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.
Keynote Address: 4:00 PM Oopik Auditorium
Keynote Speaker: Mary Lou Guerinot, Ph.D
The Ronald and Deborah Harris Professor in Biology at Dartmouth College
"Metals, Mutants and Mayhem"
Undergraduate Poster Session: 5:00 - 7:00 PM
Class of 1978 Life Sciences Center
(Students stand by their posters)
Tuesday, May 8, 6 - 7 PM
Starr Instructional Center*, Baker Berry, Room 274
This session will be a review of symposium details and instructions on how to create posters.
* The Starr Instructional Center is on the 2nd level of Berry inside the Jones Media Center. It contains 20 iMacs running Macintosh OSX (10.4). Students who prefer to work on a PC should bring a laptop to the session. Follow-up hands-on poster prep help will be available to students on an individual basis.
NOTE: Science Symposium Poster registration will close on Wednesday, May 9.
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Alison Stace-Naughton, president of the Dartmouth student chapter of SWE, talks to interested visitors at Thayer School Open House and demonstrates the medical device that won her first place (and $25000!) at recent Greener Ventures entrepreneurship conference sponsored by Tuck Business School. For further details go here. |
Kimberly Strauch '15, an intern on the Greenlite Dartmouth project which monitors energy use on campus, has been donning a hard hat and investigating the construction process on the building update at Burke. Burke houses the chemistry department and uses a lot of energy in its day to day operation as detailed in this story.
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Former WISP intern Kellie MacPhee is highlighted in the March 12 article in Dartmouth Now about WISP sponsor Professor Bob Hawley, who is currently working with WISP intern Tianyang Wang '14. At left is Kellie with her poster at the Karen H. Wetterhahn Poster Symposium held on May 19, 2011. |
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
