[GWAMIT] Announcements - Week of 11/19/12

[GWAMIT]

Dear GWAMIT Members,


Did you enjoy the GWAMIT Fall Leadership Conference?  Check out how to join
the committee for our next conference in the announcements below!


Happy Thanksgiving and 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. Join the Empowerment Conference Committee! (Info Session Mon. Nov. 19,
4:30-5:30pm)
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*MIT:*
2. [SWIM] Boston Women Speed Networking Event (Mon. Nov. 19, 7-8pm)
3. [GSC] Dissertation Boot Camp (Nov. 26-Dec. 7, 8:30am-5:30pm)
4. Application for the 2013 $30,000 Lemelson-MIT Student Prize (Application
Due Fri. Nov. 30)
5. "Like" the MIT Dean for Graduate Education Facebook Page!
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*Outside MIT:*
6. [MASS-AWIS] Get out of Town: Strategies to Facilitate Professional
Travel for Women (Tues. Nov. 27, 6-8pm)
7. [BU WISE] Annual Fall Luncheon Featuring Karen Panetta (Wed. Nov. 28,
12-1:30pm)

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

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*1. Join the Empowerment Conference Committee! (Info Session Mon. Nov. 19,
4:30-5:30pm)*
*When:* Information Session Monday, November 19, 4:30-5:30pm
*Where:* Stata Center Cafeteria
*RSVP:* http://goo.gl/J4HbE

GWAMIT is currently recruiting conference co-chairs, event leads, logistics
co-chairs and an advertising chair for the fourth annual Empowerment
Conference. Last year's conference was a huge success with 6 events, 550+
attendees and lots of great content! Be a part of the organizing team this
year.

Perks – opportunities to connect with top-notch speakers, develop
leadership skills, and meet awesome grad women across MIT.


Join us for the Empowerment Conference Info Session on Monday, Nov 19th
from 4:30 – 5:30 pm at the Stata Center Cafeteria. There will be snacks!


RSVP for the info session and get added to the mailing list here:
http://goo.gl/J4HbE


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*2. [SWIM] Boston Women Speed Networking Event (Mon. Nov. 19, 7-8pm)*
*When:* Monday, November 19, 7-8pm
*Where:* E62 Lobby
*RSVP:* http://bit.ly/RRuVK0

Sloan Women in Management (SWIM) invites you to a speed networking session
to meet and mingle with women from Boston graduate programs and women’s
organizations! Six sessions of five minutes will allow graduate women to
meet and create six new contacts!  Bring a stack of *business cards* and
join us for some appetizers, mingling and fun!


*3. [GSC] Dissertation Boot Camp (Nov. 26-Dec. 7, 8:30am-5:30pm)*
*When:* November 26-December 7, 8:30am-5:30pm
*Where:* Pritchett, Walker Memorial
*Contact:* Lindsay O'Brien <lbobrien at mit.edu>
*Register:* http://gsc.mit.edu/programs-initiatives/dbc/

The DBC is a two week camp that provides students who are currently working
on their dissertation with a quiet and focused environment.Breakfast and
coffee are provided each day, and various speakers will be joining us to
discuss dissertation strategies, ways to maintain healthy habits during
dissertation writing, and positive stretching techniques.

-  Quiet and focused environment for writing theses****
-  Coffee and breakfast provided****
-  Please supply your own laptop computer****
-  Register by 11/23; registration fee $20, refundable deposit $40

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*4. Application for the 2013 $30,000 Lemelson-MIT Student Prize
(Application Due Fri. Nov. 30)*
*When:* Application Due Friday, November 30
*Eligibility:* http://web.mit.edu/invent/a-student-2.html
*Contact:* Shannon O'Brien <shannonl at mit.edu>

Calling all inventive seniors and graduate students at MIT!

