[GWAMIT] Announcements - Week of 11/5/12

[GWAMIT]

Dear GWAMIT Members,


The GWAMIT Fall Leadership Conference is this week!  Check out the
conference program below, and be sure to
RSVP<https://sites.google.com/site/gwamitleadership2012/> before
attending.


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 Fall Leadership Conference (Nov. 5-8, RSVP Open Now!)
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*MIT:*
2. [MIT Spouses & Partners] Career Connect (Mon. Nov. 5, 7-9pm)
3. You can't say that at MIT? Or can you? Should you? (Student Event Thu.
Nov. 8, 6-7:30pm)
4. LBGTQA Graduate Student Social (Thurs. Nov. 8, 7-9pm)
5. [WGS] Making (up) an Archive: Women's History in a Digital Mode (Tues.
Nov. 13, 4pm)
6. [GECD] Now, Discover Your Strengths (Wed. Nov. 14, 4-5:30pm)
7. [WGS] GLOW Book Reading (Wed. Nov. 14, 7pm)
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*Outside MIT:*
8. [BU GWISE] Difficult Discussions and Gendered Communication (Wed. Nov.
7, 4-5pm)
9. [Harvard] Assertiveness Workshop (Wed. Nov. 7, 4:15-5:45pm)
10. [HGWISE] Industrial Research Career Panel (Thu. Nov. 8, 4-5pm)
11. Volunteer in a Cambridge Public School!

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

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*1. **GWAMIT 2012 Fall Leadership Conference (Nov. 5-8, RSVP Open Now!)*
*When:* November 5 - 8
*Where:* MIT Campus
*Info and RSVP:* leadership.gwamit.org
*Contact:* gwamit-leadership at mit.edu

Registration is now open for the 2012 GWAMIT Fall Leadership
Conference, November 5-8.

Come to any or all of our Leadership Conference events at no cost!
(Events requiring an RSVP may fill up quickly).

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*Keynote: Take Charge of Your Vision*
*When:* Monday, Nov. 5th, 5:30-6:30 PM, Reception to follow.
*Where:* MIT 32-155
*Speaker: *Carley Roney, Founder and CEO of TheKnot/XO Group

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*Look Like a Leader
**When: *Wednesday, Nov. 7th, 12:00-1:30 PM, Lunch will be served.
*Where: *6-104 (Chipman Room)
*Speaker:* Dr. Erika Ebbel Angle, CEO Counterpoint Health Solutions and
Science from Scientists, and former Miss Massachusetts 2004.
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Leadership in Academia and Industry Panel*
*When:* Wednesday, Nov. 7th, 5:00-6:30pm, Reception to follow.
*Where: *Whitehead Institute Auditorium
*Panelists:* Sara Seager, Afarin Bellasario, Nancy Levy, and Andrea
Schievella (successful women in academia, industry, and startups)

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*Build Your Dream Team
**When:* Thursday Nov. 8th, 12:00-1:30pm, Lunch served promptly before noon.
*Where:* 32-G449 (Stata Kiva Room)
*Speaker:* Dr. Danielle Merfeld, Technology Director, GE Global Research
*EVENT SPONSORED BY GE*

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Become an Innovator
**When:* Thursday Nov. 8th, 9-10:30am, Reception to follow.
*Where:* 32-G449 (Stata Kiva Room)
*Speaker:* MIT Prof. Neri Oxman*
EVENT SPONSORED BY LEMELSON-MIT*

If you would be able to help setup, cleanup or take photographs at
an event, please email gwamit-leadership at mit.edu


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*2. [MIT Spouses & Partners] Career Connect (Mon. Nov. 5, 7-9pm)*

*When:* Monday, November 5, 7-9pm

*Where:* Eastgate Penthouse


A training series for spouses exploring new work and life possibilities
while at MIT...

Do you know what you want out of your time here? Our first training session
will focus on the foundation skills for finding your best opportunities:
understanding your own priorities for your time here, and communicating
your priorities and skills to others. We'll practice developing and sharing
a short networking message, learn information and skills for adapting to
new environments, and take time to connect with and support other spouses
who are looking for new opportunities for work or professional development.
We will also discuss how to tap into volunteer opportunities — a great way
to explore a new field and make contacts in the Boston area. For the full
schedule click here<http://spouses.mit.edu/events/career-connect-training-series-spouses-exploring-new-work-and-life-possibilities-while-mit>
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*3. You can't say that at MIT? Or can you? Should you? (Student Event Thu.
Nov. 8, 6-7:30pm)*
*When:* Student Event Thursday, November 8, 6-7:30pm
*Where:* W20-491

The Division of Student Life is pleased to announce the event
“You can’t say that at MIT?  Or can you?  Should you?” featuring nationally
known speaker Peter Lake, Professor of Law and Director of the Center for
Higher Education Law and Policy at Stetson University College of Law.  The
event will be a series of conversations on addressing civil communication
in a diverse and technologically oriented community, including online
communication, harassment, and bullying.


