Category: Events
Welcome Back Social!
BUWIC and BUYCC co-hosted a social on Thursday January 21, 2016 to celebrate the new semester and to meet the Jefferies-El and Vegas groups!
Lunch Seminar with Dr. Joanne Kamens!
BUWIC hosted an awesome lunch seminar with Joanne Kamens, the Executive Director of Addgene, on Wednesday, January 6, 2016. Thank you, Joanne!
Dr. Kamens is the Executive Director of Addgene, a mission driven, non-profit dedicated to helping scientists around the world share plasmid reagents. She was a University of Pennsylvania undergrad and received her PhD in Genetics from Harvard Medical School, then spent 15 years at BASF/Abbott. In 2007 she joined RXi Pharmaceuticals as Senior Director of Research Collaborations. Dr. Kamens founded the current Boston chapter of the Association for Women in Science and has served on numerous other boards. In 2010, Dr. Kamens received the Catalyst Award from the Science Club for Girls for longstanding dedication to empowering women in STEM and in 2013 she became a Fellow of the Massachusetts Academy of Science recognizing scientific accomplishment and service to the science community. In 2013, she was named one of PharmaVoice's 100 Most Inspiring Commanders & Chiefs.
Dr. Kamens also forwarded a great blog cast related to the luncheon discussion on diversity in academia. Check it out, here!
You can also check out her blog on the addgene website found here!
Thanks again Joanne!
Lunch Seminar with Dr. Jill Becker!
BUWIC hosted an awesome lunch seminar with Jill Becker, CEO and Founder of 02139 Inc. on Friday, November 6, 2015. Thank you, Jill!
Currently, Dr. Becker is CEO and Founder of 02139 Inc, a consulting company she started in 2013 in order to provide executive consulting services and investment advice to both public and private companies with a heavy focus on accelerating growth and the creation of jobs in a variety of industries.
Prior to that, Dr. Becker was CEO and Founder of Cambridge NanoTech Inc., a company she started back in 2003 straight from her PhD thesis at Harvard University. Under her leadership, the company was instantly profitable and operated at a profit every year since then and was one of the fastest growing private companies for numerous years in the US from 2008-2012 until it was sold to Ultratech Inc., a public semiconductor company.
WHAT: Lunch with Dr. Jill Becker WHEN: Friday, November 6 @ 12pm
WHERE: SCI512
WHO: Everyone!
Halloween Chemistry Jeopardy Night!
BUWIC successfully hosted its annual Chemistry Jeopardy game, this time with a Halloween twist! Congratulations to the winning team :)
WHAT: Halloween Themed Chemistry Jeopardy Game Night!
WHEN: October 27 @ 5-7 pm
WHERE: LSE 804
WHO: Graduate students, post-docs, faculty, and undergrads 21+
Lunch Seminar with Ramani Varanasi!
BUWIC hosted an awesome lunch seminar with Ramani Varanasi, an accomplished business executive in the biopharmaceutical industry on Friday, September 18, 2015. Thank you, Ramani!
Ms. Varanasi is an accomplished business executive, with 20 years of biopharmaceutical industry experience. She currently runs her own strategy and business/corporate development consulting practice in the biopharmaceutical sector. Over her career, she has held research and senior level positions in Business & Corporate Development at several pharmaceutical companies.
Officer Election Results: 2015-2016
The nominations are in and the officers for the 2015-2016 academic year are:
President: Reem Telmesani
Vice-President: Jessica Biagi
Alumni Liason: Stacy Chin
Outreach Coordinator: Alexis Courtney
Seminar Coordinator: Amanda Vo
Funding Coordinator: Emily Allen
Co-Treasurer: Stephanie Maiocco
Co-Treasurer: Sarah Neville
Secretary: Gabrielle Fleming
Webmaster: Anjeza Beharaj
And thank you to Katie Summo, Diane Hamann, and Gina Kim for their great work as the previous BUWIC Seminar Coordinators and Webmaster!
Lunch Seminar with Lisa Marcaurelle!
BUWIC hosted a wonderful lunch seminar with Lisa Marcaurelle, Discovery Chemistry VP at H3 Biomedicine on Friday, April 24, 2015. Thank you, Lisa!
Lisa Marcaurelle is currently the Vice President of Discovery Chemistry at H3 Biomedicine, a biotech based in Cambridge. After her Ph. D and post doctoral studies, Lisa has undertaken a very exciting career path in drug research and development. First operating as the Lead Senior Scientist at Infinity Pharmaceuticals and then as the Director of the Diversity Oriented Synthesis Platform at the Broad Institute, Lisa has managed early stage discovery focused groups and projects. Please join us for an informal lunch discussion and learning about working as a project manager in the pharma industry.
Lunch Seminar with Amanda Yarnell!
BUWIC hosted an informal lunch seminar with Amanda Yarnell Managing Editor, Editorial at Chemical & Engineering News (C&EN) on Wednesday April 1, 2015. C&EN is a weekly ACS magazine, covering recent news in the field of chemistry and chemical engineering. Amanda has a background in chemistry at Johns Hopkins University (B.A.) and in biological chemistry at MIT (M.S.).
LinkedIn Seminar with Brian Coughlin
BUWIC hosted an evening seminar on Wednesday February 25 at 5:00 pm in LSEB103, on "How to Use LinkedIn" by Brian Coughlin, President of Coughlin HR Consulting. We learned how to create LinkedIn profiles to build networks in order to land our dream jobs. Thank you, Brian!
Brian Coughlin, President of Coughlin HR Consulting, has twenty seven years expertise in human resource managment, and twenty five years experience as an adjunct faculty member at Fisher College and recently Dean College. He has developed and delivered courses in Human Resource Management, Principles of Management, and Economics classes. Brian has a passion to help those in transitioning between jobs, and recently has assisted PhD Scientists during transition from companies such as AstraZeneca, Sanofi and Merck.
Lunch Seminar with Lauren Celano
BUWIC hosted a lunch discussion with Lauren Celano, co-founder and CEO or Propel Careers on Friday, December 4 at 12pm in LSEB 103. We had a great turn out, and thanks to Lauren Celano, we all learned a lot about the job application process! Below is the poster for the event and also a PDF of the slideshow Lauren presented.
