[GWAMIT] Announcements (6/13/11)

[GWAMIT]

Dear GWAMIT Members,

Enjoy the week!

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***MIT Opportunities
*1. GSC Volunteers Needed
2. GSC Choose the Next Commencement Speaker

*Outside MIT:*
3. [HGWISE] End of Year Summer BBQ (Tues June 14, 12:30p)
4. MIT & Stanford Alumni Entrepreneurship Social (Tues June 21, 6p)
5. Science Shaping Our World (SHOW): Special Series Event – The Art of
Networking (Thur. June 23, 6-9p)
6. [Mass AWIS] Life in Academia: an Insider's Perspective (Wed. June 29,
6-9p)
7. [HGWISE and McKinsey] A Dialogue on Leadership for Women (Fri, July 22,
3-5:30p)
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To see more events beyond this week's digest visit
http://bit.ly/gwamitevents and http://bit.ly/gwamitcollaborators*
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FULL ANNOUNCEMENTS
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*********MIT Opportunities********

**1. GSC Volunteers Needed*
*Contact:  * gsc-secretary at mit.edu

- The Graduate Student Council puts on hundreds of events and programs that
affect grad students every year
- Join the Housing & Community Affairs Committee and become an spokesperson
for your living community
- Join the Activities Committee and run an awesome event for for your peers
- Join the Orientation Committee and help orient the incoming students with
new and exciting orientation programming
- Join the Academic & Research Affairs Committee to advocate for graduate
student rights and improve professional development
- Join the Publicity & Publications Board and help generate content
(articles, photos, graphic design) for the Graduate Student Newsletter

*2. GSC Choose the Next Commencement Speaker*

- Make the next graduation an affair to remember!
- Help the Graduate Student Council choose the next commencement speaker
- Suggest options HERE: http://gsc.mit.edu/Event/2012MITCommencement

***********Outside MIT***********
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3. [HGWISE] End of Year Summer BBQ (Tues June 14, 12:30p)*
*When:* Tuesday, June 14, 12.30 PM
*Where:* Jefferson Lawn (this is the lawn behind Jefferson Physics Building.
It's enclosed by Jefferson, Langdell, Hauser Hall and Pierce)
*RSVP:* http://www.doodle.com/u44dxvkfmw6krrpz

Join us for our end of year summer BBQ to celebrate the end of the semester
and catch up, socialize and network over good food and drinks! BBQ catering
will be
from Blue Ribbon and there will be vegetarian options. Please RSVP.

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4. MIT & Stanford Alumni Entrepreneurship Social (Tues June 21, 6p)*
*When:* Tues, June 21, 6:00 PM
*Where: *Central Bottle Wine & Provisions (196 Mass Ave, Cambridge, MA)
*Register: *by Thursday June 16 ($15/person)
https://alum.mit.edu/smarTrans/register-login.vm?eventID=56601&groupID=517*

**Fairhaven Capital <http://www.fairhavencapital.com/> presents** MIT &
STANFORD ALUMNI ENTREPRENEURSHIP
SOCIAL<http://mit2003classnotes.blogspot.com/2011/06/mit-stanford-entre-social-featuring-ben.html>
* featuring Immuneering Founder & MIT 2003 Alum, Ben Zeskind, PhD,
MBA. *REGISTER
ONLINE ASAP*<https://alum.mit.edu/smarTrans/register-login.vm?eventID=56601&groupID=517>
by
Thurs, June 16 ($15/person)

MIT or Stanford University alumni, who have founded or are working at
startups, are invited to join us to network over wine, beer and appetizers
prepared by the expert staff at Central Bottle
(menu<http://mit2003classnotes.blogspot.com/2011/06/mit-stanford-entre-social-featuring-ben.html>
).

Ben Zeskind <http://www.immuneering.com/team.html> will give an informal
talk about founding Immuneering <http://www.immuneering.com/home.html>, a
startup that helps pharmaceutical companies develop more effective
treatments for cancer, autoimmune disease, and
neurodegeneration. Immuneering's uniquely quantitative approach generates
insights into the mechanisms that cause medicines, including
immunotherapies, to work differently in different patients, and yields
strategies to increase the number of patients who respond.

Before founding this startup, Dr. Zeskind earned an SB in EE & Comp Sci at
MIT, a PhD in BioE at MIT’s Whitehead Institute and an MBA from the Harvard
Business School where he was recognized as a Baker Scholar, the highest
award for academic distinction. Dr. Zeskind has worked at Merck’s Global
Marketing Division, IBM, Constant Contact, Bose, and the US Army Natick Lab.

*ABOUT FAIRHAVEN CAPITAL <http://www.fairhavencapital.com/>* - Based in
Cambridge’s Kendall Square, Fairhaven Capital is a venture capital fund
dedicated to a thesis-based approach to investing in North American
technology companies. This approach focuses investment efforts on markets
where emerging companies and technologies can create significant value in
three to five years. The Fairhaven team is focused on themes in the
consumer, enterprise, financial services, materials, media infrastructure
and security markets. Fairhaven is currently investing out of its second
fund of $250 million.


