[GWAMIT] GWAMIT Newsletter - Week of April 10, 2017

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 GWAMIT Newsletter - Week of April 10, 2017
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April 10, 2017
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*IN BRIEF*

*GW at MIT:*
1. Come to GWAMIT Empowerment Conference 2017: Be Bold, Be Heard!
(Apr. 10-14)
2. Fill out GWAMIT Graduate Student Childcare Survey (now)

*MIT:*
3. Sexual Assault Awareness Month 2017 (Apr.)
4. [MITSWE] CANVASES AND CREPES- Big/Little Bonding! (Apr. 11)
5. MIT Innovation Initiative Entrepreneurship Speaker Series: Bengt
Holmström (Apr. 13)
6. Delta series: dialogues empowering leaders toward action (Apr. 13/21)
7. [MITWGS] The Louis Kampf Writing Prize in Women's and Gender Studies
(Apr. 14)
8. [MS&PC] Cooking Competition (Apr. 14)
9. MIT April 18: Day of Engagement, Day of Action (Apr. 18)
10. Think Big: Identify Goals and Set Priorities for Success (Apr. 19)
11. Bernard M. Gordon—Lessons I've Learned As A Lifetime Engineering Leader
(Apr. 21)
12. [MITWGS] What Does Black Lives Matter have to do with YOU? (Apr. 22)
13. Developing Your Emotional Intelligence: Improving Personal and
Professional Relationships (Apr. 25)
14. [LBGTQ at MIT] Trans/GQ Employee Lunch (Apr. 28)

*Outside MIT:*
15. 11th annual Cambridge Science Festival (April 14 - 23)
16. New England Future Faculty Workshop at Northeastern University (May 23)
Dear GW at MIT Members,

Our annual Spring Empowerment Conference is this week! This year, the theme
is Be Bold, Be Heard <https://gwamitempowerment2017.wordpress.com/>, and
we’ll be hosting events centered around helping you find and amplify your
unique voice.

GWAMIT has also started a Graduate Student Childcare Survey
<https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSeMVyhVVfDwp8I6ZWiF790UIGFZ0u27VOh1Nb8ZdLWgKHX9qQ/viewform?c=0&w=1>
to better understand the needs of graduate students with children.

The GWAMIT Board
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*FULL ANNOUNCEMENTS*
************ GW at MIT ************

*1. Come to GWAMIT Empowerment Conference 2017: Be Bold, Be Heard!*
*When:* April 10-14
*Where: *various
*Info*: link <https://gwamitempowerment2017.wordpress.com/>
“For most of history, Anonymous was a woman.” -Virginia Woolf
It’s time for us to stop being anonymous. Graduate Women at MIT is hosting
our annual Spring Empowerment Conference April 10-14, 2017! This year, the
theme is “Be Bold, Be Heard”, and we’ll be hosting events centered around
helping you find and amplify your unique voice. Whether that’s about
improving your written communication, learning the best way to handle
confrontations or tricky conversations, or becoming more politically
involved – the world needs your voice, and we want to hear it.
*2. **Fill out GWAMIT Graduate Student Childcare Survey*
*When:* now
*Link:* link
<https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSeMVyhVVfDwp8I6ZWiF790UIGFZ0u27VOh1Nb8ZdLWgKHX9qQ/viewform?c=0&w=1>
GWAMIT has been working with the administration to provide better support
for graduate students with children. If you have children or want to have
children in grad school, please fill out this survey to give us more
information.
The survey is designed for any MIT grad student or their spouses and
partners.
************** MIT **************

