Region C Events
SWE-GNO
would like to invite you and your friends and family to join us for a weekend
of fun and philanthropy in New
Orleans April 11-13!
On Saturday, April 12th SWE-GNO will be participating in a project to
help rebuild Torres Park
in Chalmette, LA.
Chalmette is in St Bernard Parish, one of
the hardest hit areas of Hurricane Katrina. The project planners have
done an amazing job of putting this project together and we are really
excited to help make the dream a reality! Attached is a schematic so
that you can get an idea of the magnitude of this project:
Chalmette
Color Schematic (.pdf )
If you would like to join the SWE-GNO members in this project, please
RSVP to swe-gno@swe.org. I will keep a
headcount of volunteers and will submit one volunteer form for all of SWE
Region C. In your RSVP please include total headcount and if you would
like to volunteer on any other days so that I can include that information as
well. However, if you would like to purchase a picket or a t-shirt
please use the attached form to place your order directly.
Picket
T-Shirt Order Form (.pdf)
Now we couldn't invite you to New
Orleans and just make you work! SWE-GNO picked
this project and this weekend because it also happens to coincide with a
local favorite, the French Quarter Festival! Free live music venues are
set throughout the French Quarter. You can wander between them or bring
a blanket or chair and get comfortable at your favorite stage! Booths
with all the best food, spirits and art are also set up throughout the French
Quarter for your enjoyment. This event is family-friendly, so bring
your family along! If you haven't been to New
Orleans in a while or at all, this is a great time to
come experience all the best of what the city has to offer!!! More
information on the French Quarter Festival is available at http://www.fqfi.org/frenchquarterfest/
At this time we have not made arrangements for hotel accommodations
and/or transportation, but if response to the project is great enough we will
make these available! Otherwise, if you have any questions or need any
recommendations for places to stay, etc. I'm more than happy to assist!
I hope you take this chance to come visit New
Orleans, help us rebuild, and celebrate the spirit of
our city!
Kristin Marczak
SWE-GNO President
START THINKING ABOUT
APPLYING FOR ONE OF THESE AWARDS NEXT YEAR!
Applications Due March 1st!
Do you feel like you deserve
recognition for all that you do?
Look at what you need to prepare to do for next year:
Outstanding
Professional/Collegiate Section/MAL Participation Award
To publicly acknowledge a Region C Section or MAL
who has shown outstanding participation in Regional/National SWE events.
Sustaining
Benefactor Award
To publicly acknowledge continuous and significant
employer, academic institute or sponsor support of Gulf Coast Region
professional and collegiate SWE section activities and members.
Outstanding
Programs Collegiate Award
There are two categories of Outstanding Program
Collegiate Awards available. A first and second place will be awarded in each
category.
· Outstanding/Innovative
SWE program/activity aligned with SWE's National or Regional Goals, Mission,
and Strategic Plan
· Outstanding/Innovative
New SWE program/activity aligned with SWE's National or Regional Goals, Mission,
and Strategic Plan
Distinguished
Service Award Program
The Gulf Coast Region (Region C) of the Society of
Women Engineers wishes to recognize and reward members who have shown their
enthusiasm and dedication to SWE’s Mission
through sustained and significant service.
Emerging
Leaders Award Program
Emerging
Leaders Nomination Form
The Emerging Leaders Award honors two SWE
Professional/MAL and Collegiate members (respectively) who have been actively
engaged in an engineering or technology profession, has demonstrated
outstanding technical excellence and has consistently engaged with SWE, and
has at least five (5) years of cumulative engineering experience as of
December 31 of the year. Each advanced engineering degree obtained on a
full-time basis counts as one year of experience. Award will be presented at
the annual SWE Region B Conference. The award may be presented to one
member annually.
HOUSTON,
— In observance of National Women’s History Month, University
of Houston-Clear Lake hosted
its annual Women’s Studies Week March 3-11 with a series of events designed
to celebrate women and their roles in society.
“We’re
excited about our lineup of events to celebrate Women’s Studies Week and
Women’s History Month,” says Associate Professor of Anthropology and Women’s
Studies program convener Christine Kovic. “The events will allow students and
community members to discuss issues central to women’s lives and gender
relations including immigration, health care and parenting, both in the United
States and beyond.”
