[GWAMIT] Announcements 3/5/2012

[GWAMIT]

Dear GWAMIT Members,


Don't forget to register for the 2012 Spring Empowerment Conference at
empowerment.gwamit.org!


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. Save the date for the GWAMIT 2012 Spring Empowerment Conference (March
12-16; RSVP Open Now!)
2. Volunteers needed for the GWAMIT Spring Empowerment Conference

*MIT:*
3. "This is What a Feminist @ MIT looks like" Stickers for International
Women's Day (Pickup Mon.-Thurs. 10am-5pm)
4. StartLabs Startup-Only Career Fair (Mon. Mar. 5, 6-10pm)
5. Lemelson-MIT Student Prize Ceremony (Wed. Mar. 7, 6:15pm)
6. Cheney Room Movie Night: *Kiss Me Not on the Eyes* (Wed. Mar. 7, 6:30pm)
7. Graduate Women's Group Lunch Series (Thu. Mar. 8, 12pm)
8. WGS Women Take the Reel Film Festival: Screening of *ELLA ES EL MATADOR
(She is the Matador)* (Thu. Mar. 8, 7pm)

*Outside MIT:*
9. [Harvard] Networking in Academia Workshop (Wed. Mar. 7, 3:30-5pm)
10. [AMITA] Association of MIT Alumnae *Photograph 51* Informal Event (Wed.
Mar. 7, 7:30pm)
11. [Harvard] HGWISE Science Writing Career Chat (Thurs. Mar. 8, 3:30-5p)
12. Cartier Women's Initiative Awards - Call for Applications (Applications
due Tues. Mar. 13)
13. Sense About Science Standing up for Science Media Workshop
(Applications due Wed. Mar. 14)
14. [Harvard] 5th Annual Latina Empowerment and Development Conferences
(Sat. March 24, 11a-6p)

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

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*1. Save the Date for the GWAMIT 2012 Spring Empowerment Conference (March
12-16, RSVP Open Now!) *
*When:* March 12 - 16

*Where*: MIT Campus
*RSVP:* empowerment.gwamit.org


GWAMIT presents the 2012 Spring Empowerment Conference!  March 12th – 16th
2012.

Tentative list of events:
-Keynote: Latoya Peterson, Racialicious.com
-Designing for Women: Susan Fabry, Senior Design Strategist at Continuum
-Digital Productivity: Paul English, CTO and co-founder of kayak.com
-Effective Communication and Negotiation: Barbara Tannenbaum, Brown
University
-Working in male-dominated fields: Pamela Benkert, Phillips; Kate Randall,
Tesla; Dr. Leah Buechley, MIT Media Lab

We look forward to seeing you there!
GWAMIT Spring Empowerment Conference Committee 2012


*2. Volunteers needed for the GWAMIT Spring Empowerment Conference*
*Contact*:  Manasi Vartak, mvartak at mit.edu or Luyao Li, luyao at mit.edu

The empowerment conference committee is seeking:
-Advertising/publicity co-chair: Responsible for designing posters and
website for conference, managing publicity emails.
-Volunteers: Help with setup/clean up on day of events, help with chalk art
in Stata, put up posters etc.

The empowerment conference is a great opportunity to get involved with
GWAMIT and meet fellow graduate women.

To get involved, please reply to mvartak at mit.edu or luyao at mit.edu.


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*3. "This is What a Feminist @ MIT Looks Like" Stickers for International
Women's Day (Pickup Mon.-Thurs. 10am-5pm)*
*When: *Pickup Stickers Monday, March 5 to Thursday, March 8 from 10am-5pm
*Where: *WGS Office, 14E-316

Show your feminist pride!  Wear a TIWAFL sticker on International Women's
Day - March 8, 2012.
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*4. StartLabs Startup-Only Career Fair (Mon. Mar. 5, 6-10pm)*
*When: *Monday, March 5, 6:30-9:30pm
*Where:* 6th Floor Media Lab

StartLabs will be hosting a startup-only career fair on March 5 from 6:00
PM to 10:00 PM on the 6th floor of the Media Lab. We have invited engineers
and founders from over 30 awesome startups. They're all young, talented,
and looking for some awesome students to work with them. Come and check it
out! Fun and light refreshments guaranteed. No suits allowed.
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*5. Lemelson-MIT Student Prize Ceremony (Wed. Mar. 7, 6:15pm)*
*When: *Wednesday, March 7, Reception and Showcase at 6:15pm; Awards
Ceremony at 7pm
*Where:* Showcase in Lobby 10; Awards Ceremony in 10-250
*Register: *http://lmit2012studentprize.eventbrite.com/
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The Lemelson-MIT Student Prize Winner and Finalists will be officially
announced on Wednesday, March 7th.  Mrs. Dorothy Lemelson, Chair of the
Lemelson Foundation Board, Ian Waitz, Dean of MIT’s School of Engineering,
and Michael J. Cima, Faculty Director for the Lemelson-MIT Program will
preside over the event.  During the ceremony, the Winner and Finalists will
give a presentation that speaks to their inventiveness.
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*6. Cheney Room Movie Night: Kiss Me Not on the Eyes (Wed. Mar. 7, 6:30pm)*
*When:* Wednesday, March 7, 6:30pm
*Where: *The Cheney Room (3-310)
*For more information:* http://studentlife.mit.edu/women or contact
womenatmit at mit.edu

