Events for Graduate Women
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We honored our Graduating Graduate Women each Spring at our monthly Graduate Women's Lunch in April. Each woman offered her words of advice and shared next steps!
2009 Graduating Graduate Women
Name: Ashley Ringer
Major: Chemistry
Thesis Title: From Small to Big: Understanding Noncovalent Interactions in Chemical Systems From Quantum Mechanical Models
Next Step: Post-doc in the Center for Computer Aided Drug Design at University at Maryland
Words of Wisdom/Lessons Learned: Align your priorities with your advisor's. You need him/her to be interested in what you're doing so he supports you and your work.
Name: Laura Cerully
Major: Materials and System Engineering
Thesis Title: n/a
Next Step: Staying on to finish her Ph.D
Words of Wisdom/Lessons Learned: stay balanced
Name: Swati Raw
Major: Chemical Engineering
Thesis Title: Chemical Enzymatic Hydralysis of Cellulose to Glucose
Next Step: Looking for a job and applying for Ph.D
Words of Wisdom/Lessons Learned: HANG ON, no matter what the situation is. There are crappy days and good days, but all one needs to do is be patient.
2008 Graduating Graduate Women
Name: Ling Yang
Major: Economics
Thesis Title: The US passenger car industry in the 1980s
Next Step: Financial Accounting Standard Board Internship
Words of Wisdom/Lessons Learned: Seek out opportunities
Name: Teena Carroll
Major: Mathematics
Thesis Title: Enumerative Combinatorics of Posets
Next Step: Tenure track faculty position at St. Norbert College
Name: Sarah Williams
Major: Masters HCI (Human Computer Interaction)
Thesis Title: (Masters Project) Collaborative Online Shopping
Next Step: Full time at Amazon.com in Seattle WA
Words of Wisdom/Lessons Learned: Take Time to discover what you really want to do before jumping into everyone's projects.
Name: Yew Ching Chen
Major: Electrical Engineering
Next Step: Texas Instrument - Tucson
Words of Wisdom/Lessons Learned: -internship
-apply for job earlier, at least 2 semesters ahead
Name: Morgana Martin
Major: MSE
Thesis Title: Dynamic Mechanical Behavior and High Pressure Phase Stability of a Zr-based Bulk Metallic Glass and its Composite with Tungsten
Next Step: Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Lab, Aerospace & Materials Research Group
Name: Sujata Sen
Major:Electrical Engineering
Thesis Title: N/A
Next Step: Texas Instruments (Dallas TX), Analog IL Design Engineer
Words of Wisdom/Lessons Learned: Internships are very valuable. The 1st one made me realize what I didn't want to do. The next two were in T I and I ended up working full time there. - Undergraduate research help me choose my area of concentration
Name: Fan Shoe
Major: International Affairs
Thesis Title: non thesis
Next Step: seeking the job
Words of Wisdom/Lessons Learned: Stop doubting, just believe.
Name: Maria Isabel Carnasciali
Major: Mechanical Engineering
Thesis Title: Kinetic Friction of Nonwetting Drops
Next Step: Staying on CETL for the next year
Words of Wisdom/Lessons Learned: 1) pick your battles - not all are worth the time, 2) opportunities arise from "who knows where" but the only way to know about "it" is to leave the lab/desk. Grads pay just as much fees as the undergrads so go out and take advantage of events and opportunities - you never know who you'll meet or what opportunity will arise from that.
Name: Weslie Ross
Major: Civil Engineering/Geosystems
Thesis Title:
Next Step: Work! Have a family, enjoy life and make some money along the way.
Words of Wisdom/Lessons Learned: You can do anything you want to do as long as you put your heart into it. Work smart and take some time to enjoy life.
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