Questions about this event can be directed to the Office of Student
Citizenship (Christy Anthony, Director) at citizenship at mit.edu.


*4. LBGTQA Graduate Student Social (Thurs. Nov. 8, 7-9pm)*
*When:* Thursday, November 8, 7-9pm
*Where:* The Muddy Charles Pub, Building 50

Come join the Rainbow Coffeehouse for an evening of food and drink at the
Muddy Charles Pub. Bring friends, partners, spouses. No matter what your
identity, all are welcome to attend.
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*5. [WGS] Making (up) an Archive: Women's History in a Digital Mode (Tues.
Nov. 13, 4pm)*
*When:* Tuesday, November 13, 4pm
*Where:* 3-133
*Speaker:* Professor Afsaneh Najmabadi

Recent developments in digital humanities pose anew the challenge of
sources, concepts, and possibilities for doing gender and women’s history
for periods and places that had until recently seemed difficult to
research. This talk will probe issues raised by the WWQI digital archive
project.

Women's Worlds in Quajar Iran (WWQI) is a digital resource that preserves,
links and renders accessible primary-source materials related to the social
and cultural history of women's worlds in Qajar Iran. Through the use of
technology it brings together little know archives scattered across the
world. Given the dearth of available primary-source materials related to
women in the Qajar era, it is not surprising that, to date, the vast
majority of Qajar social histories have focused almost exclusively on the
struggles, achievements, and day-to-day realities of the men of that
period. This is in part a matter of expediency; while men's writing have
been easily accessible in various national archives for decades (and many
have in more recent years been published in edited volumes), most women's
writings, photographs, and other personal papers have to date remained
sequestered in private family hands.

WWQI aims to open up the documented social and cultural histories of Qajar
women, thus allowing for the examinations of broader patterns of life
during this era. Our collection has paid specific attention to materials
that will illuminate women's relations to each other and to family members
of various generations, their roles in life cycle rituals, their
perceptions of women outside Iran (the Ottoman Empire, South Asia, and
Europe, in particular), and the interconnections that women's activities,
networks, and allegiances wove between various ethnic and religious
communities.

*6. [GECD] Now, Discover Your Strengths (Wed. Nov. 14, 4-5:30pm)*
*When:* Wednesday, November 14, 4-5:30pm
*Where:* 1-246
*Registration:*
Required<https://www.myinterfase.com/mit/Account/LogOn?ReturnUrl=%2fmit%2fstudent%2f>

You possess many unique, natural talents—the specific ways in which you
naturally think, feel and behave. Because your talents represent the very
best of you, they are your greatest opportunities for success in college,
your career and your personal life.  The Clifton StrengthsFinder measures
the presence of 34 talent themes. This session will allow participants to
take the Clifton StrengthsFinder and find out their top five talent themes
and how to capitalize on this knowledge. Participants will learn how to
apply their strengths to maximize performance and make career and job
decisions.  Participants will need to register for this session ahead of
time, as well as take the Clifton StrengthsFinder.   *Participants will
receive a code and directions to take the Clifton StrengthsFinder once they
have registered.*
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*7. [WGS] GLOW Book Reading (Wed. Nov. 14, 7pm)*
*When:* Wednesday, November 14, 7pm
*Where:* 32-141
*Speaker:* Jessica Marie Tuccelli '89

Synopsis: In the autumn of 1941, Amelia J. McGee, a young woman of Cherokee
and Scotch-Irish descent, and an outspoken pamphleteer for the NAACP,
hastily sends her daughter, Ella, alone on a bus home to Georgia in the
middle of the night—a desperate measure that proves calamitous when the
child encounters two drifters and is left for dead on the side of the
road. Ella awakens in the homestead of Willie Mae Cotton, a wise root
doctor and former slave, and her partner, Mary-Mary Freeborn, tucked deep
in the Takatoka Forest. As Ella heals, the secrets of her lineage are
revealed.

