[GWAMIT] Announcements - Week of November 2, 2015

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Dear GW at MIT Members,

The Fall Leadership Conference (*Making an Impact*) is here!! Check out the
website <https://gwamitlead2015.wordpress.com/> and the announcement below
to learn more about the amazing events and speakers and to RSVP.

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



*======== IN BRIEF========*

*GW at MIT:*
1. GWAMIT Fall Leadership Conference: Making an Impact (Nov. 2nd - 5th)
2. Submit your questions to *Dear Kate*!

*MIT:*
3. [POWER] Outside the 'Norm' Seminar (Nov. 5th)
4. [Intel] You're What's Next (Intel is hiring!) (Nov. 5th)
5. [GCWS] Queer Diasporas and Futurities (Nov. 18th)
6. [POWER] Pizza and Movie Night (Nov. 20th)
7. Breaking the Mold Conference (Dec. 5th)
8. [MIT Work-Life Center] Fall Seminar Series (Oct - Dec)

*Outside MIT:*
9. [MASS AWIS] Challenges Faced by Successful Women in STEM (Nov. 17th)
10. PrimaTemp Study Looking for Volunteers (Ongoing)



*====================FULL ANNOUNCEMENTS====================*

*********** GW at MIT ***********

*1. GWAMIT Fall Leadership Conference: "Making an Impact"*
*When*: Monday - Thursday, November 2 - 5
*Where*: MIT campus
*Info*: link <https://gwamitlead2015.wordpress.com/>

We are excited to launch our week-long conference featuring leaders who
have made an impact in different academic and policy communities and who
continuously empower women. Join us for a series of workshops, talks and
panels!

The Leadership Conference will be happening from Nov. 2 to Nov. 5. Check
out the links below to see event descriptions, learn more about our
incredible speakers, and RSVP!

   - *Start-ups: Tales from MIT’s Entrepreneur-in-Residence*
      - Christina Chase, Martin Trust Center
      - Monday, November 2, 11 AM - 12 PM in W20-307
      <https://whereis.mit.edu/?go=w20>
      - Info <https://gwamitlead2015.wordpress.com/events/christina-chase>
      - RSVP
      <https://www.eventbrite.com/e/start-ups-tales-from-mits-entrepreneur-in-residence-tickets-19263509676>
      - *Force for Change: The Next Generation of Empowered Female Leaders*
      - Jin In, 4GGL
      - Monday, November 2, 6:00 - 7:00 PM in 32-141
      <https://whereis.mit.edu/?go=32>
      - Info <https://gwamitlead2015.wordpress.com/events/jin-in>
      - RSVP
      <https://www.eventbrite.com/e/the-worlds-most-powerful-force-for-change-jin-in-tickets-19262853714>
      - *Trailblazers Panel: Changing Norms in Academia and Beyond*
      - with Prof. Amy Keating, Prof. Melissa Franklin, Prof. Hazel Sive
      - Tuesday, November 3, 6:00 - 7:00 PM in 4-237
      <https://whereis.mit.edu/?go=4>
      - Info
      <https://gwamitlead2015.wordpress.com/events/trailblazers-panel>
      - RSVP
      <https://www.eventbrite.com/e/trailblazers-panel-changing-norms-in-academia-and-beyond-tickets-19263311082>
      - *Confidence, Arrogance, Talk, and Teamwork: Communication by Women
   in the Workplace*
      - Jane Connor, MIT
      - Wednesday, November 4, 6:00 - 7:00 PM in 32-141
      <https://whereis.mit.edu/?go=32>
      - Info <https://gwamitlead2015.wordpress.com/events/jane-connor>
      - RSVP
      <https://www.eventbrite.com/e/confidence-arrogance-talk-and-teamwork-communication-by-women-in-the-workplace-tickets-19263378283>
      - *Claim Your Space: How to Feel Confident, Command any Room, and
   Effectively Get What you Want*
      - Jennifer Madden, Dynamic Communications
      - Thursday, November 5, 1:00 - 2:00 PM in W20-307
      <https://whereis.mit.edu/?go=w20>
      - Info <https://gwamitlead2015.wordpress.com/events/jennifer-madden>
      - RSVP
      <https://www.eventbrite.com/e/claim-your-space-how-to-feel-confident-command-any-room-and-effectively-get-what-you-want-tickets-19263400349>
      - *Making an Impact: Why Policy is the Best and Worst Way to Change
   the World*
      - Lara Pierpoint, Department of Energy
      - Thursday, November 5, 5:30 - 6:30 PM in W20-307
      <https://whereis.mit.edu/?go=w20>
      - Info <https://gwamitlead2015.wordpress.com/events/lara-pierpoint>
      - RSVP
      <https://www.eventbrite.com/e/making-an-impact-why-policy-is-the-best-and-worst-way-to-change-the-world-tickets-19263425424>

Events are free and open to everyone; we use RSVPs to account for the
delicious food we are ordering. We look forward to seeing many of you
during this week!

