[GWAMIT] Announcements (5/30/11)

GWAMIT gwamit at mit.edu
Mon May 30 16:05:11 EDT 2011 

Dear GWAMIT Members,

Happy Memorial Day!

Congratulations to all graduating this week!

*The GWAMIT Board*
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. Open Position: Planning Chairs for the GSC Orientation's Women's Welcome
Lunch

*MIT Events:*
2. [AMITA] Annual Meeting with Guest Speaker Leslie Pack Kaelbling (Sat.
June 5, 11:30a-2p)
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**MIT Opportunities
*3. Invitation to participate in study of the role of advising, mentors, and
networks in career development of engineering Ph.D. Students ($25 gift card)

*Outside MIT:*
4. Science Shaping Our World (SHOW): Special Series Event – The Art of
Networking (Thur. June 23, 6-9p)
5. [Mass AWIS] Life in Academia: an Insider's Perspective (Wed. June 29,
6-9p)
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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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*********GWAMIT*********

*1. Open Position: Planning Chairs for the GSC Orientation's Women's Welcome
Lunch
**Contact: *gwamit-exec at mit.edu

Help welcome graduate women to MIT!  Become an orientation planning chair
and organize the GSC Orientation's Women's Welcome lunch.  The Women's
Welcome is an opportunity for new students to meet each other while learning
about campus resources.  (Photos from last year
here<https://picasaweb.google.com/gwamit.web/GraduateOrientationWomenSWelcomeLunch>
.)

Orientation planning chair responsibilities include:

   - Work with the GWAMIT Executive Board to develop a budget for the event.
   - Interface with multiple campus offices (including the ODGE and Ombuds)
   to negotiate an appropriate time.
   - Interface with caterers to arrange food for 200 guests.
   - Prepare orientation materials.  (We prepared a quick welcome
guide<http://mit.edu/gwamit/files/MIT_quickguide_2010.pdf>for last
year.)
   - Recruit a team of volunteers to help.
   - Lead volunteers day-of to arrange food, tables, and materials, welcome
   attendees, and present the campus resources.

We are recruiting 2-3 planning chairs.  If interested, please contact gwamit
-exec at mit.edu with a brief summary of experience.

*********MIT Events********

2. [AMITA] Annual Meeting with Guest Speaker Leslie Pack Kaelbling (Sat.
June 5, 11:30a-2p)*
*When:* Sunday, June 5, 11:30am - 2:00pm
*Where:* MIT, Bush Room
*Register: *
https://alum.mit.edu/smarTrans/register-login.vm?eventID=54607&groupID=182
*Cost*: $5 for AMITA members, $7 for guests, FREE if you are not having
brunch.

"Making Robots That Are Smart and Adaptable: Toward Lt. Commander Data"  Dr
Kaelblibng is the ESR Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer
Science

LIght brunch, followed by AMITA business, then Dr. Kaelbling's seminar.  And
of course ending with networking/informal discussions. If you are attending
a reunion brunch, feel free to arrive late.

Register at
https://alum.mit.edu/smarTrans/register-login.vm?eventID=54607&groupID=182



*********MIT Opportunities********

3. Invitation to participate in study of the role of advising, mentors, and
networks in career development of engineering Ph.D. Students ($25 gift card)
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*Dear MIT Engineering Graduate Student: *



We invite you to participate in a research study on the career development
and socialization of engineering Ph.D. students.  *In particular, we would
like to speak with Ph.D. students who are at least in their third year of
doctoral study at MIT.* Participation entails a brief survey and a
one-on-one interview that will take approximately 1 to 1.5 hours and will
explore your experiences and perceptions as a doctoral student, with
specific emphasis on your career development and the ways in which social
networks with a variety of individuals have contributed to your career
development. The project’s findings will inform the development and
strengthening of career services for graduate students and contribute to the
literature on career development in doctoral education.



*As a token of our appreciation, you will be provided with a $25 gift card
for your participation. *



If you would like to be interviewed, the information you share will be kept
confidential and your name and other personally identifying information will
not be associated with your comments or perceptions. Also, please be assured
that participation in this study is completely voluntary and your decision
to participate or not participate will have no effect on your relationship
with MIT.



*If you would like to participate in this research study, please send an
email to STEMcareer at mit.edu to schedule an appointment in May or June*.



This study has been reviewed by MIT COUHES and has received support from
MIT’s Office of the Dean of Graduate Education.

Thank you for your consideration,

*Carrie Sampson Moore, Deborah Liverman, and Katalin Szelenyi*

Researchers from MIT and UMass Boston

***********Outside MIT***********
*4. 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.


*4. [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



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