<span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-size:13px;font-family:arial,sans-serif"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">Dear GWAMIT Members,</font></span><p class="MsoNormal" style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">
<font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" style><br></font></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">Did you enjoy the GWAMIT Fall Leadership Conference? Check out how to join the committee for our next conference in the announcements below!</p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" style><br></font></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">
<font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" style>Enjoy the week,<br></font></p><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-size:13px"><br>
</font><div style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" style><font><b>The GWAMIT Board<br></b>Send your ideas to: <a href="mailto:gwamit-exec@mit.edu" style="color:rgb(17,85,204)" target="_blank">gwamit-exec@mit.edu</a><br>
Send your <span>announcements</span> to: <a href="mailto:gwamit-sec@mit.edu" style="color:rgb(17,85,204)" target="_blank">gwamit-sec@mit.edu</a><br>Visit us: <a href="http://gwamit.org/" style="color:rgb(17,85,204)" target="_blank">http://gwamit.org</a><br>
<br><b>========<br> IN BRIEF<br>========<br></b></font><b><br></b></font></div><div style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><b style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">GWAMIT:</b></div>
<div style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">1. Join the Empowerment Conference Committee! (Info Session Mon. Nov. 19, 4:30-5:30pm)</div><div style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">
<b style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><br></b></div><div style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><b><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" style>MIT:</font></b></div>
<div style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><span style>2. Career Paths in Academia: A Seminar and Discussion (Tues. Nov. 13, 1-2pm)</span></div><div style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">
<span style>3. [WGS] Making (up) an Archive: Women's History in a Digital Mode (Tues. Nov. 13, 4pm)</span></div><div style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">
4. LBGT Issues Group (Tues. Nov. 13, 5pm)</div><div style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><span style="font-family:Helvetica">5. [AMITA] Financing for Start-Ups Panel Discussion and Networking Reception (Tues. Nov. 13, 6:30-9pm)</span></div>
<div style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><span style>6. [GECD] Now, Discover Your Strengths (Wed. Nov. 14, 4-5:30pm)</span></div><div style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">
<span style>7. [WGS] GLOW Book Reading (Wed. Nov. 14, 7pm)</span></div><div style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">8. [SWIM] Boston Women Speed Networking Event (Mon. Nov. 19, 7-8pm)</div>
<div style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><b><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" style><br></font></b></div><div style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">
<b><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" style>Outside MIT:</font></b></div><div style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">9. [Harvard Biotech Club] Smooth Transitions: The Top 10 Questions Scientists Ask About Finding an Industry Job (Tues. Nov. 13, 5-6pm)</div>
<div style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">10. [MASS-AWIS] Get out of Town: Strategies to Facilitate Professional Travel for Women (Tues. Nov. 27, 6-8pm)</div><div><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-size:13px;font-family:arial,sans-serif"><br>
</font><div style="color:rgb(34,34,34)"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-size:13px;font-family:arial,sans-serif">To see more events beyond this week's digest visit <a href="http://bit.ly/gwamitevents" style="color:rgb(17,85,204)" target="_blank">http://bit.ly/gwamitevents</a> and <a href="http://bit.ly/gwamitinterest" style="color:rgb(17,85,204)" target="_blank">http://bit.ly/gwamitinterest</a><br>
<br><b>====================<br>FULL <span>ANNOUNCEMENTS</span><br>====================</b> <br><b><br></b></font><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size:13px;font-family:arial,sans-serif"><b><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" style>**********GWAMIT**********</font></b></p>
<div style="font-size:13px;font-family:arial,sans-serif"><span style><br><b>1. Join the Empowerment Conference Committee! (Info Session Mon. Nov. 19, 4:30-5:30pm)</b></span></div><div style="font-size:13px;font-family:arial,sans-serif">
<span style><b>When:</b> Information Session Monday, November 19, 4:30-5:30pm</span></div><div style="font-size:13px;font-family:arial,sans-serif"><b>Where:</b> Stata Center Cafeteria</div>
<div><b style="font-size:13px;font-family:arial,sans-serif">RSVP:</b><font face="arial, sans-serif" style="font-size:13px"> </font><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><a href="http://goo.gl/J4HbE" style="color:rgb(17,85,204)" target="_blank">http://goo.gl/J4HbE</a><span style> </span></font></div>
<div><span style><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><br></font></span></div><div><div style><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">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. </font></div>
<div style><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><br></font></div><div style><div><p class="MsoNormal"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">Perks – opportunities to connect with top-notch speakers, develop leadership skills, and meet awesome grad women across MIT. </font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><br></font></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">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! </font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><br></font></p><p class="MsoNormal"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">RSVP for the info session and get added to the mailing list here: <a href="http://goo.gl/J4HbE" style="color:rgb(17,85,204)" target="_blank">http://goo.gl/J4HbE</a> </font></p>
