Nominations for the 2021-2022 term are now open until March 5th! Nominate yourself, another UMass graduate student, or a team of UMass graduate students enthusiastic about advancing women in STEM and leading a great organization HERE. 2021-2022 GWIS executive board election timeline: Nominations: February – March 5th Elections (voting online): March 8th – March 22nd […]
GWIS Undergraduate Mentoring Panel 10/15/20
Graduate Women in STEM Present: Graduate School Panel
How to apply? What is graduate school like? How do you find mentors, or funding, and more! October 15th 5:00– 6:00 PM EST Sign up here! https://forms.gle/4iH8x5WijDFPfJiz8
Mentoring Committee Recap of Fall 2019
Last semester, the mentoring committee organized and partook in several different events on and off campus. Here are some highlights and photos! If you are interested in similar events, have ideas for new events, or would like a leadership role in GWIS, come join one of our mentoring committee meetings or apply to one of […]
Broken Silence: GQM Special Edition 2017
CW: Sexual violence Dear Colleagues and Friends, Today we are launching the special edition of GWIS Quarterly Magazine (#GQM) focused on submitted stories of sexual violence within our STEM academic community. Sexual violence is an issue that is ever-present within our campus community, but one with reach far beyond STEM. It affects people – especially […]
October Digest
Check out the amazing events coming up in October! More mentoring events and collaborations with Mount Holyoke or CNS.
August Digest
GWIS in August (unless otherwise noted, each event is open to all members) August 2nd, 2:00-4:00pm: GWIS and GRiD DataScience mini series in Python and R, in CS150/151 August 2nd, 4:00-6:00pm: Communications Committee meeting in GWIS HQ (Goessman 252) week of August 8th: Mentoring Committee meeting (reply to gwis@grad.umass.edu for specific time/location) August 16th,12pm: Faculty Mentoring Luncheon (RSVP required) Ongoing: The […]
Donate to GWIS Through UMass Giving!
Great news, folks – you can now designate donations for Graduate Women in STEM through UMass Giving!
GWIS Practice Cross-Cultural Communication
In a new workshop designed and implemented by GWIS, students learned how to better communicate between across different cultural divides. Our facilitator, Dr. Amer Ahmed, led the group through some activities/exercises as well as some more lecture-style teaching about intercultural communication and competency, with a mix of theoretical models and relatable examples. There was some […]
UMass Grad Students Dive into Improv
Last Thursday at our Improve Your Communication with Improv! Workshop, six UMass graduate students from different areas of STEM came together to loosen up and practice some exercise that will help them become more effective communicators. We played games such as “Who Am I?” (pictured below) and “Presentation Karaoke”, and students were asked to explain […]
