Women in Science at Ryerson - WISR

04/22/2017

For all Ph.Ds

A new interactive infographic allows you to explore the Ph.D. employment landscape

If you're about to get your Ph.D, there's a new tool from the National Science Foundation that can help you explore where your career may take you.

The tool here: https://www.nsf.gov/nsb/sei/infographic2
A summary here: http://www.sciencemag.org/careers/2017/04/tool-can-help-you-envision-your-career

03/01/2017

Dear students,

Our Women in STEM: Speed Mentoring Event has a new date!

Please join the Ryerson Career Centre, Women in Science at Ryerson (WISR) and Women in Engineering (WIE) on Thursday, March 30th to gain valuable advice, perspectives, strategies and resources on navigating the world of work and graduate school in preparing for your future.

As you work towards your degree in a STEM program at Ryerson, you are also having to navigate part-time experience, internships, co-op roles, and applications to postgraduate opportunities. This can be overwhelming and challenging, particularly when dealing with difficult conversations such as salary negotiations and harassment, or maintaining self-care and well being. These topics will be discussed in a speed mentoring activity, where you will have the opportunity meet with invited industry professionals from STEM fields.

Topics include:
Salary negotiations: Why should women negotiate? What kinds of challenges do women face when addressing this topic with employers? Tips for effective negotiating strategies in early career.
Harassment and discrimination: What is workplace harassment and discrimination? How to be aware of, and how to address, for yourself and fellow colleagues. What are power dynamics in the workplace?
Graduate school and academia: What factors, as a women in STEM, should be considered when applying for graduate studies - ie. lifestyle, leveraging further education for career success?
Work-life balance: Tips for practicing self care as a university student. Can a career in STEM upset the balance? How to effectively pursue career goals and personal goals simultaneously.
Impostor syndrome: How to develop a strong support system for performance feedback and open discussion on feelings of professional inadequacy.
Addressing labels: What can we do to address cultural and societal stereotypes about women and STEM, so as to not internalize labels and be affected by them?

Event details:
Women in STEM: Speed Mentoring Event
Thursday, March 30th
Ryerson Career Centre, Podium Building 60, Lower Ground
6PM - 8PM
Please register bit.ly/WISTEM17
$5 Charge for registration

Refreshments will be served. Please let us know if you require any accommodations or have food restrictions. This event is open to all interested students in FOS and FEAS.

Navigating the world of work can be overwhelming and challenging, particularly when dealing with difficult conversations such as salary negotiations and harassment or maintaining self-care and well being. The purpose of this speed mentoring event is to bring professional women working in the field o...

02/24/2017

On March 3rd and 4th, Ryerson Women in Leadership student group (RWIL) is hosting their 2017 conference. RWIL has decided they want everyone to share the experience of their exciting VOICE 2017 conference and have opened it up to the public.

With inspiring speakers like Theresa McLaughlin, global chief marketing officer at TD, Adrienne Batra editor in chief at the Toronto Sun, or Jenny Frankel, CEO, founder of Nudestixs, the Ryerson Women in Leadership's 2017 conference aims to help delegates see the importance of women using their voices to break down glass ceilings from professionals who are empowering students in the workplace.

Through networking career opportunities, engaging workshops, a case competition partnered with SheEO and fidelity investments with a $500 first place prize sum, and a gala with live entertainment, the 2017 RWIL conference is an event that brings empowering students together in order to educate, motivate and inspire each other and women all over the world.

To purchase a ticket to the conference: https://www.tilt.com/tilts/rwil-voice-conference-tickets-new?s=wb&u=rrwil&_branch_match_id=363714714550875089

The Ryerson Women in Leadership - RWIL conference focuses on connecting, engaging, and inspiring delegates. The 2017 conference theme will be Voice, hoping to highlight how the power of one’s voice...

02/21/2017

Efforts are being made to ensure science is accurately portrayed in films as well as having greater representation of women and minority groups as scientists

02/14/2017

SOAPBOX SCIENCE

Don’t miss an opportunity to participate in the first Soapbox Science event held in North America! SciXchange, in the Faculty of Science at Ryerson University is the official host of Soapbox Science in Toronto which will take place on May 13th along with Science Rendezvous 2017 at Yonge and Dundas Square. Running from 11am-2pm in the heart of Toronto, 12 women-in-science will talk to the public about their science.

