Events

2008

April

UW Madison's Department of Horticulture Welcomes Women in Plant Science
The Department of Horticulture welcomes women in plant science with a spring seminar series featuring prominent women plant scientists. In addition to a research presentation a a special outreach luncheon and evening reception will be held for each speaker. Co-sponsored by the Department of Horticulture and WISELI's Celebrating Women in Science and Engineering Grant Program.

Tuesday, April 15

Caren Chang, PhD., Department of Cell Biology and Molecular Genetics, University of Maryland, presents:"Ethylene Signaling in Arabidopsis"
Contact: Sara Patterson or Julie Young

Tuesday, April 22

Bonnie Appleton, PhD., Department of Horticulture, Virginia Tech, presents: "From the Applied Side"
Contact: Laura Jull

March

UW Madison's Department of Horticulture Welcomes Women in Plant Science
The Department of Horticulture welcomes women in plant science with a spring seminar series featuring prominent women plant scientists. In addition to a research presentation a a special outreach luncheon and evening reception will be held for each speaker.Co-sponsored by the Department of Horticulture and WISELI's Celebrating Women in Science and Engineering Grant Program.

Tuesday, March 11

Sarah Hake, PhD., Director Plant Gene Expression Center, Albany, CA, presents:
"Deciphering cell fate in a maize plant"
Contact: Sara Patterson or Julie Young

Tuesday, March 25

Barbara Schaal, PhD., Department of Biology,Washington University, presents:
"Diversity and Domestication in Rice"
Contact: Johanne Brunet

February

Tuesday, February 19

UW Madison's Department of Horticulture Welcomes Women in Plant Science
The Department of Horticulture welcomes women in plant science with a spring seminar series featuring prominent women plant scientists. In addition to a research presentation a a special outreach luncheon and evening reception will be held for each speaker. Co-sponsored by the Department of Horticulture and WISELI's Celebrating Women in Science and Engineering Grant Program.

Ellen Leue, PhD., Breeder and Product Group Director, Pan American Seed, presents: "Getting it done: How to succeed in commercial flower product development."
Contact: Shelley Jansky
3:30pm in 108 Moore Hall

Department of Chemistry - Women in Science Lecture Series
The division of physical chemistry hosts Song-I Han, Ph.D., Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of California, Santa Barbara presenting on: Dynamic Nuclear Polarization Enhanced Magnetic Analysis to Study Local Water Dynamics in Soft Molecular Assemblies and Protein Aggregates
11:00am, 1315 Chemistry

This lecture is supplemented by a reception and informal conversation on Women in Science: It's Easier if you know who you are and what you want.
5:15pm, 1315 Chemistry

2007

December

Monday, December 10th

UW Madison School of Veterinary Medicine's Department of Comparative Biosciences
presents a
CELEBRATING WOMEN IN SCIENCE AND ENGINEERING SEMINAR
Monday, December 10, 12 noon, Room 2360, School of Veterinary Medicine
Helen E. Raybould, Ph.D. Professor and Chair, Department of Anatomy, Physiology and Cell Biology, UC-Davis School of Veterinary Medicine, presents:
How does your gut taste? Sensory transduction in the GI track

4:30 pm, Room 2255, School of Veterinary Medicine
Reception for Dr. Raybould and informal discussion of issues related to women in leadership roles in academia, and in particular women leaders in academic veterinary medicine. 

Dr. Raybould was appointed chair of her department at the UC-Davis School of Veterinary Medicine in January, 2007. Sshe is the first woman to hold a chair position at the UCD veterinary school. 

For more information, please see the event flyer or contact: Hannah Carey

Co-sponsored by WISELI's Celebrating Women in Science and Engineering Grant Program.

November

Friday, November 30th

Minority Scholars Lecture Series Presents: "Diversity and Sexual Orientation: The Wisconsin Idea"
Presented by Ruperto M. Perez, Ph.D.
November 30, 2007, 2:30 - 4:00 p.m.
Room 259 Educational Sciences Building, 1025 W. Johnson St.
Event Flyer

Dr. Perez is director of the Counseling Center at Georgia Tech University. His areas of professional interest include counseling issues related to diversity and multiculturalism, gender issues, LGBT concerns, outreach/consultation, and supervision/mentoring. His talk will focus on LGBT concerns in the university community.

