• GWIS National Meeting: Save the Date
• GWIS Book Club
• GWIS Elective Offices Nominations
• Lasker Foundation Medical Essay Contest
• Lasker Foundation Information
• GWIS Programming Virtual Film Screening Survey
• GWIS Events Google Calendar
• GWIS National Mingle
• Committee Volunteer Recruitment
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• Chapter News

Save the Date! The 2024 GWIS National Meeting will be June 7th-9th in Syracuse, NY! Stay tuned for more details.

Are you planning/hoping/desperate to get some writing done this semester? If so, GWIS’s 3rd annual book club might be for you! We’ll be reading Scientific Papers Made Easy by Stuart West and Lindsay Turnbull. The book is available online https://academic.oup.com/book/45619. Multiple virtual discussion sessions will be available so you can choose which time works for you. Register below to receive a link to the virtual discussions. And check out this review of the book.

 

Chapters 1-5 Discussion Monday Mar 11, 2024

Option 1 (favors African and European and African timezones): 1pm WAT/12pm GMT/7am EST/6am CST/5am MST/4am PST/2am HST

Option 2 (favors US timezones): 8pm WAT/7pm GMT/3pm AST/2pm EST/1pm CST/12pm MST/11am PST/9am HST

Chapters 6-11 Discussion Monday Apr 8, 2024

Option 1 (favors African and European timezones): 1pm WAT/12pm GMT/7am EST/6am CST/5am MST/4am PST/2am HST

Option 2 (favors US timezones): 8pm WAT/7pm GMT/3pm AST/2pm EST/1pm CST/12pm MST/11am PST/9am HST

Call for Nominations!

The Nominating Committee of Graduate Women in Science invites all members to participate in nominating candidates for elective offices. This may be done individually or collectively through the chapter in which you hold membership. Do not overlook nominating yourself. The Nominating Committee is interested in receiving the names of everyone who is interested in serving in a national office. 

Each local chapter and each of the three Chapter At-Large delegates receive nomination forms and nominee’s consent forms in the fall. Individual members can obtain such forms by request to the Chair of the Nominating Committee, from their local chapter, or from GWIS.org. 

The ballot, along with brief biographies of the chosen nominees, will be printed in the May & June issues of GWIS News Media. To meet the GWIS News Media deadlines, the Nominating Committee requests receipt of completed nomination forms by mid-April. 

Nominees are needed for the following national offices: 

1. President-Elect 

   1. Serves one year and automatically advances to President 

2. Vice-President

   1. Serves one year and advances by election to President-Elect 

3. Treasurer 

   1. Elected for a two-year term

4. Member of the Board of Directors

   1. Serves a five-year term and is usually a past officer of national GWIS

5. At-Large Delegate

   1. Serves a three year-term with third year as chair

6. Member of the Membership Committee

   1. Serves a three year-term with third year as chair

7. Member of the Nominating Committee

   1. Serves a three year-term with third year as chair

Nominees must be in good standing (dues paid) and must subscribe to the objectives of the organization. Thank you for helping to create a stronger national organization of GWIS. Please return nominations and acceptance of candidacy forms to the Nominating Committee Chair. Please contact Gargi Marsh, the chair of the nominating committee, for further questions: mishra@gwis.org.

The contest opens early February and is sponsored by our clients at the prestigious Lasker Foundation – home to the Lasker Award that is regarded as America’s preeminent biomedical research prize for nearly 80 years.
 
Submissions for the Essay Contest [in English] are accepted through early April 2024.
 
Winning essays will be published in the July 2024 issue of the Journal of Clinical Investigation and on the Lasker Foundation website.
 
Each year, the Lasker student essay contest attracts several hundred talented, early-career medical students and researchers, brings them under the Lasker umbrella, invites them to hone their communications skills, and provides several winners with up to $5,000 to offset university expenses, along with a resume-building opportunity.

This month, Lasker shines a light on Joan Steitz, recipient of the 2018 Lasker~Koshland Special Achievement Award. Dr. Steitz, a pioneering woman in science, is known for her work to expand the field of RNA research, and for mentoring and propelling the careers of women in biomedical research. READ HERE.

Also in this issue, the Ask A Scientist column returns!  The Lasker Foundation accepts career-advice queries from accomplished biomedical researchers in its ranks through February 29, 2024. MORE HERE.

REMINDER: The 2024 Lasker Essay Contest closes April 2. This year’s topic: Identify a specific unmet need in biomedical knowledge or a scientific question that is insufficiently addressed in biomedical research today. LEARN MORE.

And finally, read the City Journal’s recent tribute to Albert and Mary Lasker, whose advocacy and philanthropy led to creation of the Lasker Foundation and the “prize that remade medical history.”READ HERE.

Is your chapter interested in meeting other GWIS members over Zoom? Rolla Chapter of GWIS has created the “GWIS National Mingle”. It has been a great opportunity to meet other GWIS members and talk about life.
Time: every Wednesday from 12:30-1:30 PM PST
If you are interested in participating, please join the event via Zoom.

About GWIS

Founded in 1921, Graduate Women in Science is an inter-disciplinary society of scientists who collectively seek to advance the participation and recognition of women in science and to foster research through grants, awards and fellowships. We comprise over 30 active chapters of more than 900 women who are "United in Friendship through Science" to support and inspire member professional goals and mutual appreciation of science. Learn more at www.gwis.org.

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