Women in Science

	WesWIS Archive - events 2003-2005.
	DATE	EVENT
	Saturdays, November 12 and 19, 2005 Contact Science House or rdbrown[at]wes.	Science House pre-frosh phonathon: share your experience with prospective students interested in the sciences at Wesleyan.
	Wednesday November 10 noon 84 Hall-Atwater	Course-Selection Peer-Advising Lunch - this will be a chance to get together with other WIS members in your (potential) major to talk about options and choices.¬† The meeting will be - the middle of browsing week.¬† Upperclasswomen, bring your experiences and advise; everybody bring your questions, coursebooks,¬† and appetites.¬† (Please RSVP to msnow[at]wes to get a count for lunch; include any dietary restrictions.)
	Wednesday November 2 7 pm Woodhead Lounge [RSVP for dinner with the speaker before the talk]	Dr. Lydia J. Young, Director of Engineering at KLA-Tencor Corporation "Where's the Science in Engineering? Career Opportunities in the High Tech Industry" Dr. Young will discuss her career path, and engineering fits into science and liberal arts thinking.
	ONGOING Contact Kate Longley (klongley[at]wes) for more information or to join them on their next school visit	ASK (Action Science Kids) has planned their first set of outreach experiments, and made their first trip of the season 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.
	Tuesday Sept. 20, 2005 84 Hall-Atwater	WesWIS opening meeting: get to know each other, get organized, start planning events for the year..
	Friday Sept.18 Wesleyan Arena	WSA Activities Fair -- Wesleyan Women in Science staffs a booth with information and fliers.
	June 10, 2005 7:00 pm Loew's IMAX Theater Broadway & 68^th St NEW YORK CITY	IMAX showing of "Aliens of the Deep" followed by discussion with Dr. Maya Tolstoy of Columbia University, who is featured in the film. This is a fundraiser for AWIS, and a chance to connect with other WIS, especially for those who will be living or working in NYC over the summer. For ticket info & to arrange carpools, e-mail Prof. Appel (lappel@wes).
	Thursday May 5 2 pm Tischler Patio outside Woodhead (rain location -- Life Sciences Lounge in Hall-Atwater, by room 101)	END-OF-YEAR STUDY-BREAK We will have a brief meeting to say goodbye to graduating seniors, appoint the 2005-06 steering committee, and talk a little about plans for next year. Come take a break and enjoy a little sun, snacks, and conversation. Also, congratulations to all of our members in ASK, for that great article on their work in the Courant. See http://www.courant.com/news/local/mr/hc-midscience10430.artapr30,0,6118062.story.
	Monday, April 25 noon-1pm 84 Hall-Atwater	Report from the Wesleyan chapter of the Student Global AIDS Campaign, about their recent fact-finding trip to east Africa to learn about local and community-based AIDS prevention programs, particularly for female-controlled methods, and what kind of role we could play in an international partnership. Contact Aimee Rose (arose01@wes) for more information. (Hughes/WesWIS helped sponsor their trip)
	Ongoing through end of semester	ASK (Action Science Kids) continues to bring sciences to Middletown schoolkids through fun and interactive experiments. Contact Deborah Schwartz (dlschwartz@wes) for more information or to join them on their next school visit.
	Wednesday, April 20. noon-1pm Woodhead Lounge	Discussion/Panel Lunch:¬† The Research Experience Wesleyan Students will talk about their experiences in science research labs -- how they got into it, what they liked and didn't like, advice for those starting, why they did or didn't choose to do a thesis, and whether to go the BA/MA route. Come find out tricks of the trade they wish someone had told them at the beginning!
	Friday, April 15, 2005. 2:30-3:30 pm Life Sciences Lounge, by 101 Hall Atwater	WesWIS cosponsors WesFest pre-frosh event/ Poster Session: "Interested in the Sciences?" Stop by and talk to students -- see what's going on. Representatives of science-themed student groups: The Major Groove (Molecular Biology and Biochemistry Majors Group), Delta G (Science House), WesWIS (Wesleyan Women in Science), Action Science Kids (an outreach group that brings science experiments to local school children), and SPS (Society of Physics Students) will be on hand. There will also be students who have done research in labs on campus, with posters of their research projects, ready to talk both about their projects and the research experience.