Thursday, November 29th

UW-Madison Comedy Sportz Leadership Workshop
Thursday, November 29, 5-7 p.m.
Union South (See TITU for room assignment)

The CALS Student Council in conjunction with the CALS Leadership Policy Committee and ASM are sponsoring a leadership workshop and want YOU to come! This workshop is an energetic, fun, comedic, challenging, and interactive way to discover what leadership can really be! Bob Orvis, an original founder of Comedy Sportz in Milwaukee will be on campus to lead us through a workshop focusing on many of the different aspects of leadership. The workshop will consist of a series of short "games" designed to provide insight into things such as communication, team-building, and how status affects teamwork.

Friday, November 2nd

CWHR 9th Annual Women's Health Leadership Conference: Real Women, Real Leaders, Real Stories
Friday, November 2, 8am-2:30pm, Fluono Center
See event web page for conference details
Keynote Speaker: Mae Jemison
"One Woman Leader - The Sky is NOT the Limit"
1:00-2:30pm
Morgridge Auditorium, 1100 Grainger Hall, 975 University Avenue
See web page for keynote speaker
NOTE: The Mae Jemison lecture is FREE and OPEN to the Public -- but due to limited seating registration is required. Please download the registration form here.

October and November

Thursday, October 11th; Friday, November 2nd

EVOLUTION SEMINAR SERIES
Thursday, October 11th, 10:30am
Trudy Mackay, Ph.D., Dept. of Genetics, North Carolina State University, presents:
The genetic architecture of complex traits: Lessons from Drosophlia
Genetics/Biotech Auditorium 1111
Lunch discussion to follow for graduate students and post doctorate fellows. If interested in attending please contact Allison Weber at allisonweber@wisc.edu.
Co-sponsored by WISELI's Celebrating Women in Science and Engineering Grant Program and the Departments of Genetics, Biostatistics, Horticulture and Zoology

Friday, November 2nd, 3:30pm
162 Noland
Katie Peichel, Ph.D., Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, Seattle, WA, presents:
"Genetics of reproductive isolation in sticklebacks"
For more information please contact Jenny Boughmanr at jboughman@wisc.edu.
Co-sponsored by WISELI's Celebrating Women in Science and Engineering Grant Program. the Zoology Department and the ECC.

Wednesday, October 17; Wednesday, October 24; Tuesday, November 6; and
Friday, November 9

WOMEN IN THEORETICAL PARTICLE PHYSICS (WiTTP) MONTH
This seminar series brings 4 distinguished women physicists (one per week for four weeks) to present their research and network with physics graduate students.
Wednesday, October 17
JoAnne Hewett, Ph.D., Stanford Linear Accelerator Center, Stanford University
Discovering the Quantum Universe: The Role of Particle Accelerators
4pm, Room 2241 Chamberlin Hall

Wednesday, October 24
Aida El-Khadra, Ph.D., Dept. of Physics, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
4pm, Room 2241 Chamberlin Hall

Tuesday, November 6
Mirjam Cvetic, Ph.D., Dept. of Physics, University of Pennsylvania
High Energy Physics
4pm, Room 2241 Chamberlin Hall

Friday, November 9
Shufang Su, Ph.D., Dept. of Physics, University of Arizona
2:30pm, Room 5280 Chamberlin Hall

For more information on the speakers and events for graduate students please see the program poster or contact: Anupama Atre
Co-sponsored by WISELI's Celebrating Women in Science and Engineering Grant Program, the Departments of Physics, and the Phenomenology Institute.

July

Sunday, July 29th and Monday July 30th

DENICE DENTON MEMORIAL SYMPOSIUM
Keynote Speaker: Donna Shalala
With Remarks From: John Wiley
See event web page for details

March

Tuesday, March 27

"American Universities and the 'Whiteness' of Engineering: origins of an Occupational Color-Line"
Presented by Professor Amy Slaton of Drexel University
Tuesday, March 27
4:00 p.m.
SLIS Commons (4th floor, H.C. White)
Amy Slaton is an associate professor at Drexel University and director of Drexel's Master's Program in Science, Technology and Society. She is currently completing a history of race in
American engineering education since 1950 (forthcoming, Harvard University Press).
Professor Slaton's visit is part of the STS-funded and SLIS-sponsored
seminar series on "Uncovering information labor: Technology and work in space and time." For more information see our web site.
The talk is free and open to all.

