The sky was clear, the music was rocking, and the food was delicious! The end of spring semester/summer kickoff event drew a huge crowd, who were all there to mingle and enjoy the music played by Industrial Waste (the physics folk band) and Off the Mark (graduate students from the Civil and Environmental Engineering program). Some […]
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Peer Mentoring Groups Will Kick Off Summer with an Ice Cream Social!
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
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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, […]
Fulbright scholarship events
Want to continue your graduate studies or research abroad? Join the ranks of UMass Amherst graduate students in STEM fields who have been awarded a Fulbright scholarship! The UMass Commonwealth Honors College is hosting two events this semester to help boost your chance of success: Info session on April 15 from 12:00 Application boot camp on […]
GWIS Spring 2015 General Body Meeting
It’s finally getting warmer outside, and that means it’s time for our spring General Body meeting! Thursday, April 23rd @ 5:30pm At the NEW GWIS headquarters – Goessman 252 We have some exciting things in store: Tour of our new space, open to all GWIS members for meeting, studying, or hanging out Excellent TRIVIA with free […]