Join scientists in the AWIS Education Outreach program in the effort to show school kids that science is not just a man's game. We want to show students that science is fun. And our very presence in the classroom makes us role models, so girls realize that they, too, can be scientists. This year, AWIS Outreach scientists will be involved in two new programs: (a) the Young Explorers Ð science for preschoolers (described on page 5), and (b) Bridge to the Future: Ð programs for girls in grades 6 - 12.

In the "Bridge" program, scientists from both academia and industry will give hands-on presentations in the classroom, act as e-mail mentors, and have high school juniors and seniors visit them at work. We will be working with two local schools: Castilleja School, a private school for girls in Palo Alto, and Eastside School in East Palo Alto.

AWIS has volunteer opportunities galore!

"Career Renewal : Tools for Scientists and Technical Professionals" by Stephen Rosen and Celia Paul

"The Scientist As Consultant : Building New Career Opportunities" by Carl J. Sindermann and Thomas K. Sawyer

"A Ph.D. Is Not Enough : A Guide to Survival in Science" by Peter J. Feibelman

"Ms. Mentor's Impeccable Advice for Women in Academia" by Emily Toth

"The Fast Track: The Insider's Guide to Winning Jobs in Management Consulting, Investment Banking, and Securities Trading" by Mariam Naficy

The Palo Alto chapter has always had an active program of mentoring graduate students and postdocs at Stanford. Have you considered being a mentor to someone who is not quite as far along in her career? It is an experience that will be richly rewarded when you sign up as a mentor for 1998-'99.

Last year, Mentoring paired about 40 students with working professionals acting as mentors. The committee sponsored six dinner meetings and four lunches on campus for mentors and their proteges. Speakers for the dinner meetings were very informative. The topics included "Keys to Successful Mentoring Relationships," a film entitled "Asking Different Questions: Women and Science," "Oral Communication Workshop," "Women in Entre-preneurial Roles in Biotech," and "Women Entrepreneurs in High Tech."

The meetings are pretty terrific, with a high level of participation from all who attend. With the advent of email, much mentoring can be carried out electronically once the basic mentor-protege relationship has been established, and the dinner meetings provide a convenient forum for informal updates.

For more information or to become a mentor, use the form on page 4 and send it to Lisa Wang at CV Therapeutics, 3172 Porter Drive, Palo Alto, CA 94304, or e-mail to: lisawang@well.com.

Mail the completed form to Katy Korsmeyer, Dept of Chemistry SJSU San Jose, CA 95192-0101

NAME: ___________________________________________

ADDRESS: __________________________________________________________________________

TEL.: ___________________________ E-MAIL____________________________________

PROFESSION: ___________________________________________________________

SCIENCE SPECIALTY: ____________________________________________________

ACTIVITIES YOU WOULD LIKE TO PARTICIPATE IN:

___ Presenter for Expanding Your Horizons Conference

___ Young Explorers (Science for preschoolers)

___ Bridge to the Future (Program for girls in grades 6 - 12)

___ Will lead hands-on science experiments

___ Will host 1 or 2 students for job shadowing

Has this ever happened to you? You have just received an offer letter and a salary quote. In the back of your mind, you wonder if the offer is commensurate with your experience and expertise. You ask yourself: "How much am I worth to my potential employer?"

"How Much are You Worth?" was the subject of the May Palo Alto AWIS meeting. Speakers Mary Cooper, Director of HR (Genentech), and Susan Dinga, VP of Global Staffing and Human Resources (Seagate Technolo-gies) presented an arsenal of information about salary negotiation. Both Mary and Susan emphasized several factors to consider before accepting a job offer: base salary; stock options; perks, such as a car or car allowance; benefits; 401(k) plan; and tuition reimbursement.

There were handouts on career planning, a "values" evaluation worksheet, plus information on Internet sites providing industry-specific salary averages for engineers and scientists. Judging from the many questions from the audience, this is a topic worth revisiting at future meetings.

Name: ______________________________________________________________________________

Home Address:________________________________________________________________________

Home Phone:_________________________________

E-mail:______________________ Fax: __________________________

Job Title/Function: _________________________________________________________

Work Address: ____________________________________________________________

Work Phone: _________________________________

Preferred Mailing Address: home___ work ___ e-mail____

Would you like to volunteer to be a mentor? ___Yes ___No

Would you like to volunteer to be a phone/e-mail resource for 3 or 4 women graduate students? ___Yes ___No

Is it important to you to have a protege who shares the same scientific interests? ___Yes ___No

Would you like to be included in a mail list that links up mentors volunteering in this program? ___Yes ___No

Please list the academic degrees you have obtained, including the major, school, and date.

