Events for 2004-2005
WISAY Social and Networking Event - "Champagne on the Green"
Wednesday July 27, 2005 at 6pm - Courtyard in front of Bass
Women graduate students and post-docs interacted by joining WISAY for this inaugural social event. Cheese with crackers, fruit, Champagne and sparkling water were serverd.
Open forum discussion and reception with Professor Tamar Schlick and several of her students from NYU
Thursday, June 30, 2005
SCL 253 - Refreshments at 3 pm followed by a discussion at 3:15 pm
An open forum discussion and reception with Professor Tamar Schlick and several of her students from NYU. She is a mathematician by training whose pioneering work includes the development new algorithms and computational methods for modeling fundamental biological processes at the molecular level. Building a theoretical framework for understanding the complex functions of biomolecules has required drawing from the expertise of her diverse research group made up of chemists, mathematicians, physicists, computer scientists and biologists.
Professor Schlick is the author of about 120 publications and a textbook on molecular modeling simulation. She is also committed to promoting and mentoring women in science, particularly though her organization, "Women on Women" at NYU.
Dr. Jane Goodall, DBE - Reasons For Hope
Tuesday, May 10, 2005 at 5:00 pm
Special Lecture and booksigning at Battell Chapel (Corner of College and Elm Streets in New Haven).
WISAY Mentoring Program -- End of Year Dinner
Wednesday April 27, 2005, 5:00 pm
We celebrated the end of a successful year of mentoring. WISAY Mentoring Program wanted to thank you for all your time and energy spent mentoring with a dinner and a small token of appreciation.
WISAY Seminar--A Two Day Seminar About Negotiating a Job Offer
Tuesday, April 19, 2005, 5:00 pm
Negotiating a Job Offer - Panel DiscussionBASS 305
Representatives from academia and industry discussed who extends a job offer to a potential employee and besides salary, what else can be negotiated. Panel Participants: Dr. Andrew Hamilton, Provost of Yale University; Mark Simone, Development Recruiting Manager, Pfizer Inc. and Hillery Hunter, Researcher (RSM), IBM.
Thursday April 14, 2005, 5:00 pm
The Basics of NegotiationDr. Erica Dawson
SCL 253
Dr. Erica Dawson, from Yale School of Management, gave a lecture on the basics of negotiation followed by an interactive session used to envision different scenarios and role-playing communication options. Job negotiators often get tripped up on how to word their requests, walking that line between assertive and demanding, and suggestions were explored on how to be assertive without being demanding.
- Slides from Dr. Dawson's lecture (MS Powerpoint, 9.2 MB)
- Handout with the compensation details that were discussed (MS Word, 22 KB).
Career Choices: Serendipity and Truth
Tuesday April 12, 2005
Dr. Traci Hall, Investigator at National Institutes of Health
Bass 205 at 9am
Dr. Hall has a BS in Biochemistry from UCLA, PhD from Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, did a two-year fellowship with the US Agency for International Development as a AAAS Diplomacy fellow, postdoc with Dan Leahy at Johns Hopkins School of Medicine. She is a Senior Investigator at the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences, an institute of the NIH. She has been married for 11.5 years and the mother of an 8-year-old daughter and an almost 4-year-old son.
WISAY Mentoring Program—Discussion
March 23, 2005
After a short presentation on various statistics regarding women in science, two Yale Daily News articles were discussed in light of the remarks by Harvard President Lawrence Summers on the position of women in science and engineering.
WISAY Seminar and Networking Event
February 15, 2005
5 pm - hors d'oeuvres5:15 - Dr. Cheryl Hayward spoke about "From the Bench to the Desk: A Personal Experience at Pfizer".
BASS 405
Dr. Hayward got her PhD in organic chemistry from Yale University in 1994 working on the total synthesis of Rapamycin with Professor Sam Danishefsky. She went to Pfizer directly afterward where she has been for the past 11 years. She has experience working as a chemistry lab head in the atherosclerosis group and was then promoted to the management line in 1999. She is currently a Director with responsibility for the atherosclerosis chemistry team. She is married and has two daughters.
WISAY Mentoring Program—Match Dinner
November 10, 2004
Mentoring pairs meet each other and socialized.
WISAY Mentoring Program Kick-Off event
October 11, 2004
4:00-5:30 (refreshments were served)Hall of Graduate Studies 211
Dr. Meg Urry, Professor of Physics and Director of the Yale Center for Astronomy & Astrophysics and Astronomy
Dr. Urry has been very involved in Women in Science Programs at a National level. She will be speaking about why she feels that the mentoring process is so valuable. Following her speech we will discuss our mentoring program in more detail and give mentors and mentees the chance to fill out surveys to match mentors with mentees.
WISAY Introductory Meeting and Kick-off Event
September 8, 2004
6:30 pm - Ice cream socialBASS 405
Meet other women scientists at Yale, discuss events for the coming year, and eat ice cream!
