Today, we had lunch with our former faculty mentor, Mary Silber. Mary is now a Professor of Statistics at The University of Chicago, and runs their Committee on Applied Mathematics. She continues to be a great resource and mentor for ESAM Women!

On March 22, we held a coffee and bagel discussion on women in STEM. Prior to our discussion, we read an article from the Atlantic on STEM gender equality vs. country gender equality, and watched this video (which has been quite controversial) on the pay gap, the role men play, and more. This led to an hour of great discussion on these topics, but also discussions on negotiation.

Today we held a discussion about where we want WESAM to go over the next year. We decided upon more professional outreach, interspersed with coffee chats on interesting articles that we find. We also spent today discussing what we as women can do to help with the recruiting of women and minority PhD students to the department.

Tonight we had a wonderful dinner at Found Kitchen & Social House here in Evanston to welcome our newest woman faculty member is ESAM, Niall Mangan! Niall comes to ESAM from a post-doc at the University of Washington, and we are excited for her addition to the department! The dinner was a wonderful way to learn about Niall and her research, and all had a good time.

Today, we went to the Little Mexican Cafe for lunch and discussion with our newest faculty member, Petia Vlahovska! We are so excited to have a woman professor in ESAM again, and Petia is a wonderful fit for the department. She comes to us from Brown University and her research is broadly in fluid mechanics. Our lunch was a great time for discussion and learning more about Petia.

Members of WESAM and ESAM Participated this past weekend in GROW-Graduate Research Opportunities for Women here at Northwestern. It was a great weekend of outreach for college sophomores-seniors, and we hope that our efforts help those women in their graduate school decisions.

Faculty advisor and affiliated faculty Rosemary Braun gave a talk to the conference attendees, Rosemary also participated in the panel on academic careers in mathematics (with recent ESAM alum and current post-doc at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Sara Clifton), and ESAM faculty Danny Abrams participated in a panel on the “nuts and bolts” of getting into graduate school. Multiple WESAM members participated in general discussions/mentoring and outreach with attendees.

Tonight, we had a WESAM dinner at Union Pizza to cap of the end of the school year, but also to say goodbye to four of our original members: Sara, Kaitlin, Namu, and Karna. All four of them are going on to great post-docs and jobs and we are excited for them!

Members of WESAM and ESAM Participated this weekend in GROW-Graduate Research Opportunities for Women here at Northwestern. It was a great weekend of outreach for college sophomores-seniors, and we hope that our efforts help those women in their graduate school decisions.

ESAM Professor Danny Abrams participated in a panel on academic careers in mathematics, ESAM Professor David Chopp on a panel on how to get into grad school, and multiple WESAM members participated in general discussions, mentoring, and outreach with attendees.

 

Haley Yaple, an alum of ESAM and current professor at Carthage College, joined us for dinner at Northwestern to tell us about her job search experience and her day-to-day life at Carthage College. It was a treat to hear about her teaching responsibilities as well as her involvement with undergraduate research projects. She compiled some great job hunt advice – please see below!

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Members of WESAM and ESAM Participated this part weekend in the first ever GROW-Graduate Research Opportunities for Women here at Northwestern. It was a great weekend of outreach for college sophomores-seniors, and we hope that our efforts help those women in their graduate school decisions.

Stephanie Ger and Mary Silber were both participants on a panel on the “nuts and bolts” of getting into graduate school, and multiple WESAM members participated in general discussions and outreach with attendees.