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Upcoming 2008-2009 Events

DateEventTime & Location
May 4, 2009COACh Workshop: The Art of Strategic Performance facilitated by Lee Warren and Nancy Houfek, Harvard University. Joint graduate workshop with the Women in Engineering Program. Registration details forthcoming. Session 1: 8 am – 12 noon
Session 2: 1 pm – 5 pm
3rd floor Levis Faculty Center
March 5, 2009Sylvia Stoesser Lecture in Chemistry, Dr. Ellen Stechel, Sandia National Laboratories, "Title to be Announced"TBA
November 12WIC Brown Bag Lunch: Workshop on "Stress Management" presented by Dr. Lisa Kinderman and Dr. Kusah Gujrati, Counseling Center.

12:00 pm – 12:45 pm
A414 CLSL

November 3Pioneers of Chemistry in Academia Seminar, Professor Sabeeha Merchant, UCLA, "Between a Rock and a Hard Place: Copper Homeostasis for Energy Metabolism"

4:00pm - 5:00pm
116 Roger Adams Laboratory

October 22WIC Brown Bag Lunch: Business Etiquette - Part Two, "Professionalism in Social Settings", presented by Patricia Blum, Director of SCS Career Counseling & Placement Services. Click here to register for the October 22nd Brown Bag Lunch.

12:00 pm - 12:45 pm
A414 CLSL

October 1WIC Brown Bag Lunch: Business Etiquette - Part One, "Professionalism in the Workplace", presented by Patricia Blum, Director of SCS Career Counseling & Placement Services. Click here to register for the October 1st Brown Bag Lunch.

12:00 pm – 12:45 pm
A414 CLSL

September 10WIC Brown Bag Lunch: General Meeting of the East Central Illinois Women Chemists Committee (ECI - WCC)

12:00 pm – 12:45 pm
A414 CLSL

Past 2008 Events

DateEvent

August 22-23

Retreat for Graduate Women, Co-sponsored by UIUC Women in Chemistry Program and the East Central Illinois Women Chemists Committee.

April 28

Brown Bag Lunch - Panel Discussion on "Balancing Family and an Academic Career" with Professors Anne Baranger, Nancy Makri and Pat Shapley.

March 31

Brown Bag Lunch - Discussion on key findings from Prof. Mary Ann Mason’s Do Babies Matter Project. Facilitator: Ellen Wang Althaus, PhD, WIC Director

March 3

Brown Bag Lunch - Research Presentation by Alexis Thompson (Martínez Group)

February 26

Sylvia Stoesser Lecture in Chemistry, Dr. Sarah Kelly, Vice President of Research & Science Technology - Pharmaceutical Sciences at Pfizer Global Research & Development.

February 4

Brown Bag Lunch: Research Presentation by Lindsay Sperling (Rienstra Group)

January 25

Graduate Workshop on Crucial Conversations: Tools for Talking When Stakes Are High facilitated by Kirstin Phelps, Program Manager at the Illinois Leadership Center. Event is co-sponsored by the Offices of Women in Chemistry and Women in Engineering.

2007

DateEvent

November 28

Brown Bag Lunch
Mini-seminar presentation by Mary Caruso (Moore Group)

November 14

Brown Bag Lunch. Short WCC business meeting and elections.

November 2

Interviewing Workshop facilitated by Patricia Blum, Director of SCS Career Counseling and Placement Services. This workshop is co-sponsored by the WCC and WIC Programs. Register online.

October 25

PhD Completion Project: “Overcoming the Impostor Syndrome” by Valerie Young, PhD

October 24

Brown Bag Lunch
Mini-seminar presentation by Tiffany Hopper (Lu Group)

October 10

Brown Bag Lunch
Mini-seminar presentation by Hannah Ihms (Bailey Group)

October 15

Provost's Annual Lecture on Gender Equity, “Why So Slow? The Advancement of Women” by Virginia Valian, PhD, Distinguished Professor, Department of Psychology, Hunter College

September 26

Brown Bag Lunch
Discussion on various forms of PowerPoint presentations, including examples following the “assertion-evidence design” described in Michael Alley’s, The Craft of Scientific Presentations. Facilitator: Ellen Wang Althaus, PhD, WIC Director.

September 12

Brown Bag Lunch
Introduction of new series. Slideshow presentation of 2007 Fall Retreat. WCC update.

August 20-21

Retreat for Graduate Women in Chemistry
Co-sponsored by UIUC Women in Chemistry Program and ACS Women Chemists Committee of East Central Illinois.

May 15

COACh Workshop on Leadership Development, Dr. Sandra Shullman, Executive Development Group. Registration required.

March 8

Lockheed Martin STARS Seminar on “Time Management,” Joint event with Women in Engineering

March 7

Sylvia Stoesser Lecture in Chemistry, Madeleine Jacobs, CEO and Executive Director of the American Chemical Society. The Stoesser Lecture is entitled "Globalization and the Changing Face of the Scientific Enterprise: Is the World Really Flat?" Read more about lecture series

February 9

Women in Chemistry Alumnae Seminar, Mary Kay Kaufmann, Vice-President of the Industrial and Institutional Services Division, Nalco Company

February 9

Graduate Women Roundtable Discussion and Luncheon with Mary Kay Kaufmann, UIUC Alumnus and Vice-President of the Industrial and Institutional Services Division at Nalco and Dr. Kelle Zeiher, Staff Scientist at Nalco.

January 19

Negotiation Strategies for Academic and Non-Academic Jobs in the Sciences and Engineering, Dr. Mary Beth Wade, UIUC Graduate College

2006

DateEvent

November 17

Graduate Workshop: Refining Your Career Goals, Dr. Ellen Wang Althaus, UIUC Women in Chemistry Programs

November 15

Undergraduate Workshop: Exploring Graduate Work in Chemistry, Graduate Student Panel

July 26

Financial Workshop: Blueprint for Financial Success, Mr. Bryan Bloom, Chesser Financial

March 7

Sylvia Stoesser Lecture in Chemistry, Dr. Marquita Qualls, Glaxo Smith Kline

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