</div></div></div></div><div><div style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><span style><br><br></span></div><p class="MsoNormal" style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">
<b><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" style>**********MIT**********</font></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><b style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><br>
</b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><b style>2. Career Paths in Academia: A Seminar and Discussion (Tues. Nov. 13, 1-2pm)</b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><b style>When: </b><span style>Tuesday, November 13, 1-2pm</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><span style><b>Where:</b> 4-163</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-size:13px;font-family:arial,sans-serif"><b>RSVP:</b> </span><font color="#222222" face="arial, sans-serif"><a href="http://bit.ly/Uif2L9" target="_blank">http://bit.ly/Uif2L9</a></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><br></p><p class="MsoNormal"></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;color:rgb(34,34,34)"><span style="line-height:18px"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">In this seminar, Prof. Dresselhaus will explore questions related to career paths in academia, such as: What are career paths in academia like? How have they changed from past to present? What future trends can we identify? Prof. Dresselhaus will also share experiences from her own career and answer questions from the audience.</font></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;color:rgb(34,34,34)"><span style="line-height:18px"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"> </font></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;color:rgb(34,34,34)">
<b><span style="line-height:18px"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">About the speaker:</font></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;color:rgb(34,34,34)"><span style="line-height:18px"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">Professor Mildred Dresselhaus is a native of the Bronx, and attended New York City public schools through junior high school, and Hunter College High School. She began her independent career in 1960 as a member of the research staff at the MIT Lincoln Laboratory after her PhD at the University of Chicago (1958) and a two-year postdoc at Cornell University. During that time she switched from research on superconductivity to magneto-optics, and carried out a series of experiments which led to a fundamental understanding of the electronic structure of semi-metals, especially graphite. This led to her appointment as an MIT faculty member and eventually to appointment as an Institute Professor in the departments of Physics and Electrical Engineering. She served as the Director of the Office of Science at the US Department of Energy in 2000-01, and has been an officer in many national organizations in physics, engineering, and related areas. Honors and awards include 28 honorary doctorates worldwide. Other honors include the National Medal of Science, the Nicholson Medal for Humanitarian Service, the Compton Award, the Fermi Prize, and the Kavli Prize.</font></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;color:rgb(34,34,34)"><span style="line-height:18px"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"> </font></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;color:rgb(34,34,34)">
<span style="line-height:18px"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">Professor Dresselhaus’s research over the years has covered a wide range of topics in condensed matter and materials physics. She is best known for her work on carbon science and carbon nanostructures, as well as nanoscience and nanotechnology more generally. She is also one of the researchers responsible for the resurgence of the thermoelectrics research field through her early work on low-dimensional thermoelectricity in the early 1990s. She co-chaired a Department of Energy study on “Basic Research Needs for the Hydrogen Economy” in 2003 and more recently co-chaired the National Academy Decadal Study of Condensed Matter and Materials Physics. She has co-authored more than 1400 publications including books, book chapters, invited review articles, and peer-reviewed journal articles. She is co-inventor on five US patents. Dr. Dresselhaus remains involved in activities that promote the increased participation of women in science and engineering. She is an enthusiastic chamber music player where she plays violin and viola, and enjoys spending time with her husband, four children, and five grandchildren.</font></span></p>
<p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><b style><br></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">
<b style><br></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><b style>3. [WGS] Making (up) an Archive: Women's History in a Digital Mode (Tues. Nov. 13, 4pm)</b></p>
<div style="word-wrap:break-word"><div style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt"><div style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><span style><b>When:</b> Tuesday, November 13, 4pm</span></div>
<div style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><span style><b>Where:</b> 3-133</span></div><div style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">
<span style><b>Speaker:</b> Professor Afsaneh Najmabadi</span></div><div style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><span style><br>
