[GWAMIT] Announcements

[GWAMIT]

Dear GWAMIT Members,

 

Enjoy the Week!

 

The GWAMIT Board

Visit us at: http://gsc.mit.edu/gwamit

Send your ideas to: gwamit-exec at mit.edu

Send your announcements to: gwamit-sec at mit.edu

 

 

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IN BRIEF

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GWAMIT:

1. GWAMIT is Recruiting New Leaders!

2. Next Week: The 2010 GWAMIT Leadership Conference!

 

MIT:

3. Join a sexual assault awareness focus group!

4. Nominate a Friend for the $30,000 Lemelson-MIT Student Prize!

5. [Tue 11/2] Negotiating Job Offers (4-5 pm, 56-114)

6. [Wed 11/3] Women in Mathematics seminar (5:30 pm, 2-135)
7. [Fri 11/5] Making Peace with Food and Body Image Support Group (3:30–5 p.m., MIT Medical)

 

Outside MIT:

8. [Tue 11/2] Mass-AWIS Nanotechnology Seminar (6:30-8:30 pm, Folkman Auditorium, Children's Hospital)

 

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FULL ANNOUNCEMENTS

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********GWAMIT********

 

1. GWAMIT is Recruiting New Leaders!

GWAMIT Open Positions:
Executive Board:
•       Co-Chair (2 positions - 1 Fall, 1 Spring) - manage daily operations, attend Exec Meetings
•       Publicity Chair - manage public relations, collaborations across MIT, attend Exec Mtgs
•       Treasurer - keep financial records, attend Exec Mtgs
Planning Committees:
•       Spring '11 Women's Empowerment Conference
•       Co-Chair (2 positions) - manage programming and event leads, maintain contacts
•       Funding chair - meet with potential sponsors
•       Logistics chair - reserve space, catering
•       Publicity chair - design and organize ads, posters, emails
•       Mentoring Program Co-Chair (Fall '10) - co-lead Planning Committee (matching mentoring groups, 2 events)
•       Fall '11 Leadership Conference
•       Co-Chair (2 positions) - manage event leads, maintain contacts
•       Event leads - design and coordinate a leadership event or leverage existing templates
•       Funding chair - meet with potential sponsors
•       Logistics chair - reserve space, catering
•       Publicity chair - design and organize ads, posters, emails
•       Monthly Collaborative Events Leads (Feb, Mar/Apr)
•       2 positions - help run a 1-time event in collaboration with existing MIT offices and services 
For more information or to get involved, contact: gwamit-exec at mit.edu

 

2. Next Week: The 2010 GWAMIT Leadership Conference!

When: Monday, November 8 – Wednesday, November 10, 2010

Where: Various

Website: https://sites.google.com/site/thegwamitleadershipconference/

RSVP: http://bit.ly/dtfDE0

Schedule:

Keynote – “Innovation Leadership”
When: Monday, November 8, 4-6 pm (Seating open at 3:45 pm)
Where:  Microsoft NERD, 1 Memorial Drive (Next to E60)
Speaker: Dr. Sophie Vandebroek, CTO of Xerox and President of the Xerox Innovation Group, with opening remarks by MIT President, Dr. Susan Hockfield. 
Dr. Vandebroek will reveal her personal recipe for successful innovation, discuss specific issues women innovators face in the technology industry and offer suggestions on how to overcome them. Networking reception with refreshments and hors d’oeuvres from 5-6 pm. 
 
Negotiation Seminar – “How to Get What You Want!” 
When: Tuesday, November 9, 5-6:30 pm
Where: 56-114
Speaker: Dr. Deborah Kolb, author of "Her Place at the Table," and expert on gender issues in negotiation and leadership. 
Learn the importance of negotiating and advocating for yourself. Learn how to ask for the mentors, support, resources, assignments, and promotions you want and deserve! Refreshments and hors d’oeuvres will be served before the event.
 
Assertive Communication Workshop 
When: Wednesday, November 10, 10:30 am-12 pm
Where: 68-181
Speaker: Prof. Roberta Pittore, M.B.A.  
RSVP Required: http://bit.ly/dtfDE0 
Learn how to speak up and express your point of view in a way that gets heard! In this workshop, you will practice advocating for yourself and your work, and thus become more visible and able to seize opportunities.  This interactive workshop will help you differentiate between passive and assertive communication, and give you techniques for dealing with aggressive people.  Breakfast will be served before the event. 
 
Dress for Success Workshop 
When: Wednesday, November 10, 3-4:30 pm
Where: Star Room, 32D-463 (4th floor of the Dreyfoos Wing of the Stata Center
Speaker: Sheri Falk, designer, female entrepreneur, and owner of the BASIQUES store on Newbury St. 
Are you looking to update your student wardrobe for your future career?  Do you want to learn how to project a professional, yet fashionable, image that will be taken seriously?  Sheri Falk will teach you how to look and feel confident. This workshop will show you how to maximize the combinations of a few great pieces, how to fit and flatter your frame, and how to transition from day to night. Participants will receive a 10% discount on a future purchase from the BASIQUES store.
 