Please list career experience, including job function, industry, and years of experience.

Please include any information for which you would feel comfortable acting as a resource (special interests, career changes, problems/conflicts with your major advisor, a thesis committee that fell apart, encountering different expectations for you vs. male peers, factors affecting your selection of career path, combining family and career, etc.)

One of the new Outreach programs for AWIS this year is about making science fun for the youngest scientists. A hands-on science program for the preschoolers at NASA Ames Child Care Center called Young Explorers will be starting in September.

These three- to five-year-olds will use hands-on science-related activities to foster their self-esteem and confidence. It will also help generate interest in math and the physical sciences, with their development in manual dexterity, critical thinking, following directions, and vocalizing their thoughts. Examples of upcoming activities are dissecting owl pellets and flowers, making a kaleidoscope, chromatography of Kool-Aid, and learning about polymers.

The kick-off speaker needs to be appealing to young girls and enthusiastic about women entering math, science and technical careers. We would also like someone willing to share her own experiences in order to provide the girls with the knowledge base of what it might take to enter a career in math, science and technology. The speaker will be asked to speak for approximately 20 minutes, be on hand to answer questions and mingle with the START UP participants. Travel stipend and honorarium is available.

Visit the updated NCC web page and the links to recent NCC events: NCC home page (www.ebawis. org/nccchptr.htm); April '98 Awards Dinner (www. ebawis.org/98awards.htm); February Workshop Report (www.ebawis.org/febwkshp.htm); and Kitty Didion's visit to our joint chapter meeting (www. ebawis.org/kdidion.htm). Go to the Main Menu on the NCC home page and start surfing!

(Thanks to Martha Booz)

WGBH public television in Boston has recently received a grant from the National Science Foundation to produce a series of videotapes called INVESTIGATING CLASSROOMS. Designed to illustrate K-6 classrooms engaged in inquiry science teaching and learning, the videotapes and accompanying print materials will be used for pre- service and in-service teacher training. As part of this series, WGBH will also produce a 30-minute tape targeted specifically to parents and families of elementary school-age children.

In this parent video, WGBH hopes to educate parents as to what science teaching looks like today. The video will take families into real classrooms to see what is meant by inquiry - to show parents what it looks like for students to investigate real science questions; to work together in groups with tangible materials; and to test, analyze and problem solve as a way to gain information, rather than just memorizing facts. WGBH will talk with community members and science professionals to find out why science teaching has changed over the years, how children benefit from learning science, and what parents can do to support their children's learning at home. WGBH hopes to include footage of families talking about and "doing" science together, and footage of community-based science events and activities.

YWCA Turning Point Career Center

2600 Bancroft Way (Berkeley)

Forty Plus

7440 Earhart Road (Oakland)

510-430-2400

Peninsula Professional Network

3520 S. El Camino Real (San Mateo)

Career Action Center

10420 Bubb Road (Cupertino)

408-253-3200

WEB SITE: www@careeraction.org

Almost 50 years ago, in September 1948, President Harry Truman addressed the American Association for the Advancement of Science on its 100th anniversary. The type of funding issues President Truman discussed will be considered as Congress votes on the FY 1999 appropriations bills in coming weeks. Other remarks describe the issues facing American scientists following World War II.

"In the 100 years since this Association was organized, science has helped transform the United States into the most productive nation in the world. I know that in your meetings this week you will be looking back over the progress of American science in the past century. I also know that you are much more interested in looking into the future.

"You are looking forward, I know, because we stand at the threshold of revolutionary developments. Scientific research daily becomes more important to our agriculture, our industry, and our health. The members of this Association know better than I what developments to expect in the years ahead in physics, in chemistry, in biology and the other sciences, but I am certain of this -- hat science will change our lives in the century ahead even more than it has changed them in the 100 years just past.

"I hope you will also be thinking about the relationship between science and our national policy.

"Two years ago, I appointed a Scientific Research Board. Its report, entitled Science and Public Policy,' was submitted last fall to the 80th Congress. That report stressed the importance of science to our national welfare, and it contained a number of important recommendations. The most important were these:

"First, we should double our total public and private allocations of funds to the sciences...." "Second, greater emphasis should be placed on basic research and on medical research. Third, a National Science Foundation should be established. Fourth, more aid should be granted to the universities, both for student scholarships and for research facilities. Fifth, the work of the research agencies of the Federal Government should be better financed and coordinated."

"I know that you are also deeply concerned with the relationship of science to our national defense and security. Three years ago, when the fighting stopped all of us were eager to return to our peacetime pursuits. The first thought of a great many us was how to translate our wartime advances in scientific knowledge into better standards of living."

