WiO Bi-Weekly Meeting & Yearly Action Items
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Our last WiO meeting we continued planning our Diversity Week celebration co-sponsored with SOCk. We are very excited to continue working on this event, and to share it with everyone!
We will not have meetings until the week of January 13, 2020.
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WiO Spotlight is an installment series where we talk with students, staff, and faculty to share our passions and connect with our community here at the Wyant College of Optical Sciences. This week we want to Spotlight WiO in 2019! Let's take a trip down memory lane to see what all WiO has been up to this past year.
February
Brown Bag Lunch with Dr. Kyle Myers, You can have a Career in Optics at the FDA? Who knew! Kyle shared with us his career path a member of the SPIE Board of Directors and Director of Division of Imaging, Diagnostics, and Software Reliability at FDA.
March
Launching Your Career 2019!
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Keynote speakers were Cyndi Atherton and Iwona A. Palusinski with pannelists Gurtina Belsa, Mara Aspinall, Lindsay Guzman, Jen Dahar, Erika Hamden, Chandra Holifield Collins, Kerri Hickenbottom, Jessica Kapp, Ariane Mortazavi, Jasmine Sears, Charlotte Pearson, and Ji Yeon Shin.
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April
WiO members always turn out to support the College of Optical Sciences' Laser Fun Day. This annual event makes optics learning fun with material sure to captivate the imagination of scientists of all ages!
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Laser Fun Day attendees have the opportunity to test their spy skills in a Laser Maze! Image is courtesy of Micaehla May.
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May
We sent off some of our stellar WiO members at graduation including WiO president, Liliana Ruiz Diaz. Congratulations to the class of 2019!
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Dr. Liliana Ruiz Diaz graduated with her Ph.D. in Optical Engineering working on the deelopment of hybrid thermal-PV solar trough and solar micro-concentrators.
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September
WiO board members set out to update our mission statement to align it with our current values, as well as to better coordinate efforts with our fellow OSC student clubs.
Mission Statement:
The mission of Women in Optics (WiO) shall be to promote awareness, build community, and improve the representation of diversity and inclusion within the college. The WiO group will: (i) provide intersectional support and community building for graduate and undergraduate students; (ii) improve awareness by building partnerships inside and outside of the university; (iii) confront sources of bias and inequality in the field.
October
In October, WiO collaborated with PAWS to put on fun optics demos for Girl Scouts of America.
November
November was a busy month for WiO outreach serving hundreds of students at three separate events!
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WiO started the month right, participating in Caterpillar's Girls Experience Mining [GEM] Day, sharing optics demos with approximately 80 seventh and eighth grade girls. At GEM, girls from under-served schools experienced the variety of ways science, technology, engineering, and mathematics are incorporated into careers and the broad range of opportunities available to them.
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In addition to GEM day, WiO outreach participated in Indigenous Day at Cholla High School as well as Community Connections.
December
With the ending of the semester, WiO members gathered to discuss our programming for next year! Take a look at our Upcoming WiO Events board for a sneak peek.
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We are excited to announce that the 2020 Launching Your Career Symposium will be held on Friday, January 31th, 2020 in Tucson, AZ!
The symposium welcomes all STEM Undergraduates, Graduates and Post Docs at the University of Arizona to participate in a panel discussions and workshops with accomplished female leaders in both industry and academia, as well as a networking lunch. Registration is free! A limited number of attendee spots are available, so we encourage all to register early.
This year WiO is partnering with Women in STEM Student Council (WiSSC), Women in Science and Engineering (WISE) to host this symposium and the Science and Engineering Excellence Banquet. The banquet will be held on Thursday, January 30th, 2019 and everyone is welcome to submit titles/abstracts for the poster session!
Check out the LYC website for more information!
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Join the OSC community
uaopticsstudents.slack.com
Join the WiO community
wioweekly.slack.com
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Upcoming Events
December 13 - 20 , 2019
Finals Week
January 6-10, 2020
Winter School & Workshop 2020
Wyant College of Optical Science
January 30, 2020
Science and Engineering Excellence Banquet
Student Union
January 31, 2020
Launching Your Career
Student Union
Registration
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Thanks for reading the WiO Weekly, see you next yeas!
If you're feeling overwhelmed, check out these cool and free finals week events put on by the university which include free coffee and dog petting!
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