Personal Leadership Evaluation Workshop 

When: Wednesday, November 10, 6-8 pm (Dinner served at 5:30 pm)

Where: 6-104

Speakers: The MIT Leadership Evolution for Graduate Students (LEGS) Program

RSVP Required: http://bit.ly/dtfDE0

This workshop will help you better evaluate your personality traits and behavior in individual and group settings. The workshop is designed for both experienced and aspiring leaders. Participants will complete the DiSC self-assessment tool, followed by interpretation and discussion.  Dinner served before the event.

Events Sponsored by: GWAMIT, GSC, ODGE GSLG, Microsoft, WGA3, the School of Engineering, and the School of Science.

 

**********MIT**********

 

3. Join a focus group, brainstorm programming with the Violence Prevention & Response Program in Community Wellness, including Sexual Assault Awareness Week!

Attention graduate women - your input is needed! 

Are you living in a single graduate residences?  Are you passionate about developing programming that addresses issues of violence, including sexual violence, dating/domestic violence, and harassment or stalking? 

If so, we would love to get your input in order to get a sense of what issues exist for this population, and what types of programming might be most effective.

Have you heard about VPR’s Sexual Assault Awareness Week/Month Activities for the spring?  Would you like to help shape programming or provide input to the existing planning committee?

If so, it would be great to have input on ideas for events, things that have and have not worked in the past, etc. Options include both informal input and formally joining the planning group. 

Contact: Kelley Adams, adam at med.mit.edu, Grant Coordinator/Health Educator for Violence Prevention & Response in Community Wellness

 

4. Nominate a Friend for the $30,000 Lemelson-MIT Student Prize!



Do you ever catch up with someone only to leave the conversation thinking, “Wow!  The project they are working on sounds amazing.  More people need to know about this!”
 
If this is the case, the Lemelson-MIT Program wants to know about them!  

The $30,000 Lemelson-MIT Student Prize is awarded to a graduating senior or graduate student for their inventive work. If one of your friends or someone you know has invented something awesome, then send us their name! We’ll reach out and encourage them to apply.


Email your suggestions to lemelson_awards at mit.edu today!
 

 

5. Negotiating Job Offers

When: Tuesday, Nov. 2, 4-5pm

Where: 56-114

Register: visit CareerBridge at https://www.myinterfase.com/mit/student/  and select Workshops,Career Fairs and Events.

The Negotiating Job Offers workshop will examine the many variables that exist during the evaluation and negotiation process of Job Offers.  Knowing how, when and why you should negotiate will be reviewed. Salary vs. Total Compensation will be looked at. Strategies on the negotiation process will be discussed along with should you negotiate and "What Can" and "What Can Not" be negotiated. These strategies are used throughout your career.

From GECD, Global Education and Career Development

 

6. Women in Mathematics seminar
When: Wednesday November 3rd, 2010 at 5:30 PM
Where: MIT's Building 2, Room 135
Speaker: Amy Cohn (University of Michigan)
Title: Planes, Politics, and Polyhedra
Pizza following the talk.
For an abstract, please visit: http://math.mit.edu/wim/events/seminars.html
This is a series of generally accessible talks (starting from advanced undergraduates) by female research visitors to MIT's Mathematics Department.
 

 

7. Making Peace with Food and Body Image Support Group

When: Every Friday from 3:30–5 p.m.

Where: MIT Medical

Facilitators: Zan Barry, Community Wellness at MIT Medical, Audra Bartz, Mental Health

Are you struggling with your relationship with food?

Are you thinking about food or weight so much that it’s distracting you from your work or interfering with social events?

“Making Peace with Food and Body Image” is a group where you can get education, support, and practical strategies to manage food and body stress.

 

******Outside MIT******

8. Mass-AWIS Nanotechnology Seminar: From Living Cells to Biologically

Inspired Nanodevices by Dr. Donald Ingber

When: Tuesday, November 2, 2010, 6:30 – 8:30 pm

Where: Folkman Auditorium, Children's Hospital. 300 Longwood Avenue, Boston, MA  02115

Please join MASS-AWIS for a special seminar.  Dr. Ingber, a leader in the field, will discuss the current advancements in nanotechnology. Through his interdisciplinary collaborations with experts in chemistry, physics, engineering, magnetics and optics, Dr. Ingber has helped to develop multiple new experimental nano- and microtechnologies.

This event is open to both men and women.



Agenda:

6:30 - 7:00pm - Light dinner/Networking

7:00 - 8:00pm - Nanotechnology Seminar

8:00 - 8:30pm - Networking



Free for AWIS members, students and post-docs $10 for Non-members

Please visit http://www.acteva.com/booking.cfm?bevaid=210835 to

register.

Street parking and garages are available in the area. The MBTA’s Longwood stops (Green line D&E branches) & the LMA M2 Shuttle Bus stop are within walking distance.
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