Friday - Sunday, March 23 - 25

Second Annual Creating Institutional Change Conference
Increasing awareness, encouraging leadership, fostering partnerships
Madison, WI
March 23 - 25, 2007
The conference is a three-day affair, composed of sessions and activities focusing on: future initiatives regarding diversity on campuses; the idea of institutional change and how we all fit in; developing and encouraging leadership to improve campus climate for underrepresented populations; conflict resolution; institutional racism; increasing campus awareness of different cultures and ethnicities; fostering better understanding of racial dynamics, gender behaviors, sexual orientations, and cross-cultural communication; high school responsibility; and enhancing college student academic excellence.
Keynote speaker: Dr. Michael Eric Dyson, who will present a lecture entitled: "Come Hell or High Water: Hurricane Katrina and the Color of Disaster."
There will also be a speech by Julie Chavez Rodriguez (granddaughter of Cesar Chavez) entitled: "Si Se Puede (Yes We Can)".
For more information, visit the "Creating Institutional Change" website.

Friday, March 16

Modern Women's Bootcamp: From Backpack to Briefcase
Friday, March 16th, 8:00 a.m. - 4:30 p.m.
Grainger Hall - School of Business
This event is a first-ever campus women's leadership conference. It is open to all students interested in current issues specifically affecting females in the transition from college to career. There will be representatives and speakers from companies such as General Electric, Wells Fargo, Accenture, Halliburton, and many more. This conference is sponsored in part by WISELI's Celebrating Women in Science and Engineering Grant Program.

February

Thursday, February 15

SELLING YOURSELF WITHOUT SELLING OUT
Thursday, February 15, 2007
12:00 - 1:00 (starts promptly at noon)
Horticulture, Room 473, 1575 Linden Dr.
Contact Johanne Brunet (jbrunet@wisc.edu) to register.
Hard working individuals and groups are often not adequately recognized for their skills and contributions. Self-promotion is an important skill to gain visibility and communicate value for you and your team and is essential to being an effective leader.
Space for this webinar is limited, so please contact Johanne as seats will be available on a first-come, first-served basis!

CONTINUING CONVERSATIONS
Thursday, February 15, 2007
2:00 - 4:00 p.m. and one session at 4:00 - 6:00 p.m.
Union South, Check TITU
Online registration available
Sessions include: Revisiting Discussions from First Semester; Conflict Resolution Skills for Leadership: How to be an Impartial Facilitator When You Have a Stake in the Outcome; Don't Act On It! Preventing a Prejudicial Thought from Becoming a Discriminatory Act; and 4:00 - 6:00 p.m. (includes a Nacho Bar!) What is Excellence in Teaching?

2006

December

Tuesday, December 12.

WOMEN IN SCIENCE ROUNDTABLE DISCUSSION: Striving for Equality in an Academic Environment
Tuesday, December 12
5-7 p.m.
9341 Chemistry Building
Linda Nicholson, PhD, Associate Professor of Molecular Biology and Genetics will lead a roundtable discussion that focuses on issues of equality for women and minorities scientists working in academic environments and explores possibilities for improvement.
Scholars of all backgrounds, men, women, graduate students, post docs, faculty, and staff are encouraged to attend and be part of this discussion.
Prof. Nicholson will also deliver a research seminar as part of the Physical Chemistry Seminar Series on Tuesday, December 12, 11:00 a.m., Room 1315, Chemistry Building.
For more information, please contact Monika Ivancic.
Prof. Nicholson's visit is sponsored by the Chemistry Department and WISELI's Celebrating Women in Science and Engineering Grant Program.

November

October

September

Thursday, September 21

EXHIBIT: "Petticoats and Slide Rules: SWE, A History of Women Engineers"
This special traveling exhibit, on loan from the Walter P. Reuther Library, Wayne State University, uses photos, videos, interviews and artifacts from the SWE Archives, to highlight over five decades of promoting equal opportunity for women in engineering and inspirational stories of women who paved the way for future generations. The exhibit will be on display in Wendt Library through November.
An opening receptions will be held on
Thursday, September 21
5:00 p.m.
2nd floor, Wendt Library
215 N. Randall

August

July

June

Thursday, June 8 - Sunday, June 11

85th Annual SDE/GWIS National Meeting
Moving Forward: Climate, Cognition and Careers for Women in Science and Engineering
UW-Madison, Pyle Center
The SDE/GWIS Beta chapter will hold the 85th Annual SDE/GWIS National Meeting June 8-11, 2006 at the University of Wisconsin-Madison Pyle Center in Madison, WI. The scientific program and conference portion of the meeting will take place on Saturday, June 10, 2006 beginning at 9 AM. Get more information and/or register online. SDE/GWIS encourages attendees to present a poster at the meeting. All areas of research are welcome.

