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SEE BELOW FOR MANY GREAT EVENT OPPORTUNITIES IN THE BOSTON AREA!!!
AWIS NETWORKING EVENT--This Thursday at 7 PM
Networking - How to get started with this critical career skill
Join us to learn more about how and why to network and then have some practice with your colleagues--dessert will be served.
Thursday, April 26th, 2007 7-9 pm
Broad Institute Auditorium, 7 Cambridge Center, Cambridge. Map and directions: http://www.broad.mit.edu/info/visiting.html
THIS FREE EVENT IS OPEN TO AWIS MEMBERS AND NON-MEMBERS
REGISTRATION IS HELPFUL--REGISTER HERE: http://www.acteva.com/booking.cfm?bevaid=132995
SPECIAL AWIS EVENT on June 5th--National Book Award Nominee Allegra Goodman
June 5th--Allegra Goodman will read from her novel "Intuition" (Just out in paperback--get your copy now!) researched at the Whitehead Institute in Cambridge...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)
Women in Bio (WIB) and WEALTH (Women Executives Advancing Life Sciences, Technology and Health) Reception--May 6
Sunday, May 6, 2007 4:00 - 7:00 PM
Millenium Boston Hotel, Josiah Quincy Suite, 26 North Street, Boston
Women in Bio (WIB) and WEALTH (Women Executives Advancing Life Sciences, Technology and Health) invite you to a special reception to celebrate BIO 2007. Enjoy scrumptious food and drinks while meeting remarkable entrepreneurs, executives, scientists and other professionals in the biotech, life sciences and healthcare industries. Register online at www.womeninbio.org. Cost is $20.
Graduate Women in Science (GWIS)Events and Opportunities
Alpha Omega Chapter Travel Grant 2007 Call for applications (due May 1, 2007)
A travel grant of $300-500 will be awarded to an academic scientist (undergraduate, graduate student, or postdoc at an institution in New England)
for travel to a scientific conference where the awardee will be giving a presentation (oral or poster), between May 15, 2007 and May 15, 2008.
Researchers in all fields of experimental and theoretical science (including the social sciences), mathematics, and engineering are eligible.
The applicant must be a member of GWIS at the time of application. The application for membership is available at
http://www.gwis.org/member/application.htm.
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GWIS ALPHA OMEGA CHAPTER OFFICER/BOARD ELECTIONS
We are currently accepting nominations for the following positions:
President (1 year term)
Vice President (1 year term)
Secretary (2 year term)
Treasurer (2 year term)
Liaison to National (2 year term)
Membership Secretary (2 year term)
You may nominate yourself or someone else. The only requirement is that the candidate be a GWIS member in good standing when the term begins
NOMINATIONS WILL BE ACCEPTED (by email or in person)THROUGH MAY 1. Please email your nominations to gwis@....
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GWIS "Women Don't Ask" book discussion and BBQ
Friday, June 1, 6:30 PM Email beuning@... for details/directions.
Speaker Sylvia Ann Hewlett "Off-ramps and On-ramps: Keeping Talented Women on the Road to Success"
Monday, May 7, 2007 • 5 PM – 6:30 PM Reception to follow
Boylston Hall, Fong Auditorium • Harvard Yard, Cambridge
Sponsored by
Harvard Business School Publishing and the Office of the Senior Vice Provost for Faculty Development and Diversity
To learn more about this event (including directions and parking options), please visit the Faculty Affairs website www.faculty.harvard.edu/events.
Dr. Sylvia Ann Hewlett, an expert on gender and workplace policy, will present highlights from her forthcoming book, Off-Ramps and On-Ramps: Keeping
Talented Women on the Road to Success, followed by a panel discussion and question period. Hewlett is the founding president of the Center for Work-Life Policy, a non-profit organization that works to develop policies that enhance work-life balance. She is also director of the Gender and Policy Program at Columbia University. Hewlett has appeared on 60 Minutes, The Today Show, Good Morning America, NewsHour with Jim Lehrer, Charlie Rose, ABC
World News, and Oprah. Dr. Hewlett is a graduate of Cambridge University and she earned her Ph.D. in economics at London University.
WEALTH (Women Executives Advancing Life Sciences, Technology and Health) Roundtable Dinner-May 17
Join us on Thursday, May 17, 2007 at Davio's fabulous Mediterranean sibling, Avila Restaurant (www.avilarestaurant.com), in Boston's Park Square at 6:30PM for cocktails, followed by dinner. Cost is $130.00. RSVP to www.lswomen.org by May 12th.
Topic: "Success Through Collaboration”
Table Speaker: Abbie Celniker, Novartis Institutes For BioMedical Research, Inc.
Please join the Executive Women’s Network for a wonderful event! Our mission is to relax, learn and spend the evening forging and rekindling relationships. We are very excited to have as our table speaker Abbie Celniker, Novartis Institutes For BioMedical Research, Inc.
Abbie Celniker, PhD is the Global Head of the Program Office for the Novartis Institutes for Biomedical Research (NIBR). In this role, Dr. Celniker is responsible for the global integration and oversight of the Novartis Discovery Portfolio. In her last role at Millennium Pharmaceuticals, Dr. Celniker led the pipeline portfolio review committee and headed Development Project Management and Pharmaceutical Sciences. Previously, Dr. Celniker headed the biotherapeutics, and the research and development strategy and operation functions at Millennium. Prior to Millennium, Dr. Celniker was at the Genetic Institute division of Wyeth Ayerst Research, where she was assistant vice president for predevelopment and biopharmaceutical core technologies. She has previously held positions at Genentech Inc. and the University of Arizona Cancer Center. Dr. Celniker has a bachelor's degree in biology from the University of California at San Diego and earned her Ph.D. in molecular biology at the University of Arizona.
A wonderful evening is planned with networking and a beautiful dinner by this renowned restaurant. Please let us know if you have any dietary restrictions.
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
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).
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