Health Professions Panel
BMES, in collaboration with the BME Department, is hoping to organize a BME Health Professions Panel of BME Alumni who are in the Rochester area practicing as MDs, MD residents, Nurses. We are trying to gauge interest and figure out potential dates/times for the session. Please fill out this form if you are interested and can make one or more of these times.
Women in STEM Posters
Cosponsorship with SWE
We want to fill Carlson library with women who inspire us for March (Women’s history month). Do research on one female in STEM and her accomplishments and make a poster about it. The set up of the display would be 4 large poster boards that would be displayed in Carlson with your posters cut out on to them as “mini” posters, each the size of a piece of paper (8.5″ x 11″). Additionally, the plan is to have each of your posters featured on a bigger view electronically, looping through the digital screens of the library. Attached is a poster template you can follow, but also change to make your own! Please send Nicole (nrinald2@u.rochester.edu) your finished poster by Friday, March 1st. Again, if you know people who still want to sign up, you can let them know they still can, but March is coming up fairly quickly. If you are interested please sign up here!
Women in STEM Panel
Cosponsorship with SWE and She’s The First
She’s the First and Society of Women Engineers are organizing Women in STEM panel, held on March 5th from 5pm to 6pm in Wegmans 1400. We have invited a variety of different professors from fields such as BME, Brain and Cognitive Sciences, and many others to speak about their experiences and paths to success in their careers. The professors who are attending are Dr. Amy Lerner (BME), Dr. Astrid Muller (ChemE), Dr. Renee Miller (BCS), Dr. Alexis Stein (Biology), and Dr. Ayla Gafni (Math). This panel is meant to shed light on the challenges that women face while entering STEM careers, as well as inspire the young women who are pursuing STEM-related fields while here, at the University of Rochester.
While the women on this panel will offer advice for women, we also aim to educate the other half of the population in the hopes that we can help create a more equal playing field in the future.
We are not asking for a set amount of members to attend, just as many as are interested. We also ask that you spread the word about the event and encourage others to go, as well as submit questions to the attached google form for our panelists here.