[GWAMIT] Announcements 2/13/12

[GWAMIT]

Dear GWAMIT Members,


Apply to be a mentor for undergraduate students with Women at MIT, details
below.


Enjoy the week!

*The GWAMIT Board
*Send your ideas to: gwamit-exec at mit.edu
Send your announcements to: gwamit-sec at mit.edu
Visit us: http://gwamit.org

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GWAMIT: *
1. GWAMIT-Harvard-BU Grad Women Social at Harpoon Brewery *RSVP Required*
(Fri. Feb. 17, 5:30-7p)

*MIT:*
2. Women at MIT Undergraduate to Graduate Women's Mentorship Program (Deadline
to Apply: *TODAY* Mon, Feb 13, midnight)
3. Graduate Women's Group Lunch (Thurs. Feb 16, 12-1p)
4. Cheney Room Movie Night: Persepolis (Wed, Feb 22, 6:30p)
5. MIT WGS commemorates Black Herstory Month: "The role religion plays in
discrimination" (Wed. Feb. 29, 6-7:30p)
6. MIT WGS Women Take the Reel Opening NIght: Orgasm Inc (Thurs. March 1,
7p)
7. Help strengthen advising and career services for Ph.D. students
(Volunteer to be interviewed in Feb. or March)

*Outside MIT:*
8. Northeastern ADVANCE Program Future Faculty Workshop (Fri. Mar 2; Apply
by Feb. 15)
9. [HGWISE] Spring Seminar on Centered Leadership (Wed. Feb. 15, 5p)
10. Boston University GWISE Career Fair & Networking Reception (Thurs, Feb
23, 4-7p)

To see more events beyond this week's digest visit
http://bit.ly/gwamitevents and http://bit.ly/gwamitcollaborators

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*1. GWAMIT-Harvard-BU Grad Women Social at Harpoon Brewery *RSVP Required*
(Fri. Feb. 17, 5:30-7p)*

*When*:     Friday, Feb. 17th 5:30-7pm (bus pickup ~4:45pm)
*Where*:    Harpoon Brewery, Boston; Bus transportation provided (more info
below)
*Contact*:  Kay (cell: 352.398.9318)

*RSVP*: http://bit.ly/gradharpoon


Is snowy weather disappointing?  Is the semester off to a busy start
already?  Do you need a well-deserved break with friends, food,and drinks?
Come out and catch up with old friends, meet new faces from other schools,
and help build our network of graduate women in Boston!

BUS TRANSPORTATION will be provided from BU, MIT, and Harvard to and from
Harpoon. RSVP IS REQUIRED as space is limited.  RSVP link on sidebar of
GWAMIT homepage at http://gwamit.org

Bus will leave around 4:45pm from 77 Massachusetts Ave crosswalk (student
center side)



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*2. Women at MIT Undergraduate to Graduate Women's Mentorship Program
(Deadline to Apply: TODAY Mon, Feb 13, midnight) *
*Deadline:* TODAY, Monday, February 13, midnight
*Application:*
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/embeddedform?formkey=dHRFWkVEbkJGbDF3LTlGTUlESnJnQ2c6MQ
*Questions?  *Email Sandra Chen (sandbox at mit.edu) and Michele Szucs (
mszucs at mit.edu)
*More info*: studentlife.mit.edu/women or womenatmit at mit.edu

This mentorship program exists to connect undergraduate women students to
one of MIT’s most valuable resources, its graduate women student community,
which include master's, doctoral, post-doc, MBAs, and Sloan students. Pairs
will be able to meet informally and discuss whatever they want!  From
academics and MIT to what comes after school to relationships to
professional development to leading with integrity.  This program seeks to
match undergrads and grads on mutual interests – both academic and
extracurricular – in the hopes of facilitating the growth of a fun,
informative, and supportive relationship.

Participants will be expected to attend the program Kick-off during the
week of February 20th and meet with their mentor/mentee pair at least three
times.  A closing celebration reception will also occur in late April.
 This is a pilot program, and we will do our best to pair as many people as
possible!

Open to all MIT graduate students (SM, PhD, Post-doc, MBAs, and Sloan
students). Faculty/Staff/Alumnae are encouraged to apply as well.  Pairings
will be announced before kickoff event. Kick-off event will occur during
the week of February 20th by invitation


*3. Graduate Women's Group Lunch (Thurs. Feb 16, 12-1p) *
*When:* Thursday, February 16, noon-1p
*Where*: Cheney Room, 3-310

We are excited to kick-off the Graduate Women’s Group series again, which
will start next Thursday, February 16th with lunch at noon in the Margaret
Cheney Room (3-310).  There will be some great food, good people, and
excellent conversation.


