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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AAAS Fellows Panel- Bridging Policy and Careers

This event informed the graduate community about the AAAS Science and Technology Policy Fellowship, and connected event participants to past fellows that could serve as a resource for future applications. It was applicable to all STEM students as well as students from other disciplines, and clarified questions regarding the application process, life in Washington DC, and […]

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Diversity in STEM: Best Practices in Faculty and Graduate Student Recruitment and Retention

At this event, we wanted to get an external perspective of Diversity in STEM fields in academia. We wanted to look at the faculty situation and had a great speaker from UDel who is currently a dean of engineering. Professor Pamela Cook is a applied mathematician and she shared her thoughts about the field overall in […]

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The Imposter Syndrome Luncheon hosted by GSCA and GWIS

This was a great event for anyone feeling overwhelmed by grad school.  The Impostor Syndrome  is a common phenomenon among graduate students, characterized by a feeling of personal inadequacy.  It’s certainly something that I’ve struggled with throughout my three years at UMass, and unfortunately, the panelists confirmed that these feelings rarely go away completely, but […]

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Mastering the Poster Session – Another Awesome Situation Room

We are very proud of last week’s Situation Room, which focused on the ever-present Poster Session.  We know – they can be the bane of every graduate student’s conference, difficult to prepare for, full of anxiety.  We had 4 volunteers present their posters to a panel consisting of a post-doc, faculty, and graduate student who […]

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