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 […]
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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 […]
Networking Across Cultures: Professional Skills for Cross-Cultural Communication
Interested in international academic or industry collaborations? Come learn and practice professional skills for cross-cultural interaction! RSVP today by clicking here!
Writing Scientific Documents in LaTeX
Did you ever wish you could just tell Microsoft Word or any other word processor exactly how it should look without clicking through layers and layers of settings windows and buttons? Did you ever find typing equations to be far more difficult than writing them by hand? Did you ever wonder why so many textbooks […]
STEM Diversity Workshop
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 […]
Enhance Your Colleagues’ Creativity through Selfless Listening
This workshop will teach participants a disciplined form of listening that is designed to help a colleague elaborate and clarify ideas that may still be fuzzy in her mind. The effort of explaining an idea and answering questions posed by the listener will push the client to figure out what she wants to say. Unlike the more […]
Python Workshops – back by popular demand!
Back by popular demand, improved with feedback from you! GWIS is holding a series of interactive workshops to show the ropes of the versatile programming language popular with scientists and engineers! What: Interactive python programming workshops Where: Integrated Sciences Building (ISB) 221 When: 11:20a.m. to 12:55p.m. Session 1: Tuesday 2/24: basic programming – installing python, […]
Python-Advanced Topics
Interested in learning more about programming in python? GWIS is holding a series of interactive workshops to show the ropes of this versatile programming language popular with scientists and engineers. What: Interactive python programming workshop – Session 3 When: Tuesday, December 2nd. 3:00-4:30pm Where: Integrated Sciences Building (ISB) 221 Session 3 – We will cover […]
Python-Data manipulation, library sci kit learn- mathematical learning
Ever think about learning more about programming but didn’t know where to look? GWIS is holding a series of interactive workshops to show the ropes of the versatile programming language popular with scientists and engineers: python! What: Interactive python programming workshop – Session 2 When: Tuesday, November 18th. 3:00-4:30pm Where: Integrated Sciences Building (ISB) 145 Participants will interact with […]
Python-The basics
Ever think about learning more about programming but didn’t know where to look? GWIS is holding an interactive workshop to show the ropes and basics of the versatile programming language popular with scientists and engineers: python! What: Interactive python programming workshop – Session 1 When: Tuesday, November 4th. 3:00-4:30pm Where: CS Building 150 Participants will interact with experts […]