*3. Sexual Assault Awareness Month 2017 Info*: link
<http://whiteelephant.scripts.mit.edu/saam/>
*4. [MITSWE] CANVASES AND CREPES- Big/Little Bonding!*
*When:* Tuesday April. 11, 7:30PM - 8:30PM
*Where:* MIT Building 1-135
*RSVP:* link
<https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSfDlf8-OAj8iFqgRZkMXcfhdkE9S3HxoY2fZwv33hBcicz24w/viewform?c=0&w=1>
Want to paint a cute canvas? Want some crepes? Want to hang out with
awesome SWE members? Come out to this event!
No need to stay the whole time :) Here are the pairings again!
**You do not need a big/little to come!**
*5. MIT Innovation Initiative Entrepreneurship Speaker Series: Bengt
Holmström*
*When: *Thursday, April 13th, 4:00 PM – 5:30 PM
*Where: *Martin Trust Center for MIT Entrepreneurship | 1 Amherst Street,
Cambridge, MA 02142
*Register*: link
<https://www.eventbrite.com/e/is-innovation-overrated-how-the-world-needs-to-spend-more-time-focused-on-imitation-tickets-31647474448>
Join us for a discussion with Professor Bengt Holmstrom. He will be
answering the question “Is Innovation Overrated? – How the world needs to
spend more time focused on imitation”.
Begnt's bio:
Bengt Robert Holmström, born 1949 in Helsinki, Finland.
Bengt Robert Holmström is the Paul A. Samuelson Professor of Economics at
Massachusetts Institute of Technology, where he was head of the Economics
Department from 2003-2006. He holds a joint appointment with MIT’s Sloan
School of Management.
Holmström received his doctoral degree from Stanford University in 1978.
Before joining MIT in 1994, he was the Edwin J. Beinecke Professor of
Management at Yale University’s School of Management (1983-94) and
associate professor at the Kellogg Graduate School of Management at
Northwestern University (1979-82).
Holmström is a microeconomic theorist, best known for his research on the
theory of contracting and incentives especially as applied to the theory of
the firm, to corporate governance and to liquidity problems in financial
crises.
He was awarded the 2016 Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in
Memory of Alfred Nobel.
He is a member of the board of Aalto University (Finland) and the Finnish
Business and Policy Forum (EVA). He was a board member of the Nokia
Corporation 1999-2012.
*6. Delta series: dialogues empowering leaders toward action*
*When: *April 13th/ April 21st, 5:00 PM – 7:00 PM
*Where: *MIT Building 4-407
*Register*: e-mail deltaseries at mit.edu
The Office of Multicultural Programs and LGBT at MIT is excited present the
delta series: dialogues empowering leaders toward action. The series will
include conversations and activities that will focus on identity,
intergroup relations, issues of diversity and inclusion on campus and
community building. The first session will be held on April 13, 2017 in
4-407 and will focus on identity and intersectionality. It will be an open
and safe space for both undergraduate and graduate students to share and
learn more about themselves and each other. Please e-mail
deltaseries at mit.edu with any questions and to RSVP.
*7. [MITWGS] The Louis Kampf Writing Prize in Women's and Gender Studies*
*Deadline: *Friday, April 14th, 5:00PM
*Info:* link <https://wgs.mit.edu/kampf-prize/>
The $500 prize, sponsored by The Program in Women's and Gender Studies
(WGS), was started in 1995-96 to honor Louis Kampf, distinguished professor
emeritus of Literature and Women's Studies, and to reward high quality
undergraduate writing in women's and gender studies. The Prize is judged by
faculty from WGS. It also includes a luncheon in May with committee members
and a guest of your choosing.