*2. Submit your questions to Dear Kate!*
*Submit*: link <http://tinyurl.com/ah49j5b>

The October Dear Kate post is on the blog (http://gwamit.blogspot.com/).
Please enjoy the questions and answers posted!

Dear Kate, the GWAMIT Mentoring advice blog, is looking for more questions
to answer! Each month, the GWAMIT mentors answer questions anonymously
posed by students. Previous questions and answers can be found at
http://gwamit.blogspot.com.

Please submit your questions for next month's edition! They can be
submitted at http://tinyurl.com/ah49j5b

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

*3. [POWER] Professional Career Development Seminar*
*When*: Thursday, November 5, 4:00 - 5:00 PM
*Where*: MIT Building E25-401 <https://whereis.mit.edu/?go=e25>
*RSVP*: link <http://goo.gl/forms/ix85ye6pPT>

This career development seminar organized by the Postdoctoral Organization
for Women Engaged in Research (POWER) at MIT will focus on the speaker’s
personal experiences, insights into their current work, as well as
work-life integration issues such as how to balance a successful career in
science and technology and raise a family. We are hoping that the
interactions will assist female postdocs in navigating their careers and
will also help them building the professional connections to move on to the
next level in their career.

Snacks and refreshments (Whole Foods catering) will be served!

*Marcia C. Haigis, Ph.D*., is an Associate Professor in the Department of
Cell Biology at Harvard Medical School in Boston, MA and a member of the
Paul F. Glenn Center for the Biology of Aging. Following graduate training
at the University of Wisconsin-Madison in Biochemistry, Dr. Haigis studied
the molecular role of SIR2 (silent information regulator) proteins during
her postdoctoral research in the Guarente Lab at MIT. She has contributed
to understanding the role that mitochondrial sirtuins play in metabolism
and disease. She has received a number of awards, including the Ellison
Medical Foundation New Scholar Award and the Brookdale Foundation
Leadership in Aging Award.

*The professional and socio-cultural activities of POWER are open to the
entire MIT community. POWER does not discriminate against individuals on
the basis of race, color, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity,
religion, disability, age, genetic information, veteran status, ancestry,
or national or ethnic origin. These events are advertised to the MIT
postdoc community in general.

*4. [Intel] You're What's Next (Intel is hiring!)*
*When*: Thursday, November 5, 5:30 PM
*Where*:MIT Building 36-428 <http://whereis.mit.edu/?go=36>
*Info*: link <http://www.intel.com/jobs>

Grad students, please join us for a presentation on Leading Edge Silicon
Technology Development, hosted by Intel’s Dr. Jack Hwang.

LTD (Logic Technology Development Group) is hiring grad students for
Process Development and Ramp.   Skill sets include hard science background
in:  Chemistry, Chemical Eng, Electrical Eng, Materials Science and
Physics.

Food will be provided. Bring your resume!
*Interviews held Friday 11/6!!*

*5. [GCWS] Queer Diasporas and Futurities*
*When*: Wednesday, November 18, 5:30 – 7:30 PM
*Where*: The Moore Room, Building 6-321 <http://whereis.mit.edu/?go=6>

The Graduate Consortium in Women's Studies is pleased to announce the
second event in our Feminisms Unbound
<http://web.mit.edu/gcws/news+events/15-16FeminismsUnbound.html> series.
Please join us, and spread the word!

Our roundtable explores the ways in which both "queerness" and "diaspora"
each displace normative classifications of sexuality and nationality, with
consequences for the imagination of "futurity" in literature, visual
culture, and cultural politics. As queerness complicates the boundedness of
an ethnic, national or religious collectivity that desires to reproduce its
own identity, so may diaspora unsettle the normative white Europeanness of
conceptions of same-sex desire. Presenters discuss how diaspora figures
both geographical displacement and the crossing of figurative boundaries of
person, culture, society, and state, and they elaborate ways that queering
describes not only different embodiments of gender and sexuality, but also
a skewing of normative epistemology and social organization.

This event is free and open to the public.

Roundtable discussion participants:

   - *Feng-Mei Heberer*, Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow, MIT
   - *Umayyah Cable*, PhD Student, Department of American Studies and
   Ethnicity, University of Southern California
   - *Fatima El-Tayeb*, Professor of Literature, University of California
   San Diego
   - Fourth roundtable participant TBD
   - Moderator: *Lisa Lowe*, Professor of English, Tufts University

Feminisms Unbound is organized by Kimberly Juanita Brown, Assistant
Professor of English and Africana Studies, Mount Holyoke College, Lisa
Lowe, Professor of English and American Studies, Tufts University, and
Jyoti Puri, Professor of Sociology, Simmons College.  Kimberly, Lisa, and
Jyoti are also Visiting Scholars with the GCWS this year, and we thank them
for their efforts programming this exciting set of roundtable discussions.
The goal of this series is to foster conversations and community among
Boston-area feminist intellectuals and activists and explore Women’s,
Gender, and Sexuality Studies topics at the edges of the field.

