MentorNet is Seeking Mentors!
MentorNet, the E-Mentoring Network for Diversity in
Engineering and Science, is seeking new mentors, particularly faculty
e-mentors. At the present time, MentorNet has more than 100 proteges waiting
for faculty mentors. Please encourage
your faculty colleagues to sign up as a mentor.
Being an e-mentor with MentorNet is convenient and can take as little
time as 15 minutes per week! Since March 1st AWIS has had 14 new proteges and
10 mentors joined the program.
Contact [email protected],
if you have any questions. Please visit the website to learn how you can become
a mentor for an aspiring new scientist: www.MentorNet.net
Visiting Scholar's
Program at UC Berkeley
BBRG Affiliated Scholars Program
Two to three short term scholars are selected for the
program at any one time, on a rotating basis, throughout the academic year. The
Affiliated Scholars Program is open to faculty (tenured and untenured),
visiting scholars, postdoctoral scholars and independent scholars, from any country,
whose research is centrally on gender and women. Applicants must have received
their Ph.D. at least one year prior to the projected beginning of their
residency at BBRG. The BBRG is non-stipendiary. Scholars are responsible for Berkeley
affiliation fees. International scholars are also responsible for any related visa
fees. Affiliated Scholars remain in residence for periods ranging from two
weeks to one semester and have access to many University
of California at Berkeley and BBRG
resources.
Click here for more information.
Questions regarding these programs can be directed to Sara Perryman at [email protected].
2008 Maria Mitchell Women in Science Award
This award will recognize an individual who has
worked to increase the participation and advancement of girls and/or women in
science and mathematics. To be considered for the Maria Mitchell Women in Science Award an individual must:
* Demonstrate consistent leadership and support for the
advancement of girls and women in the fields of natural and
physical sciences, mathematics, engineering, computer science or
technology or
* Be someone who served as a mentor, role model or key player in a program designed specifically to encourage and advance
girls and women in the fields of science, mathematics and
technology
* Be a United States citizen
Nomination forms must be postmarked by March 15, 2008.
For more information, visit the website.
Association for Women in Computing Plan for Success: Gain Actionable Steps for Achieving Career Goals
Join the Association for Women in Computing as author Lisa
Quast comes to speak on a methodology she devised that teaches women how to
create a personal strategic plan to take control of their careers and achieve
their professional aspirations.
Bio: Lisa Quast
Compelling speaker and new author, Lisa Quast has spent the
last two decades working to become one of few female executives in the
high-tech healthcare industry. She has been responsible for completing projects
around the globe in areas such as strategic planning, marketing, sales,
service, product management, business development, and coaching/talent
development. Lisa's success has garnered much praise including being the
youngest winner of the President's Award at Toshiba America Medical Systems and
an honoree of the Puget Sound Business Journal as one of the "Top 40 Under
40" business leaders in the greater Seattle area in 2005.
Throughout her career, Lisa has dedicated a significant
portion of her time to mentoring other women and helping them realize their
career potential, which led her to write her first book, Your Career, Your
Way!, published in 2007. Lisa is a sought after certified executive coach and
motivational speaker, and the founder of Career Woman, Inc., a Seattle-based
international career development consulting company dedicated to providing
women with personal strategies to improve, change or advance their careers -
and ultimately achieve their career goals.
Date: Tuesday, March 18, 2008
Time: 5:30
p.m. to 6:30 p.m. registration, networking and appetizers; 6:30 p.m. to 7:30 p.m. program
Location: Montlake
Community Center
1618
E Calhoun St. Seattle, WA
98112
Price: Free for
all! Please visit www.awcps.org/meetings
for specifics.
Register: www.awcps.org/meetings/registration.php.
Women: Leading the Future of Technology Forum
MDWIT and the Technology Council of Maryland are excited to
host this year's women and technology conference: "Women: Leading the Future of
Technology." Ms. Sandra Evers-Manly, VP of
Corporate Responsibility for Northrop Grumman Corporation and President of the
Northrop Grumman Foundation will be the keynote speaker. This one-day
conference will begin with breakfast and networking. The breakfast speaker,
Ms. Lynne Waymon, CEO of Contacts Count, will give a dynamic presentation on
networking. Break-out sessions will follow and be focused on three
audience groups: Women in Entrepreneurship; Women in the Technology Workforce;
and The Next Generation of Women in Technology.
Lunch and our keynote speaker will bring the day to a
close. An optional networking party will follow.
Date: Tuesday,
March 25, 2008
Location: BWI Marriott
1743 West Nursery Road Baltimore, MD 21240
Register here.
