<font face="arial, sans-serif"><span style="border-collapse: collapse;">Dear </span><span style="border-collapse: collapse; font-size: 13px;">GWAMIT</span><span style="border-collapse: collapse;"> Members,</span><br>
<div><div style="border-collapse: collapse; font-size: 13px;"><br>Would you like to be on the 2011 Fall Leadership Conference Planning Committee? Details below<br><br>Enjoy the week!<br><br><b>The <span>GWAMIT</span> Board</b><br>
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</span><div style="border-collapse: collapse; font-size: 13px;"><br><b>========<br>IN BRIEF<br>======== </b><br><br><b><span>GWAMIT</span>:</b><br>1. Join the GWAMIT Fall 2011 Leadership Conference Planning Committee (Wed. Apr 13, 5:00-6:30p) </div>
<div style="border-collapse: collapse; font-size: 13px;">2. <span>GWAMIT</span> is accepting Applications for Bloggers (Deadline Fri. Apr. 15)<br><br><b>MIT Events:</b></div><div style="border-collapse: collapse; font-size: 13px;">
3. D.W. Weeks Lecture: "Interplay of Combinatorics and Topology through Posets" (Mon. Apr 4, 5:30p)</div><div style="border-collapse: collapse; font-size: 13px;"><div>4. AMITA: Sustainable and Disaster Resilient Communities (Thurs. Apr. 14, 6:30-9p)<br>
</div><div><b><br></b></div><div><b><br></b></div><b></b></div><div style="border-collapse: collapse; font-size: 13px;"><b>MIT Opportunities: </b></div><div style="border-collapse: collapse; font-size: 13px;">5. Donate shirts to the MIT Clothesline Project (Apr. 11)</div>
<div style="border-collapse: collapse; font-size: 13px;">6. Help Incoming Graduate Women - Healthy Eating Guide (Deadline April 16)<br><br></div><div style="border-collapse: collapse; font-size: 13px;"><b>Outside MIT:</b><br>
</div><div style="border-collapse: collapse; font-size: 13px;">7. [HGWISE] Networking Etiquette Workshop (Wed. Apr 6, 3-5p)<br>
8. [HGWISE] Longwood Coffee Hour with Nathalie Agar, PhD (Tue. Apr 12, 4-5p)</div><div style="border-collapse: collapse; font-size: 13px;">9. A Conversation with Maria Klawe, Microsoft Board Member & President, Harvey Mudd College (Thurs. Apr 7, 3-4p)</div>
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1. Join the GWAMIT Fall 2011 Leadership Conference Planning Committee (Wed. Apr 13, 5:00-6:30p) </div><div>When<span style="font-weight: normal;">: Wednesday, April 13, 5:00-6:30pm</span></div><div>
Where<span style="font-weight: normal;">: Stata Cafe</span></div><div><span style="border-collapse: collapse; font-size: 13px;"><b><span style="font-size: small; border-collapse: separate;"><div>
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</span></b></span></div></span></b>Were you impressed with our Fall 2010 Leadership Conference and Spring 2011 Empowerment Conference?</span></div></span></b></span></div></span></b><span style="font-weight: normal;">Do you want to get more involved with GWAMIT?</span><br>
<span style="font-weight: normal;">Do you want more leadership experience to further your personal/professional development?</span></span></div><div style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="border-collapse: collapse; font-size: 13px;">Do you want to work with strong, motivated, and passionate women?<br>
Do you have an idea for a talk/panel/workshop?<br><br>If yes, you should definitely join our Fall 2011 Leadership Conference Planning Committee. Help us bring innovative, provocative, and informative events to campus!<br>
<br><br></span></div></span>2. <span>GWAMIT</span> is accepting Applications for Bloggers</b><b> (Deadline Fri. Apr. 15) </b><br><b>Apply</b>: g<a href="mailto:wamit_exec@mit.edu" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 204);" target="_blank">wamit_exec@mit.edu</a> by Friday, April 15<br>
<b>Blog</b>: <a href="http://gwamit.blogspot.com/" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 204);" target="_blank">http://<span>gwamit</span>.blogspot.com/</a></div><div style="border-collapse: collapse; font-size: 13px;"><a href="http://gwamit.blogspot.com/" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 204);" target="_blank"></a><br>