"If we are to maintain the leadership in science that is essential to national strength, we must vigorously press ahead in research. There is one simple axiom on which this thought is based. The secrets of nature are not our monopoly. Any nation that is willing and able to make the effort can learn the secrets that we have learned. Such a nation may, indeed, discover new facts of nature we have not yet discovered.

"Our problem, therefore, is not a static one of preserving what we have. Our problem is to continue to engage in pure--or fundamental--research in all scientific fields. Such research alone leads to striking developments that mean leadership. Yet it is precisely in this area that we, as a nation, have been weakest. We have been strong in applied science and in technology, but in the past we have relied largely on Europe for basic knowledge.

"Pure research is arduous, demanding, and difficult. It requires unusual intellectual powers. It requires extensive and specialized training. It requires intense concentration, possible only when all the faculties of the scientist are brought to bear on a problem, with no disturbances or distractions."

"Regarding the first point, the Government is developing impressive programs in many scientific fields.... I sincerely hope that these programs will be further developed and coordinated by the early passage of a National Science Foundation bill...."

"The second obligation of the Federal Government in connection with basic research is to provide working conditions under which scientists will be encouraged to work for the Government. Scientists do not want to work in ivory towers, but they do want to work in an atmosphere free from suspicion, personal insult, or politically motivated attacks. It is highly unfortunate that we have not been able to maintain the proper conditions for best scientific work. This failure has grave implications for our national security and welfare."

"Continuous research by our best scientists is the key to American scientific leadership and true national security...." We are only in the beginnings of the atomic age. The knowledge that we now have is but a fraction of the knowledge we must get, whether for peaceful uses or for national defense. We must depend on intensive research to acquire the further knowledge we need. We cannot drive scientists into our laboratories, but, if we tolerate reckless or unfair attacks, we can certainly drive them out.

"These are truths that every scientist knows. They are truths that the American people need to understand."

"Now and in the years ahead, we need, more than anything else, the honest and uncompromising common sense of science. Science means a method of thought. That method is characterized by open-mindedness, honesty, perseverance, and, above all, by an unflinching passion for knowledge and truth. When more of the peoples of the world have learned the ways of thought of the scientist, we shall have better reason to expect lasting peace and a fuller life for all."

Tuesday, May 19

7:00 - 9:00 pm

SLAC Training Center

2575 Sand Hill Road, Palo Alto

Susan Dinga

Vice President, Global Staffing and HR, Seagate Technology

and Mary Cooper, HR Director, Genentech

To RSVP or for more info, contact Susan at bernhas@baxter.com or 510-723-2094

Wednesday, May 27

12:00 noon

Tressider Oak East Lounge

Stanford University

Sponsor: Mentoring Committee

Contact Kathy Reynolds Lacey (kdreyn@leland.Stanford.EDU) for more information.

Tuesday, July 14

7:00 - 9:00 pm

SLAC Training Center

2575 Sand Hill Road, Palo Alto

To RSVP or for more info, contact Susan at bernhas@baxter.com or 510-723-2094

Thursday, June 11

7:00 - 9:00 pm

Genentech Conference Center

All Northern California AWIS Chapter Members are invited!

Why you should belong to National AWIS

Contact Krista at kbowman@axyspharm. com or call Susan at 510-723-2094 to RSVP or for more information.

Tuesday, May 12

11:00 am - 6:00 pm

San Francisco Marriott Hotel

55 Fourth St.

Monday & Tuesday, May 18-19

2:00-7:00 pm

San Jose Doubletree Hotel

2050 Gateway Pl.

Monday, June 1

11:00 am - 6:00 pm

San Ramon Marriott Hotel

2600 Bishop Drive

Sponsor: LSA/Lendman Group West

Email: resume@lsajobfair.com

Website: www.lsajobfair.com

Wednesday, June 24 (tentative)

7:00-9:00 pm

Mitchell Earth Sciences Building

Stanford University

Contact Lisa Wang (lisawang@ well.com) for directions and date confirmation.

All sessions at the Hyatt Regency San Francisco Airport

Monday & Tuesday, June 1-2

Wednesday, June 3

Thursday & Friday, June 4-5

Presentations by science and business people from over 20 companies in each field

Sponsor: IQPC (International Quality and Productivity Center)

Cost per conference + symposia: from $495

Program, fees, and registration info at http://www.iqpc.com/hc-e.htm or call 800-882-8684

Thursday, May 14

6:30-8:30 pm

Bayer Corporation, Berkeley

Directions on our website (http://www.ebawis.com) or go to http://maps.yahoo.com and enter "Dwight Way and 7th St., Berkeley, CA"

Contact Chris Rozanas at 510-796-0384 or rozanas@aol.com