It's Your Responsibility! How to Lead and Impact Policy: Enhancing
the Role of Women in Medical and Biological Engineering
AIMBE's Women in Medical and
Biological Engineering Committee, WIMBE, invites all AIMBE Fellows and senior
women in medical and biological engineering to come to ChicagoApril 10-11, 2008 to discuss how to positively influence change for women in medical and
biological engineering.
Date: April 10-11, 2008
Location: ChicagoAirport Hilton
The two-day event includes a
keynote presentation by Mrinalini (Meena) C. Rao, the provost for faculty
affairs at the University of Chicago at Illinois. Panels include
Being an Agent of Change, and Learning to be an Effective Organizational and
Policy Leader and include Betty Shanahan, the Executive Director of the Society
for Women Engineers, Samantha Barlow, of the US House of Representatives
Diversity and Innovation Caucus, Mary Woolley, the Executive Director of
Research!America, and AIMBE Fellow Semahat Demir, the Program Director of the
Biomedical Engineering Program at the National Science Foundation. The meeting will be interactive and
facilitated, so that you may be a voice for women in medical and biological
engineering.
For more information and a
registration form, please visit www.aimbe.org/womensymposium
or call 202-496-9660.
For a room at the Hilton Chicago
O'Hare Airport, please call 877-865-5322 and mention code AMB or go online at www.hilton.com and use code AMB in the
group/convention box. The cutoff date for reservation is March 27.
Summer Internship in Neural Engineering (SINE)
SINE allows undergraduate students to work in an innovative,
progressive, fast paced scientific environment where they will be exposed to
traditional techniques in molecular biology, advances in computer science, new
theories in mathematics and mechanical-, electrical- and biomedical engineering
applications. Students learn the ins and outs of research designed to improve
our understanding of the mechanisms of neural injury and recovery, promote
greater recovery and provide accessible technology to the temporary and
permanently disabled.
Accepted students are provided with funding for travel,
housing and a small stipend.
Application information can be found at: http://www.northwestern.edu/bme/sine2008.
Minority students, women, the disabled and students from
institutions with under-represented scientific research programs are strongly
encouraged to apply.
If you have any questions, please contact Danielle M.
Kerkovich, Ph.D., Associate Director for Research: (312) 238-1477 or by email
at [email protected].
Emailed applications
are due on or before March 31, 2008.
Summer Forum on Feminist Theologies
The Women's Alliance
for Theology, Ethics and Ritual (WATER) and Feminist Studies in Religion, Inc.
(FSR) invite graduate students and junior faculty to the first Summer Forum on
Feminist Theologies in Washington, DC,June 15-20, 2008.
This inaugural year will focus on "Making the Connections: Claiming Our
Past--Envisioning Our Future Together."
This residential program will provide the space and
opportunity to work with colleagues across generations, religions,
racial/ethnic, and disciplinary lines to create new knowledge and deepen
feminist scholarly collaboration. The program will include plenary
sessions, seminars, and working groups as well as meals and informal time
together. The fee for the Summer Forum is $800 including room, board, and
program. Scholarships are available, but graduate students and junior faculty
are urged to seek funding from their departments, institutions, denominations,
and other sources.
Application deadline is April 1,
2008. Participants will be notified after April 15, 2008.
To read the full description of the forum and download the application form, click here.
Please direct inquiries and send completed applications to [email protected].
Recruiting Students for 2008 NSF Program "Debating Science"
The University
of Montana in Missoula is hosting the National Science Foundation sponsored
project "Debating Science." Graduate students in science and engineering with
an interest in ethics or graduate students in the humanities and social
sciences working on science and technology issues are encouraged to apply. The
program explores the ethical and political issues related to the debates over
global climate change, nanotechnology, and agricultural biotechnology. It consists
of a 5-day workshop in August at The University of Montana-Missoula and an
online course in the fall semester.
The National Science Foundation
provides support for program participants to attend the workshop in Missoula and covers tuition for the online course. Interested
students can find more information and apply online at: http://www.umt.edu/ethics/debating_science.
Please contact [email protected]
or [email protected] with any
questions.
Application Deadline: April
2, 2008
NHGRI/NIH 2008 Current Topics in Genomic Research Short
Course
This intensive, six-day course, offered by the National
Human Genome Research Institute (NHGRI) at the National Institutes of Health
(NIH), will be held August 3 to August 8,
2008. It is designed to update biology instructors, as well as
other instructors and researchers in related disciplines, on genomic science.
The course focuses on the continuing effort to find the genetic basis of
various diseases and disorders, and current topics on the ethical, legal and
social implications of genomics.
The Short Course faculty consists of leading NIH genomic
researchers, including the NHGRI director, Dr. Francis Collins. The course
features extended tours of working laboratories at the NIH, structured
lectures, and highly interactive sessions.
Room and board are paid by NHGRI; participant schools pay
travel costs for faculty participants, both to and from the NIH in Bethesda,
Maryland.