As you've noticed, we have been working hard to increase our online presence. We're looking for a few members to be bloggers for <span>GWAMIT</span> and write about events, articles, and experiences of interest to the <span>GWAMIT</span> community. To apply, submit a statement of interest and 1-3 samples of blog posts to <a href="mailto:gwamit-exec@mit.edu" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 204);" target="_blank"><span>gwamit</span>-exec@mit.edu</a> <br>
<br><br><b>********MIT Events********</b><br><br></div><div style="border-collapse: collapse; font-size: 13px;"><b>3. D.W. Weeks Lecture: "Interplay of Combinatorics and Topology through Posets" (Mon. Apr 4, 5:30p)</b></div>
<div style="border-collapse: collapse; font-size: 13px;"><b>When:</b> Monday, April 4, 5:30pm</div><div style="border-collapse: collapse; font-size: 13px;"><b>Where:</b> 2-139</div><div style="border-collapse: collapse; font-size: 13px;">
<span style="font-size: small;"><b>Speaker: </b> Patricia Hersh (North Carolina State University)</span></div><div><div><span style="border-collapse: collapse;"><br></span></div>
<div><span style="border-collapse: collapse;">This talk will focus on how partially ordered sets help record topological structure, including mentioning some limitations in how much they can capture. I will briefly discuss my work on discrete Morse theory for order complexes of partially ordered sets and how this has been used, e.g. to count by inclusion-exclusion. Then, I'll turn things around and discuss more recent work on how topological structure of a stratified space can sometimes be gleaned from combinatorics of its closure poset, combined with codimension one topology. This is used to show that certain stratified spaces arising from combinatorial representation theory are regular CW complexes homeomorphic to balls.</span></div>
</div><div style="border-collapse: collapse; font-size: 13px;"><div><div><b><br></b></div><div><b><br></b></div><div><b>4. AMITA: Sustainable and Disaster Resilient Communities (Thurs. Apr. 14, 6:30-9p)</b><br></div><div>
<b>When</b>: Thursday, April 14, 6:30-9pm</div><div><b>Where</b>: MIT Bush Room, 10-105</div><div><b>Registration</b>: <span style="border-collapse: collapse; font-family: arial,sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"><a href="https://alum.mit.edu/smarTrans/register-login.vm?eventID=52821&groupID=182" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 204);" target="_blank">https://alum.mit.edu/smarTrans/register-login.vm?eventID=52821&groupID=182</a></span><span style="border-collapse: collapse; font-family: arial,sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">; </span>Online registration ends April 12 at noon; $5 extra for walk-ins.</div>
<div><br></div><div><div>President Obama directs the country towards growth through innovation, specifically focusing on the opportunities of the "green economy," and many large companies, from WalMart to GE, publicize their "green" products and services. What does sustainability mean for communities, many of which are struggling to pay their bills during the recent economic downturn?</div>
<div><br></div><div>Dr. Sarah Slaughter '82 will discuss strategies for sustainability for communities that offer the opportunity to transform individuals, markets, organizations, communities and regions. Sustainability is the dynamic balance of social justice, economic opportunity, and environmental regeneration, which together establish the quality of life and harmony between the built and natural environments. Disaster-resiliency is the ability of the community to recover quickly and effectively from extreme events, including natural and manmade disasters. New approaches can combine the promise of sustainability with the urgency of disaster-resiliency to improve the viability and durability of communities.</div>
<div><br></div><div>Dr. Slaughter is currently the Associate Director for Buildings and Infrastructure in the MIT Energy Initiative. Her research focuses on innovations in the built environment, specifically focused on sustainability and disaster-resiliency.</div>
<div><br></div><div>A light dinner will be served. Plenty of time for networking too! </div></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><b>**********MIT Opportunities**********</b><br></div><div><b><br></b></div></div><div>
