[GWAMIT] GWAMIT Newsletter, May 29th, 2019

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*Newsletter, **May 29th, 2019*
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*Event overview:*

*GW at MIT:*

1. GW at MIT Summer Reads & Listens
2. Apply for the NE GWiSE Board (deadline May 31st)
3. Our Anti-Hazing and Non-Discrimination Statement


*WOMEN-RELATED EVENTS:*

4. Lester D. Gardner Lecture with guest Gwynne Shotwell President and COO,
SpaceX (May 29th)
5. Boston Women's Market/Spring Edition (June 1st)
6. Boston Pride Parade (June 8th)
7. Diversity Scholarships to MIT Technology Review EmTech Next (deadline
June 10th)
8. Graduate Peer Career Advisor Program Pilot (deadline June 14th)
9. Score 3 Foundation is seeking venture fellows (now!)
10. Graduate Assistant position open for the Margaret Cheney room (now!)
*Did you know about...?*

*The Women in STEM Database at MIT (WiSDM)*

   - The Women in STEM Database at MIT is an initiative designed to promote
   the visibility of women in our academic community.


   - WiSDM is a searchable online database of MIT women, making it easier
   to find talented speakers for talks, panels, news stories, and outreach
   events.


   - WiSDM is currently building its database, and includes MIT faculty,
   postdocs, research staff, and graduate students from all STEM fields.


   - Make your voice, your story, and your perspective a part of the
   conversation by joining WiSDM today!

*Contact: *ritur at mit.edu

*URL: *https://wisdm.mit.edu/
*GW at MIT event details*

*1. Introducing: GW at MIT Summer Reads & Listens*

Every newsletter this summer, we will provide suggestions for women-related
articles and podcasts. Topics will range from sexual harassment to
professional development to diversity, and more!

*This week's picks:*

*Podcast:* Harvard Business Review's Women at Work
<https://hbr.org/2018/01/podcast-women-at-work>. Season 1, Episodes 1&2

*Article: * "Science has to do better for its queer, trans and non-binary
scientists
<https://massivesci.com/articles/trans-visibility-science-queer-lgtbqia-transgender-inclusion/>"
by Lila Leatherman

If you have a suggestion for a podcast or article, please contact us here
<mfunkenb at mit.edu?subject=GW%40MIT%20Summer%20Reads%20%26%20Listens%20Suggestion>
.

*2. Apply for the NE GWiSE Board*

*Deadline:* Friday, May 31st at 5PM

*New England Graduate Women in Science & Engineering (NE GWiSE): Get
involved by joining the board or becoming an officer now!*


Description of exec board positions and officers here
<https://docs.google.com/document/d/1vZpTmAgNrLCKcn2dk7JML3M7uWyDRJEKVRyoVO_3oU0/edit?usp=sharing>
!
*Exec Board Application form: *https://bit.ly/negwise-apply
*Officer Signup form: *https://bit.ly/2HGvWFu
*Check out our website: *https://negwise.wordpress.com/
*Contact us if you have any questions at *new.england.gwise at gmail.com* or
talk to your school’s rep at mbird at mit.edu!*

*W**ho we are: *NE GWiSE is an alliance between groups of graduate women in
STEM from universities across New England (BC, BU, Brandeis, Brown,
Dartmouth, Harvard, MIT, NEU, and Tufts). We are joining together to
support and celebrate women-identified graduate students in STEM fields, to
increase awareness of the issues we face, and create change within our
community.

*What we do: *
Four main purposes:

   1. Advocate across schools to improve the graduate experience,
   particularly for women students
   2. Host large professional development events with speakers and students
   from multiple universities
   3. Help graduate women's groups form and thrive at universities across
   the New England area
   4. Host oureach activities to connect young women, particularly from
   underrepresented backgrounds, with current graduate women to encourage them
   to pursue graduate school

Two main events:

   1. *Summer Retreat (August):* all day event which brings the
   constituents of the NE GWiSE together to network, meet new members, and
   socialize around a central topic.
   2. *Spring to Action (March/April):* all day summit where local schools
   discusses issues present in academia and STEM fields. At the summit,
   attendees and invited speakers dissect the issues and devise tangile plans
   to advocate for systemic change within research institutions.

This past year we *focused on power **dynamics, confident mentalities, and
healthy mentor-mentee relationships *as the theme tying together our two
main events.

*Ways to get involved: *

   1. Join our email list and attend our events. Email us at
   new.england.gwise at gmail.com to be added
   2. Join the NE GWiSE Committee as an officer to help us plan our annual
   events (August Retreat and March/April Spring to
   Action) and/or smaller events throughout the year. Signup through
the officer
   form <https://bit.ly/2HGvWFu>!
   3. Join the executive board! We meet monthly. Role descriptions can be
   found here
   <https://docs.google.com/document/d/1vZpTmAgNrLCKcn2dk7JML3M7uWyDRJEKVRyoVO_3oU0/edit?usp=sharing>
   and you can apply here <https://forms.gle/5LypTasKkDn35mxW6>!


