International Women's Day Webinar
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March 8, 2018
11:00 AM ET
During this webinar, we will hear from some of our members about the important work underway to mentor more young women and girls to pursue STEM career and leadership opportunities.
A formal invitation will be sent later this week with more information.
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UNITED KINGDOM:
University of St Andrews to Publish Inspiring Stories of Female Academics
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Academic Women Here! On Being A Female Academic At The University Of St Andrews is billed as a candid discussion on the experiences of women in a research environment.
Contributing academics have talked openly and honestly about the highs and lows they have experienced in pursuing their careers.
It is hoped that by sharing their stories, more young women will be encouraged to take up research positions, even if they do not fit in with the typical academic story line.
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CANADA:
Robotics Competition Encourages Girls to Get into STEM
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The 17th annual CRC Robotics Competition started Thursday at Laval Senior Academy, and a winner will be announced Saturday.
Organizers see the competition as a fun way to get girls thinking about pursuing further studies in STEM fields — science, technology, engineering and math.
Ioanna Korbis, a Grade 11 at Collège Sainte-Marcelline in Saint-Laurent, says she appreciates being surrounded by so many amateur engineers.
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Three high school student participants in the Career Learning Link Partnership through Northeast Iowa Community College attended a Girls in STEM event in Johnston on Monday, Jan. 29, to learn more about high-demand, high-paying careers for women.
The students visited interactive Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM) booths taking guided notes about the training and education needed for specific careers. The event was sponsored by Iowa Public Television and Million Women Mentors Iowa.
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Glenbrook South Event Seeks to Inspire Girls to Pursue Careers in STEM Fields
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Chandra and two other women professionals in the science, technology, engineering and math fields spoke to about 60 Glenbrook South High School sophomore girls about the start of their careers and what their jobs entail as part of a Women in STEM Breakfast event held Friday.
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Scholarships Support Medina Girls at STEM Camp
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Be WISE Camp is part of the answer. Be WISE is a science, technology, engineering and math camp (STEM) designed to develop interest, excitement and self confidence in young women who are entering grades seven or eight in the fall of 2018.
The American Association of University Women Medina County Branch wants to help encourage girls who want to attend Be WISE to be able to afford it.
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Slice of Life: Brenau Makes its Mark in Stem Cell Research
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Heather Ross is Brenau’s resident expert on neuroregeneration and neural injury. For years, she has been working on stem cell and rehabilitation research that is instrumental to her students and the field of research. Now partnered with certified cytotechnologist Jessi Shrout on a study of stem cells in rat brains, Ross is continuing a five-year trend at Brenau to expose Women’s College students to the wonder and possibility of neurological rehabilitation.
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HERS Institute Selects K Associate Provost for Cohort
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Kalamazoo College Associate Provost
Laura Lowe Furge
is one of 65 women leaders from across the country who has been selected to attend the 2018 Higher Education Resource Services (HERS) Institute. Furge will be a part of the University of Denver cohort that meets from June 18-30.
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Female Students and Faculty Challenge Gender Stereotypes in Male-Dominated Majors
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In a USD computer science classroom full of men, one female student is not afraid to leave her seat, approach the whiteboard and scribble her thoughts over it to find a solution to the lab at hand.
Senior Alexis Layne, a computer science major, is breaking down gender stereotypes in her male-dominated major by working with other women outside of the classroom and proving herself through her skills in the classroom, she said,
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5 Institutions Promoting Women in Engineering
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A Sisterhood of Entrepreneurship
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Andie Hines -
I'm a business owner. I'm a single mom. I'm also about 30 other roles in the span of any given week. In short, I'm a professional plate spinner, and I have been lucky to meet hundreds of other women who feel the same way. We aren't necessarily a “new” variety of business professional, but we're a group that is growing as more female entrepreneurs discover the freedom and satisfaction of ownership.
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Female Mobile Game Designers Are Changing The Industry For Women & The Evidence Is In Your Smartphone
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If you're wondering what they do day-to-day, experience and game design don't involve as much fiddling with code as you might think — or, indeed any at all. David explains, "Experience design is kind of a new career path — it's kind of why I stumbled upon it. We create the user flows for products and make everything feel intuitive so that when a player comes into your app, it feels very seamless. The other part of it is designing the visuals for it."
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#SeeHer Campaign Calls For More Inclusive Portrayals Of Women On Television
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A new series of PSAs is tying the gender disparity in science and technology professions to representations of women in the media.
The
#SeeHer campaign
includes spots on VH1, Logo, MTV and other Viacom networks. The first PSA features a young girl daydreaming about saving the White House as an engineer, with a tagline reading “If you can #SeeHer, you can be her.”
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NASA Removes Le Moyne Grad from Space Shuttle Flight
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Jeanette J. Epps was removed from the flight crew for unspecified reasons, with NASA stating that she is still eligible for future endeavors into space. She had already begun training for Expeditions 56-57, but will soon be returning to Johnson Space Center in Houston, Texas. Had she not been removed, she would have become the first African-American person to live on the ISS.
These removals are not uncommon at NASA, where last minute changes and corrections are a constant.
However, NASA has been silent regarding the reason for Epps’ removal.
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Mentoring Monday, the Perfect Opportunity to Find a Local Mentor
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Tricia Schwennesen
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As we get closer to this year's Bizwomen Mentoring Monday, I’ve been thinking a lot about mentorship. San Antonio Business Journal Publisher
Jimmy Holmes
tapped me to be one of 40 mentors for the event on Feb. 12 at The DoSeum. We’re one of 43 publications across the country participating in this speed-dating-style coaching event, meaning that roughly 10,000 women across the country from Albany, New York, to Hawaii will have an opportunity to be mentored.
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In a recent Gallup study, only 11 percent of corporate executives perceived that college graduates had the skills they were looking for. How can we better prepare the next generation for the jobs of tomorrow?
In her new book, Teach to Work: How a Mentor, a Mentee and a Project Can Close the Skills Gap in America (Taylor and Francis: March 28, 2017) mentoring expert Patty empowers professionals – whether they are bankers, lawyers, architects, accountants, engineers, IT specialists or artists – to bring their real-world experience and her project based mentoring model into the classroom.
Compelling and insightful, the book reveals how professionals can embark on a journey to transform lives, mentoring one student at a time.
“You have made a difference in the lives of these kids, and most likely you have made a difference in the lives of their kids as well. They have grabbed hold of your light, because they feel your encouragement and kindness, and maybe because they had no other. Thank you for your important leadership in this role.”
— Chris Gardener, Author of The Pursuit of Happyness, 2010 NFTE Dare to Dream speech
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Women’s Quick Facts brings to life insightful data on the impact of women that everyone should know. From purchasing power, to how efficient women owned companies are with respect to capital compared to men, this book takes the pulse on women in today’s modern economy. Not only does each page compile a broad spectrum of the most current data, it also brings the numbers to life in bite size, easy to read content.
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