   - Individual inventors and/or key contributors to a team project, or
   who have otherwise demonstrated a portfolio of inventiveness are encouraged
   to apply
   - Applicants become a part of a cohort, benefitting from events,
   networking, and other opportunities
   - In addition to monetary support, Winners (and up to 2 Finalists) gain
   national media attention, enabling them to further develop their ideas and/
   or entrepreneurial ventures


*5. "Like" the MIT Dean for Graduate Education Facebook Page!*
*Link:* http://bit.ly/ChristineOrtiz
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The Dean for Graduate Education, Professor Christine Ortiz, would like to
invite GWAMIT members to subscribe to (“like”) to her new Dean’s facebook
page which will serve to engage the graduate community virtually, highlight
ODGE (Office of the Dean for Graduate Education) initiatives,
collaborations, and news, graduate student research and accomplishments,
innovations in graduate education at MIT, provide information on
selected prestigious opportunities (for example, fellowships, awards,
professional development, international experience, mentoring, etc.), raise
awareness of personal support resources, host virtual challenges and also
include some of her activities as Dean.****

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You can “like” her page here: http://bit.ly/ChristineOrtiz****

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She will be maintaining and posting to the page myself. Note -- “liking” is
different from “friending” and your facebook profile will not give her
access to any of your personal information. It will only allow you to see
her posts in your news feed.****

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If you have news you would like posted to the ODGE website and Dean’s
facebook page, feel free to send Dean Ortiz an email at cortiz at mit.edu, for
example scholarly papers published, co-curricular activities, events,
awards, etc.


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*6. [MASS-AWIS] Get out of Town: Strategies to Facilitate Professional
Travel for Women (Tues. Nov. 27, 6-8pm)*
*When:* Tuesday, November 27, 6-8pm
*Where:* Broad Institute Auditorium, 7 Cambridge Center
*Register:* www.acteva.com/go/mass-awis

This workshop will present an overview of the benefits of academic travel
and will aid participants in creating a personal “passport” to help them
find optimal solutions to the hurdles they face in providing for young
children and aging parents during their professional travel. Through
hands-on activities, the presenters will help attendees expand their travel
horizons with suggestions on how to establish travel mentoring networks,
find new sources of funding for incremental costs of dependent care, and
advocate for more inclusive policies from universities, professional
societies, and federal agencies following models from the Five College STEM
Family Travel Initiative and Harvard University.

Travel is a critical component of the scientist’s job description!

Barbara Zurer Pearson, Ph.D., is linguist specializing in bilingual
language acquisition and a research associate in the Office of Research
Development at the University of Massachusetts Amherst. She organizes
programs around mentoring and issues of work-life balance, especially for
young women faculty in STEM disciplines and is co-PI for a grant from
Elsevier Foundation that created the STEM Family Travel Initiative of the
Five Colleges.

Natalie Beaumont-Smith, Ph.D. has worked in the Office of Work/Life at
Harvard for five years after relocating to the US from Australia where she
received her Ph.D. from the University of Adelaide, Australia in social
nutrition. The Office of Work/Life provides resources while also helping to
develop university policy in this area especially around recruitment and
retention of faculty and staff where research shows that these pressures
can lead to drop-out along the academic pipeline.

Agenda:
6:00pm-6:30pm: Registration, Networking and Light Refreshments
6:30pm-7:30pm: Presentation
7:30pm-8:00pm: Q&A and Networking

$10 for AWIS Members and Broad Employees $20 for Non-AWIS and Non-Broad
Employees


*7. [BU WISE] Annual Fall Luncheon Featuring Karen Panetta (Wed. Nov. 28,
12-1:30pm)*
*When:* Wednesday, November 28, 12-1:30pm
*Where:* 801 Photonics, Colloquium Room, Boston University
*RSVP:* http://bit.ly/U8ElmN

*This year, we are very pleased to have Dr. Karen Panetta as our luncheon
speaker. Dr. Panetta has been involved in initiatives to increase
accessibility of engineering to people from all backgrounds and to break
down the barriers and stereotypes surrounding STEM. We are very excited to
have her share some thoughts with us. After the talk, we will adjourn to
dessert and discussion. This round-table luncheon is an opportunity for all
of our members to enjoy lunch, network, hear from community leaders,
discuss issues related to women in science, and provide feedback to how
GWISE can better serve the community. We would love to see you there!*

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