   - We’re still taking nominations for Co-Chair (called “president” for
   some groups) - if you’re interested, fill out this application
   <https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSeoUwd4c-7g80EWFa7ezOBfRnNfj4a7QvoEDkPRNzfjopY8TQ/viewform?usp=sf_link>
(different
   from what’s above) and we’ll reach out to you. If you’re also interested in
   other roles, please  fill out the board application as well.

*3. Anti-hazing and anti-discrimination statement*

GW at MIT takes anti-hazing and non-discrimination policies very seriously.
Please see the text of these policies at the end of the newsletter.
*Women-Related event details*

*4. Lester D. Gardner Lecture with guest Gwynne Shotwell, President and
COO, SpaceX*

*Where:* Huntington Hall (10-250)
*When:* May 29th, 3-4PM



The Department of Aeronautics & Astronautics is pleased to announce that
Gwynne Shotwell, President and COO of SpaceX, will present the 2019 Lester
D. Gardner Lecture.

Lester D. Gardner Lectures are made possible by a bequest of the late Major
Lester D. Gardner to sponsor presentations on aeronautical history.

Major Gardner was a member of MIT's Class of 1898.  As president of the
Gardner Publishing Co., Major Gardner published the magazine Aviation and
Aeronautical Engineering, the predecessor of Aviation Week, for more than
10 years.  He was a founder of the Institute of Aeronautical Sciences and
its chief executive for four years.  An air officer in World War I, Major
Gardner was the recipient of numerous aeronautical awards, including the
Daniel Guggenheim Medal.

*5. Boston Women's Market/Spring Edition*

*When:* Saturday, June 1st 10:30 - 3:30
*Details: *here <https://www.facebook.com/events/2257470760984104/>


*6. Boston Pride Parade* *When:* Saturday, June 8th, noon
*Details: *here <http://www.bostonpride.org/parade/>
*7. Diversity Scholarships to MIT Technology Review EmTech Next*

*Deadline:* June 10th
*Apply:* here <https://events.technologyreview.com/emtech/next/19/>for a
complimentary pass with promo code DIVSCHOLARN19
*Where: *MIT Media Lab, Cambridge, MA
*When: *June 11&12

*Event Information: *
MIT Technology Review’s EmTech conference series brings our coverage of the
latest emerging technologies to stage. Our second annual EmTech Next will
focus on how AI and robotics are rapidly changing the landscape of many
industries, from manufacturing to medicine to retail. EmTech Next will
examine how emerging technologies like AI, robotics, and advanced
manufacturing have and will continue to affect the future of work. The
program will explore such topics as: AI and its impact on businesses,
advances in human-robot collaboration, leadership in the era of constant
reinvention and jobs of the future, to name a few.

*Speakers include: *
*David Autor, Ford Professor of Economics, MIT*
*How Superstar Tech Companies Can Hinder Economic Growth *
*Philippe Beaudoin, Cofounder and Research Group SVP, Element AI*
*Canada’s AI Ecosystem  *
*Jit Kee Chin, Chief Data Officer and Executive Vice President, Suffolk*
*Building Smarter: The Construction Industry’s Transformation *
*Mary Gray, Senior Researcher, Microsoft Research*
*Ghost Work and the Future of Employment *
*Charles Isbell, Executive Associate Dean and Professor, Georgia Tech*
*Equity in Computing *
*Thomas Malone, Founding Director, MIT Center for Collective Intelligence *
*Superminds: The Power of People and Computers Thinking Together*
*Shelley Peterson, Head of Emerging Technologies, Lockheed Martin*
*Building Spacecrafts with AR *
*Andrea Thomaz, CEO and Cofounder, Diligent Robotics*
*Robot Assistants for Everyday Humans Transforming the Meaning of Work *

*8. Graduate Peer Career Advisor Program Pilot*

*Apply: *here <https://forms.gle/wYr3NzKZ7fs8U6qz7>
*Deadline:* June 14th

The Graduate Peer Career Advisor Program Pilot is looking for two graduate
students to help provide career support next year as Graduate Peer Career
Advisors (GPCAs). The GPCAs assist MIT students during individual career
appointments and advise on topics such as resumes, CVs, and cover letters.
GPCAs have the opportunity to receive training in career and professional
development topics and strengthen their own communication and interpersonal
skills, while serving as career ambassadors to other MIT students.
*9. Score 3 Foundation is Seeking Venture Fellows *

*Apply: *here <https://www.s3angels.org/score_3_fellows>


The Score 3 Venture Fellowship is an immersive experience offering Women,
People of Color and LGBTQ people access to participate in the work of an
angel group or venture firm.

