[GWAMIT] Announcements

[GWAMIT]

Dear Graduate Women,



Enjoy the Week!



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IN BRIEF

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Notices:

1. Register TODAY for MIT’s Multicultural Conference



MIT Events:

2. Celebrating Women's Day: Women in Healthcare
3. Film Screening: “Sisters of 77: The Spirit of Women”
4. The Women and Entrepreneurship Series - Lunch with Lydia Villa- 
Komaroff
5. The Op-Ed Project @ MIT


Other Events:
6. 85 Broads Kick-Off Event: The Growing Trend in Female  
Entrepreneurship (Registration deadline TODAY)
7. WEST (Women Entrepreneurs in Science and Technology) 'Project  
Leadership' Series

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FULL ANNOUNCEMENTS

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1. Register for MIT’s Multicultural Conference

*** Register TODAY, March 1 at http://web.mit.edu/mcsquared/ ***

When: March 6, 9 am – 6 pm

Where: MIT’s Endicott House

Cost: Free!

MIT's Multicultural Conference is a one-day retreat that focuses on  
bringing students together across race, ethnicity, gender, religion,  
nationality, sexual orientation, and other aspects of cultural  
identity. The conference offers a provocative day of workshops,  
speakers, community building, action, and reflection centered around  
issues of culture, identity, and social justice at MIT and beyond.

This retreat is open to ALL students, no matter your experience or  
comfort level.  If you're interested, we want you there.

Questions? mcsquared at mit.edu

2. Celebrating Women's Day: Women in Healthcare (AMITA)

When: Monday March 1, 6:30 – 9 pm

Where: Bush Room (off of Lobby 10 at MIT)

RSVP:http://alumweb.mit.edu/groups/amita/BrowseWeb.do?webSiteId=SI000477&webPageId=P008&eventId=27744

Registration 6:30pm
Seminar 7:00 - 8:00pm
Networking 8:00 - 9:00pm
A light dinner will be served

Professor Bevin Engelward will give a talk entitled: "The DNA Damage- 
Cancer Connection"

Prof. Bevin Engelward graduated from Yale University in 1988 and from  
Harvard School of Public Health in 1996. She began her faculty  
position at MIT in 1997. Her laboratory has produced novel  
technologies for studying DNA damage and repair, and these tools are  
being applied to environmental health problems both in the US and  
abroad. Prof. Engelward is currently an Associate Professor in the MIT  
Department of Biological Engineering.

Questions?  Contact Julie Schwedock at schwedoc at alum.mit.edu


3. Film Screening: “Sisters of 77: The Spirit of Women”
When: Monday, March 1, 6 pm
Where: Bldg 6-120, wheel chair accessibility available through the  
Infinite Corridor in building 8 or through the ramp at Building 14

Cost: Free, dinner included

The MIT Program in Women’s and Gender Studies celebrates Women’s  
History Month with a kick-off film screening…

SISTERS OF '77 (The Spirit of Women) tells the story of a historical  
event that revolutionized the women's movement.

On a historic weekend in November of l977, twenty thousand women and  
men left their jobs and homes in cities and small towns around the  
country to end discrimination against women and promote their equal  
rights. For four days at the first National Women’s Conference in  
Houston, Texas, they caucused, argued and finally hammered out a Plan  
of Action.

Archival footage breathes life into heated debates over issues like  
the equal rights amendment, reproductive freedom, lesbian rights,  
sexual preference and minority rights. Former First Ladies Rosalynn  
Carter, Betty Ford, Lady Bird Johnson, and activists including Coretta  
Scott King, Bella Abzug and Barbara Jordan provided inspiration.  
Current interviews with Gloria Steinem, Ellie Smeal, Ann Richards,  
Carmen Delgado Votaw, Liz Carpenter, and Betty Friedan bring a deeper  
understanding to its history and to its legacy.

Running Time: 55 minutes

Q&A with MIT Philosophy Professor & WGS Director S. Haslanger

Cosponsored by MIT Linguistics & Philosophy and MIT History



4. The Women and Entrepreneurship Series, brought to you by SWIM and  
the MIT E-Center

Second Event: Lunch with Lydia Villa-Komaroff, PhD ’75 – Chief  
Scientific Officer Cytonome/ST, LLC (lunch will be provided)

When: Tuesday, March 2, 11:45am-1pm

Where: E51-063

Please RSVP at: http://bit.ly/bjZ61U

Topic: Managing Growth – putting in the systems and the leadership to  
allow the company to develop and scale. Creative use of external  
contract resources and internal staff are needed in all growing  
businesses but are often especially required for bio-related  
organizations.

