Wesleyan Women in Science: EVENTS

 

DATE

EVENT

Fri. Dec. 4, 2009

1:30-4 p.m.

(+1hr drive)

Pfizer Global R&D, Groton CT

WesWIS visit to the Global R&D facility of Pfizer Pharmaceuticals.  For more information, email Lisa Lach, llach@wes.

Wed. Nov. 18, 2009

Noon-1 p.m.

room  56 Hall-Atwater

 WesWIS alumna Emily Jacobs-Palmer '06 will be our guest for an informal lunchtime discussion of life after Wesleyan and in graduate school.
Emily will be giving the Biochemistry Research Seminar on her PhD research
that evening on her research in Prof. Hopi Hoekstra's lab at Harvard on mammalian evolutionary genetics.

Mon. Nov. 16, noon- 4 pm

UConn WestHartford Campus 

Several WesWIS members will be attending the 2009 Connecticut BioScience Business Roundtable, where Gov. Rell and Congressman Chris Murphy will be speakers, and our own Prof. Laura Grabel will join other academice researchers and representatives of business, biotech, Pharma, and more.   By Ticket Only.  For more information, or to reserve a ticket, e-mail dvhall@wes .
AWIS Connecticut

Wed. Nov. 11, 2009

6pm

Woodhead Lounge

WesWIS/AWIS-CT Career Panel: Interviewing for Jobs in Academia
Panelists:
Sandra Weller, Professor and Chair, Molecular, Microbial and
Structural Biology, UConn Health Center

Betty Ivey, retired physics professor,  provost emerita of
the University of Hartford,  and past president of the Association
for Women in Science.

Amy MacQueen, Assistant Professor, Molecular Biology and Biochemistry, Wesleyan University
Moderated by:
Holly Heaslet Soutter, AWiS Connecticut
Laurel F. Appel, Wesleyan Women in Science
For more information, or to RSVP to be included in the pizza order,
e-mail msnow@wes.


October Events still in planning

What do You want to have happen?

Tues. Sept. 22

Noon-1pm

84 Hall-Atwater

Wesleyan Women in Science Opening Meeting.
Come join us, talk about interesting science people did over the summer, eat pizza, and discuss plans for the year.
 

Fri. Sept. 18

2-5 pm

Usdan Courtyard

WSA Student Groups Fair -- Wesleyan Women in Science staffs a booth with information and fliers.
AWIS Connecticut Thurs. April 30
6pm
 UConn Health Center,  Farmington CT
Alternative Careers in Science Panel Discussion
Sponsored by AWIS-CT.  More info on speakers closer to the date - one from CT Forensic Science DNA unit, and at least one science educator.
There will also be a tour of the Biomed grad school/med school facility before the panel, for those who are interested.
[ e-mail lappel@wes about carpooling -- 5 spaces available in her minivan]

Sat. April 25,   Connecticut College, New London, CT American Chemical Society Connecticut Valley Section
2009 Undergraduate Symposium and Awards Luncheon
(AWIS-CT points out the Anna J. Harrison Award for the best talk presented by a female student; this carries a $1000 prize.)
http://www.conncoll.edu/departments/chemistry/acs/generalinfo
 

Wed. April 22

6 pm

58 Exley

A Physicist Modeling Neuron Electrophysiology in Med School?
Sherry-Ann Brown, Wes Physics Alumna and current MD/PhD student at U Conn Medical Center, will discuss how she uses her joint Physics and medical background in her research in the Center for Cell Analysis and Modeling, and summer and post-graduate opportunities for Wes students.
Sponsored by WesWIS and the Physics Department.  Wes Faculty who might be interested in collaborations with the CCA are welcomed as well.
Sherry-Ann can also answer questions about the UConn MD/PhD program.
Please RSVP to msnow@wes to be included in the dinner order.

Tues. Feb. 17

8pm

58 Exley

WesWIS and SPS (the Society for Physics Students) Present -
Asking Different Questions: Women and Science
A video directed by Gwynne Basen and Erna Buffie.
Followed by build-your-own ice cream sundaes, and discussion.