*4. Cheney Room Movie Night: Persepolis (Wed, Feb 22, 6:30p)*
*When: Wednesday, February 2, 6:30pm*
*Where: Cheney Room, 3-310*
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This semester, Women at MIT is hosting movie nights in the Cheney Room!  The
theme is "six movies that pass the Bechdel test."  If you are unfamiliar
with the Bechdel test, essentially, there are three criteria that films
must meet:
1. are there 2 or more women?
2. do these women talk to each other?
3. do they talk about something other than men?

All six of the films chosen for this semester pass this test.  The first
one, Persepolis, will be on Wednesday, February 22 at 6:30pm in the Cheney
Room.  Bring a friend (or two) and come enjoy some snacks and a movie!
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*5. MIT WGS commemorates Black Herstory Month: "The role religion plays in
discrimination" (Wed. Feb. 29, 6-7:30p)*
*When: *Wednesday - February 29, 6 - 7:30PM
*Where:*  W20 - 201[W20 West Lounge]
*RSVP*: Please rsvp to heidy at mit.edu by 2/24/12.

MIT Program in Women’s and Gender Studies commemorates Black Herstory
Month: "The role religion plays in discrimination: the intersectionality of
piety, pulpits, parishioners, and pastors" w/ Rev. Irene Monroe

This talk examines the role religion plays in discrimination against
lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and queer people. Because homophobia is
both a hatred of the “other ” and it’s usually acted upon ‘in the name of
religion,” the talk will also highlight how religious intolerance and
fundamentalism not only shatters the goal of American democracy, but also
aids in perpetuating other forms of oppression such as racism, sexism,
classism and anti-Semitism.

Rev. Irene Monroe  lives in Cambridge, is a Huffington Post blogger, and a
syndicated religion columnist. A native of Brooklyn, Rev. Irene Monroe is a
graduate from Wellesley College and Union Theological Seminary at Columbia
University, and served as a pastor at an African-American church before
coming to Harvard Divinity School for her doctorate as a Ford Fellow. As a
syndicated queer religion columnist, her columns appear in 43 cities across
the country and in the U.K. She writes a weekly column in the home LGBTQ
newspaper BayWindows.

Cosponsored by: Student Activities/ Office of Multicultural Programs and
LBGT at MIT  Dinner provided.

*6. MIT WGS Women Take the Reel Opening NIght: Orgasm Inc (Thurs. March 1,
7p)*
*When:* Thursday, March 1, 7pm
*Where*: 6-120
*More info*: http://mit.edu/wgs/filmfest2012/index.html

ORGASM INC. - the strange science of female pleasure  Director: Liz Canner

In the shocking and hilarious documentary ORGASM INC., filmmaker Liz Canner
takes a job editing erotic videos for a drug trial for a pharmaceutical
company. Her employer is developing what they hope will be the first Viagra
drug for women that wins FDA approval to treat a new disease: Female Sexual
Dysfunction (FSD). Liz gains permission to film the company for her own
documentary. Initially, she plans to create a movie about science and
pleasure but she soon begins to suspect that her employer, along with a
cadre of other medical companies, might be trying to take advantage of
women (and potentially endanger their health) in pursuit of billion dollar
profits. ORGASM INC. is a powerful look inside the medical industry and the
marketing campaigns that are literally and figuratively reshaping our
everyday lives around health, illness, desire — and that ultimate moment:
orgasm. Upbeat, engaging, enlightening, and provocative, ORGASM INC. will
change the way you think about sex.

80 minutes. Discussion with film director Liz Canner to follow. Cosponsored
by: MIT Technology and Culture Forum, MIT Medical, Comparative Media
Studies/Doclab, and Student Activities Office.