The
weeklong schedule of activities includes the following:
·
Monday, March 3 – University of Houston Assistant Professor of Social Work
Research and Licensed Master Social Worker Brené Brown will present the
keynote address titled “Women and Shame.” The presentation will explore
gender and shame and Brown will draw from the research she gathered while
writing her book “I Thought It Was Just Me (but it isn't): Telling the Truth
About Perfectionism, Inadequacy, and Power.” The event will begin at 7 p.m.
and will be held in the university’s Bayou Building Garden Room. A reception
and book signing as well as the opening of a Women’s Studies Exhibit will be
held following the presentation.
·
Tuesday, March 4 – Houston
immigration activist Maria Jimenez will present “Immigration and Families.”
Jimenez works with diverse immigrant groups in Houston
and will discuss how families are organizing to change migration policy. The
event is co-sponsored by the Office of Intercultural and International
Student Services and will be held at 2:15 p.m. in room B1408 of the Bayou
Building.
·
Tuesday, March 4 – The Indian film “Ankur” will be presented in room B2231 of
the university’s Bayou
Building. Following the
film, UH-Clear Lake Associate Professor of Anthropology Deepa Reddy will
speak about themes present in the movie. The event will begin at 4 p.m.
·
Wednesday, March 5 – “HIV/AIDS: A Cry of Desperation, Are We Listening?” will
be presented by Baylor College of Medicine Dr. Ayse Coskun. This lecture will
be presented at 7 p.m. in the Bayou
Building. A room number
will be designated at a later date.
·
Friday, March 7 – In partnership with the Office of Student Life Film and
Speaker Series, the Women’s Studies Program will present the film “Antonio’s
Line” at 7 p.m. in the university’s Student Services and Classroom
Building. UH-Clear Lake
Assistant Professor of History Barbara Hales and adjunct faculty member
Elizabeth Klett will lead a discussion about the film’s themes following the
screening.
·
Tuesday, March 11 – An enlightening panel discussion about “Diverse Families”
will be moderated by UH-Clear Lake Assistant Professor of Women’s Studies and
Psychology Kim Case and Humanities Lecturer Shreerekha Subramanian at 1 p.m.
in the Bayou Building Garden Room.
·
Tuesday, March 11 – UH-Clear Lake Associate Professor of Psychology Sharon
Hall will present “Parenting for Social Justice” in the Bayou Building Garden
Room at 2:30 p.m. The talk will draw from material in her forthcoming book
“Raising Kids in the 21st Century.”
Throughout
March 3-10, a special exhibit focuses on the history of Women’s Studies at UH-Clear
Lake and on women’s organizations in
Latin America and the United
States. The university’s Alfred R. Neumann
Library will also offer an exhibit on women titled “Fabulous Females Define
History,” with a focus on women in the fields of education, health, business
and politics. The display, which will be up throughout the whole month, will
include books and DVDs as well as other material. Admission to all
events is free.
For
more information about Women’s Studies Week, e-mail program convener
Christine Kovic, kovic@uhcl.edu,
or call 281-283-3365. To find out more about the Women’s Studies Program,
visit http://hsh.uhcl.edu/WS.
Congratulations
to our own Sandra ‘Candy’ Robinson!
Candy was recently elected, by a landslide,
as 2008-2009 IEEE Region 5 Director-Elect!! Congratulations to Candy, and best wishes for a fantastic
year of effective leadership within IEEE!
Congratulations to Monica Richards
(Univ of TX) & Lily Banerjee (Rice Univ), as they were selected as Region
C’s 2007 SWE Future Leaders (SWE-FLs)!!! They are both awesome representation of what it means to
be an aspiring SWE leader!!!
Haven’t read over the Regional
Bylaws in a while? Important
changes have been made this past year, so please read them here!!!
Submit an article!
Is your section doing anything
interesting or fun this semester?
Do you have pictures or
stories you would like to share with other SWE Student Sections?
Now is the time to submit your
Student Section Highlights!
Your stories and highlights
will be used in future Region Newsletters and included on the website, and
may spark ideas for other student sections!
Please send all highlights to
rsc-c@swe.org AND regc-newsletter@swe.org!
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