Graduate Women in Science (GWIS) is a smaller professional society of ~800 women in science around the United States. Once a year, they host a conference to bring women from across the STEM disciplines together, learn from and connect with …
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Chloe Kirk
Exploring Biology Conference 2022: What I Learned from my First In-Person Conference
I had the pleasure of going to the Exploring Biology Conference 2022 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania! Exploring Biology is a huge conference made up of multiple large professional societies coming together. The society I came with was the American Association of …
Visiting the Alma Mater: What To Do in Madison, WI
During my undergrad at UW-Madison, I never appreciated the college-town surrounded by nature environment. It took until I moved to a big city, Miami, to remember how lucky I was to spend 4 years in a small city with such …
Communicating Science to Non-Scientists
Why bother communicating science outside of your field? Why share your science to non-scientists at all? When more people understand the science we are doing, it increases people’s understanding of what science can do! Or, as the The National Academies …
My Beginnings in Science Outreach
My first experience with science outreach came as a junior in high school. My friends and I loved to go to the Minnesota Zoo, and one of them was volunteering at kids Minnesota Zoo summer day camps. She invited me …
A Weekend on a Boat in Key West
One of the best things living in Miami is how close I am to other tropical places! Key West is just a 3.5 hr drive from Miami, along jaw dropping highway bridges across the Atlantic. The drive alone is worth …
Chicago in 36 Hours
A whirlwind of a weekend vacation! Lots of delicious food & seeing family and friends packed into a tight weekend trip. Here’s what we go up to Friday night – Sunday morning! Friday Night We didn’t get a flight until …
Virtual Conferences, Are They Worth It?
Virtual conferences were rare before the COVID-19 epidemic swept the world. Conferences were always in person, and I’ll bet many of you hadn’t even heard of successful virtual conferences before 2020. I was skeptical when I first heard conferences were …
STEM Outreach: What is it and How to Get Involved
What is STEM Outreach I’m sure many of you have heard about outreach before, and likely done it, in some way shape or form (either because you wanted to, or for some high school or college requirement). Outreach itself means …
Planning in Grad School
I’ve always loved planning and organization, and grad school puts everything I know about organization to the test! There’s so much always happening: experiments to plan, experiments happening, data to analyze, papers to read, meetings and classes to attend, and …