Media
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1:07:32
BWIS Talk: Remembering Lise Meitner - A Physicist Who Never Lost Her Humanity
Heinz-Eberhard Mahnke, honorary professor in physics from the Freie Universität in Berlin, Germany, presented "Remembering Lise Meitner: A Physicist Who Never Lost Her Humanity," exploring how Meitner's work influenced the science of today and the practical applications to have come out of her research and the lessons her life teaches about overcoming considerable obstacles such as exclusion and persecution. This talk was sponsored by Brookhaven Science Associates and Brookhaven Women in Science.
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2:14:31
BWIS Presents: COVID-19 and a History of Pandemics
Bettina Fries, Chief of the Division of Infectious Diseases and Prof. of Medicine, Molecular Genetics, and Microbiology, Renaissance School of Medicine, Stony Brook University, speaks on the nature and impact of the COVID-19 pandemic and how it compares to other pandemics throughout history.
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48:11
2020 Scharff-Goldhaber Prize Ceremony and Talk
Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University doctoral student Rebekah Pestes has been awarded the 2020 Gertrude Scharff-Goldhaber Prize. Pestes gives a talk about her work, "Investigating Important Considerations for Neutrino Oscillation Experiments," followed by a question and answer session.
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1:03:00
BWIS 2020 Chasman Award Ceremony
The Chasman Award encourages women to pursue careers in the science, technology, engineering, or mathematics (STEM) fields and honors the memory and scientific contributions of Renate Chasman (1932-1977), a noted physicist at Brookhaven National Laboratory. Her work influenced the design of particle accelerators around the world, including Brookhaven's National Synchrotron Light Source (NSLS) and its successor, NSLS-II.
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31:22
2019 Gertrude Scharff-Goldhaber Award Ceremony and Talk
Brookhaven Women in Science awarded the 2019 Gertrude Scharff-Goldhaber Prize to Brooke Russell, a graduate student at Yale University. Russell was chosen for the award because of her outstanding research with the MicroBOONE experiment.
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59:18
The Science and Anthropology of Comedy: Lessons for Academics
How is laughter a symptom of connection and how can academics use it strategically for impactful STEM or daily communication? When talking about research, there are plenty of methods and media that allow us to connect our message to specific target audiences (whether they are the general public, policymakers, patients, stakeholders, bosses, or team members). Each form has its strengths and its weaknesses and in this introductory talk, science communicator Kyle Marian will share why the art of comedy is a powerful tool for connecting with people, including non-STEM-seeking audiences. She'll also share some strategic lessons academics and researchers can take from a comedian's work to apply to what you do.
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24:40
2018 Scharff-Goldhaber Prize Talk: 'Surprising Forward Neutron Asymmetries Discovered in Polarized Proton and Nucleus Collision at RHIC' by Minjung Kim
Seoul National University student Minjung Kim has been awarded the 2018 Gertrude Scharff-Goldhaber Prize, consisting of $1,000 and a certificate. Funded by Brookhaven Science Associates, the company that manages Brookhaven National Laboratory for the U.S. Department of Energy, the award was established in 1992 by Brookhaven Women in Science (BWIS), a nonprofit organization that supports and encourages the advancement of women in science
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23:27
2018 Chasman Lecture: 'Bacterial Riboswitches Control Gene Expression by Sensing Cellular Metabolites' by Alla Peselis
Alla Peselis is a Ph.D. candidate from the New York University School of Medicine, and has used the Lab's National Synchrotron Light Source II beamline as a part of her research. Her graduate work focuses on structural biology, specifically on riboswitches, important RNA elements that reside in non-coding regions of mRNAs and serve an intracellular regulatory function in response to various chemical cues.
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26:32
2018 Chasman Lecture: 'Geometry Driven Properties of Carbon Nano Materials for Cancer Applications' by Shruti Sharma
Shruti Sharma is a Ph.D. candidate in the Department of Materials Science and Chemical Engineering at Stony Brook University. She also holds a M.S. in the same field from Stony Brook. Her collaborative research project on carbon-based nanomaterials is conducted at Stony Brook and Brookhaven's Center for Functional Nanomaterials. Sharma earned her B.Tech. with honors from the Department of Metallurgical Engineering and Materials Science at Indian Institute of Technology Bombay, in Mumbai, India.
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2:23
BWIS Annual Wine & Cheese Networking Event
BWIS held its annual Wine & Cheese Networking Event on Wednesday, December 6, 2017 on ISB's upper floor lobby. This event thanked all who have helped with and supported BWIS programs, welcomed new members, and introduced the new executive board to the Laboratory community.
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20:01
2017 Chasman Award: Tiffany Victor: Understanding the Nutrient Distribution in the Soil of Beneficial Plant-Fungi Interactions Using Infrared Imaging
Chasman Award recipient Tiffany Victor explores how to enhance the symbiotic relationship between plants and microbes and the potential to grow bio-energy crops on nutrient-poor lands.
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24:01
2017 Chasman Award: Hannah Herde: Building an Olympian: Assembling the Next Generation of the ATLAS Particle Physics Detector
Chasman Award recipient Hannah Herde speaks about the ATLAS experiment at the Large Hadron Collider at CERN, the European Organization for Nuclear Research, which measures the building blocks of our universe and searches for new ones. In her talk, Herde describes efforts at Brookhaven Lab to build the next generation of the ATLAS experiment's innermost particle detector.
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1:11:36
BWIS Lecture: "The Planet Within: Caves from Earth to Mars and Beyond"
Professor Penelope Boston, New Mexico Institute of Mining & Technology, studies the spectacular underground landscapes of Earth—caves—using them as models for the subsurfaces of other planets. Some of the most magnificent and chemically extreme caves on Earth are inhabited by an amazing array of microorganisms. She studies these unique lifeforms and the biosignatures that they leave behind. Such traces can be used to provide a "Field Guide to Unknown Organisms" for developing life detection space missions can also provide the basis for future human habitations on other planets.
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45:58
Designing & Giving a Good Research Presentation
Brookhaven Women in Science sponsored this lecture, featuring Theodore Sampieri of the Lab's English for Speakers of Other Languages program and titled, "Designing & Giving a Good Research Presentation."
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48:38
Chemist Jeanne A. Hardy Talks on Caspases, Causative Factor in Neurodegenerative Diseases
Chemist Jeanne A. Hardy of the University of Massachusetts-Amherst presents "Handcuffing the Killers: Conformational Control and Real-Time Monitoring of Caspase Proteolytic Activity." Hardy was sponsored by Brookhaven Women in Science (BWIS) and Brookhaven Science Associates (the company that manages Brookhaven Lab).
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1:01:45
Unravelling Mysteries of Pre-Columbian Artifacts
Professor José Luis Ruvalcaba of the National Autonomous University of Mexico speaks on "The Science in Unraveling the Mysteries of Pre-Columbian Artifacts." This talk is sponsored by the National Synchrotron Light Source and Brookhaven Women in Science.
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5:02
Brookhaven Women in Science
To increase Brookhaven National Laboratory's awareness of the accomplishments of women in science and to provide its members with role models of their own, Brookhaven Women in Science (BWIS) assists in the development of policies and practices which enhance the quality of life for Lab employees; promotes a long-term commitment to diversity in Lab staff; promotes the advancement of women in scientific and technical careers; provides a forum for the exchange of scientific, technical, and professional information; encourages students to consider careers in science, mathematics, engineering, and technology; and supports each other's efforts on the job, and encourages each other's successes.
