WiSE at Duke

GPWN/WiSE first event of the semester

Dinner discussion: "If I knew then what I know now", a panel discussion by graduate women.
Tong served on the panel and Heather moderated the discussion. We had a 80-90 people crowd.

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Shannon's farewell party

Shannon is leaving Duke for the Director position over at NC State Women's Center after serving for 10 years at Duke. WiSE got her a traditional Chinese purse and a card as farewell gift.
Tong learned how to publish WiSE events on Duke university calendar, how to request financial info from Jessica, and how to fill out expenses forms.
WiSE invited Dr. Vasu Varadan as our 2006 Spring distinguished speaker.

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GSA Orientation

Heidi K., Shannon, Lori, and Tong sat at the orientation tables on Aug 22 and 23. We had WiSE fall calendar, customized post-it-notes and "women pioneering future" bookmarks to give away. The post-it-notes were made with WiSE logo and Pratt Dean Kristina Johnson's quote. After two day's tabling, we got 45 people who signed up for WiSE listserv!

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Aug. 2nd mtg summary

Shannon, Heidi K., and Tong met today.

A. Flyer
We decided to use orange this year. Jessie has ordered $1,500 sheet of orange paper for us.
Fall 2005 WiSE events calendar
What is WiSE flyer

B. Post-it-notes
Shannon will order $1000 25-sheet notes from 4inprint.com, printed on cream / spring green paper, with two color. ($470)

C. Time line
There are three weeks left until the Orientation.
Aug. 1-7: We will aim to finish within this week a written proposal about inviting Mae Jemison.
Aug. 8-14: Next week we will go to major offices (1-5 in the list below) in person and ask for their money. Once we have a base support, we will book Mae. We will also print the flyers and send them out.
Aug. 15-21: In the third week we will get ready for the orientation (make posters, etc.), and continue to work on Mae Jemison funding.

Tentative Mae Jemison funding sources: (aim for / expect)
Need $20,000 total, have $3,000, short $17,000.
1. Pratt, Dean Kristina Johnson ($10,000 / $7,000)
2. Medical Center, Heather ($5,000 / $3,500)
3. Duke Union Major Speakers, Tori Winbley ($5,000 / $3,500)
4. GSA, Jackie and Lana ($5,000 / $3,500)
5. Office of the Provost
6. BSA, Dean Andrea Caldwell
7. University Funds, next round
8. EGSC, Heather Wake
9. ESG
10. African-American Studies
11. GPSC
12. BGPSA
13. SWE

Sep23 event "gender influences in academia" - tentative topics
This event will focus on the path leading to a professor. These questions will be sent out to the panelists one week before the event.
1. tenure track
2. dynamics in classroom
3. fewer women in S&E
4. research v.s. teaching
5. balance between family and career
6. overwhelmed stress and competance
7. academic v.s. industry
8. when & how did you make the decision
9. what is the best part? what did you enjoy most?
10. what could be done to increase the number of female faculty in S&E?
11. statistics regarding women in S&E (undergrad, grad, postdoc, faculty)

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