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This brand new book by Iris Bohnet, a Professor at the Kennedy School of Government, offers suggestions drawn from behaviorial economics as solutions for gender bias from classrooms to boardrooms. She reviews evidence-based interventions that can be adopted easily, and discusses how research addresses gender bias improving both lives and performance. Andrea Dupree will lead the discussion. Several copies of the book are available from Wolbach Library. (Also available from the Coop at ~$22.00). On Monday, April 4, Iris Bohnet will have a conversation about the book at the Harvard Book Store. Details can be found on this website. The book is reviewed in the Finance and Development Magazine of the International Monetary Fund in March 2016. You can download the review here. Antonella Fruscione, Chair, Gender Equity Committee The Gender Equity Committee was appointed in 2002 by former director Irwin Shapiro to monitor gender equity in the CfA. In 2007 it produced a detailed report with findings and recommendations. I will briefly summarize what was done in the past and talk about the current GEC and what we hope to accomplish. As the current Chair of the committee I am hoping to have a collaborative discussion regarding the need and the scope for such a committee at the CFA. For anyone interested, the 2007 report and other material can be found here. An interesting paper that was published after the study can be found here. For your reference (the "science research organization" mentioned in the paper is actually CFA!) Belinda Wilkes, Director, CHANDRA X-Ray Observatory Every stage of a career brings changes, new skills, and new emphases. This talk focuses on these topics and the experiences of Belinda Wilkes in her first years as CXO Director. This is particularly for early career grad students and post-docs, since every step after grad school brings new challenges, rewards, and adjustments. Of course, everyone is welcome. Our own Kimberly Arcand and Megan Watzke celebrated with a good article in The Daily Beast : It's Time to Abolish Science's Boys Club. You can read it here! Please join us Friday, Jan. 22 to start the 2016 series. Cecilia Garaffo and Elaine Winston finished 2015 with a very successful WISCHAT involving two guest speakers. WISCHATs are particularly aimed at grad students and post-docs to let them talk with outsiders about career steps. Cecilia and Elaine will start off talking about that experience, including some of the topics which were discussed. After that, please bring suggestions for topics, concerns, books, speakers.... you would be interested in hearing about in the future. Professor Cherry Murray, Former Dean of Harvard's School of Science, Engineering, and Applied Science Scientists are often so deep into their research they might forget to translate their content when speaking to audiences both inside and outside of their areas. This workshop offers specific skills from the theatre to become a more engaging and memorable speaker, whether at a professional conference, public event, job talk or in the classroom. With a focus on clarifying the message, topics also include connection to audience; body language, gesture and movement; purpose and passion; structure and timing; PowerPoint use; managing stage fright; voice, speech and articulation; and how to include stories and metaphors to illuminate complex or important ideas. The goal is to become more clear, compelling and memorable, getting your research to come to life and your ideas to stick. Nancy Houfek was Head of Voice and Speech for American Repertory Theater at Harvard from 1997 to 2014, teaching vocal production, coaching the professional acting company, and administering the M.F.A. program in voice training pedagogy. You can find more details on her web page: http://www.nancyhoufek.com/about.shtml |