[GWAMIT] Announcements (1/30/12)

[GWAMIT]

Dear GWAMIT Members,


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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IN BRIEF
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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. GECD: Policy Analysis and Research Careers (Wed. Feb. 1, 3-4:30p)
3. SWIM screening of Miss Representation (Tue. Feb. 7, 7p)
4. Registration is open for Annual SWIM Conference, Innovating Through
Adversity (Feb. 10)
5. MIT WGS presents a REG DAY film screening of "The Purity Myth" (Mon. Feb
6, 6-8p)
6. MC^2 Multicultural Conference 2012: Standing out and Fitting In:
Navigating MIT's Cultural Landscape (Feb. 24 & 25, 5pm)

*Outside MIT:
*7. GWIS Science on Screen "Bill and Ted's Excellent Adventure (Mon. Jan
20, 7p)
8. WEST Alternative Careers Program (Tue, Jan 31, 6-9p)
9. [HGWISE] Cambridge Coffee Hour with Dr. Alicia Soderberg (Wed. Feb. 9,
4-5p)
10. Northeastern ADVANCE Program Future Faculty Workshop (Fri. Mar 2; Apply
by Feb. 15)
11. Volunteer with Science Club for Girls (Accepting Spring Applications)
12. Join the upcoming Global Marathon for engineering women (March 5-10)

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. 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)



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


*2. GECD: Policy Analysis and Research Careers (Wed. Feb. 1, 3-4:30p)*

*When:* Wed. Februrary 1, 3-4:30pm

*When:* 4-237
*Sign up*: **www.myinterfase.com/mit/student
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3. SWIM screening of Miss Representation (Tue. Feb. 7, 7p)*
*Date:* February 7, 2012
*Time: *Doors open at 6:30 PM and screening begins at 7:00 PM
*Location: *Wong Auditorium (E51)

Come see *Miss Representation* at Wong Auditorium on February 7
Miss the first showing of *Miss Representation* at MIT or want to see it
again?

Come see Jennifer Siebel Newsom's award-winning film, *Miss Representation*,
before you meet Jennifer herself at the MIT Sloan Women in Management
Conference on Friday, February 10, 2012. Mingle with members of the MIT
Sloan and greater Boston community in this free screening. Refreshments
will be provided!


*4 Registration is open for Annual SWIM Conference, Innovating Through
Adversity (Feb. 10, 2012)
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When: Feb 10, 2012

Where: MIT Media Lab (E14)

Register at: http://www.sloanwomeninmanagement.com/conference/

*First 100 people to register will receive an exclusive invitation to the
screening of the film MISS REPRESENTATION on Feb 7, 2012 and a special
opportunity to meet the writer and director! Hurry! Don’t miss this
opportunity!

The theme of the 2012 MIT Sloan Women in Management Conference is
“innovating through adversity.” In addition to celebrating the successes of
women, the conference will pose hard-hitting questions about the systemic
gender inequalities that still exist in business today. Whose problem is
this to fix? Are these inequalities are own fault? Our speakers will
explore concrete ways in which women can overcome these inequalities. It’s
time to turn a critical eye on ourselves to figure out what we, as women,
can do on a macro level to eliminate the gender gap in business and
leadership.
We look forward to seeing you on February 10, 2012 as we tackle
controversial topics through candid conversation in an intimate setting
conducive to genuine networking.


*5. MIT WGS presents a REG DAY film screening of "The Purity Myth" (Mon.
Feb 6, 6-8p)*
*When: *Monday, February 6 at 6:00pm*
Where:  *6-120*

*In this video adaptation of her bestselling book, pioneering feminist
blogger Jessica Valenti trains her sights on "the virginity movement" -- an
unholy alliance of evangelical Christians, right-wing politicians, and
conservative policy intellectuals who have been exploiting irrational fears
about women's sexuality to roll back women's rights. From dad-and-daughter
"purity balls," taxpayer-funded abstinence-only curricula, and political
attacks on Planned Parenthood, to recent attempts by legislators to de-fund
women's reproductive health care and narrow the legal definition of rape,
Valenti identifies a single, unifying assumption: the myth that the worth
of a woman depends on what she does -- or does not do -- sexually. In the
end, Valenti argues that the health and well-being of women are too
important to be left to ideologues bent on vilifying feminism and
undermining women's autonomy.

Event is free. Light dinner served.

Q&A lead by WGS Professor A. Walsh, MIT sexpert K. McCarthy and Violence,
Prevention and Response (VPR) representative D. De Four to follow.

COSPONSORED BY: The Student Activities Office, MIT sexpert, and VPR.
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*6. MC^2 Multicultural Conference 2012: Standing out and Fitting In:
Navigating MIT's Cultural Landscape (Feb. 24 & 25, 5pm)
When:* Friday and Saturday, February 24 and 25, 5pm
*Where*: MIT Endicott House
*More info*: http://studentlife.mit.edu/sao/programs/mcsquared

This year's theme: "Standing Out & Fitting In: Navigating MIT's Cultural
Landscape".  The event is free and open to all MIT students. This year,
MC^2 will be 2 days long (Friday-Saturday) with students spending the night
at the luxurious MIT Endicott House.

The mission of the Multicultural Conference (MC2) is to bring students
together across race, ethnicity, gender, religion, nationality,
socioeconomic status, ability, sexual orientation, and other aspects of
cultural identity. The conference offers a provocative day of workshops,
speakers, community building, action, and reflection centered on issues of
culture, identity, and social justice at MIT and beyond.

During the conference we will facilitate an honest, open, and interactive
dialogue about the cultural climate at MIT, learn from people's
experiences, and develop plans to cultivate a campus environment that
promotes equality, not simply tolerance. As MIT's mission statement clearly
promotes a diverse campus community, it is crucial students to discuss the
role of diversity and inclusion in education and campus life.

