AWIS - Your network, your resource, your voice

Terms of office begin June 1 each year.

February 15, 2013

AWIS STEMiNAR©

"Successful Event Planning for Outreach"

by chapter leaders Isabel C. Escobar and Amanda Bryant-Friedrich

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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.

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 welcome to participate in our mentoring/networking activities. For holding chapter office and voting in chapter elections, official membership in the chapter is required. It, in turn, requires membership in National AWIS. We cordially invite you to join AWIS on line here. 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 above. 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: Amanda C. Bryant-Friedrich

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

The University of Toledo

• The University of Toledo's Catharine S. Eberly Center for Women - Women in STEMM Excelling (WISE) mentor program, Isabel C. Escobar Program Coordinator
• University of Toledo Libraries LibGuides: Updates to Women in STEMM
• Women In Science and Medicine page at the Mulford Library on the Health Science Campus
• Society of Women Engineers ... University of Toledo Student Section

Professional societies for women in science, engineering, and math

• "Organizations for Women in Science, Technology, Engineering & Math," by Hannah Frederick, from Under the Microscope, includes some not listed below.
• American Society for Cell Biology/Women in Cell Biology - Has many links to information on science career strategies.
• Women in Cancer Research
• Women in Engineering ProActive Network (WEPAN) works to transform culture in engineering education to attract, retain, and graduate women.
• Women Chemists Committee of the American Chemical Society
• Association for Women in Mathematics
• The Caucus for Women in Statistics
• Committee on Women in Statistics (COWIS) from the American Statistical Association (ASA)
• American Physical Society Committee on the Status of Women in Physics (CSWP)
• Women in Optics
• American Astronomical Society Committee on the Status of Women in Astronomy; links page; resource pages
• International Union of Pure and Applied Physics WG.5: Working Group on Women in Physics Includes conference proceedings on women in physics
• American Association of University Women (AAUW)
• Graduate Women in Science (GWIS) - offers grants, fellowships, general support
• Women in Aerospace

General information

• The RAISE project is designed to increase the status of professional women through enhanced Recognition of the Achievements of Women In Science, Engineering, Mathematics and Medicine. Through its AWARDS project, AWIS is collaborating with RAISE.
• New booklet about women in green science from Science and the L'Oréal Foundation
• Research reports about women and girls in science and technology from the US Department of Energy
• Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math Resources for Women and Girls from the American Association of University Women (AAUW)
• MentorNet
• Portal to the NSF ADVANCE program, hosted by the University of Vermont - lots of information on unconscious bias and other topics
• University of Michigan ADVANCE program - many useful links to information about women in academia
• Aspire to Inspire: Women at NASA - profiles of women in various fields of science and technology
• Contributions of 20th Century Women to Physics (UCLA)
• American Institute of Physics reports on statistical trends concerning women in physics and astronomy
• 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.
• Distinguished Women
• "Women Chemists Throughout History"

Recent articles

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

Information on careers in science - updated with new links March 16, 2011

History of AWIS-NWO