Minutes 10/11
Updates on what has been going on:
- Art Class – learning a lot
- Camping Trip – lots of fun and food
- Award from GSA – we got a baller carved wooden plaque
- Money from Shell – let us know if you have ideas on how to use the money
Listserv
- Email the AWG gmail with questions and suggestions awg.psu@gmail.com
- Do not spam the listserv
- It’s fine if you aren’t signed up with gmail
Outreach – we have several events in the works, email Gabby (gabrielleramirez841@gmail.com) with questions and to sign up for things
- Cosmic Carnival
- October 23rd 1-3p
- Theme is Cat in the Hat
- 1 fish 2 fish red fish you fish > activity to show kids natural resource management
- sign up!
- Discovery Space > downtown > activities for elementary kids
- Saturday activity at discovery space > we need to brainstorm hands on activities
- Steam table > Hajek lab
- Earthsciweek.org has activites that are broken down by grade level
- Chocolate rock cycle
- Shake Rattle Rocks activities
- November – look for more details
- Nittany Valley Charter School
- Elementary School kids
- They are working on physics so we should come up with some geophysics activity
- “Slime” non-newtonian liquid
Mentorship Program – email Mercedes (mgainor2@gmail.com) with questions
- Wednesday, October 19 (Tomorrow!!) at 6p in the Museum there will be a mixer!!!! Be there!
- Will fill out mentorship pairing forms while we are there
- Mingle and get to know potential mentors/mentees
- If you can’t make it, sign up for mentorship program on our website (https://sites.psu.edu/awgpennstate/)
- Chipotle!
Writing Club!
- 2 hour writing club where grad students can give undergrads feedback on their application materials
- The first will be focused on graduate student applications but we will turn it into a writing club
- Biweekly and it will be open and have food
- We will also open it up to the department broadly
First one is Monday October 24th 5-7pm
Joanmarie Lunch Discussions
- Lunch discussions > read articles that have to do with ethics and diversity in earth science
- Article about women recommendation letters > inherently biased letters against women. Article to read: here
- Read the study and then as a group draft a memo to send out the faculty
- First discussion: Thursday at Noon October 20th in Deike 343
- Brown bag and AWG will provide dessert
Breakfast with Colloquium Speakers – basically every week for the next month
- October 18,25
- Nov 1,8,9,29
- All at 8a in Deike 541
- Relaxed Q&A, get a perspective on women’s experience in academia
Come drink coffee, eat bagels, talk with female professionals!
Fundraising ideas
Cookbook of field recipes email Maddy mln5165@psu.edu with ideas. We will sell it to the department.
Maddy also has a tshirt idea:
I really like the one we have now, so I was thinking along the same lines but with a different picture of a woman doing something strong and geoscience related. So I was thinking we could have a woman swinging a sledge hammer for a seismic survey. I can edit photos to look similar to the current t-shrit, but I thought it would be cool if I used a photo of someone in the department. So, I was wondering if you could send around an email to ask for pictures of women swinging sledge hammers, or any cool action that I could make into a design on the t-shirt?
Email Maddy with ideas/pictures. Or bring ideas to the mentorship mixer!
Opportunities for Undergrads:
NASA WISER
For freshmen women to get involved in research
Deadline is November 1st
May have other options for non-freshman
Also any science can apply
Under represented groups can apply
Two semesters $500 each semester
EMS Ambassadors
Want 2 students from each major to give tours of the buildings
Applications due on Oct 21st for Juniors and Seniors
Email questions to Vivek Thomas vkt5022@psu.edu or Stacy Davidson at sjp123@psu.edu