The graceful curve of a woman's neck. The seductive jangle of bent gold
bracelets sliding onto an arm. Welcome to the world of Dunia, a student of
poetry and belly dancing, whose artistic expression is inhibited because
she cannot experience desire. Mentored by the ardent public intellectual
Dr. Beshir, Dunia begins an all-consuming search for ecstasy in poetry,
dance, and music–taking us into the world of women in a society that both
fetishizes and oppresses female sexuality. Ultimately, Dunia must confront
the traditions that have destroyed her capacity for pleasure before she can
experience it.
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*7. Graduate Women's Group Lunch Series (Thu. Mar. 8, 12pm)*
*When:* Thursday, March 8, 12pm
*Where:* The Cheney Room (3-310)

Please join us on International Women's Day for the next Graduate Women's
Group Series.   The lunch will start at noon in the Margaret Cheney Room
(3-310).  There will be some great food, good people, and excellent
conversation.  You all will have the opportunity to share what you like
about being woman as well as challenges that you think women still face.
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*8. WGS Women Take the Reel Film Festival: Screening of ELLA ES EL MATADOR
(She is the Matador) (Thu. Mar. 8, 7pm)*
*When:* Thursday, March 8, 7pm
*Where: *6-120

For Spaniards—and for the world—nothing has expressed their country’s
traditionally rigid gender roles more powerfully than the image of the male
matador. So sacred was the bullfighter’s masculinity to Spanish identity
that a 1908 law barred women from the sport.

Visually stunning and beautifully crafted, ELLA ES EL MATADOR (She is
the Matador) reveals the surprising history of the women who made such a
law necessary, and offers fascinating profiles of two female matadors
currently in the arena, the acclaimed Maripaz Vega and neophyte Eva
Florencia. These women are gender pioneers by necessity, confronting both
bull and social code. But what emerges through this mesmerizing film is
their truest motivation—a sheer passion for bullfighting, in the pursuit of
a dream.

62 minutes. Q & A to follow with Professor M. Resnick.

Cosponsored by: MIT Foreign Languages and Literatures, Technology and
Culture Forum, Comparative Media Studies/DocLab, Student Activities
Office, Center for International Studies, MIT-Spain, Latino Cultural Center
and Spanish House.


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*9. [Harvard] Networking in Academia Workshop (Wed. Mar. 7, 3:30-5pm)*
*When:* Wednesday, March 7, 3:30-5:00pm
*Where: *16 Divinity Avenue, Biolabs 1080, Cambridge, MA
*Registration: *https://www.surveymonkey.com/s/Networking_Academia

Academics have been known to scorn networking as flagrant schmoozing,
necessary only outside the ivory tower.  However, even these skeptics need
to (and probably don’t know they already do) network to further their
academic careers, not only for academic jobs, but for their research
productivity and recognition in the field.  Join us to learn about the many
ways that you can network for the betterment of your academic career, with
or without schmoozing!  Speaker: Laura Malisheski, Assistant Director,
Graduate Student and Ph.D. Advising, FAS Office of Career Services, Harvard
University.

Sponsored by the Harvard Faculty of Arts and Sciences Office of
Postdoctoral Affairs.
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*10. [AMITA] Association of MIT Alumnae Photograph 51 Informal Event (Wed.
Mar. 7, 7:30pm)*
*When: *Wednesday, March 7, 7:30pm
*Where: *Cambridge Central Square Theater
*For details and to RSVP:* sarah.simon at alum.mit.edu

In honor of International Women's Day, there will be an informal AMITA
Get-together in Cambridge on March 7th (the eve of International Women's
Day).  This event includes an optional dinner and the viewing of Photograph
51 - a play about Rosalind Franklin and her photo that revealed the DNA
helix.  For more information about the play, see
http://www.centralsquaretheater.org/season/11-12/photograph-51.html<http://mit.imodules.com/redirect.aspx?linkID=2683&eid=56412>

Ticket prices (for the play):

    Adult (off-peak) $40.00
    Senior (62+, off-peak) $35.00
    Student (with University ID) $25.00
    Student (18 & under) $15.00
    Right Last Row or Left Last Row $15.00
    (WBUR members 15% discount)