Wed. Nov. 12

Noon-1pm

84 Hall-Atwater

WesWIS peer-advising/course-selection lunch
Frosh and sophs, bring questions, Jrs and Srs, bring your experiences, as  everyone thinks about how their courses fit into their goals of education, as well as into any particular major.
AWIS Connecticut Wed. Nov 20
6pm-8pm
Conn College, New London, CT
Go to AWIS-CT website for powerpoint if you missed it.
AWIS-CT career panel, at Conn College 
 Pathways of Drug Development
Wednesday, November 20th
Pfizer Panelists -
-Anabella Villalobos, PhD, VP, Antibacterials and Neuroscience Research Chemistry
-Michele Millham, MA, Senior Scientist, Cardiovascular & Metabolic
Disease Research, Biology
-Tess Wilson, PhD , Senior Director, Pharmacokinetics, Dynamics and
Metabolism
-Laura Dill Morton, DVM, PhD, Research Fellow, Drug Safety R&D
-Yanqiao Xiang, PhD, Principal Scientist, Pharmaceutical Sciences
-Terri Patterson, PhD, Associate Director , CVMED Clinical Development 

Wed. Nov. 12

Noon-1pm

84 Hall-Atwater

WesWIS peer-advising/course-selection lunch
Frosh and sophs, bring questions, Jrs and Srs, bring your experiences, as  everyone thinks about how their courses fit into their goals of education, as well as into any particular major.

Tues. Nov 11,
noon - 1 pm
121 Exley Science Center
with pizza
McNair Research Talk
Dr. Stephanie A. Morris, (Wes NS&B and Bio '00)  will speak on her work at the National Cancer Institute at NIH:
"The Role of Chromatin Remodeling in the Activity of the Glucocorticoid Receptor."
Mon. Nov 10,
6:30 pm
RSVP for details
McNair/WesWIS Workshop/Dinner:
The Wes -> PhD -> post-doc and further career path.
 with Dr. Stephanie A. Morris,   (Wes NS&B and Bio '00)  At Wesleyan, Dr. Morris majored in both Biology and Neuroscience & Behavior, was in the  Hughes and McNair Programs, and received the Neil Clendeninn Prize for Excellence in Biology. (Her research talk is Tuesday Nov 11.)
AWIS Connecticut - AWIS has put together the presidential candidates' responses to women in science issues, including Title IX and Science funding.  You can read them at http://www.sciencedebate2008.com/www/AWSSWEObamaMcCainResponses.pdf
Thurs., Oct. 30 
4:15 - 5:15 pm
Judd Hall Room 116
Psychology Department Colloquium
on a topic of interest to this group:  whether men and women exhibit cognitive differences in spatial reasoning.
Dr. Nora Newcombe, Department of Psychology, Temple University
"Women Hate Maps, Men Won't Ask for Directions: Fact or Myth?"

Week of Sept 24, details TBA

Noon-1pm

 

Wesleyan Women in Science Opening Meeting.
Come join us, talk about interesting science people did over the summer, eat pizza, and discuss plans for the year.

Please submit nominations for 2008-2009 WesWIS steering committee.
(
Yourself or a friend.)
Friday Sept.19, 2007, 2-5 pm
Wesleyan Arena
WSA Activities Fair -- Wesleyan Women in Science staffs a booth with information and fliers.
AWIS Connecticut

Wed. Sept. 17, 2008

6pm

Woodhead Lounge

RSVP to msnow@wes

WesWIS/AWIS-CT Career Panel: Careers in Industry
Speakers from big and small Pharma will discuss their experiences and career paths.  
Panelists:
Karen Houseknecht, Vice President, Global R&D, ASDI, Inc.
Barbara Sahagan, Research Fellow, Pfizer Global R&D
Guene Thio, Scientist, Invitrogen
Jane Withka, Associate Research Fellow, Pfizer Global R&D
Moderated by
Holly Heaslet Soutter, AWiS Connecticut
Laurel F. Appel, Wesleyan Women in Science
For more information, or to RSVP to be included in the pizza order,
e-mail msnow@wes.

