Join us for "In Her Shoes" simulation

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The Honors Student Advisory Council is collaborating with with UAF Women's Center and the Interior Alaska Center for Non-Violent Living to bring 

"In Her Shoes" to UAF.

*In Her Shoes* Simulation

Tuesday, October 29th * 5:30-7:00 pm

Honors House * 520 Copper Lane * UAF Campus

Please join us for this

scintillating simulation which promises to:

 

• Increase awareness of the struggles faced by those who suffer harassment and abuse

• Illustrate that partner, domestic, and gendered violence are community tragedies and not private problems

• Show how we ALL have a role in the movement to end gendered violence

• Encourage all of us to think creatively about the ways we can work to end partner, domestic, and gendered violence

 

RSVP at https://www.facebook.com/events/207222236124261/ to ensure  sufficient materials for all attendees!

International Friendship Day 2013 - Sat Oct 19th noon-5:00pm

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You are cordially invited to one of the premiere annual events in Fairbanks!

International Friendship Day @ Pioneer Park (AlaskaLand), 

Saturday, October 19th, noon - 5 pm.  

FREE Admission, Performances, Cultural Displays, 

PLUS Food and Gift Items available for sale. 

Spend the afternoon, bring your friends and family to the 27th Annual Fairbanks International Friendship Day. 

You'll find new friends and GOOD company!

Safe Zone Training Oct 16th - Ally Week Oct 14-18 @ UAF

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HURRY! Still a few seats left in the Ally Week * Safe Zone Training * scheduled for Wednesday, Oct 16th, 7pm in Wood Center Room E/F. Sign up online @ www.uaf.edu/activity

Remaining Ally Week 2013 events include:

Wednesday, Oct. 16th

• GSA Bake Sale 11:00am-2:00pm @ Wood Center
• Safe Zone Training 7:00pm @ Wood Center E/F

Thursday, Oct. 17 - National Spirit Day [Wear Purple]

•  HB 139 Info Session 5:15pm-6:15pm @ Wood Center E/F

Friday, Oct 18

• Gender Sexuality Alliance (GSA) Meeting 3:30-4:30pm @ Alumni Lounge
• Allies Get Together 5:00pm-6:30pm @ Wood Center E/F
• Movie: TransAmerica 7:00pm Wood Center Ballroom

 

National Campus Sexual Assault Summit Recording

If you missed the National Campus Sexual Assault Summit September 29th, catch the recording at http://apps.law.georgetown.edu/webcasts/eventDetail.cfm?eventID=2120

This Summit was broadcast live to over 300 colleges, including to the Women's Center here at UAF! A group of us gathered in the Women's Center to attend this important LIVE interactive event.

October Highlights in

U.S. Women’s History

·         October 3, 1904 - Mary McLeod Bethune opens her first school for African-American students in Daytona Beach, Florida 

·         October 4, 1976 - Barbara Walters becomes the first woman co-anchor of the evening news at ABC

·         October 4, 1993 - Ruth Bader Ginsburg joins the U.S. Supreme Court as its 2^nd woman Justice

·         October 8, 1993 - Toni Morrison becomes the first African American woman to win the

Nobel Prize for Literature 

·         October 10, 1983 - Dr. Barbara McClintock receives the Nobel Prize for Medicine for her discovery in genetics about mobile genetic elements 

·         October 11, 1984 - Dr. Kathryn D. Sullivan is the first U.S. woman astronaut to "walk" in space during Challenger flight 

·         October 15, 1948 - Dr. Frances L. Willoughby is the first woman doctor in the regular U.S. Navy 

·         October 16, 1916 - Margaret Sanger opens the U.S.'s first birth control clinic in

Brooklyn, New York 

·         October 23, 1910 - Blanche Stuart Scott is the first American woman pilot to make a public flight 

·         October 24, 1956 - Reverend Margaret Towner is the first woman ordained a minister in the Presbyterian Church 

·         October 28, 1958 - Mary Roebling is the first woman director of a stock exchange at the American Stock Exchange

