Category archive for ‘News’ 
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March 6th meeting minutes
The minutes from the March 6th organizational meeting are here: 2013-3-6
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January 9th meeting minutes
Minutes from the 1/9/2013 organizational meeting are here: 2013-1-9
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December 5th meeting minutes
Minutes from 12/5/12 organizational meeting are here: 2012-12-5
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October 3, 2012 meeting minutes
Here are the minutes: 2012-10-3
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WiGS founding member Joanna Kelley receives L’Oreal Women in Science fellowship
Dr. Joanna Kelley, a genome sciences alumna who contributed to the formation of Women in Genome Sciences, is one of five early career scientists to earn the 2012 L’Oreal Women in Science Fellowship. Since finishing her Ph.D. work in Willie Swanson’s lab, Joanna has done postdoctoral work with Molly Przeworski at University of Chicago and [...]
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Work-Life Balance Is Out of Reach for Many Male and Female Scientists
Both men and women in science are affected by issues related to work-life balance, a new survey says. “More than half of the survey’s 4,225 respondents said work demands conflict with their personal lives at least two to three times a week,” The Chronicle of Higher Education reports, citing data from the Association for Women [...]
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Event today: Center for Genomics & Healthcare Equality
The Center for Genomics and Healthcare Equality invites you to our first meeting of the Renal Disease in Native Americans Analytic Learning Community: Feb. 10th from 4:00-5:30pm CGHE office, 1107 NE 45th St, Suite 305, University District Building In preparation, below is a brief agenda and an introduction to different aspects of this topic through [...]
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Get involved in science fairs!
Elyse has gathered information for us about volunteering to judge, mentor, or otherwise support local science fairs: In middle school and high school, I was a science fair kid. Not only did participating in science fairs expose me to independent research, it gave me opportunities to meet older students and professionals in my field and [...]
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NSF Study on Women, Minorities, and Persons with Disabilities in Science and Engineering
Women, Minorities, and Persons with Disabilities in Science and Engineering provides statistical information about the participation of women, minorities, and persons with disabilities in science and engineering education and employment. A formal report, now in the form of a digest, is issued every 2 years. http://www.nsf.gov/statistics/wmpd/start.cfm Nature Jobs blog about how women increase their share [...]
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Childcare financial assistance for graduate students
Good news for graduate students with children, you can receive financial aid for childcare. See below for more information. ” Deadline TOMORROW for Childcare Assistance Program Application UAW Local 4121 has negotiated a new benefit with the University as part of the 2011/12 collective bargaining agreement that provides childcare assistance for Academic Student Employees (ASEs) who [...]
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Family-friendly science news
New policies from NSF can be found at this link.
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Women must earn PhD to make as much as men with a BA
From Georgetown University’s Center on Education and Workforce recent report: “The findings are stark: Women earn less at all degree levels, even when they work as much as men. On average, women who work full-time, full-year earn 25 percent less than men, even at similar education levels. At all levels of educational attainment, African Americans [...]
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Speaker suggestions
Very soon we’ll need to invite speakers for the WiGS-sponsored Combi and GS dept. seminars. We’d love to hear your suggestions for both of these seminars. This is your chance to try to get your favorite female researcher here to give a talk. For the GS department seminar, we’d like to invite a female researcher [...]
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2011 Women in Science and Engineering Conference
High school, community college, and university women are invited to explore opportunities in engineering and science careers at the 20th annual WiSE conference, a day devoted to celebrate women in the engineering and sciences. Women with vision and design on science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) careers come together to research and explore opportunities in [...]
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New WiGS website!
We’ve recently updated our website. Now there are a lot of ways for you to interact with WiGS. Do you have something to say? Add a comment! You can always post a comment on any of our posts, or the feedback page for more general comments. It will also be a lot easier to keep [...]
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Who we are
Women in Genome Sciences (WiGS) is a group of genome scientists working to make our department and our field more accepting. We believe that everyone should have an opportunity to be successful in science, regardless of their gender, race, sexuality, class, age, etc. Our group also has an interest in understanding how the research we perform [...]