GWISE member and Genetics PhD Candidate Kelly Hills-Muckey is also the president of a new organization: Students with Children. Join them for their first meeting on Friday, February 12 at 1pm. More information is here.
Stony Brook has set up a Coronavirus Information website with press releases and lots of information on the virus and how the school is handling it. Perhaps the best section for getting your questions answered is the FAQs, which are frequently updated with new information: https://www.stonybrook.edu/commcms/coronavirus/faq/index.php
Here are 10 Questions and Answers we found the most relevant for graduate students at SBU.
Continue reading “COVID-19 Questions? 10 Answers from SBU”In our second week of celebrating moms, say hello to Kelly, a PhD candidate in the Genetics program and mother of one!
EDUCATION: B.S. in Biology from Barry University; currently pursing a Ph.D. in Genetics
RESEARCH: Studies the temporal and spatial regulation of the C. elegans miRNA, lin-4
BY: Donna L. Buehler, Stony Brook University Ombuds
“Is about learning how to work within the confines of an organization to get what you need, while helping your boss and the organization meet their objectives. It’s about using influence and acting with integrity and purpose.”
From Suddenly in Charge by Roberta Chinsky Matuson
Continue reading “10 Tips to Manage UP!”“Is simply a conscious approach to working with your supervisor toward goals you both care about.”
“The aim is to achieve a mutually beneficial relationship.”
From Managing Up, 20 Minute Manager Series, Harvard Review Press
BY: Diana Lutz
Every graduate student who has ever applied for a fellowship, like the NSF GRFP or GAANN, has heard those sweet, sweet words. Tax. Free. Year after year, students spend hours crafting their personal statements and research proposals, and every year they hear that winning this fellowship comes with 0 taxes as a cherry on top. As a recent recipient of the NSF GRFP, I am here to dispel the myth that fellowships are magical, non-taxable free money.
Say hello to Gabrielle! One of the many winners of the National Science Foundation’s Graduate Research Fellowship, Gabrielle works to better human’s understanding of lymphomas by developing a gene-editing system that could prevent their development.
EDUCATION: B.S in Biochemistry at Stony Brook; starting a Ph.D. at Rockefeller University in the Fall.
RESEARCH INTERESTS: Viral evolution and innate immunity against viruses.
FUTURE GOALS:My immediate goal is to get my Ph.D. and after that I plan to continue doing research. I’d love to do a post-doc at a place like the National Institute of Health (NIH).
BY: Sindhuja Tirumalai Govindarajan
Are you pregnant? Are you thinking about getting pregnant? If you just discovered you are pregnant, or if you are planning to get pregnant while in graduate school, you’ll already have a thousand questions in your head. Things will happen real quick and you will want to set up a system that will help you in your quest to be a badass grad-mom. We know some of you are worriers, guess what, we are too! This article was put together after talking to fellow moms on campus, and we want to share our list of resources that we found useful both before, during, and after pregnancy. If you are a mom or mom-to-be at Stony Brook University, reach out to us at sbu.gradmoms@gmail.com and we will help you get acquainted with the Grad Mom’s group at SBU!
Continue reading “Resources for Mothers and Mom’s-to-be at Stony Brook University”This Saturday, May 11th, SBU’s Medical Scientist Training Program (MSTP) will be hosting its First Annual Northeast Regional Symposium for Advocates of Women in Science and Medicine! To help kick off the event, we decided to interview the woman behind it all, Margaret Shevik, who wants to inspire other women in her field to pursue careers in science and medicine.
EDUCATION: B.S. in Genetics, Cell Biology, and Development, University of Minnesota College of Biological Sciences; B.A. in Art History, University of Minnesota College of Liberal Arts, MD/Ph.D. candidate in Pharmacology, student in the Medical Scientist Training Program (MSTP) at Stony Brook University
Last night. at the Jerrold L. Stein Student Life Awards, GWiSE won the Outstanding Organization Award for going above and beyond to engage graduate students outside the classroom.
Finally the last, but not the least, of our presenters at the upcoming Women’s Research in STEM Showcase that is happening on Thursday, April 4th, from 6 to 9 pm. The following scientists study bluff erosion, the genetics of epilepsy, parallel programming, cancer stem cells, and the effect of global change on marine life.
Graduate Women in Science and Engineering @ SBU 