Looking for life and career skills in about one hour a week?
Add Perspectives on Career and Gender! During this discussion-based 1-credit seminar, learn about career paths, interviewing, mentorship, rights, negotiation, intersectionality, balancing work & life, #MeToo and more! Gain skills in group facilitation, literature review, peer mentoring, and networking. Tuesdays, 3:30-4:25 PM, Bray 324; during the weeks when WiSE Professions meets, those events will substitute for class. Employees and un-enrolled students may also sit in. Direct questions to Diane Kuehn (dmkuehn@esf.edu) and Heather Engelman (engelman@esf.edu).
Coffee Breaks!
Take a breather and give or gain insight into work or life challenges, while helping others. Comparing notes can help us identify issues, share strategies and possible paths forward (or around).
Join in person in 110 Moon or online/phone in (register at https://syracuseuniversity.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJMsd-Ggrz4rGNQkzp59XyKkzUM6GeHnFH2l) from wherever you happen to be on (mostly) 1st Fridays (2/3, 3/3, 4/14, 5/5) during the 11:40-12:35 class block, or 3rd Thursdays (2/16, 3/23, 4/20, 5/18),9:30-10:30am.
WiSE Professions speaker series returns, with a combination of virtual and in person sessions:
- Women in STEM Alumnae
Career Panel,
with Alumni Association, Career Services, and others. Thursday, March
2, 7pm, virtual.
- Dr. Meredith Holgerson, EFB MS 2011, Assistant
Professor, Ecology and Evolution, Cornell U, title TBD, with Adaptive
Peaks, Thursday, April 6, 3:45pm, 5 Illick
- Dr. Gina Dilio-Whitaker, on Indigenous
Environmental Justice, with Center for Native Peoples and the Environment
and others, Wednesday, April 26, 5pm, Gateway
- Take our Kids to Work
Day, Thursday,
April 27, STEM exploration for 8-11 year olds with an adult that works or
studies at ESF, regardless of the child’s gender or relationship to their
adult. Kids, grandkids, godkids, niblings, siblings, neighbors, and
other connections are all welcome (on a space limited basis—this is a
class day, so we are working in between other users of classrooms and
labspaces, and presenters’ ongoing obligations).
- Girls’ Summit, Saturday
May 20. Kids’
Day’s ‘big sister’, expanding STEAM exploration to 5th-10th
graders in the community. If you are looking for a program for a
class you sponsor, youth group or scout troop, this is the program for
your group! Annual collaboration of the YWCA of Onondaga County, C/STEP,
and multiple on-campus partners (Open Academy, OIDE, Women’s Caucus).
