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UPCOMING EVENTS:

 

WiPA February Meeting

Tuesday, February 9, 2010

2:50PM, we will be going to Tea Garden

Let's meet at the front lobby of Tate first, and then we are going to get bubble/pearl tea!

 

 

 

February IT Women's Pizza Lunch (please RSVP)

Friday, February 12, 2010

12:00PM, Walter 101

Speaker: Professor Kristi Kiick from the University of Delaware

Kristi Kiick is an Associate Professor of Materials Science and Engineering at the University of Delaware. Her current research programs are focused on combining biosynthetic techniques, chemical methods, and bioinspired assembly strategies for the production of novel polymer architectures with advanced multifunctional behaviors. These research programs have been funded in part by a Camille and Henry Dreyfus Foundation New Faculty Award, a Beckman Young Investigator Award, an NSF CAREER Award, and a DuPont Young Professor Award.

 

 

 

Breakfast with colloquium speaker Prof. Haiyan Gao

Thursday, March 4, 2010

AM, 216 Tate Lab of Physics (more info coming soon)

 

 


         
UPCOMING OUTREACHES:

 

More events coming soon

 

 



       

         


 

Past WiPA meeting schedules:

2009-2010:  meetings   pictures
2008-2009:  meetings   pictures
2007-2008:  meetings   pictures
2006-2007:  meetings   pictures
2005-2006:  meetings   pictures
2004-2005:  meetings   pictures

         

 

Links (Funding and Postdocs)


         

 

Presentations and Papers by WiPA members


         

 

Survival Guide to Graduate School by three graduating students.


         

 

Read Meg Urry's article "Diminished by discrimination we scarcely see"


         

 

American Institute of Physics statistics/reports on women in physics and astronomy:

http://www.aip.org/statistics/trends/gendertrends.html

 


         

 

Interested in graduate school? Planning for graduate studies in Physics and related fields is a good resource from the American Association of Physics Teachers

 



Women In Physics And Astronomy
University of Minnesota Student Group
School of Physics and Astronomy
145 Tate Laboratory of Physics

116 Church St SE   
        Minneapolis, MN 55455-0112

2009-2010  Officers:
Elizabeth Smith (Coordinator)
 Qing Xu
Jolene Johnson
Chaoyun Bao
Ilana Percher


      
The Women in Physics and Astronomy (WiPA) group was established to raise awareness throughout the entire school of not only the important contributions women have made and continue to make in physics and astronomy, but also about the various mechanisms that make it difficult for women to make those contributions. Planned activities raise the visibility of women within the school and encourage interactions amongst female graduate students, faculty and/or research associates. It is hoped that the Women in Physics and Astronomy group will encourage a respectful climate for women in the school.


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