Biweekly Newsletter
December 1, 2020
Digest
Internal Updates
- Annual Career Panel - 12/2
- GWE Trivia and General Body Meeting - 12/10
- Are you graduating? Sign up to get your GWE grad gift!
- Contribute to the GWP Zine
Fellowships and Professional Development
- Women Empowered in STEM (weSTEM) Conference - application due 12/4
- 2021 Virtual Silicon Valley Women in Engineering (WiE) Conference - application due 1/10
- Lean LaunchPad, a graduate student course for entrepreneurship
Seasons GWEetings! 🎄⛄
GWE is sponsoring registration at two engineering conferences. If you want to attend either or both of these engineering conferences, GWE will happily pay for your registration fees! Deadlines are 12/4 and 1/10. Follow instructions in below, and email alui@berkeley.edu with any questions.
Internal Updates
Annual Career Panel
Wednesday, December 2 at 6pm
Join us for our annual career panel! Ask successful women from academia, industry, government and non-traditional career paths about what it is like to be in their professions, what challenges they faced, and how they have overcome those challenges. This year, we have:
Please RSVP and add to your calendar.
Zoom Link // Meeting ID: 493 322 0600 // Passcode: 018710
Wednesday, December 2 at 6pm
Join us for our annual career panel! Ask successful women from academia, industry, government and non-traditional career paths about what it is like to be in their professions, what challenges they faced, and how they have overcome those challenges. This year, we have:
- Hannah Stuart, Assistant Professor of Mechanical Engineering UC Berkeley
- Dorota Shortell, CEO of Simplexity Product Development
- Qing Ji, Deputy Program Head, Fusion and Ion Beam Technology at Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory
- Arlene Blum, Research Associate in Chemistry at UC Berkeley and executive director of the Green Science Policy Institute
Please RSVP and add to your calendar.
Zoom Link // Meeting ID: 493 322 0600 // Passcode: 018710
GWE Trivia and General Body Meeting
Thursday, December 10 at 5:30pm
Join us for our general body meeting at 5:30p to talk about upcoming events in 2021 and then have some fun Trivia at 6pm! :)
Please RSVP so we can gauge interest and plan appropriate trivia questions. We will reimburse up to $20 for food to celebrate the end of the semester and relax before finals week. Just save your itemized receipt and proof of purchase with your name and we will have you fill out the reimbursement form at the event.
Please RSVP and add to your calendar.
Zoom link // Meeting ID: 927 1037 6354 // Passcode: 754865
Thursday, December 10 at 5:30pm
Join us for our general body meeting at 5:30p to talk about upcoming events in 2021 and then have some fun Trivia at 6pm! :)
Please RSVP so we can gauge interest and plan appropriate trivia questions. We will reimburse up to $20 for food to celebrate the end of the semester and relax before finals week. Just save your itemized receipt and proof of purchase with your name and we will have you fill out the reimbursement form at the event.
Please RSVP and add to your calendar.
Zoom link // Meeting ID: 927 1037 6354 // Passcode: 754865
Are you graduating?
CONGRATULATIONS! Claim your GWE graduation gift!
CONGRATULATIONS! Claim your GWE graduation gift!
GWP Website for 150W is LIVE
For many reasons, 2020 is one for the history books. This year, Berkeley celebrates 150 Years of Women (150W) being admitted to the university. At the beginning of this year, Graduate Womxn’s* Project (GWP) proposed a zine to highlight and document the amazing work of Berkeley’s graduate womxn.
However, the COVID pandemic and the uprising for Black justice has reoriented the mission and vision of the zine. Today, we reimagine the zine as an opportunity for Berkeley graduate womxn to share their voice, inspire others, and celebrate each other's accomplishments.
The zine will be a living project, and we welcome all graduate womxn to participate by sharing music, poems, short stories, photography, dance performances, visual media - anything you’d like to share! We aim to produce a hardcopy and a digital platform to allow for all types of creative expressions. As we push this historic project forward, we are looking for volunteers to collaborate and partner with diverse graduate womxn. See the attached flyer and check out our fabulous website where you can submit your Zine content!
Subscribe to the GWP listserv, follow us on Instagram and Facebook.
For many reasons, 2020 is one for the history books. This year, Berkeley celebrates 150 Years of Women (150W) being admitted to the university. At the beginning of this year, Graduate Womxn’s* Project (GWP) proposed a zine to highlight and document the amazing work of Berkeley’s graduate womxn.
However, the COVID pandemic and the uprising for Black justice has reoriented the mission and vision of the zine. Today, we reimagine the zine as an opportunity for Berkeley graduate womxn to share their voice, inspire others, and celebrate each other's accomplishments.
The zine will be a living project, and we welcome all graduate womxn to participate by sharing music, poems, short stories, photography, dance performances, visual media - anything you’d like to share! We aim to produce a hardcopy and a digital platform to allow for all types of creative expressions. As we push this historic project forward, we are looking for volunteers to collaborate and partner with diverse graduate womxn. See the attached flyer and check out our fabulous website where you can submit your Zine content!
Subscribe to the GWP listserv, follow us on Instagram and Facebook.
Fellowships and Professional Development
Women Empowered in STEM (weSTEM) Conference
Application due December 4, 2020
weSTEM (Women Empowered in STEM) is a conference held virtually on February 12-13, 2021 designed to inspire and connect current and aspiring STEM leaders. It was started in 2013 by the Graduate Society of Women Engineers (GradSWE) at the University of Illinois.