National Campus Sexual Assault Summit

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Come to the Women's Center (Eielson 112) at UAF Friday September 27th from 8:30 am-1:00 pm to participate in an Interactive Town Hall broadcasting live from Georgetown University Law Center in Washington D.C! The broadcast will begin at 8:30am but feel free to come only for specific events. 
To see Angela Rose, founder of PAVE, interviewed on ABC about National Campus Safety Month, visit this link: http://bit.ly/16mtSNx*

Below is a list of the day's planned events

Event Schedule:

*8:30 p.m. – 9:00 a.m.*

*Welcome and Introduction*

*Angela Rose*, Survivor, Activist, and Founder of PAVE****

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*9:00 a.m. – 9:15 a.m.*

*Surprise special guest*

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*9:15 a.m. – 9:45 p.m.*

*Panel 1- The Survivor’s Voice & Organizing on Campus*

*Laura Dunn, Survivor, Activist, Founder of SurvJustice,

PAVE Ambassador, Media Commentator

*Wendy Wyler*, Survivor and Activist****

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*9:45 p.m. – 10:15 a.m.*

*Panel 2 – Policy, Title IX, and the Justice System*

*Nancy Chi Cantalupo*, Research Fellow at Victim Rights Law Center and Adjunct Professor of Law, Georgetown Law****

*Jen Luettel Schweer*, Sexual Assault and Relationship Violence Services

Coordinator, Georgetown University****

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*10:15 a.m. – 10:45 a.m.*

*Panel 3: Serving Underrepresented Survivor Populations*

*Chris Anderson*, Executive Director, MaleSurvivor****

*Anya Lakner*, National Training and Policy Attorney,

American Bar Association’s Commission on Domestic and Sexual Violence****

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*10:45-11am - BREAK*

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*11:00 a.m. – 11:30 a.m.*

*Panel 4 – Engaging Men in the Movement: 
Prevention and Bystander Intervention*****

*Rhett Walker*, Former Campus Training Coordinator, Men Can Stop Rape****

*Tim Stephens*, Fraternity Man - George Washington University Alumni**

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*11:30 a.m. – 12:00 p.m.*

*Panel 5 – Galvanizing the National Movement: Prevention and Empowerment****

*Sarah Rice*, Survivor and Activist, and Former Star of *The Real World: Brooklyn*

*Angela Rose*, Survivor and Activist, and Founder of PAVE****

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*12:00 p.m. – 12:45 p.m.*

*Q&A and Town Hall Discussion*

Visit Women's Center Booth @ UAF's Safety Fair Thur Sept 26

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September is National Campus Safety Awareness Month!

Come to the Wood Center @ UAF Thursday, Sept 26th 12:30 pm - 2:00 pm to peruse safety fair booths from the University Fire Department, UAF Police Department, Residence Life, Women's Center, Health Center, C-CERT, and the Dean of Students Office. Each booth will feature free tickets you can use to "purchase" popcorn, cotton candy, and funnel cakes available at the food booth. What a deal, a safety fair with fair food fixins!   

 

Act Fast to Enroll in This Fab Class

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Deadline is looming for enrolling in this fabulous "Whodunnit?" course.

This class starts Thursday, September 5th.

 You will get to read, and discuss

·      At Bertram’s Hotel—Christie

·      An Unsuitable Job for a Woman—James

·      Dog Day— Gimenez-Bartlett

·      Burn Marks—Paretsky

·      Blanche On the Lam—Neely

·      The Likeness —French

plus peruse short stories and critical essays on detective fiction. 

What could be better than a class where your assignments include reading Whodunnits?

Alert your friends and family!

Enroll NOW, so you get in on EVERY MINUTE of this great course! 