Saturday May 10,  

12-5 pm

Veteran's Park (10 min walk from campus, or take shuttle.)

Feet to the Fire Festival -  A campus/community eco-arts festival for all ages  Members of ASK andWesWIS will have a table with kid-friendly hands-on science demos.  Come take a shift, or see the installations generated by art/science collaborative courses on global warming.
AWIS Connecticut

Thursday April 30, 

6 pm

230 HA

Monthly meeting of AWIS-CT steering committee.  Anyone intersted in getting involved in this state-wide organization is invited.  
For more information, see the newAWIS-CT website, at  www.awisct.ning.com
Fri. April 18, 4 pm
Exley 216
(Hosted by Prof. Stewart, Wes Physics Dept.)
Dr. Lori Brock of Osram-Sylvania in Peabody, MA
will present a short talk and conduct a discussion on
Getting That First Job after your B.A.
Dr. Brock is responsible for hiring scientific staff at Osram-Sylvania's research laboratories in Peabody and will offer guidance to those puzzling over the mechanics of finding that first job.  Light refreshments will be provided.

Friday April 18, 2008

1:30-3 pm

Exley Lobby

Celebration of Science Theses
BA and MA honors thesis students in Natural Science and Mathematics will present their research to peers and the community in a poster session.  Come join us in celebrating their achievements.  (Refreshments provided)   

Friday April 18, 2008

1:30-3 pm

Exley Lobby

Interested in the Sciences? (For Pre-Frosh)
Pre-frosh who are interested in the Sciences are invited to stop by and talk to students to see what's going on.  Representatives of the science-themed student groups are invited to be there to talk about their program and experiences.    

Jobs - Jobs - Jobs
    For those who missed the alumnae MD and MD/PhD panel: two of the panelists invited graduating seniors who are interested in research tech positions in Boston or at U Conn to e-mail them.  Prof. Appel has details.
    We've also gotten a listing of summer research positions from the Connecticut Ag Station--opportunities to do things like track West Nile Virus, or invasive plant species, in the field or in the lab.  e-mail msnow@wes for a copy of the listing.
3 panelists

Thursday April 10, 2008

6:30-8 pm

121 Exley

WesWIS/CRC Career Panel: Alumnae on the Medical Track.
Wesleyan (and WesWIS) alumnae who went on to Medical School (some joint with PhD ) will come back to tell us about their experiences.
Panel will include:
Tamika Brierley '96 BA (Biology)
New Britain Pediatric Group, New Britian CT; MD, Univ of Conn. School of Medicine; Residency Yale Children's Hospital
Sarabeth Broder-Fingert, '02 BA, '03 MA (Biology)
Biomedical Research Career Award Fellow, Harvard Med. School;
MD Candidate, New York University School of Medicine
Keren  Griffiths '05 (Chemistry and MBB)
MD/PhD Program, Univ of Connecticut School of Medicine

Monday April 7, 2008

noon-1pm

139 Exley

WesWIS peer-advising/course-selection lunch
Get together with other WesWIS members in your (potential) major to talk about options and choices.  Jrs and Srs, bring your experiences and advice; everybody bring your questions and appetites.
AWIS Connecticut

Thursday April 3, 2008

6:00 pm

YALE UNIVERSITY

Bass Ctr. Room 305, 266 Whitney Ave New Haven

AWIS-CT, the Connecticut chapter of the Association of Women in Science, will be present a
Panel Discussion of Careers in Industry.
Speakers will be:
Denice Spero, CEO, Developing World Cures
Michelle Kelly, Senior Director, Pfizer Global R&D
Guene Thio, Scientist, Invitrogen
Dawn Mattoon, R&D Manager, Invitrogen
For more information, see the newAWIS-CT website, at  www.awisct.ning.com .  All WesWIS members are invited to visit the site to find out about events (including directions to this panel) and join the state-wide network.   
AskAwardImage Congratulations to our sister group, ASK! (Action Science Kids), recipients of a Community Service Award from the Connecticut Department of highes Education for their outreach work bringing science experiments and enthusiasm to Middletown 5th graders.  (e-mail scheng@wes if you want to join one of their visits.)

