It’s an Ice Cream* Social! Join us for a chance to meet your new peer mentoring group members. We’ll be guiding groups with some icebreaker activities and tips & tricks to keep your group going strong all summer long! Monday, June 8th @ 5-6pm 252 Goessmann *dairy-free options and toppings will be available
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Crash Course in R Programming
Have a massive data set to mine through or perform statistics on this summer? Want to learn a program that’s flexible, powerful, and free? Then the Crash Course in R Workshop is designed for you! In an hour and a half, led by Guillaume Pagnier, you will become acquainted with the basic operations in R […]
GWIS Summer Kickoff BBQ
Please join us for the first annual GWIS Summer Kickoff BBQ! Come celebrate the end of academic year and beginning of summer on Friday, May 29th from 1:00 – 4:00 pm on the “Engineering Quad” – the lawn in front of Marston and Marcus Halls. Feel free to bring a frisbee or lawn game to […]
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 […]
GWIS Professional Development and Indian Student Association Lunch
The Graduate Women in Stem (GWIS) and Indian Student Association (ISA) are collaborating for the first time to help graduate students from all departments with professional and personal advancement along with some social events. We’re organizing our first social event including lunch on Thursday, May 14th, starting 12:30 pm and would be delighted to see […]
Interested in Peer Mentoring?
New peer mentoring groups are starting to form from the primordial GWIS sludge! Sign up if you’re interested in joining a new support network (not just because of the ice cream social that will happen in a few weeks, date TBA)! Hope to see you there 🙂 Here’s the link again: https://websites.umass.edu/gwis/2015/05/04/interested-in-peer-mentoring/
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 […]
April Graduate Student Appreciation Day Coffee Hour
Come network (and eat donuts!) with graduate students from STEM fields at our FINAL coffee hour of the semester! WHEN: Wednesday, April 22 10:30 am – 11:30 am WHERE: Morrill II Room 319 Enjoy free coffee, cheesecake, Atkins cider donuts, and fruit! All are welcome – no registration required.
Dr. Marisha Godek Returns to UMass Next Wednesday, 4/22
Dr. Godek previously attended our Spring 2014 Networking Mixer, where she was a stellar panelist. Next week, she returns to give a talk at Casey Gilman’s Science Communication course. The talk will be open to other students – pre-registration is required (see details below). Communications is very excited to announce that OPD is sponsoring an […]
Networking’s First Event – the Gender Matters Lecture Reception
Around fifty people showed up to our networking reception which took place immediately after the Gender Matters Lecture last week. The lecture focused on implicit biases against women in STEM, in academia, and in general. The reception afterwards had a fantastic turnout – we were really excited to see everyone there! Attendees included students, faculty, […]
