Groups
Find out more information about GWISE groups below!
Book Club
GWISE holds Book Clubs featuring great reads and discussion. Books are nominated and selected by the GWISE community. We loan electronic (e-books and audiobooks) and hard copies free of charge to all interested in participating. All are invited!
Book club meetings are currently held virtually. When meeting in person, we also provide lunch. For the latest updates on logistics of the Book Club, consult our biweekly GWISE newsletters. After the book club meetings, hard copies are available to all the GWISE community through our GWISE Library.
Coffee & Conversations
- Contact: Katie at katiebee@bu.edu
GWISE Coffee & Conversations is an informal journal club and discussion series, where we hope to provoke meaningful discussions about issues relevant to women in STEM. Each event, we select a topic of interest to the community and use a recent scientific or popular article as a launch point to facilitate a friendly and lively discussion over coffee, tea, and snacks. Past topics have included negotiation and implicit bias in mentoring.
Craft Circle
When: Wednesday, September 18
Time: 5:30-7:30 PM
Spooky Pumpkin Party: Paint or carve a mini-pumpkin and take your spooky creation home!
When: Wednesday, October 23
Time: 5:30-7:30 PM
Tote-ally Awesome Bags: Create custom stamps and print your designs on a tote bag. Enjoy some fall snacks while you craft!
When: Monday, November 18
Time: 5:00-7:00 PM
Holiday Craft Craze: Design holiday cards and create gifts to spread some cheer!
When: Thursday, December 5
Time: 5:00-7:00 PM
This is our tentative schedule for the fall, and we host these events all year long! If you’ve joined us in the past, you know how much fun it is. We encourage more people to join this time and share the joy of crafting together!
Parents’ Group
- Time: Bimonthly
- Contact: Interested in helping GWISE run Parents’ Group? Contact gwise@bu.edu
GWISE Parents’ Group seeks to host events for parents and parents-to-be in science and engineering. Meetings will be held twice a month with tea and cookies (maybe lunch) for parents to discuss anything and everything about parenthood during graduate school. Some ideas for discussions are:
- Forming an accountability group for parents to chat about the problems they may face as graduate parents, such as inability to go to school, time management, focusing problems, etc.
- Discussing policy-related problems current parents face, as well as new plans to put in place for parents-to-be
- Scheduling play dates for the graduate kids
- Just getting together to vent about kids, research, or both!
Fitness Group
- Date and Time: M-Th, Time varies
- Location: TBA
- Contact: GWISE at gwise@bu.edu
Take a break with GWISE Fitness classes! Classes range from HIIT to Pilates to Body Conditioning. All levels, genders, and ages are welcome. Classes are free, open to all BU associates, and all levels (including beginners!) are welcome.
WISE Guys
- Contact: Dan Hart at danhart@bu.edu
WISE Guys is a program aimed at increasing the participation and engagement of men in GWISE affairs. GWISE events are open to all who support women in STEM; despite this, many men do not take advantage of our excellent events and volunteer opportunities. We would like to increase attendance and bring more men into the GWISE community. Furthermore, GWISE is interested in engaging men in the advancement of women in STEM. The issue of gender equality in STEM involves both genders and requires cooperation on both the individual and organizational level. WISE Guys will be an effort towards increasing graduate student dialogue at BU about gender equality. The WISE Guys team is always interested in hearing from men in the GWISE and graduate student communities with thoughts and feedback on this new GWISE venture. We are also interested in finding out what related events you would like to see. Please email our WISE Guys Coordinator – Dan Hart (danhart@bu.edu) with any input, or gwise@bu.edu to be on the WISE Guys mailing list.