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WiSE is collaborating with the Sarah Doyle Women's Center! Due today!
Write a short 500-1,200 word piece about a mentoring relationship for a chance to win a $25 gift certificate to the Brown bookstore. A special prize will be awarded by WiSE to a piece about a mentoring science relationship. Please submit electronically to SDWC@brown.edu or turn in to the front desk at the Sarah Doyle Women's Center (26 Benevolent, across from Keeney) today. Please contact Alanna_Kwoka@brown.edu with any questions you may have.
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“Double Standards, Double Binds, and Double Jeopardy: Solutions on an Individual and Institutional Level”
Joan C. Williams
Distinguished Professor of Law and Director of the Center for WorkLife Law,
University of California Hastings College of Law
Tuesday, October 14th, 4:00 p.m., Eddy Auditorium, BioMed 291, Reception to follow
“We must restructure the academic workplace to recognize the legitimate claims of family life,
so both men and women can realize their professional and their personal goals.
Only then will we be able to harness the full intellectual potential of academia.”
Joan Williams is a prize-winning author and expert on work/family issues.
Her book, Unbending Gender: Why Family and Work Conflict and What To Do About It (Oxford University Press, 2000), won the 2000 Gustavus Myers Outstanding Book Award.
She has played a leading role in documenting workplace bias against mothers, and in organizing social scientists to document “maternal wall” bias.
Sponsored by the Brown ADVANCE Program.
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The Frank and Sara McKnight Prize in Undergraduate Research in Biophysics or Quantitative Biology, with a partner prize offered for undergraduate chemists, is designed to recognize undergraduate seniors with research expertise in either biophysics or quantitative biology, which we have paired given their common use of quantitative approaches and computational techniques. Students have a simple application --- an abstract of their research, a letter of support from their mentor, and GPA/GRE scores --- which is due by October 15, 2008. Up to ten finalists will be chosen from the applicants and invited to attend a scientific retreat hosted by UT Southwestern's Department of Biochemistry. There, students will present posters describing their research, with the top three entries winning prizes of $2000, $1000 and $500.
- the Frank and Sara McKnight Prize in Undergraduate Biophysics or Quantiative Biology ( http://biophysics.swmed.edu/bpqbprize )
- UT Southwestern graduate programs in Molecular Biophysics ( http://biophysics.swmed.edu ), Quantitative Biology ( http://www.utsouthwestern.edu/graduateschool/computationalbiology.html )
- UT Southwestern Department of Biochemistry ( http://biochemistry.swmed.edu )
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Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) will be on campus October 16th at 7:30 PM in the Brown Career Center (Hemisphere Building, 167 Angell Street). During this Information Session you will learn more about the JPL, NASA's research center for robotic space exploration. Apply today to the Brown Career Connection and submit your resume by October 12th. On campus interviews will be held on Friday, October 17th. For more information, please contact Sarah Milkovich, a JPL Brown Alumnus.