01.30.08
Posted in Events, Branch News at 5:32 pm by esther
Tuesday, February 5
6:30 - 8:00 pm
Location: Room 116, Flowe Building, Peace College (NOTE NEW LOCATION!)
Parking: large main parking lot at corner of East Peace St and Blount St (enter from Peace St)
Campus Map (Flowe Building is #8 on the map, adjacent to the large parking lot)
Directions
Speaker: Amanda Bryant, an attorney from Smith Debnam, will speak to us on the topic of immigration. Ms. Bryant handles a wide range of immigration and nationality matters, including employment and family-based visas, fiancé petitions, and naturalization/citizenship. A significant portion of her practice is spent assisting and training employers, managers, and HR professionals with I-9 audits, preparation for government raids, national origin discrimination, and other immigration-related employment issues.
This meeting is free and open to the public. For more information, please contact info@rwc.aauwnc.org.
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01.23.08
Posted in Events at 3:28 pm by nes
In honor of Darwin’s birthday, the National Evolutionary Synthesis Center is hosting a symposium that takes us back to the beginning. This interdisciplinary event brings together researchers in philosophy, chemistry, biology and astrobiology to address our current understanding of basic questions about life. What is life? Where did it come from and where can it be found? How can life forms unlike our own be identified?
February 8, 2008
8:00 - 6:30
Sigma Xi Headquarters, RTP, NC
The event is free and open to the public, but spaces are limited and pre-registration is required.
http://www.nescent.org/news/DarwinDay2008.php
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Posted in Events at 12:22 am by nes
Plan now to gather with thousands — perhaps tens of thousands — of North Carolinians in support of a progressive agenda for the state. The second annual HKonJ — Historic Thousands on Jones Street in Raleigh — will be held Saturday, February 9 at Chavis Park, 505 Martin Luther King Blvd., Raleigh beginning at 10 a.m., with a march to the State Legislative Building planned for 2 p.m.
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01.18.08
Posted in Events, Branch News at 6:34 pm by nes
The annual AAUW Raleigh/Wake County author’s brunch will feature
Sarah Shaber
author of
Shell Game
and other Professor Simon Shaw mysteries
Saturday, March 8
10:00 - 11:30 a.m.
President’s Dining Room, Belk Hall
Peace College, 15 E. Peace St., Raleigh
Registration Form | Directions
Sarah Shaber is a mystery writer who lives in Raleigh, North Carolina. She has published several mystery novels with Professor Simon Shaw as her sleuth. Her books are set in Raleigh. Local readers will recognize many of the landmarks. Her latest novel is Shell Game: A Professor Simon Shaw Mystery. Previous publications include: The Fugitive King, The Bug Funeral and Snipe Hunt. Her first novel, Simon Said, published in 1997, won the Malice Domestic Award for Best First Traditional Mystery. It was described as “delightful, humorous, and great fun!” She is also the author of several short stories.
“a witty, academic murder mystery” and “foul play with local color.” Rod Cockshutt, a News and Observer reviewer of mysteries.
This event is a fundraiser for the AAUW Educational Foundation which funds advocacy, education, and research to promote equity for women and girls.
Tickets are $15. For $90, a sponsorship includes six tickets, priority seating, and an acknowledgment in the program.
The deadline for registration is February 29. Please download the registration form and return it with your check.
Contact info@rwc.aauwnc.org for more information.
The money raised will go towards projects like the following:
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01.17.08
Posted in Branch News at 4:57 pm by esther
IEEE Section Meeting
Date / Time: 17 January 2008
6pm for 6.30pm Meeting
Location: MCNC Building One Directions can be found at http://www.mcnc.org/index.cfm?fuseaction=page&filename=directions.html
Description: Russell T. Harrison, Senior Legislative Representative - Recent IEEE-USA policy position and proposals regarding guest-workers/green-card.
IEEE is the world’s largest professional society, the Institute for Electrical and Electronics Engineers. IEEE is an international organization, and IEEE-USA is country unit of IEEE for the U.S. The mission of IEEE-USA is to recommend policies and implement programs specifically intended to serve and benefit the members, the profession, and the public in the United States in appropriate professional areas of economic, ethical, legislative, social and technology policy concern.
IEEE-USA is among the most vocal groups in Washington advocating for high-skill immigration reform. For the past ten years, IEEE-USA has been leading the opposition to H-1B visas and supporting improvements to the EB program on behalf of American engineers.
Want to know why? IEEE-USA’s senior legislative representative for grassroots activities, Russ Harrison, will join us on January 17th to discuss high-skill immigration and how it will affect you, your career, and your profession. We will discuss the upcoming year in Congress, pending legislative initiatives, and the outlook for immigration reform in 2008.
Mr. Harrison will also be discussing IEEE-USA’s other legislative priorities, including patent reform, E-Health initiatives, and federal funding for research and education.
Discussion, questions, and even dissension welcome. IEEE meetings are free and open to everyone.
RSVP to Roger Lawrence
rogerlawrence@rglsolutions.com
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(Esther is an IEEE member. The weather forecast tonight is for rain, no frozen stuff, and the meeting is on)
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01.11.08
Posted in Events, Branch News at 5:59 pm by nes
Kristen Galles, a civil rights attorney and member of the attorney advisory committee of the AAUW Legal Advocacy Fund will speak at NC Central University School of Law, Tuesday, January 22, 4:00 - 6:00.
For more information, see www.aauwnc.org/nccu08/
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Posted in Events at 1:09 pm by nes
Please join Raleigh NOW and the ACLU-NC to commemorate the 35th anniversary of Roe v. Wade and to explore some U.S. Supreme Court decisions under its new leadership. Find out what can be done about them. Let’s move forward!
Date: Jan 19, 2008
Time: 7pm
Place: Unitarian Universalist Fellowship, 3313 Wade Avenue, in the Clara Barton Room
Speaker: Jennifer Rudinger, Executive Director of the ACLU of NC
RSVP and more information: president@raleighnow.org
Reminder: January 13 is the deadline for the pro-choice signature add that NOW NC will publish in the Independent. See www.raleighnow.org for more info.
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Posted in Events at 1:06 pm by nes
The Vagina Monologues will be presented in Raleigh on
Saturday, Feb. 9
1:00 p.m. at the Rialto Theater
9:00 p.m. at the Pour House
Tickets are $10 and proceeds will benefit WILL: Women Improving Lives through Literacy, a program of the Wake Literacy Council.
For more info or to purchase tickets, see www.raleigh-vm.org.
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01.08.08
Posted in Events at 12:54 pm by nes
Drought in NC — Outlook for 2008 and Beyond
Tuesday, January 15, 2008
6:30-8:30 p.m. with discussion beginning at 7 p.m. followed by Q&A
Location: The Irregardless Cafe, 901 W. Morgan Street, Raleigh, 833-8898, www.irregardlesscafe.com
More info: http://www.naturalsciences.org/calendar/scicafe.html
Other updates: http://sciencecaferaleigh.blogspot.com/
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01.04.08
Posted in Branch News at 7:06 pm by nes
Interested in AAUW but not sure you want to commit to a year’s membership? Half-year dues are in effect for those joining the branch from January 1 to March 15.
To join, please complete the form and return it with your check: 2007-2008 membership form. Please change the local amount from $74 to $37 for membership through June 30, 2008.
After March 15, we’ll be accepting payments for the 2008-2009 year.
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