Welcome to WiSE!
We're a network of women graduate students and post-doctoral associates at Duke working to improve the climate for women in science and engineering. Our primary sponsors are Duke's Office of Graduate Student Affairs and the Graduate and Professional Student Council.
Next Event:
Successful Grant-Writing for Graduate Students
Tuesday, February 16, 2010
Time: 5:15-7pm
Place: Women's Center
Dinner will be served! Please RSVP!
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Tuesday: Successful Grant Writing for Graduate Students!
Graduate school training in such topics as how to write a successful grant proposal is often scarce or none, thus many students do not fully appreciate how important these skills are to their future careers.
Graduate and Profession Women's Network welcomes all advanced graduate students to attend a presentation by Dr. Ashutosh Chilkoti on grant writing: where to find them, how to write them, and how to get them accepted. Dr. Chilkoti is a Professor and the Director of Graduate Studies for the Biomedical Engineering program, as well as the Director of the Center for Biologically Inspired Materials and Material Systems. He has been successful in obtaining peer-reviewed funding and has served on a number of national and international reviewing bodies for many years. There will be plenty of time for a Q&A following the presentation. Come with your questions!
Dinner will be served! Please RSVP here.
Monday: Coffee Hour with GPWN
The graduate and professional women's network (GPWN) has been on hiatus due to lack of leadership, but they have recently obtained a new Program Coordinator, Maggie Quan! She will join us at the next Coffee Hour to brainstorm some ideas for future GPWN programming. We hope you'll be there too!
Thursday: Sci-Fi Book Club Kick-Off!
If you didn't catch this month's book (Virtual Girl by Amy Thomson), definitely try and catch the next one! We're looking forward to some great discussion about this Sci-Fi book on Thursday at the Women's Center. Dinner will be served.
Next week: Pioneering Women Lecture Series!
Join us next Monday, 2:30-3:30pm at the Women's Center, for the Pioneering Women Lecture Series kick-off! Our speaker will be Lisa Bradley, a Software Engineer at IBM. Refreshments will be served!
Fall 2009 Events Now Posted!
Check out our Fall '09 events! The calendar will be updated as new events are created and organized, so please check back often! The Planning Committee is responsible for brainstorming and/or organizing new events. If you'd like to get involved with the Planning Committee, please contact our Program Coordinator.
Introducing our new programmer, Cynthia Tedore!
8/10/09: We are very happy to introduce our new WiSE Program Coordinator, Cynthia Tedore! Welcome, Cynthia!