Please contact sarah.simon at alum.mit.edu for details about the dinner.
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*11. [Harvard] HGWISE Science Writing Career Chat (Thurs. Mar. 8, 3:30-5p)*
*When: *Thursday, March 8, 3:30-5:00pm
*Where: *Dudley House Common Room, Harvard University

Curious about science writing? Join HGWISE for an informative career panel.
We will have Cornelia Dean, science editor at the NYTimes and book author,
Heidi Ledford, journalist for Nature and Scientific American, Meredith
LeMasurier, editor at Neuron, and Wendy Chao, Harvard alum and former
editor at JOVE (Journal of Visual Experiments). Come hear what they have to
say about their career paths and bring questions of your own. The career
panel will be followed by a networking social where the panelists will
be available for further questions and conversation.

Sponsored by GSAS, HILS and the GSC.
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*12. Cartier Women's Initiative Awards - Call for Applications
(Applications due Tues. Mar. 13)*
*When: *Applications due Tuesday, March 13, 10am CET
*Information: *http://www.cartierwomensinitiative.com/

The Cartier Women's Initiative Awards are a business plan competition for
start-ups led by women organized by Cartier in partnership with McKinsey
and INSEAD business school.  This social entrepreneurship competition aims
at supporting creative, financially sustainable and responsible women-led
start-ups, in all countries and industries.

We are currently in the call for applications phase for our contest and are
looking for women leading for-profit responsible enterprises between 1 and
3 years old.  The Award will be given to six laureates who will receive a
comprehensive support package comprising  a year of coaching, US $20,000 in
funding, valuable networking opportunities, as well as media exposure.  The
final stage of the competition, consisting in a presentation in front of an
international Jury, will take place in France during the Global Meeting of
the Women’s Forum.
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*13. Sense About Science Standing up for Science Media Workshop
(Applications due Wed. Mar. 14)*
*When:* Tuesday, April 24; Applications due Wednesday, March 14
*Where: *The Broad Institute, Cambridge
*Apply: *Send a CV and short cover letter to Leonor Sierra (
international at senseaboutscience.org) by Wed. Mar. 14
*Information:*
http://www.senseaboutscience.org/data/files/VOYS_workshop_2012_Apr_24_Cambridge_flyer.pdf

   - Are you PASSIONATE about your RESEARCH?
   - Do you think it is important for GOOD SCIENCE and EVIDENCE to be
   communicated to a wider audience?
   - What can you do to address SCIENTIFIC MISCONCEPTIONS and
   MISINFORMATION?

This full day event is FREE and open to early career researchers in all
sciences, engineering and medicine (PhD students, post-docs or equivalent
in first job)

   - Science in the media: What happens when research announcements go
   wrong; statistics are manipulated; risk factors are distorted; or
   discussions become polarized?
   - What journalists are looking for: How do journalists approach stories
   and balance the need for news and entertainment with reporting science? And
   deal with accusations of polarising debates and misrepresenting facts?
   - Standing up for science; the nuts and bolts: This session offers
   practical guidance for early career researchers to get their voices heard
   in debates about science; how to respond to bad science when you see it;
   and top tips for if you come face-to-face with a journalist!

The Standing Up for Science workshops have been held in the UK since 2005.
This will be the first full-day workshop in the US and participants will be
invited to join the newly formed Voice of Young Science USA network.
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*14. [Harvard] 5th Annual Latina Empowerment and Development Conferences
(Sat. March 24, 11a-6p)*
*When: *Saturday, March 24, 11a-6p
*Where:* Double Tree Hotel Cambridge, MA
*Register: *http://www.wix.com/latinasunidas/lead#!register
*More info: *http://www.wix.com/latinasunidas/lead#<http://www.wix.com/latinasunidas/lead>

LEAD is an all-day event that exposes individuals in the community at large
to the achievements of Latinas in the world today. Every year we have a
prominent Latina as our keynote speaker who shares her experience, wisdom
and advice with those present.  The Conference aims to encourage the
professional endeavors of Latinas everywhere. Latina undergraduate and
graduate students will connect with successful Latina role models who
radiate positive ideals and represent the larger Latino community. Our
speakers will address the social, political, and economic issues that
Latinas face today and motivate them toward excellence in their future
careers. Your students will have the opportunity to participate in
pre-professional workshops to improve skills such as resume building,
interviewing and networking.

The LEAD conference will be taking place in the Double Tree Hotel
Cambridge, MA on Saturday March 24, 2012* from 11:30 AM-6:00 PM.
The theme for this year's conference is "Strengthening our Communities in
the Face of Adversity."


Please Register for the LEAD conference at:
http://www.wix.com/latinasunidas/lead#!register


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