 Join us at our upcoming events
Repair of Basic Laboratory Equipment, Building 68 Project Lab, MIT,
January 11 and 25, 2012, 6-8 PM Engineer Charles Moses will conduct a course on repair of laboratory equipment, geared toward but not limited to beginners. Equipment will include: electrophoresis units, spectrophotometers, motors on shakers and centrifuges, etc. General topics will also include: assessing the tools required to disassemble, fix and reassemble a piece of equipment; tool quality; and rational disassembly of equipment when the function of some component is not known. Bring broken equipment on which to practice.
Project Lab (room 089), Bldg 68, MIT. Congratulations to the 2011 GWIS Alpha Omega travel award winners!
Alisha Holland, graduate student in the Psychology Department at Boston College, for her presentation at the Ninth Biennial Society for Applied Research in Memory and Cognition in New York, June 2011. April Jewell, graduate student in the Department of Chemistry at Tufts University, for her presentation at the 10th International Conference on the Structure of Surfaces, Hong Kong, August 2011. Special thanks to our sponsors Pearson Higher Education, Thermo Fisher Scientific, and McGraw-Hill. Congratulations to the 2010 GWIS Alpha Omega travel award winners!
Jean Chang, graduate student in the BioInstrumentation Lab, Department of Mechanical Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology for her presentation at the International Materials Research Conference meeting, Cancun, Mexico, in August 2010. Georgia Karagiorgi, graduate student in the Physics Department at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, for her presentation at the Neutrino 2010 conference in Athens, Greece, in June 2010. Funding for this award is generously provided by VWR Scientific. Please support our sponsors!
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Mission
To advance the participation and recognition of women in science and to foster research through grants, awards, and fellowships.
Graduate Women in Science is an interdisciplinary society of scientists who encourage and support women to enter and achieve success in science through full participation in their scientific research and its applications; in the development and advancement of women; in the integration of their careers, personal goals, and society's needs; and by professional networking and mutual inspiration. GWIS National Organization: www.gwis.org Contact Us
gwis at heimdall dot org
The Boston (Alpha Omega) chapter of GWIS was re-established in 2002. |