Welcome to the Xi Chapter of GWIS!
Xi Chapter was founded in 1945 at the University of Minnesota. As one of 15 GWIS chapters throughout the USA, Xi Chapter serves the Minneapolis-St Paul metro area, greater Minnesota, and western Wisconsin. Members represent private industry, academic institutions, government, hospitals, consulting, secondary education and professional associations.
From September through May, we have monthly meetings featuring a social hour, dinner, and presentation by a guest speaker. Below is the current month’s program and how to register for it. Hope to see you there!
Spotlight
Xi Chapter officers has an opportunity to meet with Dr. Susan Solomon for lunch when she was in town for the 16th Annual Kuehnast Lecture Series on November 5th with the Department of Soil, Water, and Climate at the University of Minnesota. Dr. Katherine Klink, Department of Geography, was the host for the luncheon. Dr. Solomon is an atmospheric chemist at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s Earth System Research Laboratory (NOAA-ESRL) in Boulder, CO. Dr. Solomon also holds a faculty position at the University of Colorado. In 2004 she received the prestigious Blue Planet Prize for “pioneering research identifying the causative mechanisms producing the Antarctic ozone hole.” She is the recipient of numerous other scientific awards and honorary doctorates, and a member of the National Academy of Sciences since 1992. She served as co-chair of Working Group 1 for the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) in 2007 and, consequently with her colleagues was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize (shared with Al Gore). (See http://climate.umn.edu/doc/journal/kuehnast_lecture/ for more information).
Dr. Solomon has three pieces of advice for the Xi members: 1) Never say “yes” to committee request on the phone, 2) when speaking about your research in front of a group, always control the questions; e.g. if someone else wants to speak about his/her research during the Q & A session, diplomatically return to focus on your research. Otherwise, you will be considered intellectually weak, and 3) always take stock about your work every year; what did you accomplish and what did you not accomplish and then reset your goals for the coming year.
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