AWIS - Your network, your resource, your voice

First Annual Election of Officers

Results

• President-Elect: Isabel Escobar - Associate Professor and Graduate Director, Chemical and Environmental Engineering
• Secretary: Nancy Morrison - Professor of Astronomy; Director, Ritter Observatory; Director; Ritter Planetarium
• Treasurer: Deborah Vestal - Associate Professor of Biology
• Patricia Komuniecki continues for another year as President. She is now Vice Provost for Graduate Affairs and Dean, College of Graduate Studies

Terms of office begin June 1, 2009.

If you would like to promote the advancement of women in science in Northwest Ohio, please volunteer for our Nominations and Elections Committee, Membership Committee, or Program and Publicity Committee! Contact an officer (see below) for more information.

New AWIS membership benefit: UT students, postdocs, and junior faculty who are AWIS members are eligible to receive mentoring through MentorNet!

Our first formal chapter meeting was held on September 27, 2006, at 4:30 PM on the UT campus in Bowman-Oddy Room 1031. Agenda

Planning meetings were held on Wednesday, June 28; Thursday, July 13; and Tuesday, July 25, 2006.

The chapter organizational meeting on November 21, 2005 was a success, and many good ideas about future activities were discussed. Notes are posted here.

Constitution and bylaws

The chapter's purposes are:

• To increase the number of women obtaining degrees in science and technology and participating in the scientific and technological workforce at all levels
• To raise public awareness of the scientific and technological skills and contribution of women
• To provide awards for recognition of women scientists

Our intention is to accomplish these goals primarily by:

• Fostering networking and communication among women science, mathematics, and technology faculty, staff, and students at UT, MUO, BGSU, and other regional institutions
• Working with other scientific, educational, and women's organizations to develop national and community programs
• Furthering the mentoring of our women students, postdocs, and non-tenured faculty

Anyone interested in issues concerning women in science is cordially invited to participate. For participation in chapter mentoring/networking activities, membership in national AWIS is encouraged, but not required. Official membership in the chapter requires membership in National AWIS. Join on line here, or use this printable membership form.When joining AWIS, be sure to select our chapter, Ohio (Northwest), in the Primary Chapter Membership pull-down menu. For more membership information, please contact one of the officers listed below. If you join our chapter, please send an email to the Secretary. Membership flier - tell your friends!

Grad students at UT's 1-meter telescope; image by M. Brown

For more information, contact: Patricia Komuniecki

For more information on women in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics:

• The University of Toledo's Catharine S. Eberly Center for Women - Women in STEMM Excelling (WISE) mentor program, Isabel C. Escobar Program Coordinator
• MentorNet
• Women in Engineering ProActive Network (WEPAN) works to transform culture in engineering education to attract, retain, and graduate women.
• American Society for Cell Biology/Women in Cell Biology - Has many links to information on science career strategies.
• Women in Cancer Research
• Women Chemists Committee of the American Chemical Society
• Building Strong Academic Chemistry Departments through Gender Equity
• Society of Women Engineers ... University of Toledo Student Section
• Association for Women in Mathematics
• Women in Optics
• American Physical Society Committee on the Status of Women in Physics (CSWP)
• Contributions of 20th Century Women to Physics (UCLA)
• American Institute of Physics reports on statistical trends concerning women in physics and astronomy
• International Union of Pure and Applied Physics WG.5: Working Group on Women in Physics Includes conference proceedings on women in physics
• American Astronomical Society Committee on the Status of Women in Astronomy; links page
• Women in Astronomy: A Comprehensive Bibliography (Library of Congress)
• Women in Astronomy: An Introductory Resource Guide (Astronomical Society of the Pacific)
• Contributions of Women to the United States Naval Observatory
• "She is an Astronomer" - a Cornerstone Project of the International Year of Astronomy 2009.

Recent articles

• Maria Sibylla Merian & Daughters: Women of Art and Science
• From Eve to Dawn: A History of Women

Information on careers in science

History of AWIS-NWO