For more information, see: http://studentlife.mit.edu/sao/programs/mcsquared

***********Outside MIT************
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**7. GWIS Science on Screen "Bill and Ted's Excellent Adventure (Mon. Jan
20, 7p)
When: *Monday, January 30, 7pm
*Where*: Coolidge Corner Theater, 290 Harvard Street, Brookline MA 02446
*Meeting:*:GWIS will meet in the lobby a few minutes before 7.
*Details*: http://www.coolidge.org/programs/science-on-screen

With only a few days left before their high school graduation, two most
excellent dudes, Bill S. Preston, Esq. (Keanu Reeves) and Ted "Theodore"
Logan (Alex Winter), are on the verge of flunking history.
Unless they can ace their final history report, Ted's dad will pack him off
to a military academy in Alaska, meaning their band, The Wyld Stallyns,
will come to a heinous end. Luckily for these wanna-be rock stars, a
guardian angel from the future, Rufus (George Carlin), comes to them with a
bodacious solution: a time-traversing phone booth in which they travel back
to the past and round up personages of historical significance who can help
them stage a most triumphant oral report. Whoaa!
"Billy, you are dealing with the oddities of time travel with the greatest
of ease." - Bill S. Preston, Esq. to Billy the Kid, rescued from a bar fight

Join us before the film as Edward Farhi, a most excellent professor of
physics at MIT and director of its Center for Theoretical Physics, unravels
the oddities of time travel and weighs in on the question: Is travel
through time physically possible? Dr. Farhi has studied the complexities of
building a time machine, though not of the phone-booth variety.
Edward Farhi was trained as a theoretical particle physicist but has also
worked on astrophysics, general relativity, and the foundations of quantum
mechanics. His current interest is the theory of quantum computation. He
was on the staff at the Stanford Linear Accelerator Center and at CERN in
Geneva, Switzerland before coming to MIT, where he joined the faculty in
1982. He has won three teaching awards at MIT and has presented his
research at many of the world's leading physics research centers.
1hr 30mins // directed by:Stephen Herek // featuring:Keanu Reeves, Alex
Winter, George Carlin


*8. WEST Alternative Careers Program (Tue, Jan 31, 6-9p)*
*When: *Tue, Jan 31, 6 - 9 pm*
Where:* Microsoft NERD Center, 1 Memorial Dr, Cambridge, MA 04142

Join 10 career mentors representing 10 different careers. Come and explore
these different career options.
Cost:  Members $25, Non-Members $55
To Register:
http://www.westorg.org/2012-01-31-alternative-careers-for-scientists-engineers-and-technologists


*8. [HGWISE] Cambridge Coffee Hour with Dr. Alicia Soderberg (Wed. Feb. 9,
4-5p)
When:* Wed, Feb 9 4-5pm
*Where:* Northwest Building Room 243
*Please RSVP* to rbeinart at fas.harvard.edu
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Please join us for a Coffee Hour with Dr. Alicia Soderberg, Assistant
Professor of Astronomy. Come hear about Dr. Soderberg’s journey from
studying water pollution on Cape Cod, to Maine where she attended Bates
College, to England where she received a Master’s degree from University of
Cambridge, then back to the U.S. for postdoc positions and then her current
position here at Harvard. Dr. Soderberg has received a number of awards,
including the Dorothy Killam Prize (McGill University International Award)
designed "to recognize women of influence in the science and humanities".
Her current work at Harvard focuses on supernovae.  Dr. Soderberg will be
talking about her life and doing general Q&A.

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10. 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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11. Volunteer with Science Club for Girls (Accepting Spring Applications)*
*Apply here*:
http://survey.constantcontact.com/survey/a07e58bjodlgul9jxhq/a01ikgxgx7dq0/greeting

Science Club for Girls just concluded another successful semester at our
clubs in Boston, Cambridge, Fitchburg, Lawrence and Newton! With the help
from over 80 volunteers we have been able to serve over 400 girls in these
communities with STEM related after school programming.

We are gearing up for National Mentoring Month which is this January and is
also the start of our Spring 2012 Semester. The Spring Volunteer
Application is now open and we invite you to apply to volunteer with SCFG
at our sites in Boston, Cambridge, Fitchburg, Lawrence and Newton. With
your help and expertise we can provide the best programming for the girls
to experience. You can access the Spring Volunteer Application here.
http://survey.constantcontact.com/survey/a07e58bjodlgul9jxhq/a01ikgxgx7dq0/greeting
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12. Join the upcoming Global Marathon for engineering women (March 5-10) *
*When*: March 5-10
*Register at* http://www.inxpo.com/events/GlobalMarathon/Registration/

Who: More than a dozen Region Leaders, IBM, DuPont, C3E, the American
Society of Civil Engineers and CH2M Hill will facilitate the daily sessions
and programs.

Join the upcoming Global Marathon starting on March 5. This free, virtual
conference is our chance to connect and talk with women interested in
making a difference through engineering.

Originating from a different part of the world each day, this free, virtual
conference is the only event of its kind connecting women in engineering
and technology worldwide across a diverse range of disciplines, experience
levels, ages, interests, backgrounds, cultures, industries and employers.

Each day features a live, hour-long webcast discussing seminal issues such
as clean water, clean energy, food, and entrepreneurship. Prominent
panelists from all parts of the world will offer a picture of what tomorrow
can look like (dreams), projects and plans on how to achieve a better
tomorrow (ideas), and concrete steps participants can take today (actions).

Please consider forwarding this email to others that you think might be
interested in attending this year's Global Marathon.


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