GWIS Practice Cross-Cultural Communication

In a new workshop designed and implemented by GWIS, students learned how to better communicate between across different cultural divides. Our facilitator, Dr. Amer Ahmed, led the group through some activities/exercises as well as some more lecture-style teaching about intercultural communication and competency, with a mix of theoretical models and relatable examples. There was some […]

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STEM Diversity Workshop

Dr. Connie Chow, a scientist and educator, infuses STEM with play, feminism and inclusion. She founded The-Exploratory (the-exploratory.org) to empower teachers and girls to bring science to life in Ghana. She’s an associate lecturer in the Honors College at UMass Boston and a visiting social entrepreneur at the Center for Women’s Health and Human Rights […]

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Python Workshops – back by popular demand!

  Back by popular demand, improved with feedback from you! GWIS is holding a series of interactive workshops to show the ropes of the versatile programming language popular with scientists and engineers! What: Interactive python programming workshops Where: Integrated Sciences Building (ISB) 221 When: 11:20a.m. to 12:55p.m. Session 1: Tuesday 2/24: basic programming – installing python, […]

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Python-Advanced Topics

Interested in learning more about programming in python? GWIS is holding a series of interactive workshops to show the ropes of this versatile programming language popular with scientists and engineers.  What: Interactive python programming workshop – Session 3 When: Tuesday, December 2nd. 3:00-4:30pm Where: Integrated Sciences Building (ISB) 221 Session 3 – We will cover […]

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Python-Data manipulation, library sci kit learn- mathematical learning

Ever think about learning more about programming but didn’t know where to look? GWIS is holding a series of interactive workshops to show the ropes of the versatile programming language popular with scientists and engineers: python! What: Interactive python programming workshop – Session 2 When: Tuesday, November 18th. 3:00-4:30pm  Where: Integrated Sciences Building (ISB) 145 Participants will interact with […]

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Python-The basics

Ever think about learning more about programming but didn’t know where to look? GWIS is holding an interactive workshop to show the ropes and basics of the versatile programming language popular with scientists and engineers: python! What: Interactive python programming workshop – Session 1 When: Tuesday, November 4th. 3:00-4:30pm  Where: CS Building 150  Participants will interact with experts […]

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