</span></div><div style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><span style>Recent developments in digital humanities pose anew the challenge of sources, concepts, and possibilities for doing gender and women’s history for periods and places that had until recently seemed difficult to research. This talk will probe issues raised by the WWQI digital archive project.</span><div>
<span style><br></span></div><div><span style>Women's Worlds in Quajar Iran (WWQI) is a digital resource that preserves, links and renders accessible primary-source materials related to the social and cultural history of women's worlds in Qajar Iran. Through the use of technology it brings together little know archives scattered across the world. Given the dearth of available primary-source materials related to women in the Qajar era, it is not surprising that, to date, the vast majority of Qajar social histories have focused almost exclusively on the struggles, achievements, and day-to-day realities of the men of that period. This is in part a matter of expediency; while men's writing have been easily accessible in various national archives for decades (and many have in more recent years been published in edited volumes), most women's writings, photographs, and other personal papers have to date remained sequestered in private family hands.</span></div>
<div><p><span style>WWQI aims to open up the documented social and cultural histories of Qajar women, thus allowing for the examinations of broader patterns of life during this era. Our collection has paid specific attention to materials that will illuminate women's relations to each other and to family members of various generations, their roles in life cycle rituals, their perceptions of women outside Iran (the Ottoman Empire, South Asia, and Europe, in particular), and the interconnections that women's activities, networks, and allegiances wove between various ethnic and religious communities. </span></p>
</div></div><div style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><span style><br><b>4. LBGT Issues Group (Tues. Nov. 13, 5pm)</b></span></div><div style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">
<span style><b>When:</b> Tuesday, November 13, 5pm</span></div><div style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><span style><b>Where:</b> 50-005</span></div>
<div style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><span style><br></span></div><div style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><p class="MsoNormal" style>
<span style="font-family:Helvetica">All LBGT-supportive MIT folks are welcome! The LBGT Issues Group is a committee of faculty, staff, students, and alumni(ae) who are lesbian, bisexual, gay, transgender, or just plain friendly seeking to foster a safe and welcoming environment for LBGT students and to ensure that the educational mission of MIT is upheld for all students regardless of sexual orientation or gender identity. Meetings are once a month and address specific projects dealing with the concerns of the LBGT community. Anyone affiliated with MIT and LBGT-friendly is welcome to join and to participate.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style><span style="font-family:Helvetica"><br></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style><span style="font-family:Helvetica"><br></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style><span style="font-family:Helvetica"><b>5. [AMITA] Financing for Start-Ups Panel Discussion and Networking Reception (Tues. Nov. 13, 6:30-9pm)</b></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style>
<span style="font-family:Helvetica"><b>When:</b> Tuesday, November 13, 6:30-9pm</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style><span style="font-family:Helvetica"><b>Where:</b> E51-325</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style><span style="font-family:Helvetica"><b>Register:</b></span> <a href="http://alumweb.mit.edu/groups/amita" style="color:rgb(17,85,204)" target="_blank">http://alumweb.mit.edu/groups/amita</a> (Tickets are $5 extra at the door, so register online!)</p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style><br></p><p class="MsoNormal" style>Tickets:<br>MIT students: free for first 20 to register, then $5<br>MIT alumni, faculty, or staff: $10<br>
Guests: $15</p><p class="MsoNormal" style><br></p><p class="MsoNormal" style>Panelists:<br><br>Beth Marcus, II BS ‘79, SM ’80, Ph.D. in biomechanics from Imperial College in London, England (Marshall Scholar) is currently CEO of playrific and Marcus Enterprises Ltd., and has been Founder and CEO of several successful startups, most notably EXOS, Inc., which was venture capital backed and sold to Microsoft in 1996. Since then she has been involved in 20 start-ups in a variety of fields as a founder, investor, or advisor. She was an advisor and investor in Leap Frog and has been involved in entertainment and mobile companies. Beth is an acknowledged expert in the hand-device interface space and has been an expert in support of prior patent litigations. She has served on the faculty of MIT in the department of Mechanical Engineering. Dr. Marcus has been member of the Board of the MIT Enterprise Forum and the MIT Corporation Visiting Committee in Mechanical<br>
Engineering. She is also a current member of the Council for the Arts at MIT.<br><br>Laura Ring, SM XVM ’91, SM XV ’91 is a tax professional at WTAS, a leading tax firm specializing in tax compliance and consulting. Previously she was a Director at the Mass Technology Leadership Council, where she managed a mobile cluster providing programs that support companies across all sectors of the mobile market. She also was the VP of Strategic Relations at Castile Ventures, an early-stage venture capital firm that invests in tech entrepreneurs. Ms. Ring is an active member on the MIT Enterprise Forum Start-Up Committee and the MassNetComms Programs Committee. She is also on the boards of the New England Children’s Foundation and the International Institute of Boston.<br>
