At the January 23 2002 chapter meeting personal coach Krista Henley told us about "Maximizing Interpersonal "Gene" Expression". With her own company, Inside-Out Communications, Krista uses her background in counseling psychology to help individuals and team in high-tech and biotech companies to communicate more efficiently and to resolve conflicts. Krista’s clients are mostly senior executives and engineers / scientists who excel in their technical discipline but need help to improve their interpersonal and/or management skills. Her involvement with the biotech industry became very personal when she was diagnosed with and overcame breast cancer.

Krista’s clients usually find themselves in a conflict between their current behavioral patterns and the request of their supervisor to change their behavior. Since this conflict is not easy to resolve Krista has to borrow the supervisor’s authority to facilitate this change. Krista usually works with her clients over the course of a year. Krista interacted with the audience to obtain some real life examples of problems that people are facing in their work environment. She ended her presentation with a hands-on demonstration on how knowledge of a person’s background can lead to a better understanding between team members.

The third meeting of grad student protegees and their mentors took place at Stanford’s Hartley Hall on Thursday Feb 21^st. The group dug into a tasty supper, and then listened to a fascinating panel discussion by 4 volunteer mentors: Merry Sherman, Debbie Kilpatrick, Debbie Isaaksen and Marcia Stellpflug. The topic of the panel discussion was issues around the interview process – always a favorite anguish to explore. The panelists offered a fascinating glimpse of the ‘other side of the desk’, a behind-the-scenes view of the interview process and a practical guide to better communication during this key step on the path to a new position. Of course there were many questions from the audience, and we broke up into small groups for lively followup.

If you missed this meeting, we will have our final Mentoring meeting in June. It is never too late to get involved, so contact Fong-Yih Bih or Susan Bernhard if you need a mentor or want to be a mentor.

The Palo Alto AWIS Chapter holds elections every March for the offices of President, Vice-President, Secretary, Treasurer and Member-at-Large. The one-year term of office was voted in by members in 2001 – prior to that the terms were 2-year). A poll of the current Board indicated that most will run again for a second term of their current office. However our President, Annette Lewis, will step down.

Women graduate students and post docs in science and engineering at Stanford are invited to join a new program. The Office of the Provost is initiating a program for graduate and post-doc women in science and engineering (WISE) at Stanford. The objective of this program is to provide women graduate students and post-docs with a forum for discussing issues of importance to their professional/ personal development and well being.

The WISE discussion group program is modeled after the highly successful Women in Management (WIM) Group Program at the Stanford Business School; a program that has been available to women MBA students since 1983. In that program, women meet weekly for 1.5 hours in groups of 8-10, with a trained professional facilitator. The program runs throughout the academic year. The women in the groups determine the agenda, and topics can range from academic and career concerns to family and life balance issues, among others.

While obviously finding time for another commitment is difficult for all professional women, the GSB women have consistently cited their women's group participation as among the best and most enduring experiences of their graduate careers. Currently more than half of the women students at the GSB participate in the women's group program.

There is no fee for the WISE groups, and the program is open to all graduate and post doc women in science and engineering at Stanford. A range of time options for group meetings is offered, and the same professionally facilitated group experience will be available for the WISE groups.

Email Dr. Joan Ross at jmross_99@yahoo.com or phone (650-888-5609) to sign up.

Each year NCC-AWIS presents awards to women who have combined their professional activities withsupport of other women in science. Training and education in science is not enough. We each need to find our individual ways of using our science and developing a professional life and career. In honoring individual women, AWIS recognizes the importance of mentoring and of teaching and sharing with others more than just the content and techniques or our science.

We give awards in three professional categories. Two awards go to women working in research or technological advancements in academia or industry: one, the Judith Pool award, to a woman established in her field, one, the Ellen Weaver award, to a woman early in her career. A third award, the Distinguished Professional award, goes to a woman using her science away from the bench. Service to other women in science could be to the scientific community through professional societies or schools or to individual women directly through mentoring and facilitating career development. The nominees need not be AWIS members.

