Happy Friday from the HWIC+ board! We had a fun and productive meeting this morning, featuring bagels from pavement 🥯🥯

Happy International Women's Day! #InternationalWomensDay #IWD2024

Happy International Women's Day!

We're celebrating women who have changed the world. Here's all of the amazing women who have received the #NobelPrize and their remarkable achievements at the time of the award.

Who are the women who inspire you the most?

#IWD2024

We're celebrating the International Day of Women and Girls in Science!

Let's look back on the life of Marie Skłodowska Curie: a Nobel Prize laureate who dedicated her life to science and became one of the world's greatest scientists.

#WomenInScience #NobelPrize

Our campaign for a living wage launched seven months ago. Though the University refused to work with us, today Harvard University GSAS has announced it will raise the minimum compensation package for all PhD programs to $50K.

Remembering the first woman to be awarded a Nobel Prize, the first individual to be awarded two Nobel Prizes and still today the only individual with two Nobel Prizes in two different scientific categories: Marie Skłodowska Curie.

Curie was born #OnThisDay in 1867.

Some highlights from
Mona Minkara's two special seminars yesterday. We loved learning more about her scientific journey and current research focus and want to extend a huge thank you for her efforts toward accessibility and catalyzing knowledge!

We are so excited to welcome Mona Minkara to CCB today to give both a DEI and a research talk!

BREAKING NEWS
The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences has decided to award the 2023 #NobelPrize in Chemistry to Moungi G. Bawendi, Louis E. Brus and Alexei I. Ekimov “for the discovery and synthesis of quantum dots.”

Jin-Quan Yu (Scripps) delivers his Max Tishler Prize Lecture at Harvard Chemistry:

Looking forward to giving a talk at the graduate student and postdoc council of Harvard University Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology, co-hosted by Harvard UniversityWIC Women in Chemistry, this Tuesday.
Hope to see some of you there!
#WomeninSTEM #womeninchemistry
chemistry.harvard.edu

Spotlight on Bailey Plaman from the Kahne Lab! Alongside research and teaching, Bailey is also the elected vice president of our Graduate Student Union Harvard Grad Students Union-UAW Local 5118
More at harvardwic.org/spotlight

Welcome to Dartmouth 🌲 to our newest colleague and faculty member Gonzalez Lab Read more about the Gonzalez group's interests in confinement and reactivity here chem-gonzalezlab.com/research

Like the human gut, the female genital tract is its own complex microbial ecosystem, where billions of beneficial bacteria make their home hrvd.me/VaginalBacteri…

A member of our union requested $17,000 from our $100,000 legal defense fund a month ago. Harvard has still not given them a decision on this request. Please help to support this student in accessing legal counsel. 🧵 gofundme.com/f/lawyer-for-a…

BlackInChem is BACK!!!

Join us this upcoming week for #BlackInChemWeek2023 as we celebrate Black chemists! Stay tuned!! 💃🏾🪩🕺🏽

It's #NationalWatermelonDay – learn more about the colour and aroma of watermelons, and what can make them explode, with this graphic: wp.me/p4aPLT-1ft

Spotlight on Anna from the Myers Lab - wish her luck as she works through her thesis writing and research!
More at harvardwic.org/spotlight

HWIC+ Spotlight Series returns with Agnes, our former postdoc liaison, who recently finished in the Nocera lab and is now beginning her own lab at the University of Rochester. Though she will be missed, we are so excited for her - congrats, Agnes!
More at harvardwic.org/spotlight