<br>Kit Hickey, SM XV ’13, is a co-founder of Ministry of Supply, a start-up inventing the next generation of business apparel for men by pairing innovative product design with engineered performance fabrics. The company successfully raised funds through kickstarter, and has been featured in TechCrunch, Inc. Magazine and Forbes Magazine. Ms. Hickey is also a co-founder of BiD Network USA, a company that matches entrepreneurs with investors. She has experience in investment banking and debt restructuring, having worked at Green Manning & Bunch, Houlihan Lokey, and Merrill Lynch.<br>
<br>Moderator:<br><br>Julianne Zimmerman, XVI ‘88, XXI ‘92, executive certification in Sustainability Management from Presidio Graduate School, and an MS in Aerospace Engineering from the University of Maryland, provides strategic guidance to technology-based companies across a wide range of sectors. She serves as Co-Chair of the MIT Enterprise Forum Innovation Series, and as a mentor with the MIT Venture Mentoring Service; she also regularly volunteers as a mentor and/or judge for MassChallenge, the MIT $100k competition, Springboard, and others. Ms. Zimmerman is the author of a forthcoming book on the pitfalls most commonly encountered by first-time entrepreneurs.<br>
</p></div><div style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><span style="font-family:Helvetica"><br></span></div><div style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><br>
</div><div style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><span style><b>6. [GECD] Now, Discover Your Strengths (Wed. Nov. 14, 4-5:30pm)</b></span></div><div style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">
<span style><b>When:</b> Wednesday, November 14, 4-5:30pm</span></div><div style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><span style><b>Where:</b> 1-246</span></div>
<div style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><span style><b>Registration:</b> <a href="https://www.myinterfase.com/mit/Account/LogOn?ReturnUrl=%2fmit%2fstudent%2f" style="color:rgb(17,85,204)" target="_blank">Required</a></span></div>
<div style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><span style><br></span></div><div style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><span style="border-collapse:separate;text-align:-webkit-auto"><div lang="EN-US" link="blue" vlink="purple">
<div style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">You possess many unique, natural talents—the specific ways in which you naturally think, feel and behave. Because your talents represent the very best of you, they are your greatest opportunities for success in college, your career and your personal life. The Clifton StrengthsFinder measures the presence of 34 talent themes. This session will allow participants to take the Clifton StrengthsFinder and find out their top five talent themes and how to capitalize on this knowledge. Participants will learn how to apply their strengths to maximize performance and make career and job decisions. Participants will need to register for this session ahead of time, as well as take the Clifton StrengthsFinder. <i>Participants will receive a code and directions to take the Clifton StrengthsFinder once they have registered.</i></font></div>
</div></span></div><div style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><b style><br></b></div><div style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">
<b style><br></b></div><div style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><b style>7. [WGS] GLOW Book Reading (Wed. Nov. 14, 7pm)</b></div>
<div style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><span style><b>When:</b> Wednesday, November 14, 7pm</span></div><div style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">
<span style><b>Where:</b> 32-141</span></div><div style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><span style><b>Speaker:</b> Jessica Marie Tuccelli '89</span></div>
<div style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><span style><br></span></div><div style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><span style>Synopsis: In the autumn of 1941, Amelia J. McGee, a young woman of Cherokee and Scotch-Irish descent, and an outspoken pamphleteer for the NAACP, hastily sends her daughter, Ella, alone on a bus home to Georgia in the middle of the night—a desperate measure that proves calamitous when the child encounters two drifters and is left for dead on the side of the road. Ella awakens in the homestead of Willie Mae Cotton, a wise root doctor and former slave, and her partner, Mary-Mary Freeborn, tucked deep in the Takatoka Forest. As Ella heals, the secrets of her lineage are revealed. <br>
<br>Jessica Maria Tuccelli reveals deep insight into individual acts that can transform a community, and the ties that bind people together across immeasurable hardships and distances. Illuminating the tragedy of human frailty, the vitality of friendship and hope, and the fiercest of all bonds—mother love—the voices of <i>Glow</i> transcend their history with grace and splendor.</span></div>
<div style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><span style><br></span></div><div style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><span style><br>
</span></div><div style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><span style><b>8. [SWIM] Boston Women Speed Networking Event (Mon. Nov. 19, 7-8pm)</b></span></div>
<div style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><span style><b>When:</b> Monday, November 19, 7-8pm</span></div><div style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">
<span style><b>Where:</b> E62 Lobby</span></div><div><span style><b style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">RSVP:</b><font color="#222222" face="arial, sans-serif"> <a href="http://bit.ly/RRuVK0" target="_blank">http://bit.ly/RRuVK0</a></font></span></div>
