Past Events
Many of our past WIS PDX events and partner events are recorded on YouTube. Browse our collection of previous events and seminars for content created by our talented keynote speakers and panelists.
2024 Events
Success in Industry Careers - Lunch & Learn
Are you interested in applying to an industry job? Given the growing interest in industry roles among current graduate trainees and postdocs, we aim to provide valuable insights to enhance your skill development and attractiveness to companies when applying for industry positions. This session offers practical advice and steps to boost your career readiness for industry roles, giving you a comprehensive understanding of the application process and strategies to become a qualified candidate. Learn how to transition into industry roles successfully and gain a competitive edge in your job search and career development!
Mind the Gap: Paving the Way for Equal Opportunities and Fair Compensation
Have you encountered gender discrimination and/or pay equity issues at work? Wondering what your options are? Watch our fireside chat where we delve into this crucial topic. Leading this discussion is Jackie Wirz, WIS PDX advisory board member and non-profit executive. Featured speakers include esteemed McKean Smith employment lawyer Sonia Montalbano and administrator of the Civil Rights Division from the Bureau of Oregon Labor and Industries Leila Walll offered their insights and guidance on how to navigate through these challenges.
Effective Oral and Poster Presentations - Lunch & Learn
As students and early-career scientists, we frequently deliver poster and oral presentations in various settings. Join WIS for a discussion with Karen Thiebes on how we can refine our skills for engaging oral and poster presentations, effectively enhancing science communication and capturing audience attention.
2023 Events
Are you ready to explore the universe of physics career possibilities? In this WIS-PDX virtual Lunch & Learn, you will hear the journeys and insights of three physicists with specialties in microscopy, particle physics, and nuclear policy.
Pixels, Particles, and Policy - A Physics Career Panel
Are you interested in careers investigating and advocating for a sustainable future? In this panel, we will hear from three women with backgrounds in environmental activism, research, and education.
Passion For the Planet - Exploring Careers in Environmental Science
Do you aspire to talk about your science in terms that really connect with your audience? Crafting relevant and meaningful messages is an essential science communication skill. In this virtual interactive WIS Lunch and Learn you can practice developing powerful messages about your work. This event is open to all!
Science Communication - Crafting Relevant Messages to Meet Your Audience
2022 Events
Have you ever wondered about how you could use your STEM background to make more of an impact in the field you're most passionate about? While there are many ways to make a difference in industry and academia, opportunities to apply your skills to the nonprofit realm may be more plentiful than you think. In this panel, we will hear from women who have made careers out of using their scientific expertise in the nonprofit sector. They will discuss the paths they took to get to where they are now, their experiences in their current organizations, and advice for those who are interested in transitioning their own careers into the nonprofit world.
Women STEM Nonprofits Panel
Finding and using your voice: A conversation about narrative writing and storytelling for women in science and medicine.
Suzanne Koven, MD has practiced internal medicine for 30+ years and was named Inaugural Writer in Residence at Massachussetts General Hospital. Her essays, articles, blogs, and reviews have appeared in the Boston Globe, The New England Journal of Medicine, The Lancet, newyorker.com and other publications. She will lead today's conversation about narrative writing and storytelling for women in science and medicine.
Finding and Using Your Voice
This event features a career panel with experts from several companies* (see below) who will talk about their inspiring career journeys and challenges specific to the biotech industry. This event is open to all. We hope to see you there! Thank you to Absci for sponsoring this event!
Women in Biotech Career Panel
What does change look like at an organizational, state, and federal level? What can you do as one person? How do you make a difference when the problems seem so big? This discussion will focus on changing systems big and small. Mollie Marr, an MD/PhD student at Oregon Health & Science University, will discuss system and policy change related to gender equity, LGBTQ+ rights, and trauma-informed care.
Using Research to Advocate for Systemic Change
Relational Versatility: navigating the challenges of personal and professional relationships
Do you ever feel unheard in your relationships? Does it seem like when you broach the topic, you are dismissed and that you end up believing that you need to do more work on yourself to somehow get the other party to listen?” What if we told you that you’re not crazy for perceiving these things? Underlying the micro interactions that you’re experiencing are the bigger social norms, gender roles, and power dynamics at play that make relationships ever the more challenging. Join Melissa Ryan, founder of The Scend, an organization dedicated to helping professionals with their relationships at work and Matthew Fray a relational coach counselor and author of the upcoming autobiography, This is how your Marriage Ends in a fireside chat discussing the ways in which having the variety of tools to approach relationship dynamics allows us to respond to difficult situations in the ways that optimize the outcome we want while staying in integrity. And further, how developing these skills can make a huge difference in both your personal and professional relationships.