Eligibility:
- This course is designed to update instructors who train
students from racial and ethnic groups underrepresented in health related
sciences and instructors from institutions that predominantly train students
with disabilities and students from disadvantaged backgrounds including certain
rural and inner-city environments.
- Faculty at colleges and universities that train students
predominantly from racial and ethnic groups that have been shown by the
National Science Foundation to be underrepresented in health-related sciences
on a national basis (See Women, Minorities, and Persons with Disabilities in Science and Engineering)
and institutions that train students from a social, cultural, or educational environment
such as that found in certain rural or inner-city environments that have
demonstrably and recently directly inhibited the individual from obtaining the
knowledge, skills, and abilities necessary to develop and participate in a
research career will be considered.
- Faculty from institutions that train predominantly students
with disabilities, which are defined as those with a physical or mental impairment
that substantially limits one or more major life activities are invited to
apply as well.
Institutions that train largely students from disadvantaged
backgrounds are defined as: Students who come from a family with an annual
income below established low-income thresholds. These thresholds are based on family
size; published by the U.S. Bureau of the Census; adjusted annually for changes
in the Consumer Price Index; and adjusted by the Secretary for use in all
health professions programs. (See Poverty Guidelines, Research, and Measurement).
How to Apply: visit
http://research.nhgri.nih.gov/course_applications
Click here for the announcement.
Applications will be
accepted until April 4, 2008.
Call for Nominations: The Leopold Leadership Fellowship
Program
The Leopold Leadership Program invites mid-career academic
environmental scientists from North America (Canada,
Mexico, and the
United States)
to apply for the 2009 Leopold Leadership Fellowships.
Mission:
to advance environmental decision making by providing academic environmental scientists
with the skills and connections they need to be effective leaders and
communicators. Through a competitive process, the Leopold Leadership Program
selects up to 20 Fellows annually to participate in an intensive training
program designed to build and enhance their skills in communicating with policy
makers, media representatives, business leaders, nonprofit organizations, and
the general public. The goal is to create a community of engaged scientific
leaders to inform decision makers addressing society's most pressing
environmental challenges.
Eligibility: The
program seeks candidates with terminal degrees in a broad range of disciplines
including the biological, physical, and social sciences (e.g., economics,
political science) and technical, medical, and engineering fields related to
the environment (e.g., wildlife veterinary medicine, environmental health,
hazardous waste management). Applicants must be employed by an academic
institution in North America, be tenured or tenure-track
(associate professor level or equivalent or above), and be active in teaching
and research. Every applicant must demonstrate: an academic position (either
tenured or tenure track); an active role in research and teaching in an area of
environmental science at a Canadian, Mexican, or U.S.-based higher education or
research institution; a reputation for outstanding science; evidence of
interest in making direct connections between scientific knowledge and
environmental issues; interest, willingness, and an appropriate professional
position to synthesize, interpret, and communicate the results of their work to
peers, policy makers, the media, and the general public; passion and capacity
to exercise leadership in the environmental science arena and enthusiasm to
advocate the importance of science for improved environmental policies and
practices; commitment to participate in the entire two weeks of training and
contribute to the program as well as take advantage of its benefits; intent to
share what is learned in the training program with students and colleagues and
other stakeholders through courses, workshops, and broader outreach efforts;
and ability and desire to remain an active member of the Leopold Leadership
Network after the conclusion of the Fellowship year.
Training is offered in English and focuses on U.S.-based
institutions, audiences, and policy making. Full details and application
documents are available online at: www.leopoldleadership.org
Deadline: Monday,
April 14, 2008
American Physiological Society Research Enhancement Award
The
APS Research Career Enhancement Award is designed to enhance the career
potential of its regular members. The award can be used to support
short-term visits to other laboratories to acquire new specific skills
and to support attendance at special courses devoted primarily to
methodologies appropriate for both a new investigator and a more senior
investigator entering a new field of research. The award of up to
$4,000 allows an individual in the early phases of his/her career to
obtain special training; the award also allows an individual in the
later phases of his/her career to develop new skills and to retrain in
areas of developing interests. The award does not include any indirect
cost reimbursement.
For More Information on This Award...
Deadline: April 16, 2008.
Call for Nominations: National Science Foundation PAESMEM
The Presidential
Awards for Excellence in Science, Mathematics and Engineering Mentoring (PAESMEM) Program seeks to identify outstanding
mentoring efforts that enhance the participation of groups (i.e., women,
minorities, and persons with disabilities) that are underrepresented in
science, technology, engineering, and mathematics. The awardees serve as
leaders in the national effort to develop fully the Nation's human resources in
science, technology, engineering, and mathematics.
Awards are made in the following two categories and nominees, both individual and institutional, must have served as a mentor or
facilitated mentoring activities for at least five years.
