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What Is Graduate Women’s Network?

“The Graduate Women’s Network represents graduate women and serves as a network for raising and creating ideas to answer the needs of women on campus.” This is basically all we have as a “definition” of the GWN. How exactly the GWN should function, how should our social/ supportive network run, is totally up to us. Together, we define it.

Let us have a discussion on the GWN blog, about the GWN. What do you think the GWN should be? What events & activities you would suggest us to do next semester? What groups we can set up to meet regularly, networking and sharing our interests?

Please post your comments here. Let’s talk about our network and decide what to do next in our network.

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GWN LOGO COMPETITION!

LET’S DESIGN OUR LOGO!

The Graduate Women’s Network is pleased to announce a logo design competition. All graduate women of UMass, or collaborative groups of graduate women and friends are welcome to participate. The winning logo will become property of GWN and will be used on GWN blog, GSS website, GWN fliers, and other occasions for GWN events.

Submission deadline: 02/18/2011

Submission to: gss-gwn@grad.umass.edu

Submission details:

Entries should be submitted in electric format.

Entries should include:

  • The design as a digital image file;
  • Design concept/ description as a word or pdf file;
  • Designer’s identification information, including the designer’s name, affiliation, and email address.

All entries will be posted on the GWN blog.

Evaluation committee: the GSS team and possibly you. If you are interested to be on the evaluation committee, please write to gss-gwn@grad.umass.edu. We may also have an online voting on our GWN blog (websites.umass.edu/gssgwn).

Winning Prize:

  • $60 (may be a gift card of your choice if preferred);
  • Certificate (issue by Graduate Women’s Network with the winning logo on it);
  • The joy of seeing your logo on the GWN blog and on every GWN flier!

Following-up Event:

We will organize an event after the winning logo is selected: Print your own GWN T-shirt, in the Student Union Craft Center. Details to be announced later.

Questions? Contact:

Hongmei Sun
Graduate Women’s Network Coordinator
gss-gwn@grad.umass.du
545-2897
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GWN Marbling Event

What is marbling?

GWN definition: an opportunity to join a group of graduate women for a creative, relaxing, liberating, and exhilarating experience, bonding up with your peers, messing up with colors, water, and paper, and yet being amazed by your own work and admired by your fellow participants. This is also a good chance to check out with the Craft Center if you have never done so.

Paper marbling has an amazing history (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paper_marbling), but our event is just going to be fun. It’s to be held in the Student Union Craft Center, 6:00 – 8:00pm. FREE event, but registration required for organizing purpose.

To register, please write to Hongmei at gss-gwn@grad.umass.edu as soon as possible.

Date options:

Many of you expressed wishes to participate GWN events but unable to do so owing to schedule conflicts, so for this event we’ll try two options:

Wednesday 11/17: there are 20 openings; please register asap;

Tuesday 11/30: possible if I get more than 8 responses for this option.

Below are some images of paper marbling in our Student Union Craft Center:

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GWN Meeting & Yoga session

Wednesday Nov. 3, in Campus Center 917.
Graduate women and their friends are welcome.

1) 5:30 – 6:00 GWN Meeting;

Agenda:
GWN Committee or Council;
Next meeting;
GWN logo competition;

2) 6:00 – 7:30 Yoga Session. Free.
Yoga teacher: Eric Burri

Eric Burri has studied and practiced yoga since 1994 and has been teaching since 2000. He is now teaching the Yoga classes at UMass Recreation Center. For more information about Eric’s yoga class, see umassyoga.com

Ideas and suggestions for future events are welcome. Please contact Hongmei gss-gwn@grad.umass.edu for questions.

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GWN Writing Group

We are having our second Writing Group meeting at Campus Center 902 Tuesday 11/02, from 4pm to 7pm.

Owing to popular demand, the Writing Group is going to meet WEEKLY. Please put the following meeting schedule to your calendar:

11/10/2010, Wed

11/16/2010, Tue

11/23/2010, Tue

11/30/2010, Tue

12/8/2010,  Wed

12/15/2010, Wed

Meeting time: 4:00 – 7:00 pm.

Room: Campus Center 905-09.

The room is available for us till 8pm, so those who are willing to stay longer can do so till 8.

Writing Group meeting etiquette:

Discussion and chatting 4:00 – 4:30 only; after that we are supposed to work, quietly. If you are late, step in and sit down to work.

Hot tea is provided. It’s ok to bring your own snack.


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Graduate Women’s Network Meeting

So Let’s Meet! Wednesday Oct. 20, 6:00- 8:00pm, in Campus Center 804-08.

All graduate women and their friends are welcome!

This is our first meeting, so we will talk about us: our needs, our plans for the year. Come networking with other graduate women from different departments and culture backgrounds. Let’s plan out the events and activities we will have in this year as GWN together.
Hot pizza and hot beverage will be served!

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Free: Dissertation Support Group for Women

Dissertation Support Group for Women
Are you writing a dissertation?
Meet with other women who are writing dissertations and understand the particular challenges women face.
Set realistic goals, offer and receive support, encouragement and suggestions to help meet your goals.

Graduate Women’s Network & Everywoman’s Center Counseling Services are
sponsoring a free Dissertation Support Group for Women.
The group will be facilitated by Pamela Plumer, Ph.D who completed her doctorate at UMass.

Thursday Evenings 5:30-7:00    First meeting will be in November, 2010

Registration Begins October, 2010
For more information and to register call:
Susan Mahler, Director
EWC Counseling Services
413-545-1276

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GWN meeting

It’s time for us to get together! Regularly!

Would Wednesday Oct. 20 6-8pm work for you?

For the first time, we probably should just talk about us, our needs, our plans for the year. Then in the following weeks we can include some activities. Do you like this plan?

There should be drinks (meaning, water, hot tea, and hot chocolate). It’s also possible that we’ll have pizza on the table 🙂

Please do respond to this post–what do you think?

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Child Care Assistance Program–Fall 2010

If you are a graduate student with children between the ages of 0 and 12, you are eligible—to apply for subsidies from GSS to help with your childcare costs, whether you pay a third-party for childcare or whether you take care of your children yourself. These subsidies are financed through a combination of funding sources, including: the Graduate Student Senate Tax, Child Care Funds from the GEO/UAW collective bargaining agreement, and the UAW/UMASS Health and Welfare Trust Fund. The subsidies are generally allocated during the beginning of the Fall and Spring semester for use during the academic year.

Application forms and distribution policy can be found at

http://umass.edu/gss

Please contact Hongmei at gss-childcare@grad.umass.edu with all questions and/or concerns.

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UMASS Campus Violence Victim Rights Forum

UMASS Campus Violence Victim Rights Forum – a panel discussion

April 14: Cape Cod Lounge; 12-1:30. Free event. Lunch provided.

What are your legal rights if you experience assault or violence on campus? Where do you go for help? Where do you go for support? What are your rights and protections if you are not a US Citizen?

Everyone is welcome! Please participate to join the discussion and show your concern for campus violence!

SPEAKERS:

Jo-Ann Bowen, Assoc. Director, EO&D

Lisa Kidwell, Detective, UMass Police

Colby Bruno, Victim Rights Law Center

Bernadette Stark, Student Legal Services

Jo-Anne Vanin, Dean of Students

Dale Melcher, Labor Relations

SPONSORED BY:

Council on the Status of Women

Everywoman’s Center

Faculty Senate

Graduate Student Senate

Graduate Employee Organization

MA Society of Professors

Student Government Association

Women Gender Sexuality Studies

For more info: contact Graduate Women’s Network, gss-gwn@grad.umass.edu