*5. Science Shaping Our World (SHOW): Special Series Event – The Art of
Networking (Thur. June 23, 6-9p)*
*When: *Thursday, June 23, 6:00 PM – 9:00 PM
*Where: *Work Bar Boston; 711 Atlantic Ave, Lower Level Boston, MA 02111
*Register at:* http://showspecialeventjune2011.eventbrite.com/


*Keynote Speaker: *Sarah Cardozo Duncan Owner at Career Strategist

Science Shaping Our World (SHOW) is an ongoing seminar and networking series
that highlights cutting edge areas of life science research while promoting
active inter and cross-disciplinary networking opportunities toward
fostering the creation of relationships and opportunities geared to bridging
bench to bedside.

June’s SHOW is a special event in the 2011 series that will focus on the art
of networking and how this important tool can be leveraged toward maximizing
professional and personal development. Networking has become a means unto
itself by which to grow your career. Despite the almost constant buzz around
maximizing networking opportunities, networking itself is a skill set that
must be cultivated and nurtured. All too often networking is approached with
no clear strategy or goal and as such valuable opportunities can go
untapped. This special event will introduce and highlight the “art” of
networking and provide a hands-on opportunity to extend your current
networking skills.

Leading our special networking event will be Sarah Cardozo Duncan, based in
Boston, Massachusetts, is a career strategist with an established national
and international client base. As head of her consulting firm Career
Strategist, Sarah draws upon over twenty years of recruitment and career
development experience to help clients define new or existing career paths,
or to help them navigate successfully within their current companies.
Additionally, Sarah has been recognized by Boston Magazine as one of the 100
Most Powerful Women in Boston and has also served as a Steering Committee
member of MassGAP (Massachusetts Governor’s Appointment Project). Sarah is a
Board of Director member for Women Entrepreneurs in Science and Technology
as well as a frequent presenter in the Life Science community and has
conducted numerous workshops for both large pharmaceutical companies and for
biotechnology firms.

Please join us for an exciting evening of hands-on networking. Event
registration is free and required with event sign-in beginning at 5:30 PM at
Work Bar Boston. Presentation and workshop will follow starting at 6:30 PM.
Please note the evening will consist of extensive attendee participation so
please bring your business cards and enthusiasm as this is sure to be an
active and involved evening of networking working with one of Boston’s
preeminent career coaches. Light food and refreshments will be provided.


*6. [Mass AWIS] Life in Academia: an Insider's Perspective (Wed. June 29,
6-9p)
When: **
Wednesday, June 29th, 6:00pm - 9:00pm
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 Where: Cannon Room, Building C, Harvard Medical School, 240 Longwood
Avenue, Boston, MA 02115
Register: www.acteva.com/go/mass-awis
Cost: **FREE for all AWIS Members, Students & Post-docs;  $10 for
non-members

Please join MASS-AWIS for a panel discussion on the merits and trials of a
career in academia. Panelists will discuss their own decisions and career
paths, as well as field questions pertaining to leading a successful life in
academia.

Panelists:
Deeb Salem, MD, Sheldon M. Wolff Professor and Chairman, Department of
Medicine, Tufts University School of Medicine.
Stephanie A. Moore, MD, Assistant Professor of Medicine, Massachusetts
General Hospital and Program Coordinator of Heart Failure Education, Medical
Director of Cardiac Connected Care.
Patricia A. D’Amore, PhD, Co-Director of Research and Senior Scientist,
Schepens Eye Research Institute and Harvard Medical School.

Moderator:  Mari Anne Snow, CEO of SophiaThink.


FOR MORE INFORMATION: www.mass-awis.org

CO-SPONSORED BY: Harvard Medical School Office for Diversity & Community
Partnership and HMS/HSDM PostDoctoral Association



7. [HGWISE and McKinsey] A Dialogue on Leadership for Women (Fri, July 22,
3-5:30p)
When: Friday, July 22nd, program from 3:00 - 4:30 PM, followed by a casual
reception from 4:30-5:30 PM
Where: The Common Room @ the Dudley House
RSVP: http://www.surveymonkey.com/s/HGWISE

We are excited to invite you to a dialogue on leadership for women that
HGWISE is co-hosting with McKinsey on Friday, July 22.  This program is
designed for
 all women graduate students, whether you are pursuing an academic,
industry, or consulting career (details below).

The program will focus on "Centered Leadership" - a distinctive
approach to developing
leaders.  Centered Leadership was created as part of the Women's initiative
at McKinsey, with roots in positive psychology, research on leadership, and
interviews women with leaders from around the world.  It evolved from the
desire to understand what drives success for women in all professional walks
of life. More recently, the program has expanded to help women better
cultivate the skills and mindsets needed on their journey to become leaders
be it in academia or the corporate world.  Its five themes form a holistic
approach to leadership that sustains women as they take on increasingly
challenging roles. These themes are:
 -- Meaning:  finding your purpose and strengths and deploying them in your
work to flourish
-- Energizing:  knowing where your energy comes from, how it is drained, and
what you can do to manage it
-- Framing:  adopting a more constructive way to view your world, expanding
your horizons, and gaining the confidence and resilience to move ahead
 -- Connecting:  identifying who can help you grow and finding your place
among them
-- Engaging:  finding your voice and taking ownership of your opportunities

We will introduce Centered Leadership and then focus our discussion on
"Framing and Connecting".  We hope the afternoon will be fun, interesting,
and inspiring, and we are excited to have several Harvard and HGWISE alumni
on the McKinsey team, including Mary Rozenman, Sumin Koo, and Daina
Graybosch. Mary and Daina both served as President of Harvard Women in
Chemistry during grad school so come take this great opportunity to learn
more about Harvard's women science groups!


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