	Thursday p.m., April 7 - Sunday April 10, 2005. (or parts thereof) Harvard U, Cambridge Mass	http://www.hcs.harvard.edu/~wishr/nsaws/ 3^rd National Symposium on the Advancement of Women in Science.¬† WesWIS has not yet registered a delegation, but e-mail Prof Appel (lappel@wes) to coordinate carpools.¬† In the past, this has been an excellent meeting.¬† Also, very affordable, if you put a sleeping bag on someone's floor.
	Tuesday, March 1. noon - 1pm Woodhead Lounge	"There at the Ground Floor, Missing at the top: Where did they go?" Prof. Mukerji of Wesleyan MB&B dept. will lead a discussion lunch on the continuing disparity between the representation of women and minorities at the beginning of the pipeline for science and technology careers (undergrad and grad) and the end (tenure and top of industry). Some may have read about the remarks Lawrence Summers (president of Harvard) made at a recent meeting on diversifying the science and engineering workforce, and the tsunami of protest in response to those remarks.¬† Some of the articles are posted in the Life Sciences Undergraduate Lounge, between Hall-Atwater and Shanklin, if you missed them. For further reading on this: http://slate.msn.com/id/2112799/ Meghan O'Rourke's article in Slate, "Don't Let Larry Summers Off the Hook Yet:¬† Why the Harvard president's tactless social science was a bad idea." includes links to the original conference program. http://www.ascb.org/publications/competition.html Careers and Rewards in Bio Sciences: the disconnect between scientific progress and career progression For a listing of comparisons of many sorts (% of degrees at different levels, employment, fields of study, salary) broken down by gender and sometimes field, see http://www.awis.org/resource/statistics.html The Nov-Dec 04 issue of Academe,¬† the bimonthly magazine of the American Association of University Professors (AAUP), has a set of feature articles on Balancing Faculty Careers and Family Work. http://www.aaup.org/publications/Academe/2004/04nd/04ndtoc.htm
	Friday, February 18 Noon - 1 pm 84 Hall-Atwater.	Lunch discussion: "Dreaming of Summertime" - How to find a great internship or research position.¬† Those who have done science-related internships or summer research are invited to come share both what they did, and how they found/funded/arranged it.¬† This includes Wesleyan Programs, and the BA/MA program, as well as other US and international sites. (Note: Applications for Wesleyan Hughes Summer Research Program are due March 5, many other programs have similar dates.)
	Thursday December 2 7 pm Woodhead Lounge	Evening Talk: Dr. Susan Emeigh Hart, V.M.D., Ph.D. of AstraZeneca Pharmaceuticals will speak about her work and her career path.¬† "You Don‚Äôt Really Have to Decide What You're Going to be When You Grow Up" Dr. Emeigh Hart has been involved drug development and safety testing of pharmaceuticals at several pharmaceutical companies. RSVP to wis@wes to be included in the dinner before the talk.
	Thursday ~~November 11~~ rescheduled to Wed 17 Nov HA84 7:30-10 pm Also, movie changed to "Memento"	Movie Night sponsored by WesWIS mentor/mentee committee.¬† They will be showing "Unbreakable" in 84 Hall-Atwater.¬† Mingling/snacks starts at 7:30 pm and the movie will begin at 8:00pm.
	Wednesday November 10, 2004 noon - 1, 84 Hall-Atwater	Course-Selection Peer-Advising Lunch - this will be a chance to get together with other WIS members in your (potential) major to talk about options and choices.¬† The meeting will be - the middle of browsing week.¬† Upperclasswomen, bring your experiences and advise; everybody bring your questions, coursebooks,¬† and appetites.¬† (Please RSVP to msnow@wesleyan.edu to get a count for lunch.) Also, some of our members have asked to have a WesWIS¬† pre-health professions meeting, either starting a group or as a one-time event.¬† All those interested should e-mail wis@wesleyan.edu.
	ONGOING Contact Deborah Schwartz (dlschwartz@wes) for more information or to join them on their next school visit	ASK (Action Science Kids) has planned their first set of outreach experiments, and made their first trip of the season 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.