*7. Help strengthen advising and career services for Ph.D. students
(Volunteer to be interviewed in Feb. or March)*
*When:*    Interviews are being scheduled in February and March
*Where:*   On campus
*Contact:*  STEMcareer at mit.edu to book a time that fits your schedule

·         **Are you PhD student in engineering at MIT?
·         **Have you completed your second year?
·         **Provide your perspective on the role of advisors and mentors
·         **Interviews last 1 to 1.5 hours
·         **Gift card of $25 to all participants


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8. Northeastern ADVANCE Program Future Faculty Workshop (Fri. Mar 2; Apply
by Feb. 15)
*When:* Friday, March 2
*Apply: *Applications due February 15
http://fs6.formsite.com/NUadvanceIT/form78/index.html
*More info:* http://www.northeastern.edu/advance/ffw/

The Northeastern University ADVANCE Program and its team for advancing
women in interdisciplinary and international networks, is pleased to
announce a Boston-wide Future Faculty Workshop on Friday, March 2, 2012.
This workshop is specifically designed for graduating PhDs and postdoctoral
scholars interested in faculty positions in science, engineering, or
mathematics.

In this NSF ADVANCE* sponsored workshop, participants will spend one day
learning about the academic job search process from interviewing to
negotiating.  Funds from the Northeastern ADVANCE grant will be used to
support participants’ meals and on-campus parking.

We are asking that you forward this email to your faculty and department
chairs and encourage all interested postdoctoral scholars and PhD students
to apply.  For additional information please see the flier below or view
our webpage: http://www.northeastern.edu/advance/ffw/

Interested people can apply by clicking the following link:
http://fs6.formsite.com/NUadvanceIT/form78/index.html  Deadline for all
applications is midnight on February 15, 2012.
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9. [HGWISE] Spring Seminar on Centered Leadership (Wed. Feb. 15, 5p) *
*When:* Wed, Feb 15 at 5 pm
*Where*: Geological Lecture Hall 100, University Museum, 24 Oxford Street
*RSVP*: http://www.surveymonkey.com/s/6Z3C86D  Reception to follow. Open to
everyone

HGWISE is excited to invite you to our Spring Seminar on Centered
Leadership presented by Jennifer Thomas from McKinsey & Company.

Centered Leadership is a new model for work and life developed by Joanna
Barsh and colleagues at McKinsey over five years of research. It began with
interviews with more than 100 remarkable women leaders, who’ve sustained
leadership careers (and, for most, families) in fields from business to
orchestra conducting to espionage—and who usually wake up every morning
profoundly content with the choices they’ve made. Combined with other
research in psychology and leadership, and surveys of more than 2000
executives, the team has distilled five elements that, used together, can
allow anyone, at any stage in his or her career, to have a more meaningful,
more joyful, and more successful life.

The Centered Leadership framework is based on the following five elements:
-- 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

With a little help from the audience Jennifer will explain how you can
begin to apply this holistic approach to leadership in your own life,
whether you are interested in pursuing an academic, industry, or consulting
career.

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*10. Boston University GWISE Career Fair & Networking Reception (Thurs, Feb
23, 4-7p)*
*When: *Thursday, February 23, 4-7pm* *
*Where*:  Boston University Trustees' Ballroom, 9th floor School of
Management Building, 595 Commonwealth Avenue, enter on Silber Way
*Dress*:  Business Casual
*Register Here: *
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/embeddedform?formkey=dFpiZlB5VU05X3VpeEVJS1FJX2pUNUE6MQ

Thinking about what you might want to do when you graduate?  About to
graduate and looking for a job?  Looking to expand your network?  Want to
mingle over wine and cheese with your fellow female grad students and
postdocs? The Third Annual Boston University GWISE Career Fair and
Networking Reception is your one-stop-shop for all your career and
networking needs!

Come join Boston University GWISE and fellow women in STEM from the Boston
community to network and explore careers!  Speak with HR reps and female
scientists/engineers at local companies*, meet the women of the Association
for Women in Science (AWIS) & Women Entrepreneurs in Science and Technology
(WEST), and get some advice from the Career Development Office and Center
for Career Development at BU.  Even if you're not looking for a job right
now, it's a great opportunity -- network with peers from other departments
and institutions at the wine and cheese reception!  Please pass this
invitation along to other female graduate students and postdocs, not just
those at BU-- the more, the merrier!

Refreshments will be provided, 21+  Pre-registrants will be automatically
entered to in a raffle to win some awesome GWISE swag!  And the more you
network at the event, the more chances you'll go home a winner!

*Companies currently registered to attend include: Teradyne, IBM,
Mathworks, EMC, Merck, Ensign-Bickford Aerospace & Defense Company, H. C.
Starck, Shire Pharmaceuticals, Affectiva, Draper Labs and more!

Bring your resume, bring your business card, or just bring yourself and
come ready to meet and mingle with Boston's best!
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