Magnificent Margaret Murie Building Dedication Ceremony @ UAF

Margaret "Mardy" Murie Building Commemorative Plaque
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The sun smiled down on the Margaret Murie Building Dedication at UAF on Thursday, August 22nd. What a splendid ceremony, spectacular speakers, and beautiful building! Momentous occasion for all of us in attendance to celebrate the naming of this magnificent building after Margaret "Mardy" Murie, the first woman graduate of UAF (at that time, called the Alaska Agricultural College and School of Mines). The building was designed, in Murie's spirit, to encourage a love of nature, as well as to inspire collaborative and creative encounters among students, faculty, and researchers. This state-of-the-art facility is built to focus on and facilitate cooperation and teamwork. 

In her address to the crowd at the dedication ceremony, College of Natural Science and Mathematics Grad Student Sophie Gilbert reflected on collaboration, connections, and celebrated how Murie's spirit is woven into and through this new UAF Life Sciences Building. 

Read Sophie Gilbert's words below 
(printed with permission of the author)

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When I told my family that I was leaving California to get my PhD in wildlife ecology in Alaska, they gave me Margaret Murie's book, "Two in the far North." Perhaps they thought it might dissuade me from my crazy plan, given some of the harrowing adventures in there, although they should have known better. Here I am, after all.

On first reading, the early adventures of Mardy, the first female graduate of UAF in 1924, seem mostly about independent discovery in the Alaskan wilderness, and it is with this vision that many of us come to pursue research and adventure in Alaska. Yet, Mardy's most enduring legacies were not achieved in the splendid isolation of the Alaskan wilderness, but rather through splendid collaborations. She excelled at bringing people together, and through decades of teamwork she helped enact landmark conservation legislation creating protected wilderness areas across the nation. 

Today, researchers and students come to Alaska from all over the world. We come to work and learn in the wild landscapes that Mardy helped conserve. I think Mardy would be thrilled to see how much research is going on today in her beloved Alaska; and I bet she would be thrilled that the UAF Department of Biology and Wildlife currently has 131 graduate students, 60 percent of whom are women. As one of those graduate students, I know how much I benefit from the vibrant, passionate faculty and students surrounding me.

Like Mardy's many triumphs, our greatest accomplishments depend on collaborations. Increasingly, science cannot be done alone. For instance, I am lucky enough to study the relationships between deer, bears, wolves and their rainforest habitat in Southeastern Alaska. But, without our team of professors, undergraduate and community volunteers, and management agency collaborators, we would never have even gotten our project off the ground. A PhD from UAF is truly a team effort.

This new building is designed and built to encourage teamwork, so essential for Mardy's accomplishments and for success in today's research world. From the shared lab spaces, where I work side by side with scientists from other research groups; to the large common areas and open offices, where professors and graduate students can gather, mingling is part of the day-to-day; and to the state of the art classroom, where teachers and students can interact closely both with each other and with cutting-edge technology.

In the coming days, we get to watch this building do what it was built for - bring people together to teach, to learn, and to make connections with each other. In fact, look around -- it's already happening. Mardy would be proud!

Green Dot is Coming to UAF!

Faculty and staff, RSVP now while space remains

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Find out more about Green Dot @ UAF @ the following URL

 http://www.uaf.edu/files/uafwomen/Green-Dot-4-page-promo-072513.pdf

Green Dot is Coming to Alaska - Pre-launch Opportunity for Artists

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The Green Dot Violence Prevention Strategy is a new way of thinking about and doing violence prevention. Green Dot is about the belief that change is possible, harnessing the power of individual choices to shift our current norms. A green dot is simply your individual choice at any given moment to make our community safer.

As we are getting ready to launch Green Dot statewide, throughout Alaska, we are inviting Alaskans from all around the state to submit ideas for a "GREEN DOT ALASKA" poster which will be used on all of the Green Dot training materials statewide. Designs should include the words "Green Dot Alaska" and a visual graphic which captures the spirit of Alaska and the message of Green Dot. For more infomation about Green Dot, see www.livethegreendot.com and/or stop by or contact the UAF Women's Center, 112 Eielson Building, UAF, call 474-6311 or email kayt.sunwood@alaska.edu

To enter your poster, submit your idea electronically in PDF format to:

Dorothy Edwards

edwards@livethegreendot.com

(put "Alaska poster" in the subject line)

or submit a "paper copy" of your idea by mail to:

Dorothy Edwards

7505 Oriole Ave

Springfield, VA 22150

Deadline for entry is July 21, 2012

Must be mailed or received @ Live the Green Dot by July 21 to be eligible

Submitting your poster idea to Green Dot etc., Inc. indicates your permission for the organization to use it in a manner appropriate for educational and promotional purposes and thereby transfers ownership of the poster to Green Dot etc., Inc. 