*6. [POWER] Pizza and Movie Night*
*When*: Friday, November 20, 7:00 - 10:00 PM
*Where*: MIT Building E17-517 <https://whereis.mit.edu/?go=e17>
*RVSP*: TBD

Come join the Postdoc Organization for Women Engaged in Research (POWER)
for a showing of *Mulan*.

The Postdoc Organization for Women Engaged in Research (POWER) aims to
support the personal and professional development of women postdoctoral
researchers at MIT. Check them out on Twitter
<https://twitter.com/mit_power>!

*7. Breaking the Mold Conference*
*When*: Saturday, December 5, 8:00 AM - 5:00 PM
*Where*: MIT Media Lab <http://whereis.mit.edu/?go=E14>
*Info*: link <http://www.mitbreakingthemold.com>
*Tickets*: link <http://bit.ly/getmitbtm>

   - Breaking the Mold is an initiative to help students develop approaches
   to managing unconscious biases in the classroom, workplace and board room.
   - The discussion is split across two conferences: Saturday, December 5th
   (8am-5pm) and Friday, February 5th (half day)
   - Conference features interactive panels, workshops and keynote
   speakers: Former President & CEO of the LA Dodgers and Chief Product
   Officer of OKCupid
   - Tickets can be purchased as a bundle (for both conferences) or for the
   December conference only at bit.ly/getmitbtm
   - Learn more about speakers, the conference and the Breaking the Mold
   initiative at www.mitbreakingthemold.com

*8. [MIT Work-Life] Fall Seminar Series *
*When*: October - December
*Where*: Varies
*Info*: link <http://hrweb.mit.edu/worklife/seminars>
*Register*: link <http://hrweb.mit.edu/worklife/seminars/>

Check out events presented throughout the semester as part of the MIT
Work-Life Center’s Fall Seminar Series
<http://hrweb.mit.edu/worklife/seminars>. Our presenters, who are experts
in their fields, will share research-based strategies, tips, and
information on more than 25 topics, including:

   - Student loan repayment strategies
   - Developing your negotiation and communication skills for challenging
   conversations
   - Eating healthy and staying active on your own schedule and budget
   - Buying your first home
   - Parenting
   - Eldercare
   - And more!

All seminars are free of charge and open to the entire MIT community and
their families; however, registration is required
<http://hrweb.mit.edu/worklife/seminars/>.

*********** Outside MIT ***********

*9. [MASS AWIS] Challenges Faced by Successful Women in STEM*
When: Tuesday, November 17, 5:45 - 8:00 PM
Where: Venture Café, Cambridge Innovation Center 5th floor, One Broadway,
Cambridge
*Register*: link <http://massawis.org/genderbias2015>

Women in STEM are important contributors in today's society, however they
are still surrounded by gender bias on a regular basis. This event is a
fantastic opportunity to hear from a panel of powerful women from a
multitude of ethnic backgrounds, succeeding in STEM fields, and speaking
openly about the obstacles they have faced.

Panel discussion with:

   - Dr. Karen Page Clinical Scientist at Pfizer and Ambassador Program
   Manager for Science Club For Girls
   - Dr. Erika Ebbel Angle CEO of Science from Scientists and Counterpoint
   Health Solutions
   - Judy Piper Senior Software Engineering Manager at Akamai Technologies
   - Dr. Manasa Madasu Faculty at Northeastern University and Founder at
   Shakti: Girl Power
   - Dr. Anastacia Berzat Scientific Program Manager at Novartis Institute
   for BioMedical Research

Agenda:

   - 5:45-6:00 pm Registration
   - 6:00-7:15 pm Panelists presentation and discussion
   - 7:15-8:00 pm Dinner, informal discussion with panelists and networking

Register at http://massawis.org/genderbias2015

MASS AWIS members $10 · Non-members $15

Event attendance is limited to 50 people – register early!

*10. [PCH at MGH] PrimaTemp Study Looking for Volunteers*
*When*: Rolling applications until December
*Info*: email <PrimaTempStudy at partners.org>
*Apply*: link <http://j.mp/1L8UFPt>

Are you a healthy female aged 21-43?
Are you interested in learning more about your body?
Are you trying to conceive naturally?

Partners Connected Health at Massachusetts General Hospital is conducting a
research study to evaluate a new vaginally-inserted temperature monitor.

The primary purpose of the study is to gather information about the safety
and user experience of the device and evaluate how well the device works
with predicting the day of ovulation and fertility window.

Participants may receive up to $500 for completing the study.

Contact Research Analysts Danielle Sackstein or Bridget Gerstel at
617-643-9660 or 617-643-6368, or e-mail PrimaTempStudy at partners.org for
more information on the required qualifications and details of the study.

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