University of North Carolina Women in Science and Research

(UNC-WISR)

Contents

Mission Statement

Current Projects

Contact Information

Spring Seminar Series

Brown Bag Luncheons

 

 

Mission Statement

UNC Women in Science and Research (WISR) is an interdisciplinary society of scientists dedicated to supporting and improving educational and professional opportunities for women in all fields of science through: 1) participation in their scientific research, 2) integration of their careers and personal goals and 3) professional networking and mutual inspiration.

 

 

Current Projects

Brown Bag Luncheon Seminars- more info below

Spring Seminar Series- more info below

Book Club- We are reading “You just don’t understand”  by Deborah Tannen.

Second meeting this Saturday April 5 at 10:00am at Café Carolina in Chapel Hill in Meadowmont (take the road that goes opposite of the Friday Center, first left and it is the first building on the right; also its on the circle directly across from Brixx).   We will discuss Chapters 4 & 5.

 

Contact Information

To join our organization: click on the link below.

http://listserv.unc.edu/cgi-bin/lyris.pl?join=women-in-science.

E-mail address

           uncwisr@bio.unc.edu

 

Spring Seminar Series

 

To be announced…

 

       

Brown Bag Luncheon Seminar

Date

Speaker

Title

Time and Room

Host and Contact

April 17, 2003

Leslie Morrow

Assoc Dir, Bowles Center for Alcohol Studies
Prof of Pharmacology and Psychiatry

“Keys to successful  career development”

11:30-1 pm

 

1013 Thurston Bowles

Rebekka Fleming

 

rebekah_fleming@med.unc.edu

May 2, 2003

Robert Shelton

UNC Provost and Executive Vice Chancellor

“Attracting and Retaining the Very
Best of Academic Science Careers: The Pipeline Issue and Beyond.”

11:30-1 pm

 

Coker 215

Shelley Hooks

 

shelley_hooks@med.unc.edu

June 2003

Christy Shaffer

CEO of Inspire Pharmaceuticals and former UNC Postdoc

TBA

TBA

Shelley Hooks

 

shelley_hooks@med.unc.edu

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Last revised: 04/03/2003