Graduate Womxn at MIT

The Grad Fest team and The Graduate Student Councils at Harvard and MIT will be hosting a "Games Night" on Friday, October 15 from 7 - 8:30pm ET. This will be a great opportunity to meet new students, take a break, and have fun!

When: October 15th, 7:00 PM - 8:30 PM ET
Where: Zoom
Sign-up: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSfskvISnMZLqIUzQhlXMBLxPnMlzejXt27ZBiTAb22HnNfGcg/viewform​​

Raffle winners will be awarded prizes (MIT Jacket to one MIT student picked at random from a winning (top 3 positions overall) MIT team). **Limited Spots Only**
Questions? Email: [email protected] or [email protected].

Grad Fest 2021 - Games Night Harvard and MIT! The Grad Fest team and The Graduate Student Councils at Harvard and MIT will be hosting a "Games Night" on Friday, October 15 from 7 - 8:30pm ET. This will be a great opportunity to meet new students, take a break, and have fun! Raffle winners will be awarded prizes. **Limited Spots Only** Questions...

This event is sponsored by GradRat and the GSC.

Stop by their 1st event of the year on Friday, 9/10 from 7pm – 9pm in Lobdell Dining (2nd floor of Stratton). Food (Chick-fil-A) and drinks will be served. Beer and wine with proper 21+ ID.
Free MIT GradRat promo items as well as a raffle for a FREE GradRat ring!

Ready to order your ring? Balfour Representatives will be on site to answer questions, size your finger and assist with order taking. For design information, visit gradrat.mit.edu.

Listen to Elaine Denniston, who worked at the MIT Instrumentation Lab during the Apollo moon missions, describe her role as a Key Punch Operator 55 years ago.

The woman who brought us the world A half-century ago, Virginia Tower Norwood ’47 invented the first multispectral scanner to image Earth from space. Landsat 1 and its successors have been scanning the planet continuously ever since.

Chris Nee never saw herself in children’s TV shows when she was young, so as an adult, she produced the incredibly popular children’s show “Doc McStuffins,” which celebrates diversity and inclusion.

She Never Saw Herself in Children’s TV Shows. So She Created Her Own. For Chris Nee, the producer behind the popular “Doc McStuffins” series, diversity and representation aren’t nice-to-haves. They’re the things she wished TV producers considered when she was a kid.

Marcia Sells, Sheila Rohan, Gayle McKinney-Griffith, Karlya Shelta-Benjamin, and Lydia Abarca-Mitchell, five former Dance Theater of Harlem stars, want to ensure their role in ballet history isn’t overlooked.

Five Pioneering Black Ballerinas: ‘We Have to Have a Voice’ These early Dance Theater of Harlem stars met weekly on Zoom — to survive the isolation of the pandemic and to reclaim their role in dance history.

The Cheney Room, OMP and the Women's League are putting on an event of interest for Black womxn and their allies, thematizing the spectacle of Black womxn's sexuality as a double-edged sword for Black womxn's liberation struggle. They have a super high caliber group of Black womxn--a scholar, a public intellectual, and an educator--discussing these questions in what promises to be a fascinating conversation.

RSVP: https://engage.mit.edu/event/7071832

Celebration of Black Womxn in Science
gwaMIT is hosting an informal discussion about education and career experience with five outstanding Black women in academia and industry. Come and join us!

Join Tiziana Smith, MIT SM Technology and Policy & Civil/Environmental Engineering '16 and MIT PhD Hydrology '18, and hear about her career journey, gain advice about your own career, and ask questions on April 8, at 5:30PM ET.

This conference seeks to explore the role radical love plays in health crises, climate change, racial justice, migration, economic justice and further social justice movements through community and belonging, pedagogy and literacy, creative expression and storytelling, virtual life and presence, and further fields.

Check GCWS website to find out more about it!

Our Leadership Conference, "Leading for the future" starts today! Come and join us!

This year’s Leadership Conference, “Leading for the Future”, is poised to help you hone the leader in you, whether that be in industry, academia, entrepreneurship, or life. Events will take place from 5th April to 9th April.

More details and RSVP information can be found on our website: https://gwamitconference.wixsite.com/gwamitleadership Hope to see you there! Our events are free of charge and open to the MIT public. We are providing up to $20 credit on GrubHub for the first 30 sign-ups for each event too!