Speaker Bio: Lydia Villa-Komaroff, PhD ’75 – Chief Scientific  
Officer Cytonome/ST, LLC. Lydia is currently serving on the National  
Academies of Science and National Academy of Engineering Committee on  
Women in Science, Engineering, and Medicine.

About the Founders Lunch Series:
MIT and the surrounding area is one of the most successful ecosystems  
for entrepreneurship in the world, but women are consistently  
underrepresented. This interactive lunch series will allow the MIT  
graduate women’s community to hear first hand from female  
entrepreneurs about the process and experience of starting, funding,  
and growing a business.

For more information about the series: http://gsc.mit.edu/gwamit/files/women_and_entrepreneurship_spring_2010.pdf

Questions? Contact veenaj at mit.edu



5. The Op-Ed Project @ MIT

When: Friday March 5, 11:30am - 6:30 pm

Where: On-campus, further information will be provided upon RSVP

Cost: Free, includes food and wine

RSVP: E-mail nnaemeka at mit.edu with subject: “Op-Ed Project.”   
Include your name, programme, and a brief snippet about why you want  
to participate.

This popular seminar -- given to political leaders, writers, CEOs,  
academics and everyone in between -- will be hosted at MIT by founder  
Catherine Orenstein and is open to female grad students in any  
programme. The aim of the workshop is to teach you how to present  
forceful arguments, how to defend or advocate an idea, draw attention  
to a cause, change minds, and get things done, whatever the path you  
choose post-MIT (starting a company, leading a non-profit, becoming a  
writer, working in govt, running a household, and so on...).

Catherine Orenstein began her journalism career in earnest in Haiti,  
where she lived and traveled in the 1990s, reporting extensively on  
the country during a time of political + social upheaval. Her opinion  
pieces have appeared in the Washington Post and the New York Times and  
she has spoken on a number of newsshows about women, sexuality,  
folklore + myth, and morality. A graduate of Harvard College and  
Columbia University, she has been the recipient of several awards +  
fellowships, including the Prize for Promise given to young women aged  
21-35 who will “become world leaders in their respective fields.”  
Her Op-Ed project has drawn critical praise and recently won a prize  
from Echoing Green, for social entrepreneurship.
The seminar has 20 spots and will have a waitlist/lottery in case of  
cancellations or excess demand. We are also planning a second seminar  
depending on interest.


6. 85 Broads Kick-Off Event: The Growing Trend in Female  
Entrepreneurship - Women Defining Success on Their Own Terms

When: March 4, 6:30 – 8 pm

Where: HULT International Business School, Education St., Cambridge, MA

Cost: $10 for Annual 85 Broads Members (members who have activated  
their Annual Membership at the Trailblazer, Visionary, Investor, or  
Power Circle level); $25 for non-members

Register: Today, March 1 at http://www.eventbrite.com/event/579303713

The Boston Chapter of 85 Broads (http://www.85broads.com) invites you  
to our inaugural chapter kickoff event: The Growing Trend in Female  
Entrepreneurship - Women Defining Success on Their Own Terms,  
featuring keynote speaker Janet Hanson, Founder of 85 Broads.

Janet Hanson is the CEO and Founder of 85 Broads Unlimited, LLC, an  
exclusive global women’s network with over 20,000 members who live,  
work, and study in 82 countries around the world. She is the author of  
“More Than 85 Broads” She spent 14 years with Goldman Sachs (at 85  
Broad Street in NYC) and is the former CEO of Milestone Capital, a $2  
billion asset management company which she founded in 1995.  Hanson is  
a member of The Christopher and Dana Reeves Foundation board, the  
Hidden Brain Drain Task Force, the International Women’s Health  
Coalition, and an Associate Fellow of Pierson College at Yale  
University. She has received a number of awards and honors, including  
an honorary degree from Middlebury College in 2007 Hanson received her  
BA from Wheaton College, and an MBA in finance from Columbia Business  
School.

Cocktails and hors d’oeuvres served throughout the evening. We look  
forward to seeing you in a few weeks!

7. WEST (Women Entrepreneurs in Science and Technology) 'Project  
Leadership' Series

Project and alliance managers' leadership skills are increasingly  
valuable in the science and technology industries, both within larger  
organizations, and starting new ventures. In this two part WEST  
series, you will expand your leadership, influencing and motivational  
skills. Sign up for either event, or register for both and receive a  
discount.

"PROJECT MANAGEMENT 101" WORKSHOP
When: Thursday, March 4, 5:30pm-8:30pm
Where: One Main Street, Cambridge

PRE-REGISTRATION: $85 Members; $110 Non-Members In this interactive,  
participatory workshop, you will learn the techniques and tools  
successful program managers have used to align and organize their  
teams, track projects, and provide senior management visibility to  
project progress.

REGISTRATION AND MORE INFO: www.WESTorg.org



  
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