May

April

Wednesday, April 12

Communicating Expectations and Working with Others
Learn how to communicate expectations and talk through difficult issues
Wednesday, April 12th, 2006
2:00 - 4:30 p.m.
Room 260, Bascom Hall

This workshop is designed to give graduate students, postdocs and their advisors the skills to effectively resolve conflicts with each other and with their colleagues when they arise. The presenters are Karen Klomparens, Dean of the Graduate School and John Beck, Associate Professor, School of Labor and Industrial Relations at Michigan State University. More information can be found at the conference website.
Registration is required to attend the workshop. For additional information, contact Delta via email at info@delta.wisc.edu or phone at (608) 261-1180.

Thursday, April 13

WISELI Seminar Series presents:
Removing Barriers to Success in Engineering: Interventions that Reduce Gender Differences in 3-D Spatial Skills
Presented by Sheryl Sorby, PhD
Assoc. Dean of Engineering & Chair, Engineering Fundamentals
Room 1721 Engineering Hall
2:00-3:00 p.m.
Sheryl Sorby will discuss her research on gender differences in spatial reasoning skills, the coursework and strategies she has developed to teach spatial skills, and their influence on the success and retention of students.
This seminar is presented in conjunction with the Engineering Learning Center, American Society for Engineering Education (ASEE) UW-Madison Student Chapter, and Graduate Women in Science (GWIS).
View a video of Dr. Sorby's presentation online.

Thursday, April 20

Culturally Competent Care: How Competency Relates to Organizational Performance
With speaker Gladis Benevides
Thursday, April 20, 2005
Noon - 1:00 p.m.
UW-Madison, Health Sciences Learning Center, Room 1306
The Center for the Study of Cultural Diversity in Healthcare (CDH) at the UW Medical School has launched a brownbag speaker series focused on cultural competence in healthcare and human services, minority health and health disparities. Ms. Benevides is recognized as an expert in Civil Rights law and Affirmative Action, with over 28 years of experience in these areas. If you have suggestions about speakers or specific topics to include in this series, please contact the CDH Program Manager, Sarah Esmond, at 608-263-9401.

Thursday, April 27

WISELI Seminar Series presents:
Reminiscences of an Accidental Programmer
Presented by Annie Stunden, Chief Information Officer, UW-Madison and Director, DoIT.
Thursday, April 27
11:00 a.m. - 12:30 p.m.
Union South (See TITU for room assignment)
Annie Studen will retire from her position as CIO and Director of DoIT in the summer of 2006. In this talk she will address her experiences as a leader in academia and as a woman in technology.

March

Tuesday, March 21

They've Come a Long Way, Baby - or Have They? The Current Status of Women in the Workplace
University Club Luncheon Series
Tuesday, March 21
11:45 a.m. - 1:10 p.m.
University Club, 803 State St.
Luncheon and speaker is Carin Clauss, Law School. Celebrating Women's History Month and co-sponsored by the Fund for Women. Open to all. Reservation and payment due in advance.
Cost: $16. Information: 262-5023, uclub@wisc.edu.

Thursday, March 30

WISELI Seminar
11:30 a.m. - 1:00 p.m. Union South (see TITU)
Judy Houck, Ph.D., Women's Studies, Medical History and Bioethics, History of Science, and the Center for Women's Health and Women's Health Research, presents:
"Race, Gender and Personality:  Putting Student Evaluations of Faculty in Perspective"

Effects of Gender Stereotypes on Women's Leadership Performance
4:00-5:15 p.m., 105 Ingraham Hall
Presented by Stefanie Halverson, Visiting Scholar,2005-2006; Women's Studies Research Center, UW-Madison School of Business
For additional information contact WSRC at 263-2053 or email wsrc@mailplus.wisc.edu

Friday, March 31 - Sunday, April 2

Creating Institutional Change Conference
Increasing awareness, encouraging leadership, fostering partnerships
The Diversity Education Program (DEP) at the University of Wisconsin-Madison is proud and pleased to announce a major diversity conference. More information can be found at the conference website.

Registration is required to attend the conference. The conference is free for UW-Madison students and all UW System students. All other participants will have to pay an $80 fee.

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