Chemistry at Illinois

Date	Event	Time & Location
	Upcoming 2008-2009 Events
March 5, 2009	Sylvia Stoesser Lecture in Chemistry, Dr. Ellen Stechel, Sandia National Laboratories, "Title to be Announced"	TBA
December 3	WIC Brown Bag Lunch	12:00 pm – 12:45 pm A414 CLSL
November 12	WIC Brown Bag Lunch	12:00 pm – 12:45 pm A414 CLSL
November 7	Pioneers of Chemistry in Academia Seminar, Professor Sabeeha Merchant, UCLA, "Title to be Announced"	12:00pm - 1:00pm B102 CLSL Auditorium
October 22	WIC Brown Bag Lunch	12:00 pm - 12:45 pm A414 CLSL
October 1	WIC Brown Bag Lunch	12:00 pm – 12:45 pm A414 CLSL
September 10	WIC Brown Bag Lunch	12:00 pm – 12:45 pm A414 CLSL
August 22-23	Retreat for Graduate Women, Co-sponsored by UIUC Women in Chemistry Program and the East Central Illinois Women Chemists Committee.	Aug 22 at 1:00pm — Aug 23 at 1:00pm 4-H Memorial Camp, Monticello, IL

Date	Event
	Past 2008 Events
April 28	Brown Bag Lunch - Panel Discussion on "Balancing Family and an Academic Career" with Professors Anne Baranger, Nancy Makri and Pat Shapley.
March 31	Brown Bag Lunch - Discussion on key findings from Prof. Mary Ann Mason’s Do Babies Matter Project. Facilitator: Ellen Wang Althaus, PhD, WIC Director
March 3	Brown Bag Lunch - Research Presentation by Alexis Thompson (Martínez Group)
February 26	Sylvia Stoesser Lecture in Chemistry, Dr. Sarah Kelly, Vice President of Research & Science Technology - Pharmaceutical Sciences at Pfizer Global Research & Development.
February 4	Brown Bag Lunch: Research Presentation by Lindsay Sperling (Rienstra Group)
January 25	Graduate Workshop on Crucial Conversations: Tools for Talking When Stakes Are High facilitated by Kirstin Phelps, Program Manager at the Illinois Leadership Center. Event is co-sponsored by the Offices of Women in Chemistry and Women in Engineering.

Date	Event
	2007
November 28	Brown Bag Lunch Mini-seminar presentation by Mary Caruso (Moore Group)
November 14	Brown Bag Lunch. Short WCC business meeting and elections.
November 2	Interviewing Workshop facilitated by Patricia Blum, Director of SCS Career Counseling and Placement Services. This workshop is co-sponsored by the WCC and WIC Programs. Register online.
October 25	PhD Completion Project: “Overcoming the Impostor Syndrome” by Valerie Young, PhD
October 24	Brown Bag Lunch Mini-seminar presentation by Tiffany Hopper (Lu Group)
October 10	Brown Bag Lunch Mini-seminar presentation by Hannah Ihms (Bailey Group)
October 15	Provost's Annual Lecture on Gender Equity, “Why So Slow? The Advancement of Women” by Virginia Valian, PhD, Distinguished Professor, Department of Psychology, Hunter College
September 26	Brown Bag Lunch Discussion on various forms of PowerPoint presentations, including examples following the “assertion-evidence design” described in Michael Alley’s, The Craft of Scientific Presentations. Facilitator: Ellen Wang Althaus, PhD, WIC Director.
September 12	Brown Bag Lunch Introduction of new series. Slideshow presentation of 2007 Fall Retreat. WCC update.
August 20-21	Retreat for Graduate Women in Chemistry Co-sponsored by UIUC Women in Chemistry Program and ACS Women Chemists Committee of East Central Illinois.
May 15	COACh Workshop on Leadership Development, Dr. Sandra Shullman, Executive Development Group. Registration required.
March 8	Lockheed Martin STARS Seminar on “Time Management,” Joint event with Women in Engineering
March 7	Sylvia Stoesser Lecture in Chemistry, Madeleine Jacobs, CEO and Executive Director of the American Chemical Society. The Stoesser Lecture is entitled *"Globalization and the Changing Face of the Scientific Enterprise: Is the World Really* Flat?"** Read more about lecture series
February 9	Women in Chemistry Alumnae Seminar, Mary Kay Kaufmann, Vice-President of the Industrial and Institutional Services Division, Nalco Company
February 9	Graduate Women Roundtable Discussion and Luncheon with Mary Kay Kaufmann, UIUC Alumnus and Vice-President of the Industrial and Institutional Services Division at Nalco and Dr. Kelle Zeiher, Staff Scientist at Nalco.
January 19	Negotiation Strategies for Academic and Non-Academic Jobs in the Sciences and Engineering, Dr. Mary Beth Wade, UIUC Graduate College

Date	Event
	2006
November 17	Graduate Workshop: Refining Your Career Goals, Dr. Ellen Wang Althaus, UIUC Women in Chemistry Programs
November 15	Undergraduate Workshop: Exploring Graduate Work in Chemistry, Graduate Student Panel
July 26	Financial Workshop: Blueprint for Financial Success, Mr. Bryan Bloom, Chesser Financial
March 7	Sylvia Stoesser Lecture in Chemistry, Dr. Marquita Qualls, Glaxo Smith Kline