All speakers and volunteers will be invited to take part in our second Soapbox Science event, which will be hosted on September 20th during Science Literacy Week. We also plan to run programs in the summer and on the weekends in the fall, so we hope to put together a SciXchange Soapbox Science committee that will take part in all of our Soapbox Science ventures with us!

Join us!

We are very excited to be hosting this event, but wouldn’t be able to do it without passionate and engaging scientists who want to make their work more accessible and exciting for the public!

Sign up to be a SPEAKER

You are: A woman in science, preferably PhD-level or higher (lecturer or professor), professional or entrepreneur in Science/Technology/Engineering/Math (STEM)

You want to: Share your research, knowledge & experience in your field

Speakers must:
be available 11 am - 2 pm Sat. May 13th
attend a training session (approx. 3 hrs), date TBD
prepare a 10-15 min talk with props that will be given continuously for an hour (the public rotates among several speakers)

Optional opportunity: Give your soapbox presentation again on Sept. 20th and/or mentor female students throughout summer & fall, 2017

Speaker Application Form: https://docs.google.com/a/ryerson.ca/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSfsstCJpf9zH3PxVgYI6TpiV1B7YcA3fz2hsifBG4R8Z0phSQ/viewform?c=0&w=1

VOLUNTEER with us

You are: passionate about science and comfortable talking to the public about science in general.

You can: be helpful, organize people, speak to the public when needed

Volunteers must:
take on roles to facilitate Soapbox Science events (help with promotion, design t-shirts or take photographs, etc.)
be available 11 am - 2 pm Sat. May 13th & Wed. Sept. 20th
attend bi-weekly planning sessions March - September
Volunteer Application Form

Over 70,000 people have attended Soapbox Science events since its inception in 2011. To make your mark in this incredible movement, don’t hesitate to apply to be a speaker by filling out the Speaker Application Form or volunteer by filling out the Volunteer Application Form.

To learn more about Soapbox Science, visit their website: www.soapboxscience.org

For general inquiries, contact [email protected]

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01/21/2017

2017 is the year we start acknowledging all the women who contributed to science!

01/09/2017

Attention Ryerson science students!

You are invited to "Celebrating Women in STEM: Hidden Figures, Then and Now", a gala event and private movie screening hosted by Dean Imogen Coe and the Faculty of Science on January 19 at 6:00pm.

The night will begin with a reception and short keynote speech, followed by a private screening of the recently released film Hidden Figures at Cineplex Yonge-Dundas

Please register here http://bit.ly/2hsaiXC
There is a $5 charge to attend.

You are invited to join Ryerson’s Faculty of Science for an evening of celebration, in honouring 2017 as the year we intentionally acknowledge and actively embrace equity, diversity, and inclusivity in STEM. Our evening will begin with a reception hosted by Dean Imogen Coe and the Faculty of Scien...

10/25/2016

Women in STEM conference

The Ryerson Career Centre, Faculty of Science, Women in Engineering (WIE) and Women in Science at Ryerson (WISR) are hosting Branding for Success: Women in STEM Conference. This is an opportunity for you to participate in a workshop and case competition to improve your skills in personal branding, conflict management, time management, and effective communication. You will have a chance to work and network with HR and other industry professionals and gain insights on how to effectively market yourself and professionally develop in the field of STEM. A prize will be awarded to the winning case competition team.

Date and Time: Monday, November 7th, 4-9pm
Location: POD 250

For more information and to register: https://www.eventbrite.ca/e/women-in-stem-conference-tickets-28833449624

The Ryerson Career Centre, Faculty of Science, Women in Engineering (WIE) and Women in Science at Ryerson (WISR) are hosting Branding for Success: Women in STEM Conference. This is an opportunity for you to participate in a workshop and case competition to improve your skills in personal branding, c...