<div><span style><font color="#222222" face="arial, sans-serif"><br></font></span></div><div><div>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! <span style="text-align:center;font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">Bring a stack of</span><span style="text-align:center;font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"> </span><u style="text-align:center;font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">business cards</u><span style="text-align:center;font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"> </span><span style="text-align:center;font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">and join us for some appetizers, mingling and fun!</span></div>
<span style><br></span></div></div></div><p class="MsoNormal" style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><span style><br>
</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><b><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" style>**********Outside MIT**********</font></b></p>
</div><div style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><div><div><b style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><br></b></div><div><b>9. [Harvard Biotech Club] Smooth Transitions: The Top 10 Questions Scientists Ask About Finding an Industry Job (Tues. Nov. 13, 5-6pm)</b></div>
<div><b>When:</b> Tuesday, November 13, 5-6pm, Dinner Reception to Follow</div><div><b>Where:</b> <span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">Cannon Room, Building C, HMS Quad</span></div>
<div><b>RSVP:</b> <a href="http://bit.ly/RRuteQ" target="_blank">http://bit.ly/RRuteQ</a></div><div><br></div><div><div style="color:rgb(0,0,0)"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span style="vertical-align:baseline;color:rgb(34,34,34);white-space:pre-wrap">This event will be a one-hour presentation by Dr. Joanne Kamens (see bio below) with detailed tips, </span></font><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);white-space:pre-wrap;font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">resources and ideas for being successful in a career transition to industry, followed by a reception.</span><i style="color:rgb(34,34,34);white-space:pre-wrap;font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"> </i></div>
<div style="color:rgb(0,0,0)"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span style="vertical-align:baseline;color:rgb(34,34,34);white-space:pre-wrap"><i><br></i></span></font></div><div style="color:rgb(0,0,0)">
<font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span style="vertical-align:baseline;color:rgb(34,34,34);white-space:pre-wrap">T</span><span style="vertical-align:baseline;color:rgb(34,34,34);white-space:pre-wrap">hese d</span><span style="vertical-align:baseline;color:rgb(34,34,34);white-space:pre-wrap">ays, staying in academia is really the “alternative” career for scientists. The majority of young </span></font><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);white-space:pre-wrap;font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">scientists will not end up in a traditional academic research position. This presentation will give you some </span><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);white-space:pre-wrap;font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">criteria to consider in deciding if embarking on an industry science career is right for you and then will </span><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);white-space:pre-wrap;font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">provide concrete tools and resources for preparing for this transition.</span></div>
</div><div><b><br></b></div><div><br></div><div><b>10. [MASS-AWIS] Get out of Town: Strategies to Facilitate Professional Travel for Women (Tues. Nov. 27, 6-8pm)</b></div><div><b>When:</b> Tuesday, November 27, 6-8pm</div>
<div><b>Where:</b> Broad Institute Auditorium, 7 Cambridge Center</div><div><b>Register:</b> <a href="http://www.acteva.com/go/mass-awis" style="color:rgb(17,85,204)" target="_blank">www.acteva.com/go/mass-awis</a></div>
<div><br></div><div><span style>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.</span><br style>
<br style><span style>Travel is a critical component of the scientist’s job description!</span><br style><br style>
<span style>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.</span><br style>
<br style><span style>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.</span><br style>
<br style><span style>Agenda:</span><br style><span style>6:00pm-6:30pm: Registration, Networking and Light Refreshments</span><br style>
<span style>6:30pm-7:30pm: Presentation</span><br style><span style>7:30pm-8:00pm: Q&A and Networking</span><br style>
<br style><span style>$10 for AWIS Members and Broad Employees $20 for Non-AWIS and Non-Broad Employees</span></div><div><span style><br>
</span></div><div><b style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><br></b></div><div><b style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">***************</b></div>
</div><span style><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><br><b>Join GWAMIT on the web to get the latest updates:<br></b>Visit us: <a href="http://gwamit.org/" style="color:rgb(17,85,204)" target="_blank">http://gwamit.org</a><br>
Blog: <a href="http://gwamit.blogspot.com/" style="color:rgb(17,85,204)" target="_blank">http://gwamit.blogspot.com</a><br>Twitter: <a href="http://twitter.com/gwamitweb" style="color:rgb(17,85,204)" target="_blank">h<font color="#1155cc">ttp://twitter.com/gwamitweb</font></a><br>
Facebook: <a href="http://www.facebook.com/gwamit" style="color:rgb(17,85,204)" target="_blank">http://www.facebook.com/gwamit</a><br>GWAMIT Calendar: <a href="http://bit.ly/gwamitevents" style="color:rgb(17,85,204)" target="_blank">http://bit.ly/gwamitevents</a><br>
GWAMIT Interest Calendar: </font><a href="http://bit.ly/gwamitinterest" style="color:rgb(17,85,204);font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif" target="_blank">http://bit.ly/gwamitinterest</a><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><br>
<font>Send your ideas to: </font><a href="mailto:gwamit-exec@mit.edu" style="color:rgb(17,85,204)" target="_blank">gwamit-exec@mit.edu</a></font></span></div></div>