	Wednesday Sept. 22, 2004 84 Hall-Atwater	WIS opening meeting: meeting each other, discussing plans already under way and setting goals for the year; setting upWIS mentors: pairing up new members with upperclasswomen in their prospective majors.
	Friday Sept.17 2004 Wesleyan Arena	WSA Activities Fair -- Wesleyan Women in Science staffs a booth with information and fliers.
	Friday April 2 noon. Details and room TBA.	Prof. Manju Hingorani (MB&B dept) will give a lunchtime WesWIS talk "How to Propose . . . how to write a grant proposal, and the review and funding process."
	Wednesday, March 3 time, room TBA	Dr. Susan Landau, of Sun Microsystems, will be giving a 7 pm talk in the Computer Science Dept, "Cryptography in an Insecure World," and meeting with WesWIS earlier in the day. In addition to being a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science and a member of the National Institute of Standards and Technology's Information Security and Privacy Advisory Board, she is also on the Computing Research Association Committee on the Status of Women in Computing Research.
	Saturday Feb 28 1- 4 p.m. Trinity Church, Main Street, Middletown	Green Street Arts Program: "Colorful Chemistry" family workshop. Volunteers needed to help, working with various age of schoolkids doing hands-on and take-with-you experiments. e-mail lappel for info.
	Monday Feb 23 7:00 p.m. Woodhead Lounge (RSVP to msnow@wesleyan.edu to join us for dinner at 6 pm before the panel)	Panel discussion: "How can a woman manage both a science career and a family?" On the panel will be: - Michele Salonia, D.M.D., on running a solo dental practice in Middletown while raising 4 kids. - Suzanne O'Connell, Ph.D. , Wesleyan Dept. of E&ES, on non-tradition options available in science faculty positions in the US: job-sharing, flex-time, and the like. (and parent of 1) - Jill Wood, Ph.D., Senior Research Scientist II , Bayer HealthCare (synthetic organic chemist and parent of 3) with a perspective from industry.
	Wednesday, November 5. noon, 84 Hall-Atwater	Course-Selection Peer-Advising Lunch. Get together with other women in science to give/ask for advice as you choose your courses for next semester.
	Thursday, October 9. 4:15-5:30 Woodhead Lounge and noon - 1 p.m. 121 Exley Science Center and 8:00 PM Shanklin 107 with reception to follow	Discussion: Evelyn Fox Keller, Professor of History and Philosophy of Science at MIT, meets with SISP and WesWIS to discuss her work on gender in science, and more generally, the social and cultural dynamics of science. She will also be giving two Snowden talks the same day: "Looking Backward, Looking Forward: From Nucleotide Sequences to Living Systems" (Biol/MBB seminar series) "Getting Beyond Genes, Neurons and Individual Minds." (Public Science Lecture Series) For directions from off-campus.
	Saturday, Oct 4, 2 pm downtown Middletown (event) Sept 29, noon-1pm Exley Science Center (trial run on campus)	Green Street Arts Center "Earth's Landscapes" family workshop. First "Arts in Sciences" workshop for the new downtown Arts Center; volunteers needed to help run this and the spring workshop, working with various age of schoolkids doing hands-on and take-with-you experiments.
	Thursday, September 18th 8pm (and subsequent Thursdays) Meeting room 2:Campus Center	ASK (Action Science Kids) Introductory meeting: a group of Wesleyan women interested in teaching science to Middletown schoolkids through fun and interactive experiments.
	09/17/03 84 Hall-Atwater	WIS opening meeting: meeting each other, discussing plans already under way and setting goals for the year; setting upWIS mentors: pairing up new members with upperclasswomen in their prospective majors.
	09/12/03 Wesleyan Arena	WSA Activities Fair -- Wesleyan Women in Science staffs a booth with information and fliers.
	09/12/03 Noon - 1pm, 314 Shanklin	Luncheon Talk: Wesleyan Biology to Scientific Publishing. Dr. Emilie Marcus, currently the senior Editor of the neuroscience journal Neuron, and formerly an editor at Cell, will talk with us about science writing, publishing, and related issues. Dr. Marcus is a Wesleyan alumna, and will be happy to talk with us about her experiences after Wesleyan.

END-OF-YEAR STUDY-BREAK