"If I Knew Then What I Know Now" : A Panel Discussion of Graduate Women

Thursday, September 11, 2008
Time: 5:30 - 7:30pm, Dinner provided!
Place: Teer 203
Please RSVP online!

Meet incoming students from throughout the university! A panel of women from the graduate and professional schools will share their experiences and tips for thriving at Duke. This informative session seeks to provide a safe forum for exploring the "how to’s" and "why not’s" of graduate life as well as a great opportunity to network with women both within and outside of your school or department. Start off the school year smart! Co-sponsored with GPWN (Graduate and Professional Women’s Network) and GPSC (Graduate and Professional Student Council). Please RSVP online!

Breakfast with Kathy Kleiman

Thursday, September 25, 2008
Time: 9 - 10 am, Breakfast provided! Limited space, please RSVP.
Place: French 4320
Please RSVP online! This breakfast is limited to the first 10 respondents, so please RSVP early.

Our first mentoring breakfast will be with Kathy Kleiman, a historian, attorney, and computer scientist who is producing a documentary on the pioneering women programmers of the ENIAC, the first all-electronic programmable computer. Come chat with her before her RENCI Distinguished Lecture on these women computer pioneers. Please RSVP online!

Shaking up computer history: Finding the women of ENIAC

Thursday, September 25, 2008
Time: 11:30 - 1 pm, Lunch provided, first come, first served!
Place: Bryan University Center, Von Canon

A group of skilled mathematicians programmed the first all-electronic programmable computer, the ENIAC, but they were overlooked in the annals of computer history for one primary reason: they were women. Kathy Kleiman, historian, computer programmer, telecom lawyer and head of the ENIAC Programmers Project, will speak about these women -- whom ABC News referred to as "Rosie the Riveter meets Bill Gates" -- and about her efforts to produce a film documenting their unique and unsung accomplishments at the Fall 2008 Renaissance Computing Institute (RENCI) Distinguished Lecture. Please register here through RENCI. Co-sponsored with RENCI, Office of the Provost, and Duke OIT (Office of Information Technology).

Women chemists networking brunch

Saturday, October 4, 2008
Time: 11am, Brunch Provided!
Place: Cafe Carolina and Bakery, 137 Weston Parkway, Cary

Come network with women chemists from across the Triangle! The American Chemical Society, Women Chemists Committee is organizing this brunch to gather together local chemists in academia, industry, and government. "Chemist" is defined at its most broadest, so come and broaden your network with academics and professionals! WiSE will sponsor the food for all Duke participants and will arrange carpools. Please RSVP online to register for a carpool. For more information, see the event flier or contact Laura Sremaniak.

Breast Cancer Research/Health awareness seminar

Tuesday, October 21, 2008
Time: 12 - 1:30 pm, Lunch Provided!
Place: Jones 143
RSVP online
Buy a WiSE tote to benefit breast cancer!

Come join WiSE for National Breast Cancer Awareness Month. To help promote awareness, WiSE will host a panel discussion highlighting new advances in the screening and prevention of breast cancer with special focus on epidemiologic research of breast cancer occurrence as well as on approaches to maintaining breast health. Joellen Schildkraut, Professor of Community and Family Medicine,Vicky Seewaldt, Associate Professor of Medicine and Director of the Breast Cancer Prevention Program, and Liz Stoioff, currently with the Duke student health center, will be leading the panel. Please RSVP online. We'll also be taking orders for $5 pink WiSE totes to benefit breast cancer research. Buy them at the event or order yours online! The totes will be delivered the second week in November.

Best practices in developing a professional online presence

Tuesday, November 4, 2008
Time: 3 - 5 pm
Place: Perkins 217
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As a student who will be entering a profession after graduation, how do you represent yourself online? In this interactive workshop, we will explore basic design principles, standard conventions and best practices for maintaining a professional web presence. This is the first of two workshops in a series; in the follow-up session, you will be able to get hands-on experience with Dreamweaver. Hugh Crumley of the Center for Instructional Technology (CIT) will lead this workshop. Please RSVP online.

Creating and publishing a professional portfolio

Tuesday, November 11, 2008
Time: 3 - 5 pm
Place: Bostock 023
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Learn how to implement the design tips from WiSE's previous event on online portfolios. This hands-on session is designed to teach beginners the basics of creating a website using Dreamweaver with pre-created templates and publishing it to the Duke personal web server. Feel free to bring digital files (photos, resume, research/project info) either stored in webfiles.duke.edu or on a flash drive, so you can get started on your own professional portfolio while in the session.Christine Vucinich of the Office of Information Technology (OIT) will lead this workshop.RSVP online.

Abstract Writing Do's and Don'ts

Thursday, December 4, 2008
Time: 12 - 1:30 pm
Place: MSRB 001
RSVP: Online here
Submit an abstract (optional)

How do you write a concise, clear, and convincing abstract? Ann Motten (Duke, Dept. of Chemistry) guides us through the art of abstract writing. We'll learn the major components of successful abstracts, then workshop our way through several examples. We'll also have a chance to critique our own abstracts, and tips will be given for good format, style, and organization. For added impact, submit your abstract early by Tuesday, Dec 2, 5pm, and have Dr. Motten use it as one of the examples!

Women's Networking Event at ScienceOnline'09

Friday, January 16, 2009
Time: 7 - 9pm
Place: Sigma Xi Center, RTP
RSVP: Online here

WiSE is partnering with ScienceOnline'09, a national science blogging conference, to host a Triangle-wide networking event for women scientists, engineers, educators, researchers, science writers, and students. This event also includes many of our local women's groups and promises to be a networking extravaganza. Following a networking reception with free light eats and drinks, there will be a presentation by our guest speaker, Rebecca Skloot, a freelance science writer, contributing editor at Popular Science, and correspondent for PBS's NOVA scienceNOW. Our goal in hosting this networking event is to bring together local women's groups to support joint efforts in community outreach and to support communication of science information and ideas to the general public. For more info, see our full networking event page.

30-second impression & effective networking with Sharon Hill

Thursday, April 30, 2009
Time: 6:30 - 8 pm
Place: Teer 203
RSVP: Online here

Due to popular demand, we are bringing back etiquette trainer extraordinaire Sharon Hill for an hour-long seminar on how to make a positive first impression, and how to network effectively - just in time for the summer conference season! Dinner will be served, so please RSVP.