Society for Women in Physics Timeline
What Women in Physics Accomplished in its second year...
This is a list of all of the events Women in Physics have
hosted and participated in during its first year. The hope is that this list will inspire and encourage other groups, as well as future groups of Women in Physics at the University of Illinois.
| August | Quad Day First Official Meeting of the year |
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| September | Ice Cream Social Colleges Against Cancer's Dodge Ball Tournament Host How to Get into Physics Graduate School Seminar Host First "What Can you do with a physics degree" Seminar Study Break |
| October | Curtis Social Physics Van Training Session Host "A PhD is not Enough" Physoc/Van/SWIP Halloween Party Study Break |
| November | Girl Scout Physics Van
Show Attend SPS Congress 2008 Study Break |
| December | Holiday Dinner Relay for Life Kick-Off Coffee Crawl |
What Women in Physics Accomplished in its first year...
| August 31 | Women in Physics is founded and registered as an official Registered Student Organization on Campus |
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| September 17 | First Official Meeting |
| September 23 | Colleges Against Cancer's Dodge Ball tournament |
| October 15 | Lecture about the advancement of Women in Science by Virginia Valian |
| October 17 & 19 | Raised $170 canning on the quad from 11-2 for Relay for Life |
| October 24 | Decide to "flood" Physics 470 and get as many women as possible to register for the course. The board makes an announcement in Physics 110 and receives the names of all of the freshman females in the department to add to the list. |
| November 1 | Women in Physics T-Shirts ordered |
| November 9 | Tour of Nadia Mason's Lab (condensed matter physics) |
| November 14 | How to Get into Physics Grad School Seminar with 60 attendees |
| December 3 | Register for the 1st Midwest Women in Physics Conference held at University of Michigan. Begin plans for little sister weekend |
| December 8 | Women in Physics Study/Coffee Crawl from 9AM-11PM |
| January 12-13 | The First Midwest Women in Physics Conference is held at the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor. University of Illinois has the highest attendance of any other school present. |
| April 3-5 | Little Sister weekend--prospective undergraduate students are hosted and introduced to the University. |
| April 4 | Several members meet with prospective students at the department's undergraduate recruitment day |
| April 18-19 | Relay for Life |