Dr. Connie Chow, a scientist and educator, infuses STEM with play, feminism and inclusion. She founded The-Exploratory (the-exploratory.org) to empower teachers and girls to bring science to life in Ghana. She’s an associate lecturer in the Honors College at UMass Boston and a visiting social entrepreneur at the Center for Women’s Health and Human Rights […]
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Outreach Event on Friday May 29th @ UMass with 8th graders
Does your research address sustainability? The 8th graders of the Four Rivers Charter School in Greenfield MA are studying the question: what technologies (and ideas) represent the best hope for our future? It’s a question that focuses on sustainability in all the ways we can imagine we need to think about it. When: Friday May 29th from […]
SWE Junior Engineering Girl Scouts Day Saturday April 25th
The Society of Women Engineers are in need of a couple more volunteers for Junior Engineering Girl Scouts Day this Saturday, April 25th and would love to have some of the GWIS women help out. This year the girl scouts are building solar cars and learning about alternative energies. Each volunteer will primarily work with […]
Upcoming Outreach Activities
Sign up to participate in upcoming GWIS Outreach events! Where: the Amherst Regional Middle School (just 2 miles away from campus)! Workshop: We’ll be doing a cool STEM activity with an 8th grade after school science club on a Tuesday from 3 to 4 pm. To sign up and see available dates, see form here. Sound […]
Outreach Workshop with Eureka! on Saturday May 17th at UMass
Volunteer for outreach with teenage girls from Girls Inc. of Holyoke! What’s In Your Water? We will be doing a water treatment workshop with the girls from last summer! This water quality workshop aims to demonstrate the need for the treatment of water to make it potable. We need volunteers to help work with the girls. Send an […]
Join us for our Spring General Body Meeting!
Where: LGRT 1033 (Go to the 10th floor, we will hang signs up to guide the way!) When: Wednesday, April 9th 5:30-6:30 Join us for some food, fun and trivia at our spring semester general body meeting. Mix with your fellow GWIS members, learn how to get involved in GWIS programming and initiatives, meet new […]
Reminder: Monday is the 2nd Annual CNS Women in Science Lecture!
The College of Natural Sciences at the University of Massachusetts Amherst invites you to the 2nd Annual CNS Women in Science Lecture: SUSAN METZ, Senior Research Associate and Director of Diversity & Inclusion at Stevens Institute of Technology “Moving Beyond Fixing the Women to Changing the Culture in Academic STEM Fields,” UMass Student Union Ballroom […]
Announcing the 2nd Annual CNS Women in Science Lecture!
The College of Natural Sciences at the University of Massachusetts Amherst invites you to the 2nd Annual CNS Women in Science Lecture: SUSAN METZ, Senior Research Associate and Director of Diversity & Inclusion at Stevens Institute of Technology “Moving Beyond Fixing the Women to Changing the Culture in Academic STEM Fields,” UMass Student Union Ballroom […]