- Individuals
who have demonstrated outstanding and sustained mentoring and effective
guidance to a significant number of underrepresented students at the K-12,
undergraduate or graduate education level; and
- Institutions
with program activities that have enabled a substantial number of students
drawn from populations underrepresented in the sciences, technology, and
engineering and mathematics fields, to pursue and complete relevant degree
programs. At the post-secondary level, these efforts must show that
students have completed a baccalaureate, masters or doctoral degree.
Awardees receive $10,000 to continue their work and a
commemorative Presidential certificate.
For more information: http://www.nsf.gov/pubs/2004/nsf04525/nsf04525.htm
For assistance, contact David L. Temple at 703-292-4674; by
email, [email protected].
Nomination deadline: April 22,
2008
Nominations for the National
Science Foundation PAEMST Now Being Accepted
Nominate exemplary K-12 teachers for the Presidential Award
for Excellence in Mathematics and Science Teaching (PAEMST). This year the
award will honor elementary school teachers for their contributions to improve
teaching and learning in the areas of science and mathematics (secondary
teachers will be honored next year).
Deadline: May 1, 2008.
For information about the online nomination and application,
visit www.paemst.org
or e-mail [email protected].
NationalCenter for Women &
Information Technology Meeting
NCWIT's upcoming meetings will take place May
14-15, 2008, at the University
of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. The
theme is "Advancing Computing from Multiple Disciplines." Distinguished
researchers in science and engineering will tell us how their disciplines are
pushing the frontiers of computer science today, and how these exciting research
areas offer grand challenges with the potential to change the image of
computing and attract top talent to the field.
Confirmed speakers include: Mae Jemison, M.D., former NASA Astronaut and Founder of The
Jemison Group, Inc.; Richard M. Murray, Thomas E. and Doris Everhart Professor of
Control and Dynamical Systems, Division of Engineering and Applied Science,
California Institute of Technology; Lydia E. Kavraki, Noah Harding Professor of Computer Science
and Bioengineering, Rice University; Graduate Program in Structural and
Computational Biology and Molecular Biophysics, Baylor College of Medicine;
Freada Kapor Klein, PhD, Founder and Co-chair, the Level
Playing Field Institute.
Click here for more information.
NCWIT Academic Alliance Seed Fund
The NCWIT Academic Alliance Seed Fund awards members of NCWIT's Academic
Alliance with start-up funds (up to $15,000 per project) to develop and
implement initiatives for recruiting and retaining women in computing and
information technology. Startup funding is provided by Microsoft.
The deadline for the next round of NCWIT Academic Alliance
Seed Fund proposals is June 1, 2008. Information
about the Seed Fund program, including proposal requirements, the review
process, and how to become an eligible Academic Alliance member, is available
at www.ncwit.org.
New Resources from NCWIT
NCWIT has launched several new resources in the past several months:
Mentoring in a Box: Women Faculty in Computing helps pre-tenure faculty women prepare for the next stage of their careers and
look ahead to positions of accomplishment and influence, by starting and
sustaining a successful mentoring relationship.
The Culture of Open Source Computing is an annotated bibliography that briefly identifies pertinent articles and
offers a brief summary of research findings on women's participation in open
source computing.
Other resources on the website: Establishing
Institutional Accountability; Systemic
Change Initiatives; Assessing
an Organization's Diversity Paradigm; Practices
Matrix.
Mary Fieser Postdoctoral
Program for Women and Minorities
Harvard
University will award 12 new postdoc
fellowships in chemistry this spring that are aimed at increasing the number of
women and minority Ph.D.'s who become professors. Fellows will study for a year
in Harvard's department of chemistry and chemical biology, and will have the
opportunity to apply for a second year of fellowship money. Click here for a
copy of the postdoc
application Click here to apply.
Deadline: July 15,
2008
Quality Education for Minorities Opportunity
INFLOW, developed with support from the National Science Foundation
(NSF), is an on-line database containing information on individuals
with Ph.D. degrees who are from groups underrepresented in STEM fields.
It serves as a one-stop source of professional information on doctoral
engineers and computer scientists in academia, industry, and government
that can be regularly updated by participants via QEM's website. INFLOW will provide NSF with a source of information on potential proposal review panelists, advisory committee members, and rotators. Additionally, the participants will be provided: information on a variety of professional development opportunities; and a mechanism to access limited contact information on other participants to facilitate potential collaborations. Information on financial support, research, career, and other professional opportunities will be provided to registered individuals to encourage and support the completion of their degree programs.
For more information: http://qemnetwork.qem.org/cise_eng
The International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI)
Looking for research positions in food policy? Go to http://careers.ifpri.org/cojobsIFPRI.asp?Category=6. Please complete on-line application, including a complete resume and
cover letter.