<b><span style="border-collapse: collapse; font-family: arial,sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: small; border-collapse: separate;">5. Donate shirts to the MIT Clothesline Project (Apr. 11)</span></span></b></div>
<div><font face="arial, sans-serif"><span style="border-collapse: collapse;"><b>Drop off</b>: E23-205</span></font></div><div><font face="arial, sans-serif"><span style="border-collapse: collapse;"><b>Contact:</b> Kelley <a href="mailto:adam@med.mit.edu" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 204);" target="_blank">adam@med.mit.edu</a></span></font></div>
<div><font face="arial, sans-serif"><span style="border-collapse: collapse;"><b>More info:</b> </span></font><span style="border-collapse: collapse; font-family: arial,sans-serif;"><a href="http://www.clotheslineproject.org/" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 204);" target="_blank">http://www.clotheslineproject.org</a></span></div>
<div><font face="arial, sans-serif"><span style="border-collapse: collapse;"><br></span></font></div><div><font face="arial, sans-serif"><span style="border-collapse: collapse;">Please donate your gently used shirts to the MIT Clothesline Project. We are looking for plain shirts of any color without any text of logos. </span></font></div>
<div><font face="arial, sans-serif"><span style="border-collapse: collapse;"><div><br></div><div>The MIT Clothesline Project will be on display during Sexual Assault Awareness Week 2011 (April 11-15). The MIT Clothesline Project (<a href="http://www.clotheslineproject.org/" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 204);" target="_blank">http://www.clotheslineproject.org</a>) is a visual display of shirts decorated by MIT community members to show how sexual violence has touched their lives, either through direct or secondhand experiences. It's a nice visual representation both of something that happens here but is not often talked about, as well as a show of support for survivors here.</div>
</span></font></div><div><font face="arial, sans-serif"><span style="border-collapse: collapse;"><br></span></font></div><div><font><font face="arial, sans-serif"><b>6. Help Incoming Graduate Women - Healthy Eating Guide (Deadline April 16)<br>
Deadline: </b>Friday, April 16<br><b>Submit to:</b> Audra Bowcutt </font></font><font face="arial, sans-serif"><font><font face="arial, sans-serif"><a href="mailto:abowcutt@mit.edu">abowcutt@mit.edu</a></font></font></font><br>
<br><font><font face="arial, sans-serif">Are you interested in creating a legacy at MIT? Do you want to help incoming MIT Graduate Women have a positive and successful experience?<br><br>What opportunity is available? Dean Staton, MIT ODGE , and MIT health advisors are working to create a Healthy Eating Guide For MIT Graduate Women By Graduate Women. The vision is to create a guide filled with healthy recipes from experienced female MIT-students, in addition to a listing of all the MIT and Boston area support options, with the hope that our new MIT graduate women will be able to better manage their first semesters at school, maintain a healthy lifestyle, and feel a stronger connection to the MIT community. Once we have compiled and published the Healthy Eating Guide, the ODGE would like to provide one copy to each incoming graduate women for years to come.<br>
<br>What can you do? For this vision to become a reality, we are looking for MIT graduate women representatives like you to submit your favorite healthy recipes to get the guide underway. Each healthy recipe will be cited to include the submitter’s name, course, and graduation year, so each healthy recipe submission will become an attributed legacy gift. Your recipe submission(s) should include the ingredients, cooking materials required (i.e. pots, measuring cup, etc.), approximate number of servings, instructions, and a picture if available. Deadline for your submission is April 16th. Submit your recipe(s) to Audra Bowcutt at <a href="mailto:abowcutt@mit.edu">abowcutt@mit.edu</a>.<br>
<br>Respondent Prize: The first 15 students to submit a recipe will receive a monetary prize from the ODGE office!<br><br></font></font></div><div><b>**********Outside MIT**********<br><br></b></div></div></div></div><div style="border-collapse: collapse; font-size: 13px;">
<b>7. [Harvard] Networking Etiquette Workshop (Wed. Apr 6, 3-5p)</b></div>
