novel "Intuition" researched at the Whitehead Institute
in Cambrige...Mark your calendars and watch for details.
This very realistic lab drama is about "an
anxious, ambitious, down-on-his-luck postdoctoral researcher suddenly obtains
results that look too good to be true — the virus he's injected into cancer-riddled
mice appears to be melting away their tumors — and his girlfriend, another
postdoc in the same lab, comes to suspect he's fudged his results. But
she doesn't know for sure: there's no hard evidence, just some sloppy,
discarded lab notes that seem to suggest it." (NYT Book Review)
In this email:
Association for Women in Science is
coming West! AWIS event April 17
“The Cure” How a Biotech Business
Was Built to Save a Family--WEST event April 9
Professor Abigail Stewart--Advancing
Women in Science and Engineering, BU WISE April 6
Volunteers needed to work with Girls
Scouts K-12 in Smithfield Rhode Island, May 20
Association for Women in Science is
coming West!
Women In Science: Changing the Climate from the Bottom Up and the Top Down
Panel and discussion with faculty leaders--light dinner provided
Tues. April 17, 2007 5 – 7 pm, UMass Amherst, Isenberg SOM Room 112
Jane Fountain of CPPA
Sandy Petersen, co-pi of the NEAGEP
Anna Nagurney of the Supernetwork
Center plus
Joanne Kamens of Abbott Labs & Mass
AWIS and
Liesell Trinidad, Graduate Student, Engineering
Directions: http://www.umass.edu/visitorsctr/Campus_Map/
for information or to RSVP, contact Barbara Pearson, RL&D bpearson@...,
545-5023
Women Entrepreneurs in Science and
Technology
“The Cure” How a Biotech Business
Was Built to Save a Family
April 9th at 6PM, 155 Seaport Boulevard,
Boston
Determined to find scientists who could develop
a replacement enzyme that would keep a disease at bay and his children
alive, John Crowley quit his job as a marketing executive and invested
himself and his life savings in a biotechnology start-up company. In just
over a year, Novazyme Pharmaceuticals Inc. went from $37,000 to $27 million,
and was sold to Genzyme Corp. for a newsbreaking $137.5 million.
WEST extends an invitation to you to meet
and hear from the Wall St. Journal's Pulitzer Prize Winning Author of "The
Cure", Ms. Geeta Anand who authored this compelling story.
Please reserve this evening and join your colleagues at WEST at this intimate
gathering and book signing. Ten percent of all the proceeds from books
purchased will be donated to the Muscular Dystrophy Association.
www.westorg.org
Boston University Women in Science
and Engineering (BU WISE)
Professor Abigail Stewart--Advancing Women in Science and Engineering
Friday, April 6, 2:00 – 3:30 , Trustee Center Ballroom, School of Management
Buildingm 1 Sherborn Street, 9th Floor, Boston
Please enter the building off the Sherborn Street side of the building
taking the West Bank of Elevators to the 9th floor.
Pass through the glass doors and make a right following the signs to the
Trustee Center Ballroom.
Abigail J. Stewart is Sandra Schwarz Tangri Professor of Psychology and
Women's Studies at the University of Michigan and director of the University
of Michigan ADVANCE project, supported by the NSF ADVANCE program on Institutional
Transformation.
Dr. Stewart has published many scholarly articles and several books, focusing
on the psychology of women's lives, personality, and adaptation to personal
and social changes. Her current research, which combines qualitative and
quantitative methods, includes comparative analyses of longitudinal studies
of educated women's lives and personalities; a collaborative study of race,
gender and generation in the graduates of a Midwest high school; and research
and interventions on gender and science and technology with middle-school-age
girls, undergraduate students, and faculty.
This lecture is free and open to the public--For further information please
email wise@... .
Volunteers needed to work with Girls
Scouts K-12 in Smithfield, Rhode Island
S.M.A.R.T – Science and Math are Really
Terrific
Sunday, May 20, 2007. 9:30 AM – 3:30
PM
Bryant University, Smithfield, RI
Girl Scouts grades K – 12 from across Rhode
Island and Southeastern Massachusetts
Total anticipated participants: 800
girls, 200 adults (volunteers, troop leaders, and presenters)
To introduce girls to various topics of Math,
Science, Engineering, and Technology.
Girls will be exposed to as wide a variety
of topics, possibly including space science, engineering, meteorology,
the human brain, healthy eating, kitchen science, stress and its effects
on the body, colors, motion, botany, and oceanography.
WE NEED
YOUR HELP TO MAKE THIS PROGRAM A SUCCESS!
Please help us make SMART a success by providing
your support. Think about it, how many ways do you use math and science
everyday. Wouldn’t it be fun and rewarding to help a girl understand
the impact of learning these skills? Please consider sharing your
talents with our girls.
Presentations should be interactive and hands-on
with the girls. We are happy to work with you to help develop your
presentation or provide you with prepared program to present. We
are also able to provide some assistance in acquiring any supplies you
may need for your presentation.
Interested in being a presenter at SMART
or finding out about other ways that you or your organization can get involved
… Please contact one of the following people:
Mary Bouchard, Program Chair, at 1-800-234-5433
ext 29776 or via e-mail at mbouchard@... or
Jeanne Rogers, Girl Scouts of Rhode Island,
at 401-331-4500 ext 1409 or via e-mail at jrogers@... or
Lauren Parmelee, Girl Scouts of Rhode Island,
at 401-331-4500 ext 1422 or via e-mail at lparmelee@...
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