Summer 2014
GWISE Ice Cream Social
Date and Time: 12-2pm, Wednesday, August 13, 2014
Location: BU Beach (735 Commonwealth Ave) ** Rain location: First floor lounge of Metcalf Science Center (590 Commonwealth Ave)
Cost: Free!
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Cool off with some free ice cream and frozen yogurt at the BU Beach, courtesy of GWISE! Open to all graduate students and post docs.
GWISE Coffee and
Date and Time: Wednesday, August 20 from 2:30-3:30pm
Location: 110 Cummington Mall, Room 245
Join GWISE for the second installment of a new event series, Coffee and
Social incentives for gender differences in the propensity to initiate negotiations: Sometimes it does hurt to ask (original study)
Lean Out: The Dangers for Women Who Negotiate (New Yorker article covering the negative aspects of negotiation, including anecdotal evidence and other studies)
Introducing GWISE Coffee and Conversations: Implicit Bias and Mentoring
Date and Time: Thursday, July 17 from 2:30pm-3:30pm
Location: 110 Cummington Mall, Room 245
Join GWISE for a new event series, Coffee and Conversations. In this series, we hope to provoke meaningful discussions about issues relevant to women in STEM. Two years ago, a study in PNAS found that implicit biases affect the way that faculty members rate the resumes of male and female students. More recently, researchers found that whether faculty members respond to students’ requests to meet and discuss research depends on both race and gender. Check out the articles below and join us to discuss implicit bias over coffee, tea, and snacks.
What happens before? A field experiment exploring how pay and representation differentially shape bias on the pathway into organizations (Original Article on Social Science Research Network)
Evidence of Gender, Racial Bias Found in Faculty Mentoring (Interview with author on NPR)
GWISE Blueberry Picking Trip
Date and Time: Saturday, July 19 from 8:45am-1:30pm
Location: Meet at BU Marsh Plaza
Join GWISE for a mid-summer blueberry picking trip to Tangerini’s Farm! We’ll meet early in the morning and drive out together. On the farm, you can pick your own blueberries, vegetables, and flowers or hike on their mile-long trail. We’ll leave from the farm at 12:30 and return to BU at 1:30pm.
The trip is free but you will be paying for your own purchases at the farm. Blueberries will be around $3/pint with picking starting at a minimum of one pint. (Prices may fluctuate.)
GWISE Book Club: Call for 2014-2015 Book Nominations
Date and Time: DEADLINE: Thursday, August 28
Location: N/A
With the new academic year approaching, it’s time to brainstorm a new reading list for the GWISE Book Club. We want to cover a broad range of topics, and we need your suggestions! In the past, Book Club selections have come from many genres including nonfiction/current events, women’s issues, science/science fiction, classic literature, and general fiction… anything that stirs up a great conversation. If it’s on your reading list, please suggest it!
The Book Club meets approximately every six weeks, and GWISE purchases several copies for borrowing; we’d love to see you there, especially if you’ve never joined us. Please respond with suggestions HERE by Thursday, August 28. If you have more than 3 suggestions, you can fill out additional forms. A poll will follow shortly for choosing this year’s titles. A list of past titles is included in the online form.
Also, just a reminder that the conclusion of the Summer Book Club series will be held on Tuesday, September 9, featuring The Idiot by Fyodor Dostoevsky.