Invited speakers will share experience and insight from their diverse career paths following a graduate degree in STEM. The conference features lectures, workshops, and breakout sessions that showcase successful career paths of women and men in STEM, and facilitate the discussion of topics unique to the graduate student experience. Get ready to be inspired to excel in your field, stay motivated to complete your degree, and grow passionate about the positive impact you can have on the world following a graduate degree in STEM! Contact Zeynep Ayla, weSTEM Attendee Relations Coordinator (westemattendees@gmail.com) with any questions.
Apply by December 4. **Note: You do not need to pay the $20 registration fee. Instead, write a comment in the final box of the application indicating that you are a member of UC Berkeley GWE and we will pay your registration fee directly. Please email alui@berkeley.edu to give me a heads up that you have applied to attend!**
Application due December 4, 2020
weSTEM (Women Empowered in STEM) is a conference held virtually on February 12-13, 2021 designed to inspire and connect current and aspiring STEM leaders. It was started in 2013 by the Graduate Society of Women Engineers (GradSWE) at the University of Illinois.
Invited speakers will share experience and insight from their diverse career paths following a graduate degree in STEM. The conference features lectures, workshops, and breakout sessions that showcase successful career paths of women and men in STEM, and facilitate the discussion of topics unique to the graduate student experience. Get ready to be inspired to excel in your field, stay motivated to complete your degree, and grow passionate about the positive impact you can have on the world following a graduate degree in STEM! Contact Zeynep Ayla, weSTEM Attendee Relations Coordinator (westemattendees@gmail.com) with any questions.
Apply by December 4. **Note: You do not need to pay the $20 registration fee. Instead, write a comment in the final box of the application indicating that you are a member of UC Berkeley GWE and we will pay your registration fee directly. Please email alui@berkeley.edu to give me a heads up that you have applied to attend!**
Claire, Alison, and Kalie presented last year in person!
2021 Virtual Silicon Valley Women in Engineering (WiE) Conference
Early Bird Applicaiton due January 10, 2021
The 2021 Virtual Silicon Valley Women in Engineering (WiE) Conference will be held virtually on Saturday, March 20, 2021 from 8:30am - 6:00pm PDT. Learn about cutting-edge technologies such as artificial intelligence and deep learning, virtual reality in education, innovative transportation, renewable energy system, as well as robotics and intelligent systems. During the virtual Innovation Showcase, meet potential employers and hiring managers, connect with women mentors, and discover state-of-the-art innovations.
Registration fee covers your conference sessions and the 2021 SV WiE Conference welcome kit, which will be shipped to you before the conference.
**In order for GWE to pay for your registration, fill out this form. Early bird tickets will be purchased in bulk on January 9, 2021. Email alui@berkeley.edu if you have any questions.**
Early Bird Applicaiton due January 10, 2021
The 2021 Virtual Silicon Valley Women in Engineering (WiE) Conference will be held virtually on Saturday, March 20, 2021 from 8:30am - 6:00pm PDT. Learn about cutting-edge technologies such as artificial intelligence and deep learning, virtual reality in education, innovative transportation, renewable energy system, as well as robotics and intelligent systems. During the virtual Innovation Showcase, meet potential employers and hiring managers, connect with women mentors, and discover state-of-the-art innovations.
Registration fee covers your conference sessions and the 2021 SV WiE Conference welcome kit, which will be shipped to you before the conference.
**In order for GWE to pay for your registration, fill out this form. Early bird tickets will be purchased in bulk on January 9, 2021. Email alui@berkeley.edu if you have any questions.**
Lean LaunchPad
Hello! I’m Kevin, a full-time MBA student here at Berkeley Haas. I'm enrolled in the Lean LaunchPad, a graduate student course for entrepreneurship in the Spring. I’m looking for a software engineer to join me in Lean LaunchPad to work on an EdTech startup that scales the impact of university career centers, especially at underfunded universities where the staff-to-student ratio is 1:1500. We want to create a self-service platform that makes career services more accessible to all students, especially employed first-gen students who cannot access career services from 9-to-5.
Our team of 5 is looking for someone with front-end, WebDev experience to help us prototype the solution. Full-stack/Back-end experience is desirable but not necessary at this stage. While this is not a requirement to join the course/team, me and my co-founder are also on the lookout for a technical co-founder to join on a more permanent basis if interested.
If you are interested in learning more, I would love to get on a Zoom call to answer any questions about the course, idea, or team! Please feel free to reach me at kevin-hu@berkeley.edu
Hello! I’m Kevin, a full-time MBA student here at Berkeley Haas. I'm enrolled in the Lean LaunchPad, a graduate student course for entrepreneurship in the Spring. I’m looking for a software engineer to join me in Lean LaunchPad to work on an EdTech startup that scales the impact of university career centers, especially at underfunded universities where the staff-to-student ratio is 1:1500. We want to create a self-service platform that makes career services more accessible to all students, especially employed first-gen students who cannot access career services from 9-to-5.
Our team of 5 is looking for someone with front-end, WebDev experience to help us prototype the solution. Full-stack/Back-end experience is desirable but not necessary at this stage. While this is not a requirement to join the course/team, me and my co-founder are also on the lookout for a technical co-founder to join on a more permanent basis if interested.
If you are interested in learning more, I would love to get on a Zoom call to answer any questions about the course, idea, or team! Please feel free to reach me at kevin-hu@berkeley.edu
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