Making Sure that Academia Includes You

Please join the CUNY Women in STEM organization (Graduate Center) and the Gender Equity Project (Hunter College) for a lecture, professional development workshop, and reception at the CUNY Graduate Center:

“Making Sure that Academia Includes You”

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Sabrica Barnett

PhD student in Social-Personality Psychology

Dr. Virginia Valian

Professor in Linguistics, Biopsychology, and Speech-Language-Hearing Sciences at Hunter College and CUNY Graduate Center, and Co-Director of the Gender Equity Project

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This session will be in two parts. In the first part we will report original research on the characteristics of people who win prizes and awards. In the second part we will have a workshop on creating a circle of advisors (instead of relying on a single mentor) and how to profit from conferences.

Please join us after the workshop for a reception to celebrate the end of the semester!

All are welcome!

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Friday May 14^th

Lecture & Workshop from 2-4pm

Reception from 4-5pm

Room 5409, CUNY Graduate Center

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Please contact Jillian De Gezelle from CUNY Women in STEM for more information at: JDe_Gezelle@gc.cuny.edu

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