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Fireside Friday

March 18, 2022

AWIS National News 

Replay a conversation on diversity in STEM. On Tuesday, AWIS interim CEO Meredith Gibson participated in a panel discussion on advancing diversity in STEM alongside Dr. Shirley Malcom, director of SEA Change; Dr. Allison Scott, CEO of the Kapor Center Foundation; and Alaina Percival, CEO of Women Who Code.

Image: Woman in Motion movie poster featuring a rocket launch and Nichelle Nichols' profileHave you watched the Woman In Motion trailer? In 1977, Star Trek's Nichelle Nichols went from actor to NASA recruiter. Get a preview of Nichelle Nichol's impact on NASA's space program and register for AWIS' virtual screening of Woman in Motion happening on April 7-10, followed by a panel with NASA experts on April 19.

 Chapter Event

Careers in Industry Q&A Panel. AWIS at UC Irvine invites you to a virtual event on Tuesday, March 29 at 12:15 p.m. PT featuring five scientists and researchers in industry. Bring your questions about careers in biotech/industry, transitioning from academia, and more. Register.

 

Member Shoutouts

Dr. Fatma Kaplan, CEO of Pheronym, will be a panelist for UC Davis' Empowering Womxn and Femmes in STEM symposium on Wednesday, March 30 at 10 a.m. PT. Alongside three other leaders in STEM, Dr. Kaplan will share about her career journey. 

Image: Dr. Fatma Kaplan with bright greenery behind her

 

 

 

 

Dr. Joanna Ortyl runs the Ortyl Applied Research Team at the Cracow University of Technology and is the CEO of Photo HiTech and Photo4Chem. In this Q&A, she shares insights on the state of resin 3D printing. Read more.

Image: Dr. Joanna Ortyl in a lab setting

 

 

 

 

Women's History Month

Mary G. Ross is known as the first Native American woman engineer. In a recent article, Smithsonian historian Emily Margolis said, “Not only did she do all these amazing things in aerospace, but she did it at the same time that she was trying to make engineering in general more inclusive and welcoming to all.” Learn more about her.  Image: Black and white photo of Mary G. Ross at a desk with a pencil and papers in front of her


 

 

 

Career Corner

STEM resume tips for 2022. In the article Formulating The Perfect STEM Resume For 2022, Professional Woman's Magazine recommends adding quantifiable results to your resume, showing your experience across disciplines, and revising your resume repeatedly, "even when you can't stand it." Make the process less painful with the help of a professional resume writer through AWIS' free resume review service.

Add to Your Library

   Image: Radium Girls book cover  The Radium Girls: The Dark Story of America's Shining Women by Kate Moore. During the First World War, radium made headlines as a wonder drug of the medical community. But the women working in the radium-dial factories began to fall mysteriously ill. As they came forward, their courage and tenacity led to life-changing regulations, research into nuclear bombing, and ultimately saved hundreds of thousands of lives.

 

 

 

     Women in White Coats: How the First Women Doctors Changed the World of Medicine by Olivia Campbell. Motivated by personal loss and frustration over inadequate medical care, Elizabeth Blackwell, Elizabeth Garrett Anderson, and Sophia Jex-Blake fought for a woman’s place in the male-dominated medical field in the early 1800s. Women in White Coats tells the complete history of these three pioneering women.

Image: Women in White Coats book cover

                                     

The Bottom Line

"I’ve always been strong-willed, passionate, and extremely protective of my loved ones. If there was a way to keep them safe, I wanted to do it."

 — AWIS member Corinne Farleigh's early interest in safety led her to an exciting career in Environment, Health, Safety & Security. Read her new AWIS Magazine article, Safest Cars Come from the Safest Factories: The Road that Brought Me to Tesla.