We're looking for Women, People of Color, or LGBTQ People to take part in
our Venture Fellowship. As Fellows they'll work on real deals in a
volunteer, immersive experience within a real angel group. Everyone wins in
this partnership!

Score 3 seeks to break down barriers that exist in the VC/PE industries,
and we're excited to include select organizations like yours in our efforts.
*10. Graduate Assistant Position open for the Margaret Cheney Room*

*To apply: *email your resume to Dr. Leah Flynn Gallant (laflynn at mit.edu)

The Student Activities Office is currently looking for a Graduate Assistant
to provide oversight for the Margaret Cheney Room and women’s programming
that happens within and outside the space.


*GW at MIT takes the following anti-hazing and non-discrimination policies
very seriously.*

*Text of Anti-Hazing Law:*

Section 17. Hazing; organizing or participating; hazing defined: Whoever is
a principal organizer or participant in the crime of hazing, as defined
herein, shall be punished by a fine of not more than three thousand dollars
or by imprisonment in a house of correction for not more than one year, or
both such fine and imprisonment.

The term hazing as used in this section and in sections eighteen and
nineteen, shall mean any conduct or method of initiation into any student
organization, whether on public or private property, which willfully or
recklessly endangers the physical or mental health of any student or other
person. Such conduct shall include whipping, beating, branding, forced
calisthenics, exposure to the weather, forced consumption of any food,
liquor, beverage, drug or other substance, or any other brutal treatment or
forced physical activity which is likely to adversely affect the physical
health or safety of any such student or other person, or which subjects
such student or other person to extreme mental stress, including extended
deprivation of sleep or rest or extended isolation.

Notwithstanding any other provisions of this section to the contrary,
consent shall not be available as a defense to any prosecution under this
action.

Section 18. Failure to report hazing: Whoever knows that another person is
the victim of hazing as defined in section seventeen and is at the scene of
such crime shall, to the extent that such person can do so without danger
or peril to himself or others, report such crime to an appropriate law
enforcement official as soon as reasonably practicable. Whoever fails to
report such crime shall be punished by a fine of not more than one thousand
dollars.

Section 19. Copy of Secs. 17 to 19; issuance to students and student
groups, teams and organizations; report: Each institution of secondary
education and each public and private institution of post secondary
education shall issue to every student group, student team or student
organization which is part of such institution or is recognized by the
institution or permitted by the institution to use its name or facilities
or is known by the institution to exist as an unaffiliated student group,
student team or student organization, a copy of this section and sections
seventeen and eighteen; provided, however, that an institution's compliance
with this section's requirements that an institution issue copies of this
section and sections seventeen and eighteen to unaffiliated student groups,
teams or organizations shall not constitute evidence of the institution's
recognition or endorsement of said unaffiliated student groups, teams or
organizations.

Each such group, team or organization shall distribute a copy of this
section and sections seventeen and eighteen to each of its members, plebes,
pledges or applicants for membership. It shall be the duty of each such
group, team or organization, acting through its designated officer, to
deliver annually, to the institution [in MIT's case the Office of Student
Life Programs (with exception of varsity teams and club sports, who will
deliver attested acknowledgements to the Department of Athletics, Physical
Education and Recreation)] an attested acknowledgement stating that such
group, team or organization has received a copy of this section and said
sections seventeen and eighteen, that each of its members, plebes, pledges,
or applicants has received a copy of sections seventeen and eighteen, and
that such group, team or organization understands and agrees to comply with
the provisions of this section and sections seventeen and eighteen.

Each institution of secondary education and each public or private
institution of post secondary education shall, at least annually, before or
at the start of enrollment, deliver to each person who enrolls as a full
time student in such institution a copy of this section and sections
seventeen and eighteen.

Each institution of secondary education and each public or private
institution of post secondary education shall file, at least annually, a
report with the board of higher education and in the case of secondary
institutions, the board of education, certifying that such institution has
complied with its responsibility to inform student groups, teams or
organizations and to notify each full time student enrolled by it of the
provisions of this section and sections seventeen and eighteen and also
certifying that said institution has adopted a disciplinary policy with
regard to the organizers and participants of hazing, and that such policy
has been set forth with appropriate emphasis in the student handbook or
similar means of communicating the institution's policies to its students.
The board of higher education and, in the case of secondary institutions,
the board of education shall promulgate regulations governing the content
and frequency of such reports, and shall forthwith report to the attorney
general any such institution which fails to make such report.

*Text of Non-Discrimination Policy:*

The Massachusetts Institute of Technology is committed to the principle of
equal opportunity in education and employment. The Institute 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 in the
administration of its educational policies, admissions policies, employment
policies, scholarship and loan programs, and other Institute administered
programs and activities, but may favor US citizens or residents in
admissions and financial aid.


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