You can get a mentor who is a professional scientist or engineer in industry or government through MentorNet. Apply online at MentorNet.net at anytime during the year. Open to Dartmouth men and women undergraduates, graduates, post docs and junior faculty.
WISP's mission is to collaborate in creating a learning environment where women can thrive in science, engineering and mathematics. We welcome your feedback. Please contact us at WISP@Dartmouth.edu with any comments or suggestions.
| Lunch with Anthea Coster Research Scientist at MIT Haystack Observatory When: Wednesday, February 8, 12:30 - 1:45 PM Where: 125 Haldeman |
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Sign up by Monday, Feb. 6 link here
Join Anthea Coster for a lunch-time discussion on her research and career. Her work at the observatory focuses primarily on Space Weather and Storm time effects, magnetosphere and ionosphere coupling, meteor detection and analysis among other areas of research. For more information on Dr. Coster's work go here.
Dr. Coster will also be giving the public talk:
Lise Meitner and the Discovery of Fission
Wednesday, February 8 @ 4:30 PM
Wilder Hall Room 104
(First floor, Physics Building)
Lise Meitner was one of the pioneers of nuclear physics and co-discoverer, with Otto Hahn and Fritz Strassmann, of nuclear fission. Albert Einstein once called her the most significant woman scientist of the 20th century. Yet, by the 1970s, her name was nearly forgotten.
Generously supported by NH NASA Space Grant, WISP, Physics and Astronomy Dept. and Dartmouth Graduate Studies
| Lunch with Melody Brown Burkins '98 GR, Sr. Director of Research & Strategic Initiatives at UVM When: Monday, February 20, 12:30 - 1:45 PM Where: 101 Collis |
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To RSVP: Blitz WISP
In 1999 Dr. Burkins was chosen as one of 32 national Congressional Science and Technology Fellows to serve in the U.S. Senate with a subsequent appointment as a legislative aide to Vermont Senator Patrick Leahy for energy, agriculture, and natural resource issues. She has managed multiple university-state-federal collaborations and is an advocate for innovative approaches to science and engineering education. For more information on Dr. Burkins and her work go here.
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Army Engineer Research and Development Center researchers at CRREL in Hanover will mentor five Dartmouth students through the WISP internship project during the 2012 winter and spring terms. (L-R) are Jay Clausen, Maggie Knuth, Susan Taylor, and Carrie Vuyovich. Intern projects include: utility of field x-ray fluorescence, testing of an extraterrestrial wheel and tool model, breakdown of propellants in the environment, and passive microwave detection of snowmelt and runoff. The Cold Regions Research and Engineering Laboratory, established in 1961, helps solve science and engineering problems in complex environments, especially Earth's cold regions. |
New Hampshire's Women in Science & Technology (WIST) program strives to inspire, motivate and support young women in pursuit of science, engineering, and technology careers. The WIST facebook page offers profiles of NH women in science and engineering positions, offers career resources and advice, and links to career assessment tools, STEM opportunities, scholarship and internship information plus much more. This facebook page is administered by the NH Space Grant program. Check out WIST on facebook at: https://www.facebook.com/NHWomeninScienceandTechnology
Dr. Edith Widder battles sediment pollution in a Florida estuary by using bioluminescence. Read about her latest research from this NY Times article.
When Marie Curie came to the United States for the first time, in May 1921, she had already discovered the elements radium and polonium, coined the term, "radioactive" and won the Nobel Prize - twice. Read more about the most decorated scientist of that era from Smithsonian Magazine's October 2011 issue in the article "The Passion of Madame Curie."
