Tuesday, March 09, 2010 at 6:30 pm
Dr. Donna Dean
Dr. Donna Dean, former president of AWIS National, will join us to discuss her book “Getting the Most out of Your Mentoring Relationships. A Handbook for Women in STEM.” Copies of the book will be made available for purchase and there will be plenty of time for questions and conversation with our speaker!
Location:
AAAS
1200 New York Avenue, NW
Washington, D.C.
Abelson and Haskins Room (2nd floor)
Red, blue, or orange lines to Metro Center
Sponsors: AWIS Washington, DC Metropolitan and Bethesda chapters and the Washington Academy of Sciences.
RSVP: To Lisa Nichols at lisamichellenichols@yahoo.com by March 5th.
Bring your book--there will be an opportunity for book signing after the event!
There will be a raffle and you have the chance to win Donna Dean's mentoring book. Tickets for the raffle will be handed out to Chapter members at the event. Don't miss it!
Donna J. Dean is a Senior Science Advisor with Lewis-Burke Associates LLC, a government relations firm. Prior to joining Lewis-Burke Donna was a Senior Scholar at the National Academy of Engineering, a Senior Advisor for Engineering to the Director of the National Institutes of Health, founding director of the National Institute of Biomedical Imaging and Bioengineering, a regulatory scientist at the Food and Drug Administration, and a researcher at the National Institutes of Health and Princeton. Dr. Dean is a former president of AWIS national and serves on the Committee on Science, Engineering, and Public Policy of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, and the Executive Board of the Washington Academy of Sciences. She received her Bachelor’s degree in Chemistry from Berea College and her Ph.D. in Biochemistry from Duke University. Please find the link to Donna’s book below:
http://www.awis.org/displaycommon.cfm?an=1&subarticlenbr=259 |
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Panel discussion on Policy, Program, Review
Tuesday, March 16, 2010
Francesca Macchiarini, PhD, Program Officer, Basic Immunology Branch, NIAID;
Sheryl Brining, PhD, Director, Office of Review, NCRR
Marina Volkow, PhD, Acting Director, Office of Science Policy, Planning & Communications, NIMH
Visitor Center, National Library of Medicine, Bldg 38A, NIH Campus
Speaker presentations are from 5:00 - 6:00 pm
Light refreshments and networking opportunities at 4:30 – 5:00 pm and after the discssion
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USA Science & Engineering Festival Expo Dates: October 23 & 24, 2010; 10:00am-5:30pm.
AWIS is proud to be an Official Partner of the Inaugural USA Science & Engineering Festival to be held in the greater Washington DC area in October 2010.
The Festival, which will be the country's first national science festival, is a collaboration of over 500 of the country's leading science and engineering organizations and aims to reignite the interest of our nation's youth in the sciences. The culmination of the Festival will be a two-day Expo on the National Mall on October 23-24, 2010, which will give children, teens and adults the opportunity to explore all facets of science & engineering through hundreds of fun, hands-on activities.
People across the United States are encouraged to hold Satellite Events in their communities the same weekend that hundreds of thousands of people celebrate science on the National Mall For more information on all Festival events and how you can get involved, visit www.usasciencefestival.org.
This event is free of charge -- no tickets required
 
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