So much to do this coming week plus!

Hope to see you at some or ALL of these events in and around Fairbanks this coming week, weekend, and beyond. Many more events and opportunities than what is listed below, this is but a sample! Add comment(s) to this post if you know of other upcoming events in which *Women @ the Top*, their friends and families might be interested.

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AAUW House Tour - Scholarship Fundraiser

Saturday, July 13th 

DRIVE YOURSELF * 3 INTERESTING HOMES * TICKETS AND MAPS * $20.00 Tickets/maps available at:

• Team Cutters Hair Salon—2950 Airport Way
• If Only—209 Cushman St, Downtown
• In My Element—Artisan’s Courtyard, 1755 Westwood Way (College Road)
• Or Call: 456-4518

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 Garden Party Fundraiser benefiting the Ruth Lister Scholarship Fund

Saturday July 13, Starting at 4 P.M.

The Ruth Lister Scholarship Fund is an annual needs-based scholarship for motivated single mothers attending UAF's Community and Technical College

*Big or small, your donation will be just right*

Bring friends & family! Spread the word!

Call 474-8328 or email chillwordsmith@msn.com for location & details

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AYP (Angry, Young & Poor Music Festival)

Saturday, July 13th Noon to nearly Midnight

Beautiful Ester Community Park (next to the Fire Station)

*All local music ALL day
*Nonprofits & artisan booths
*All the best of everything & it's FREE!*
See http://www.alaskapublic.org/2013/07/05/angry-young-and-poor-music-festival 
for more about AYP and to meet the Disorganizers 

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Romeo & Juliet - Fairbanks Shakespeare Theatre & UAF
July 12th - 28th
Jack Townshend Point - UAF Campus
Tickets & Info Available Online @ http://www.fstalaska.org 
 
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Fairbanks Summer Arts Festival
July 14 - 28
venues throughout Fairbanks
See  http://www.fsaf.org for info, schedules & locations
 

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See you on campus and around Fairbanks at these outstanding events 

AND MORE

Women's Center Realigned July 1st

 

On July 1st, 2013, the UAF Women's Center was realigned into University and Student Advancement (USA) http://www.uaf.edu/usa  

We are looking forward to the unfolding of this next chapter in the illustrious life of the UAF Women's Center. 

The Women's Center remains in our prime location in the Eielson Building, Room 112, next to Career Services and across from Financial Aid. Stop by to visit, and perhaps share your stories of what the Women's Center has meant to you in the past, and/or your ideas for the Women's Center in the coming year(s). PLUS, check back here for updates on the latest @ the Women's Center.

Equal Pay Act 50th Anniversary

50th Anniversary of Equal Pay Act

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Stop by the Women's Center (112 Eielson Building, UAF) to check out our display commemorating the 50th anniversary of the Equal Pay Act, signed by President Kennedy on June 10th, 1963. We've made some progress, however we still have a long way to go, as can be seen in the proportional size dollars representing the average wages for men who work full time, and women who work full time. The gap is even greater when factoring in race/ethnicity :-(

Visit the Justice Blog http://blogs.justice.gov/main/archives/2948 for information, background, and links on the Equal Pay Act. Peruse this _50 years After the Equal Pay Act: Assessing the Past, Taking Stock of the Future_ report for an analysis of where we've been and where we need to go http://www.whitehouse.gov/sites/default/files/image/image_file/equal_pay-task_force_progress_report_june_10_2013.pdf  

Visit the Women's Center to strategize about achieving equity!