<div style="border-collapse: collapse; font-size: 13px;"><b>When:</b> Wednesday, April 6, 3-5pm</div><div style="border-collapse: collapse; font-size: 13px;"><b>Where:</b> Dudley House Common Room</div><div style="border-collapse: collapse; font-size: 13px;">
<br></div><div style="border-collapse: collapse; font-size: 13px;">We all know networking is important, but what does it really mean in practice? GSAS Dean Margot Gill and Amy Sanford from OCS will help demystify networking and review critical skills for success as well as share their own personal effective techniques. This interactive workshop will include activities to practice these skills in a relaxed, fun environment. Bring your questions about networking and come develop your schmoozing skills!</div>
<div style="border-collapse: collapse; font-size: 13px;"><br></div><div style="border-collapse: collapse; font-size: 13px;">Brought to you by HGWISE and OCS.</div><div style="border-collapse: collapse; font-size: 13px;">
<br></div><div style="border-collapse: collapse; font-size: 13px;"><b>8. [HGWISE] Longwood Coffee Hour with Nathalie Agar, PhD (Tue. Apr 12, 4-5p)</b></div><div style="border-collapse: collapse; font-size: 13px;"><b>When: </b>Tuesday, April 12, 4-5pm</div>
<div style="border-collapse: collapse; font-size: 13px;"><b>Where: </b>Vanderbilt, JBM Lounge, Harvard</div><div style="border-collapse: collapse; font-size: 13px;"><b><br></b></div><div style="border-collapse: collapse; font-size: 13px;">
<b><span style="font-weight: normal;">Come take a break from lab, enjoy some yummy treats, and hear Nathalie Agar PhD</span><span style="font-weight: normal;"><br></span><span style="font-weight: normal;">talk about her interesting career path as a female scientist. Dr. Agar is a</span><span style="font-weight: normal;"><br>
</span><span style="font-weight: normal;">young, energetic, recently appointed faculty member in the Department of</span><span style="font-weight: normal;"><br></span><span style="font-weight: normal;">Neurosurgery at BWH. In addition to developing technology to analyze brain</span><span style="font-weight: normal;"><br>
</span><span style="font-weight: normal;">tumors during surgery, Nathalie is a mother of four, devoted wife, mentor, and</span><span style="font-weight: normal;"><br></span><span style="font-weight: normal;">long-distance runner. Come to coffee hour from 4-5pm on April 12th to learn</span><span style="font-weight: normal;"><br>
</span><span style="font-weight: normal;">how she does it all!</span><span style="font-weight: normal;"><br></span><span style="font-weight: normal;"><br>
</span><span style="font-weight: normal;">Sponsored by BGSO</span></b></div><div style="border-collapse: collapse; font-size: 13px;"><b><span style="font-weight: normal;"><br>
</span></b></div><div style="border-collapse: collapse; font-size: 13px;"><b>9. A Conversation with Maria Klawe, Microsoft Board Member & President, Harvey Mudd College (Thurs. Apr 7, 3-4p)</b></div><div style="border-collapse: collapse; font-size: 13px;">
<b>When: <span style="font-weight: normal;">Thursday, April 7, 3-4pm</span><br>Where: <span style="font-weight: normal;">Microsoft NERD, 1 Memorial Drive, Cambridge, MA</span></b></div>
<div><span style="border-collapse: collapse;"><b>Registration Link:</b> <a href="http://mariaklaweatnerd.eventbrite.com/" target="_blank">http://mariaklaweatnerd.eventbrite.com/</a> (Cost: Free)</span></div><div>
<span style="border-collapse: collapse;"><br></span></div><div><div><span style="border-collapse: collapse;">As part of Microsoft's ongoing commitment to support women in technology, please join Microsoft board member and president, Harvey Mudd College, Maria Klawe in a special discussion for female undergraduate and graduate students studying science, technology, engieering and/or math (STEM).</span></div>
<div><span style="border-collapse: collapse;"><br></span></div><div><span style="border-collapse: collapse;">With one of Klawe’s lifelong passions to increase the participation of women and other under-represented groups in STEM, Klawe's will share her career path, some of the challenges and opportunities for women in STEM and advice for success.</span></div>
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