What do all the previous recipients of these awards have in common? Someone nominated them. Most

mentoring and professional assistance is done privately, one-on-one. AWIS cannot honor these women and recognize the importance and value of what they do if we don't know who they are.

To nominate a woman send a letter of nomination explaining how the nominee has helped other

women develop professionally and a brief resume or CV giving the nominee's educational background and professional history, by March 15, to Mary Alice Yund, 723 Woodhaven Road, Berkeley, CA 94708.

Questions? Contact Mary Alice at (510) 525-1715 or yund@worldnet.att.net.

The Third Annual Synopsys Silicon Valley Science and Technology Championship will be held on Wednesday, March 13, 2002. This is the 42nd annual regional science fair in Santa Clara County, feeding into the Intel International Science and Engineering Fair. The event will take place in Exhibit Hall 3 (closest to Almaden) at the San Jose McEnery Convention Center.

The annual Science Fair is supported by hundreds of Bay Area companies and individuals; they help by providing funds, awards, scholarships and scientific/engineering expertise. At this time we are writing to solicit some of this expertise from you: WE NEED JUDGES!

We anticipate that twelve hundred students from grades 6 through 12 will participate. We are looking for 400 volunteers to serve on judging teams of two to four people to determine winners at each grade level in eleven categories. In addition to selecting the winning projects, judges will be encouraging and sharing their experience with all the students. This interaction is a critical and integral part of the Fair.

Official category judging will take place from 2 pm to 4:30 pm on Wednesday, March 13. Judges will be able to preview, without students present, starting as early as 10:00 am. Category judges will receive their assignments starting at 11:00. A box lunch will be available at 11:30. A short orientation for judges will start at 12:30. Each judge will have an opportunity to speak to students separately, evaluating eight to fifteen projects. A designated leader will facilitate a team decision to select the winners.

If you would like to judge this year, please register via our website as soon as possible at www.science-fair.org. If you can help us recruit additional judges from your workplace, professional organization, universities etc, we would greatly appreciate it. If you wish to be on a judging team with friends or colleagues, please indicate your preferences as you register.

Upon receiving your registration, we will send a confirmation message. Further details such as the "Judging Guide" can be obtained from our web site, www.science-fair.org. If you have any questions,

please do not hesitate to email us at judging@science-fair.org.

We look forward to working with you to make the Science Fair a rewarding experience for all--especially the students!

CCIS Summer Intern Program

Imagine a small group of the most talented high school students, hand-picked from local schools, working shoulder-to-shoulder with world-renown scientists at Stanford University. What an amazing experience it would be for all involved! Well, imagine no longer. For eight weeks each summer the CCIS Summer Intern Program allows 10-20 students to take part in research, attend introductory lectures by selected faculty, and gain exposure to clinical medicine. The program provides a stipend, parking pass, lunch once a week for a lecture session, and a textbook.

In December 1998, under the aegis of CCIS (Clinical Center for Immunology at Stanford), a fund was created in response to a donation from a local family. The fund was launched to create a summer internship program for Bay Area high school students interested in biology. The idea behind this program is to introduce super bright kids to this exciting field and give them the chance to experience cutting-edge immunology research at Stanford first hand. The experience might just entice them to continue their studies in medical research and all the interesting things involved with such an endeavor.

Summer 2001 was the program's second year and it was a smashing success in that it doubled in size. The Interns were from 16 local high schools - San Jose to San Francisco - juniors and seniors. Of the 20 students, 16 were young women.

Dr. PJ Utz, program director, has developed a program with the depth and breadth to present immunology research in a friendly yet challenging manner. To this end, the program supplements the student's research projects with informative lectures by Stanford researchers and field trips to different areas of the University. So it's not just all fun and games, rather it's enjoying the challenge of learning.

The primary funding for CCIS is through individual and corporate donations. CCIS is an interdisciplinary group formed to inspire high school students in research, assist junior faculty with support funding, and to foster the cross-pollination of ideas among the seemingly disparate fields of immunology, bioengineering, bioinfomatics, and bone marrow transplantation.

