Deadline for GHC 2012

Friday 16, 12 am PST [ Saturday 17, 3 AM EST ]: submission deadline for Grace Hopper 2012. 

Celebration and advice on bullies

Hi all,

I wanted to share with you all a piece written by Fan R. Chung on math bullies: http://www.math.ucsd.edu/~fan/teach/add.htm

I think it is an example of excellent, courageous social critique, dare I say, more likely to come from a powerful woman than anybody else!

Also, Happy Women's Day and especially Happy Birthday to wonderful Awalin!

Best,
  Ioana

First Lunch Meet up in Spring 2012

(Photo credit: Lise Getoor)

On our first lunch meet-up this semester, we not only had fun but also came expressed our thoughts about grad school, research and LIFE ! Each of us came up with a question worth discussing and tried to answer others' questions, too. 

We talked about our hobbies and how we manage time for them. Also developing and maintaining a healthy food habit and sleeping schedule came up during the discussion. On a more professional side, we talked about how to create connection for career development and how to improve communication skill. along these line came the topic about how to maintain the balance 'between research and course works' and 'between professional life and personal life'. YES, we do have personal life ( despite being grad students ) and we do get frustrated sometimes,  so eventually we also talked about how to overcome and deal with frustration. And do we see the Topic on the top ? 'Recharge' is the word. 

Grace Hopper 2012 is right next door this year, it's in Baltimore, so hopefully we will have more participation this time and represent the women in our department.