Wednesday Feb. 6, 2008

noon-1pm

137 Exley

Part 1. Henny Admoni '08:  A report from Carnegie Mellon's Conference for Undergraduate Women in Computer Science.
 - advice on applying to grad schools,
 - experiences of some of the women faculty in technical programs
- the research mini-project she engaged in during the weekend conference.
 Part 2.  Open floor for general discussion, including:
- carpooling to the AAAS meeting and career fair in Boston Feb 15
- scheduling an AWIS-CT panel here
- choosing a major (for sophs), field of research, grad school, summer plans
- other WesWIS events in planning
- other concerns/interests

 

Friday Nov. 16

Two-part meeting.
noon - 1pm
84 Hall-Atwater

WesWIS peer-advising/course-selection lunch, plus guest speaker Dr. Debra Rolison at 12:30. 
This will be a chance to get together with other WesWIS members in your (potential) major to talk about options and choices.  Jrs and Srs, bring your experiences and advice; everybody bring your questions, courselists, and appetites.
In the second half of the meeting, Dr. Debra Rolison, Head of the Advanced Electro-chemical Materials Section at the Naval Research Laboratory (see her research talk in chem at 3:30) will join the group to discuss "Title IX as a change strategy for women in science and engineering . . . and what comes next."    The Website for the implicit bias test she recommended is at  https://implicit.harvard.edu/implicit/ If you missed the talk, you can download a .pdf version here.

 

Monday, Nov. 12,
 12:00 - 1:00 p.m.
Tishler Conf. Rm , 52/54 HA  (joint with Chem Dept.)

Speaker Luncheon:
 Catherine Goodman, Associate Editor, Nature Chemical Biology 
"Careers in Scientific Journal Editing"

 

October 25 2007, Russell House

4:15 pm, with reception to follow

(co-sponsored with Robert Schumann Lecture Series)

Speaker: Ivy Wong, CEO, World Wildlife Fund Malaysia
"Challenges and Opportunities for Conservation Work in Malaysia"

Ms. Wong will begin with an introduction to Malaysia: its  biodiversity, the diversity of people, cultures, natural resources, and the remoteness of many areas.  The talk will focus on the tradeoffs and challenges for sustainable development while balancing the need to protect and better conserve natural resources.  She will include aspects of the governance structure of Malaysia and how policies governing the diverse areas of Malaysia are formulated and implemented.  Ms. Wong wil be available to meet informally with students after the talk.

 

TBA/ONGOING

ASK (Action Science Kids) will be planning their first set of outreach experiments, and making trips to local fifth graders. ASK is a group of Wesleyan women interested in teaching science to Middletown schoolkids through fun and interactive experiments.
More volunteers are always welcome, whether helping the kids with experiments on a single day, or for the long term. Email scheng[at]wes for more information.

 

Tues. Oct. 2, 

Noon - 1

Woodhead Lounge 

Panel Discussion: "What is it like to be a Graduate Student?"

Wesleyan Grad Students from various science departments will talk about their experiences and future plans, and answer questions from the group.

 

Wed. Sept. 19

Noon-1pm

84 Hall-Atwater 

Wesleyan Women in Science Opening Meeting.
Come join us, meet the 07-08 steering committee, eat pizza, and discuss plans for the year.

 

Friday Sept.14, 2007, 2-5 pm
Wesleyan Arena

WSA Activities Fair -- Wesleyan Women in Science staffs a booth with information and fliers.

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 Last updated 18 December 2008, LFA.

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