Additional support has been generously provided by the Northern California Arthritis Foundation. Support from other interested parties will be necessary to extend this very successful program into the future. If you'd like to get more information or speak with the faculty involved, just contact Lu Em Wellhausen at luem@stanford.edu or (650) 723-8414.

The IISME™ Summer Fellowship Program places Bay Area K-14 teachers of all subjects into high-performance work sites for the summer.

Teachers complete a project for their sponsors and are paid for their work. Teachers also spend time focusing on ways to transfer their Summer Fellowship experience back to their students and colleagues. In the past 17 years, IISME has offered over 1,430 Summer Fellowships.

Please visit the IISME web site at www.iisme.org for more details about how to contribute your teaching skills!

 Abbott. There are several openings at this Morgan Hill company. These include Manager, QA Engineering, Sr. Technical Support Specialist and Occupational Health Nurse II. Please visit the website at: . www.abbott.com/career/career_center.cfm to find out more. Resumes can be sent to . www.success@abbottcareers.com.

Genencor has several openings. Visit www.genencor.com for details.

Chemistry Online Researcher. Potentially appealing to graduate students! Part time/flexible hours sending chemical samples to customers and using the online library. $12/hour. Please email resume to operations@samirian.com or call Christina Smith at 408-224-3399

Two Academic Positions
Dana Zedd, a recruiting manager of the Tiburon Group is recruiting for two positions in the life sciences field. The first is for tenure-track faculty in Statistical Genetics and Genomics at The University of Alabama in Birmingham and the second is a Post-Doctoral/Associate Research Scientist position in vascular biology at Columbia University. Please contact Dana at 773-907-8330 x510 or by email at dana@tiburongroup.com

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How YOU can Make a Difference!

7:00-7:30 pm Networking and light supper

7:30-7:45 pm Announcements

7:45-8:45 pm Program

8:15-9:00 pm Discussion

· Welcome!! The Meeting is free. You don’t need to be a Member to attend.·
All scientists, students, and their friends are welcome. Men too!

Directions from the North:

Take Hwy 280 SOUTH, exit at Page Mill Rd and at the bottom of the ramp turn LEFT and head towards Palo Alto. Turn RIGHT onto Coyote Hill Road. Xerox PARC is on the left, just past the crest of the hill. Enter main door and look for signs to the Auditorium.

Directions from the South:

Take Hwy 280 NORTH, exit at Page Mill Road, turn RIGHT at the bottom of the off ramp and head up hill towards Palo Alto. Turn RIGHT onto Coyote Hill Road. Xerox PARC is on the left, (follow directions above).

ALTERNATE: Take Hwy 101, exit at Oregon Expressway heading west towards Stanford. As you cross El Camino, Oregon is renamed Page Mill Road. Follow Page Mill Road WEST, cross Foothill Expressway, and take a LEFT on Coyote Hill Road. Xerox PARC is on the left, (follow directions above to Auditorium).

LOCAL (from Stanford): Take Foothill SOUTH towards Los Altos, and turn RIGHT at Page Mill Road heading WEST. Turn LEFT onto Coyote Hill Road. Xerox PARC is on the left, (follow directions above to Auditorium).

For more information, contact Kam Dahlquist, kdahlquist@gladstone.ucsf.com or 415-826-7500

Several awards will be announced including:

Date: Wednesday, April 24th, 2002
Time: Registration 6-7 pm
Dinner – 7-8 pm
Program – 8-9 pm

Cost: $25
Please send registration (include your name, your chapter affiliation(s) and a phone number or email address in case we have any questions about your registration) to Joy Barnitz, Treasurer of NCC-AWIS. Checks should be made payable to "NCC-AWIS" and sent to:

Joy Barnitz
1017 Joshua Place
Fremont, CA 94539
jtbarnitz@yahoo.com
510-353-1272

Registration deadline is Wednesday, April 17 so that we can line up the caterer for the delicious dinner. As usual, veggie options will be available. Please join us for the FUN and to honor and recognize some very special award winners.

C/o S. Lalitha

974 Bidwell Avenue