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Nu Chapter invites you to State College, PA

Join us for the 2010 GWIS National Meeting

and

Bridges STEM Symposium (June 16-20, 2010) at

Penn State University

June 17-National Council Meeting*

June 18-Grand Chapter Meeting *

June 19, 2010 Bridges STEM Symposium** and Banquet***


(Travel days: June 16th and June 20th)

Note: *Room 10 Henderson Building (HND)
** Information Sciences and Technology Building Bridge (IST)
*** Nittany Lion Inn (NLI)
See transportation maps for directions: www.campusmaps.psu.edu/print/

Rooms have been reserved at The Atherton Hotel, located a block from the Penn State campus in downtown State College.

To reserve your room in the GWIS block:

Go to: http://www.athertonhotel.net/
click: Hotel Reservations (top right)
set: Reservation dates (btn 6/16-6/20;)
click: Click here for special rates and enter:
end there:Group Number: GRADU19051 or a0

Click here for on-line registration for all meetings, symposium, social events, and banquet.

Click here if you need more information about submission of your abstract for the Saturday poster session?

Any additional questions, please contact Kristin Dreyer at kad4@psu.edu.

See you there in June!
 
Annual AAAS Meeting in San Diego February 18-22, 2010.

Local and national GWIS leaders met with Dr. Alice Huang, the AAAS President for 2010-2011, on Sunday, February 21. (Thanks to Dr. Pat Shaffer who organized the meeting.) The meeting agenda was to reintroduce our group to Dr. Huang and to determine if GWIS and AAAS could work together for the success of our mutual goals in recruiting more women and minorities into science and international science. While it is early in Dr. Huang’s administration for specific goal identification, we decided that we will keep in touch and provide additional statistics on women scientists from both United States and European Union data to her as needed.


Dr. Huang was chosen as a GWIS Honorary Member in 1989 and at the meeting on Sunday, February 21, GWIS leaders presented her with an additional Honorary Member Certificate. In addition, she was presented with the 87 Year History with page 152 marked with her photo.



Additional meeting participants were: Drs. Kathy Grako and Evelyn Bayna, Ms. Virginia Frankum (all from Tau Chapter), Ms. Katherine Baum (Sigma Chapter), and Ms. Dee McManus, National Executive Director (Xi Chapter).


GWIS has been one of the three hundred AAAS affiliates since 1930 and each year we have sent representatives to the annual AAAS Section meetings. Sections include: Biological Science, Chemistry, Education, Agriculture, Food and Renewable Resources, and Medical Sciences. It is at these meeting where topics and speakers are chosen for the 2011 AAAS meeting. The Medical Science representative position is open for 2011, and any GWIS/AAAS member may apply. Please contact Dee McManus at gwised@mac.com if you are interested.

 
 

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