Spring 2009 Events

Lunch for WISE and GWISE
January 28, 2009, 12-1:30
111 Cummington St, Rm 135

Workshop with Susan Morris

Communication Excellence: Increase Your Communication Effectiveness with an Understanding of Gender Differences

February 25, noon - 2:30 pm
Kenmore Room, 9th Floor, One Silber Way

Learning Objectives:

1. Identify the qualities of effective and ineffective oral communication
2. Review the research on gender communication challenges and strategies to overcome gender communication challenges
3. Solve BU WISE communication challenges through tailored application situations

RSVP to wisersvp@bu.edu. Attendance will be limited to 24 faculty members. Lunch will be provided.

Lunches with Leaders:

Margaret Bailey
Kate Gleason Endowed Chair and Associate Professor
Rochester Institute of Technology

Friday, March 20, 12:30-2
Elephant Walk
RSVP to wisersvp@bu.edu.

Prof. Bailey will also be giving a talk to the Department of Mechanical Engineering, 11-12:15, 110 Cummington St, Room 245.

Renee Bergland
Professor of English
Simmons College

Lecture on Maria Mitchell
Tuesday, March 17, 3 pm
Hillel House

Prof. Bergland is the author of a 2008 book on the astronomer Maria Mitchell and the "sexing of science" over the course of the 19th century.

Symposium on Faculty Mentoring and Networking

Monday, April 13, 2009, 9-12
Lounge, 9th floor, One Silber Center
Boston University

Career success and morale depend in part on the network of relationships in which we participate. This symposium will explore the theory and practice of faculty mentoring and networking, highlighting strategies and programs that work to strengthen professional networks and mentoring.

Speakers will include:

• Mary Deane Sorcinelli, Associate Provost, U. Mass. Boston
• Lotte Bailyn, Professor of Management, MIT Sloan School of Management
• Abigail Stewart, Professor of Psychology and Women's Studies, University of Michigan
• Susan Staffin Metz, Executive Director of Stevens Institute of Technology's Lore-El Center for Women in Engineering and Science
• Virginia Sapiro, Dean, College of Arts and Sciences, Boston University

This symposium is designed for faculty and administrators interested in strengthening faculty networks (including their own!) and promoting mentoring relationships for faculty. It is free and open to the public and is sponsored by Boston University Women in Science and Engineering (BU WISE) and the Boston University Women's Studies Program.

For more information, please contact Deborah Belle (debbelle@bu.edu).

Lunch with WISE Advisory Board

Monday, April 13, 2009, 12-1
Lounge, 9th floor, One Silber Center

RSVP to wisersvp@bu.edu

WISE Advisory Board Meeting

Monday, April 13, 2009, 1-3 pm
9th floor, One Silber Center

Confirmed attendees: Deborah Belle, Lotte Bailyn, Margrit Betke, Sheryl Grace, Susan Metz, Abigail Stewart.

Lunches with Leaders:

Barbara Liskov

Associate Provost for Faculty Equity and Ford Professor of Engineering
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
April 27, 2009, noon - 1 pm, 111 Cummington St, MCS Rm 135

Barbara Liskov recently won the Association for Computing Machinery's A. M. Turing Award. This is often described as the "Nobel Prize in computing." She is only the second woman to receive the honor.

Barbara Liskov is MIT's Associate Provost for Faculty Equity and Ford Professor of Engineering. She is a member of the National Academy of Engineering. She has been an MIT faculty member since 1972 and was recently named an Institute Professor, the highest honor awarded by MIT's faculty. Prof. Liskov was the first American woman to receive a PhD in computer science, which she earned in 1968 from Stanford University. Her research focuses on programming methodology, programming languages and systems, and distributed computing. Her research contributions include the design and implementation of the first programming language to provide data abstraction and the first high-level language to support programming of distributed algorithms.

RSVP to wisersvp@bu.edu

WIN Women In Industry

Beth Marcus
Zeemote Inc.
April 29
Colloquium at 11am with reception afterwards
111 Cummington St, Room MCS 135

Beth has been Founder and CEO of several successful startups, most notably EXOS, Inc., which was sold to Microsoft in 1996. Since then she has been involved in 14 start-ups in a variety of fields as a founder, investor, or advisor.

Part-time between then and now, Beth has worked as a consultant providing patent strategy, litigation support and other strategic technology related consulting services. Beth is an acknowledged expert in the hand-device interface space and has been an expert for several of the major players in the industry in support of prior patents litigations. That knowledge and the clear problems in using a cell phone keypad for anything but number entry led her to invention, filing of a patent application, and the founding of Zeemote, Inc (www.zeemote.com). Zeemote is a rapidly growing company providing game controllers for mobile devices and much more.

Beth received the SB and SM degrees in Mechanical Engineering from MIT and a PhD in Biomechanics from the Imperial College, London, where she was a Marshall Scholar. She has more than a twenty patents to her name and numerous publications and public speaking engagements. She has served on the faculty of MIT in the Department of Mechanical Engineering. Dr. Marcus has been member of the Board of the MIT Enterprise Forum and the MIT Corporation Visiting Committee in Mechanical Engineering. She is also a current member of the Council for the Arts at MIT.

The Colloquium is co-hosted by the Boston University Departments of Computer Science, Electrical and Computer Engineering, and Biomedical Engineering, and the BU WISE Women In Industry program.