10/25/2016

Become a founding leader of Stem Cell Club

To the students of Ryerson

I want to invite you all to become leaders of Ryerson's Stem Cell Club. The purpose of this club is to recruit Canadians as potential stem cell/bone marrow donors.
Patients with blood cancers may require a stem cell transplant as part of their treatment. However, 80% of patients do not have a suitable match in their family, and must find an unrelated donor. Canada’s stem cell donor-database is used to match potential donors to patients. Individuals age 17-35 can register to join this database at stem cell drives, where they swab their cheeks to provide a tissue sample for a DNA test. Finding a match for transplant is difficult: currently, over 1000 Canadians cannot find a match.

Stem Cell Club is a national initiative, 15 chapters across Canada. Since 2011, we have recruited 5525 Canadians as stem cell donors (~1.5% of all donors on Canada’s current donor database) We have secured funding from Canadian Blood Services grants to expand to schools across Canada (over $50,000 secured in the past year).

We launching a chapter at Ryerson this year, and want you on our team! We are equipped with start-up funds for equipment and to fund meetings/training sessions. Further, we will arrange all required training for the executive team (about 4 hours of training time is required to learn to lead a stem cell drive from start to finish). We will be trained and registered to run stem cell drives on our own.

The club is designed to be sustainable, and recruit and train new leaders from the class below that will run stem cell drives of their own the next year. So this initiative could be part of your legacy at Ryerson.

If interested, please apply at:
https://docs.google.com/forms/d/14fIMfjr920Y8ruoxy6Pz4aBtt4DcNV_vPQUk6Iba4Sg/viewform?usp=send_form

Together, we can build Canada's Stem Cell Donor-Database, and make it easier for patients in-need of transplant to find the one match they need to save their lives.

Sincerely,

Warren Fingrut
Founder and Director, Stem Cell Club
Internal Medicine Resident Physician, University of Toronto
www.stemcellclub.ca

Notes 1. All club founders would need to complete our training modules, published on www.stemcellclub.ca. Total time to complete these modules would be about 3-4 hours. 2. Founding club members will recruit a founding team, and will meet each other along with other Stem Cell Club execs. At the end o...

10/05/2016

The Ryerson Career Centre is hosting a Mature Students Conference: Navigating Your Career in STEM on Thursday, October 13th 5-8pm.

This is an opportunity for you to network with HR and other professionals in the field of STEM and the field of personal branding and gain insights on how to effectively market yourself to industry.

This conference is open to:
- Students/recent alumni with previous professional experience outside of Canada
- Students/recent alumni who are transitioning from one sector to another
- Students who are in graduate studies

Agenda:
4:45PM - 5:00PM - Registration - Students will sign in and be assigned to a table
5:00PM - 6:00PM - Speed Mentoring | Resume Tips and Tricks - You will sit in tables of approximately 7 - 10 with one professional to gain insights into tailoring your resume to industry. You will rotate to all tables in order to meet and network with all professionals. Prepare some questions ahead of time and bring a copy of your resume for reference.

7:00PM - 8:00PM - Personal Branding Workshop | Dinner - You will learn how to develop a personal brand that will speak to your industry and help increase opportunities. At this time, dinner will also be available.

7:00PM - 8:00PM - Panel Discussion | Online and Offline Networking - You will hear insights from professionals and alumni about how to build a network online and offline. Representatives from LinkedIn, Microsoft and 10K Coffees will speak on the panel.

Industry professionals from a variety of companies will be in attendance:
Brevitas Consulting
10 Thousand Coffees
Microsoft
TTC
Lumenix
Ceridian
CIBC
And more….

Register here: https://goo.gl/forms/WSTx70TDjk5vtKW63

The Ryerson Career Centre is hosting a Mature Students Conference: Navigating Your Career in STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics). This is an opportunity for you to network with industry and gain insights to effectively market yourself to industry. The target student audience incl...

08/05/2016

Are you interested in helping young girls build confidence in pursuing STEM? Well the Math Guru is looking for female math tutors. This is a great opportunity to encourage young girls and help raise the number of females in STEM.

email Vanessa at [email protected]
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06/06/2016

Do you work in a science or technology role in the government or in industry? This brand new program is for you. Opportunity to participate in the Dr. Roberta Bondar Career Development Program.

Apply here: https://www.wct-fct.com/en/programs/dr-roberta-bondar-program