Jessica Maria Tuccelli reveals deep insight into individual acts that can
transform a community, and the ties that bind people together across
immeasurable hardships and distances. Illuminating the tragedy of human
frailty, the vitality of friendship and hope, and the fiercest of all
bonds—mother love—the voices of *Glow* transcend their history with grace
and splendor.


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*8. [BU GWISE] Difficult Discussions and Gendered Communication (Wed. Nov.
7, 4-5pm)*
*When:* Wednesday, November 7, 4-5pm
*Where:* Boston University, LSEB 103
*RSVP:* http://bit.ly/YqBqaJ

*Having trouble communicating with your advisor or lab mates?  Do you know
how to approach difficult conversations?  Can you reach a resolution when
in conflict?

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*Please join GWISE as we host Joanne Kamens for her "Difficult Discussions
and Gendered Communication" workshop. Joanne will cover how to manage
difficult conversations, how to negotiate successful collaboration when in
conflict, and how to effectively get your message across while
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*9. [Harvard] Assertiveness Workshop (Wed. Nov. 7, 4:15-5:45pm)*

*When:* Wednesday, November 7, 4:15-5:45pm

*Where: *Harvard Bureau of Study Counsel, 5 Linden St.

*RSVP:* Appreciated (Not
Required)<https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/viewform?formkey=dGNhdzBqbVJuMHBUVzdOdFRzc0NROFE6MQ>


Maybe you have also felt the social pressure to speak up in lab, to be
"loud" when socializing with peers, or to impress people on the future job
market. Maybe you find that even harder in the presence of aggressive people
or in an unfamiliar cultural environment. We believe that the first big
step towards relieving that pressure is just to realize that - it is your
right to be *assertive*.

If you are just tired of all the social events that you were _supposed to_
go to, we hope that this workshop is different - it is okay if you are a
little quiet, or even a little shy. Because we will have people just like
you sitting together in a warm and cozy room over coffee, tea or hot
chocolate, supporting each other.

Dr. Sunglim Shin and Dr. Claire Shindler, experienced counselors from the
Bureau of Study Counsel would lead the workshop and facilitate constructive
and confidential discussions.


*10. [HGWISE] Industrial Research Career Panel (Thu. Nov. 8, 4-5pm)*
*When:* Thursday, November 8, 4-5pm
*Where:* Jefferson 256, Harvard

Join HGWISE for its fall career panel on industrial research. It will be a
great opportunity to understand the ins and outs of working as a scientist
in the industry, explore the differences between academic and industrial
research as well as learn about the individual career journeys of our
panelists and to network! The panel will feature:

*Dr. Aimee Usera, Investigator II/Lab Head at Novartis Institute for
Biomedical Research*
Aimee received her PhD at John Hopkins in synthetic organic chemistry and
did her post-doc at MIT under Prof. Sarah O'Connor. Her current team at
Novartis is involved in the chemical biology field of drug design and
research, investigating and applying novel  methods of protein modification to
various therapeutic goals.  Her group's work spans across many disease
areas (DAs) including ophthalmology, vaccines, oncology, and cardiovascular
metabolism.

*Laura Brattain, Technical Staff at Bioengineering Systems and Technologies
Group, MIT Lincoln Laboratory*
Laura is also a PhD student at Harvard Biorobotics Laboratory under the
guidance of Prof. Robert Howe. Her research interests include: medical
image processing, medical device design and telemedicine.

*Dr. Stacy Lynn Reeder, Senior Research Scientist, Schlumberger-Doll
Research*

Stacy attended the University of Miami where she earned a BS in physics,
mathematics, and marine science. She did her PhD in Marine Geology at the
same school. Her current research is aimed at getting the most information
out of down-hole measurements to best interpret the subsurface in complex
environments. The Reservoir Geoscience Department has a heavy focus on
understanding shale oil using a combination of field, laboratory, and modeling
techniques to quantify the geochemistry, geomechanics, petrophysics, and
geology measured with different physical measurements.


*11. Volunteer in a Cambridge Public School!*
*Information:* http://www.csvinc.org/programs/elementary-prog.html

*Contact:* Kasey Appleman <kappleman at cpsd.us>


The Cambridge Public Schools are reaching out to local university
communities to seek tutors and mentors for Cambridge students.  As little
as one hour per week spent tutoring a student can make a huge difference!
 If you are interested in hearing more about volunteering in a local public
school, please feel free to touch base directly.   Program coordinator
Kasey Appleman can be reached at kappleman at cpsd.us.

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