Professional Development / Networking Updates

Updates to the "Professional Development and Networking Opportunities" area of the website have been posted to https://sites.google.com/site/easternncswe/professionaldevelopmentopportunities:


Association of Women in Science Networking Event – February 24, 2010

NC Biotech Center
Congressional Room
15 T.W. Alexander Drive
Research Triangle Park, NC
8:30 – 9:30 am

I’d like to invite you to a morning networking event sponsored by the Association of Women In Science, February 24 from 8:30 – 9:30 am in the Congressional Room at the NC Biotech Center. Any women working or studying in a field related to the sciences is welcomed. Light refreshments and new opportunities will be provided! I encourage you to pass this invitation along to women in your personal network that may want to attend.

I also invite you to join the new Linked In group, AWIS RTP. We will be posting job opportunities, both local and national, local events, and discussions relevant to NC women in the sciences. I have several new job postings and hope to add more events in the next few days.

Looking forward to meeting everyone on the 24th-

Ginger Rothrock
President, AWIS RTP

Sarah Williams
Vice President of Membership, AWIS RTP


What I Wish I Had Known (when I was a grad student at UNC) – February 26, 2010

NC Biotech Center
Lobby area / Congressional Room
15 T.W. Alexander Drive
Research Triangle Park, NC
Friday, February 26, 2010
6:00 – 8:00 pm

The Women Chemists Committee of the American Chemical Society invites you to an evening of meeting women in the chemical sciences in the RTP area and listening to a presentation by Dr. Lisa Balbes of Balbes Consulting (http://www.balbes.com/). The main topic of the presentation is early career management. It's free, but so we can have some idea of headcount, please shoot an email to Brittany Westlake at wcc_rsvp@unc.edu.

Organizing committee:
NCSU: Elke Feese, Brandi Keene, Laura Sremaniak
NCCU: Maian Lopian
UNC: Brittany Westlake
Duke: Laura Moussa


The Lost Art of Person to Person Networking – March 3, 2010 (Register by March 1, 2010)

Meredith College
Science & Math Building, Atrium (both floors)3800 Hillsborough StreetRaleigh, North Carolina 27607-5298
Wednesday, March 3, 20105:30 – 7:00 pm

Join us for panel discussion and hands on exercises designed to increase your person to person networking skills. What is networking? How to network? Where to network? What to do after you have collected that big stack of business cards? How does networking help established professionals? This will be an experiential, interactive, learning event. This meeting is jointly sponsored by WITI, the Society of Women Environmental Professionals, ACS’ Women Chemists Committee (WCC) and Meredith College.

Schedule:5:30-5:45 Registration, Networking, Hors d’oeuvres & Water (Fruit and Plain)5:45-6:45 Panel Discussion and Experiential, Interactive Activities6:45-7:00 Questions, Answers and Session Evaluation 7:00 Adjourn

For more details, including speaker bios and registration information, visit: http://www.witi.com/rtp/meeting.php?id=2383.