*8. [MS&PC] Cooking Competition*
*9. MIT April 18: Day of Engagement, Day of Action*
*When:* Tuesday, April 18
*Where: *various
*Info*: link <http://dayofaction.mit.edu/>
On April 18, 2017, members of MIT and the broader local community will
pause our everyday activities and devote the day to engaging with the
political, economic, and social challenges facing us today. We intend this
day of action to be open to all, representing the full diversity of our
community. Please join us in making this a day where your voice is heard
and where you hear the voices of others. HOW?
A full list of proposed sessions and more information about this day
long event can be found at: http://dayofaction.mit.edu
- If you can join in for all or just part of the day, please sign the call
for participation, and disseminate widely! We will also be following up
with a more detailed participation form by Monday, April 3rd.
- If you would like to help with organizing or on the day of the event,
volunteer to help!
MIT April 18: Day of Engagement, Day of Action is open to all, and hopes to
represent the full diversity of our community. We are made stronger by
open, respectful dialogue and the exchange of ideas from the widest variety
of intellectual, religious, class, cultural, and political perspectives.
We look forward to seeing you on April 18!
*10. **Think Big: Identify Goals and Set Priorities for Success*
*When:* Wednesday, April 19, 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM
*Where: *MIT Building NE49-5000
*RSVP*: link
<https://www.eventbrite.com/e/think-big-identify-goals-and-set-priorities-for-success-registration-31296889840>
Presenter – Anna Robinson, M.A., WLCP®; Work-Life Projects Administrator,
MIT Work-Life Center
In this workshop, you will gain knowledge and insight to help you set goals
for success in work and life. You will have the opportunity to define and
explore the core values that motivate you. Working together with others,
you will start to prioritize and set goals for the next steps in your
successful and enriching career and life.
*11. Bernard M. Gordon—Lessons I've Learned As A Lifetime Engineering
Leader*
*When: *Friday, April 21st, 1:00 PM – 2:00 PM
*Where:* MIT Building 10-250
*Register:* link
<https://www.eventbrite.com/e/bernard-m-gordonlessons-ive-learned-as-a-lifetime-engineering-leader-tickets-32359576364>
Founder and Chairman Emeritus of the Board of Analogic Corporation, Bernard
M. Gordon is the Benefactor of the Gordon-MIT Engineering Leadership
Program.
Awarded the National Medal of Technology by President Reagan in 1986, Mr.
Gordon has represented the key creative and essential role of the engineer
in the development of new technology.
During his lecture, Bernie Gordon will share some of the valuable and
enduring lessons he's learned in his lifetime as an engineering leader.
*12. [MITWGS] What Does Black Lives Matter have to do with YOU?*
*When:* Saturday, April 22nd, 2:00 PM - 4:00 PM
*Where:* MIT Building W20 | Student Center
Please join the Black Student’s Union for this important conversation on
the Black Lives Matter movement. All are welcome and encouraged to join.
*13. **Developing Your Emotional Intelligence: Improving Personal and
Professional Relationships*
*When:* Tuesday, April 25, 5:00 PM - 7:00 PM
*Where:* MIT Building 46-3189
*Register:* link
<https://www.eventbrite.com/e/developing-your-emotional-intelligence-improving-personal-and-professional-relationships-registration-31289770546>
Presenter – Wendy Wollner, M.S., M.B.A.; Founder and CEO, Balancing Life’s
Issues
Dinner will be available beginning at 5:00 p.m. and the seminar
presentation will run from 5:30 - 7:00 p.m.
Emotional Intelligence (EQ) is one of the many kinds of intelligence we use
every day. One difference is that we can actually improve our EQ, which
research has shown can enhance our careers and relationships. Learn how
identifying, understanding, and actively using our own and others’ emotions
can help make or break interactions with others, professionally and
personally. This seminar provides skills, tools, and interactive exercises
to give you a sense of why self-awareness and awareness of others have huge
value in all areas of your life.
*14. [LBGTQ at MIT] Trans/GQ Employee Lunch *
*When:*  Friday, April 28th, 12:00PM - 1PM
*Where: *Please RSVP for the location
*RSVP*: contact Abigail Francis afran at mit.edu
LBGTQ at MIT is hosting another lunch date for trans/gender-queer/genderNC
faculty and staff.  So if you are an MIT staff or faculty member and also
identify as trans, gender-queer, gender-nonconforming, I’d love you to join
a small group out for lunch (4/28 at noon).
************** Outside MIT **************

*15. 11th annual  Cambridge Science Festival*
*When: *April 14 - 23
*Where*: 265 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge, MA 02139
*Info*: link <http://www.cambridgesciencefestival.org/>
The Cambridge Science Festival and its year-round initiative Science on the
Street aims to make science, technology, engineering, art, and mathematics
accessible to all and - most importantly - fun!
*16. New England Future Faculty Workshop at Northeastern University*
*Deadline:* May 26
*Register:* link
<http://www.northeastern.edu/advance/recruitment/future-faculty-workshop/>
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