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Graduate Students |
Graduate
Women’s Forum (GWF)
The WISEM and
Graduate Studies Office sponsor four Graduate Women’s Forum luncheons
each academic year. These workshops address academic and professional
development issues, as well as provide an opportunity for female
graduate students to meet other students and faculty members. |
Society
of Women Engineers (SWE)
SWE is a national
professional organization that supports and promotes women in
science and engineering. Our chapter has more that 230 undergraduate
and graduate student members, making it one of the country’s
largest student chapters and the largest professional student
group on campus. SWE activities include:
- Evening
With Industry & Networking Night
- Weekly
Lunch Meetings
- Girls
Scout Badge Day
- The
Continuum
How
to join SWE:
- Complete
an application. You can pick up one at a weekly meeting or click
here to go online.
- Bring
the completed application with your $20 membership fee to
the next meeting or take it to the SWE Advisor’s Office
(Candy Sulzbach, Brown Building, Room 283).
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MentorNet
MentorNet
is a national e-mentoring program available for female students
at Mines. Founded in 1997, MentorNet provides highly motivated
protégés from many of the world's top colleges
and universities with positive, one-on-one, email-based mentoring
relationships with mentors from industry and academia in the
U.S. and around the world.
How
to sign up:
All
CSM female students are eligible and encouraged to participate.
There is no cost to CSM students for this service. To apply:
- Go to http://www.mentornet.net/join
- If you
are a current member, click on the “Sign in here" or "Sign
in now” button.
If you are a new member, fill in the requested links to create
a protégé profile.
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Graduate Physics Women Meetings
These meetings
serve as a support network for the graduate women in the Physics
Department. The informal monthly meetings are designed to be
a safe place for graduate women to come and discuss any issues
(gender related or not) concerning their experience in the program.
Female graduate students in the Physics Department and female
Materials Science graduate students who are doing their research
in the physics department are invited to attend these meetings.
Contact:
 Bettina
Roan,
Physics Graduate Student
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Mathematics & Computer Science (MACS) Women's Forum
MACS Women’s Forum provides opportunities for personal and professional growth for women graduate students in the Department of Mathematical and Computer Sciences. This support system offers MACS female graduate students networking opportunities, resources, and information to utilize throughout and beyond her Mines' experience.
The group addresses issues that impact women in technical fields
and academia through outreach to MACS female undergraduates; monthly
socials with topics such as job opportunities in the industry, negotiation,
teaching tips, and communication skills; and support to those attending
conferences addressing women in technology. MACS female graduate
students have recently attended the ACM Grace Hopper Celebration
and the CRA-W Grad Cohort Workshop.
Contacts:
Dr.
Tracy Camp, Associate Professor
Dr.
Barb Moskal, Associate Professor
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Women
in Geophysics Mentoring Program
The Women
in Geophysics Mentoring Program is sponsored by the Department
of Geophysics and is open to all women Undergraduate and Graduate
Geophysics Students at Colorado School of Mines. The program
pairs the student with a woman mentor from the geoscience industry. |
International
Student Information
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Diversity
Committee
Be part of
the CSM Diversity Committee and make a difference in the Mines
community. The mission of the Diversity Committee is to:
- develop
strategies and programs to recruit and retain faculty, staff
and students,
- foster
educational and work environments that welcome different perspectives,
backgrounds and life experiences,
- and encourage
all members of the campus community to develop mutual respect,
teamwork and appreciation for multiple perspectives, and promote
the principle of equal opportunity in both the educational
and work environments.
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Graduate
Student Association (GSA) Family Assistance Grant
In the 2005-2006
academic year, the GSA created
the GSA Family Assistance Grant, in order to help those graduate
students with young children in child care. The amount of the
award is $100 per month for 10 months, payable through the
student's school account in two sums of $500 per semester.
More
Information:
More
information may be found in the application packet at http://www.mines.edu/stu_life/organ/gsa/childcare.html.
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