WiSE at Duke

PC welcomes Lissy from ME

WiSE welcomes Alician "Lissy" Quinlan to join the PC. Lissy was the first female professor in Duke Engineerinng School when hired in 1983.

posted by Tong @ 2:31 PM 0 Comments

funding

WiSE received funding from Graduate Student Affairs for academic year 2006-2007 at full amount requested.

posted by Tong @ 8:03 PM 0 Comments

WiSE lunch discussion: Balancing Career and Family

Speaker: Haiyan Gao, Nancy Allen, Susan Roth, Amanda Moehring
Time: Friday, Oct. 13, 12-1:15PM
Place: Women's Center
Program Evaluation

posted by Tong @ 11:59 PM 0 Comments

WiSE reading group - From Lori Norton

A few years ago, I led the reading group with Mia Markey, Melissa Pasquinelli, Navina Hamilton. I had a lot of fun doing it. The basic duties are to find books or articles on topics of interest to WiSE participants. So first we would send an email over the WiSE and Gradwomen listserves to see if anyone was interested in participating. Then we'd decide whether a lunch or evening meeting would work best for the participants. Most of the time, the meetings were held in the evenings. Then you reserve a room for the duration of the meetings (every two weeks for a semester).

When I first came to Duke, Susan, who led the group before me, would photocopy articles and distribute them via campus mail to all participants one week prior to the group meeting. In 2000-2002, Mia and I decided to select books for the group to read (Managing Martians, Winning the Games Scientists Play, Athena Unbound, and Ms. Mentor's Impeccable Advice for Women in Academia). In 2002-2004, Melissa, Navina, and I used online articles from Science Next Wave and posted the links on the reading group webpage ( http://www.duke.edu/web/wise/reading_group_03_04.htm). For photocopying articles, there is the issue of copyright, which would need to be investigated before they were distributed. For books, a portion of the WiSE budget was set aside to buy books. At the meetings, if there's money, you can provide light snacks. If I recall correctly, Susan provided light dinners, since photocopying is cheaper than buying books. At the meetings you just have a round-table discussion of the topics at hand. Usually they lasted an hour.

In terms of time, most of the time commitment involves organizing the participant email list, determining a meeting time, signing up for a room, and deciding on the material. If buying books are involved, then you will need to purchase the books and be reimbursed. Tong can describe the reimbursement procedures. I think the easiest solution was online articles because they only needed to be posted on the webpage. Plus anyone on the WiSE listserve could attend when you emailed the meeting reminders.

posted by Tong @ 7:12 PM 0 Comments

PC welcomes Megan from biology

WiSE welcomes Megan Hall to join the PC. Megan is a postdoc in the department of biology.

posted by Tong @ 11:08 PM 0 Comments

Field Trip Summary - Venue Change in spring 2007!

Six members of the PC went on a field trip last Wednesday to check out possible rooms. We have decided that we will take the risk and change our event location for this coming spring semester. This will be a trial period. If it doesn’t work out well, we will go back to women’s center next fall. This venue change will bring along significant changes in aspects like room reservations, food catering, speaker parking, etc. Let’s hope by expanding we can make more WiSE women happy! Claire, we love women’s center, but we really want to accommodate more women scientists and engineers. The bound between WiSE and women’s center will not loosen - please support us on our decision!

The plan is to move our lunch series to one of the four rooms listed below, and cap our maximum capacity at ~75. We have decided that WiSE will still offer lunch boxes on spring events, but limit our expenses on non-WiSE events.

ROOMS: (pending on reservation availability)
LSRC A247 - bright, flexible seating, close by
MSRB 001 – flexible seating, remote
Teer 203 – close by, fixed seating, room has formal stage
Hudson 125 – close by, fixed seating
CIEMAS Auditorium – no food inside, fixed seating, close by
(If you know how to reserve a room in LSRC or MSRB, please let me know!)

posted by Tong @ 11:05 PM 0 Comments

out of the office -- no web updates until Nov

Hi, I'll be gone on a field trip from this Monday, 10/9 until Wednesday, 11/1. So sorry, but I won't be able to update the website during this time.

Feel free to email me ideas for the website during this time, and I'll get to it as soon as I can when I get back.

Thanks!

posted by Erica @ 10:55 AM 1 Comments