American Association of University Women Raleigh/Wake County (NC)
The next Triangle Linux Users Group meeting will be devoted to a panel discussion on women in technology
Moderator: Janet Babin of the Marketplace Innovations Desk at WUNC.
Thursday, August 14, 7:00
RedHat building on the NCSU Centennial Campus
More info: http://www.trilug.org/aug2008
The Chapel Hill branch has passed along information about a lecture series on Thursday evenings in Chapel Hill:
Our Community, Our Health Care, Our Vote
Dates are: 8/28, 9/18, 9/25, 10/30
Registration deadline is 8/14.
This event is free and open to the public, but registration is first come-first served on a space-available basis.
See this flyer for more information: Flyer on Our Community, Our Health Care, Our Vote
Members may have noticed that the branch has not been sending out a regular newsletter, but we are trying to post information to this web site on a regular basis. Some of the posts are “branch news”. Others are event announcements that we think will be of interest to AAUW Members in the Triangle.
If you are using RSS to keep up with other ‘net-based news (from the NY Times, www.aauw.org, and thousands of other sites out on the web), you can subscribe to this site’s feeds directly. [See AAUW NC article introducing RSS.]
Otherwise, you can get these articles in e-mail as they are posted. See the AAUW NC subscribe information with information about using the service at RSSFwd to request these posts via e-mail. The addresses you might want to give to RSSFwd:
[Note that branch meetings appear as both “events” and “branch news” so if you’re not interested in the non-AAUW events we discuss here, it is safe to subscribe to just the “branch news”.]
If you’ve got questions, please ask Nancy Shoemaker (see contacts).
Engage for Change:
Tools and Strategies for Effective Public Advocacy
September 10, 2008
Embassy Suites Hotel, Cary, NC
Registration: $25 (Scholarships available)
A workshop for civic leaders, nonprofit staff and board members, grantmakers, and fundholders of Triangle Community Foundation
Presented by: Triangle Community Foundation, The Warner Foundation, and Emerging Tar Heel Leaders
The workshop will be from 9:30 - 5:00 p.m. followed by an evening reception with elected officials from 5:15 - 7:00 p.m.
To register, see www.trianglecf.org
If you have any questions, please contact Sandra Rodriguez at <mailto:sandra@trianglecf.org> sandra@trianglecf.org
From the July 18, 2008, Raleigh News and Observer:
Meredith professor wins Fulbright award
Sherry Shapiro, professor of dance and director of women’s studies at Meredith College, has been awarded a Fulbright Scholar grant to do research and lecture at the University of Cape Town in South Africa during the 2009 spring semester. Shapiro will research dance education in the new South African curriculum and examine the implications for dance education in the process of democratic transformation. She will teach choreography to dance education students at the University of Cape Town and give workshops in dance education for teachers. The course and workshops will use a process Shapiro describes as using “dance as a vehicle for increasing both self and social understanding among students.” Recipients are selected on the basis of academic or professional achievement and leadership potential in their fields.
Prof. Shapiro is the AAUW College/University representative for Meredith College and a member of the Raleigh/Wake County branch.
Mark your calendar for the AAUW NC 2008 Fall meeting - especially since it will be in Chapel Hill. This will be the last state meeting before the convention where the entire state will celebrate our 100th anniversary. Let’s take a large group over to Chapel Hill to help with the planning.
The exact schedule hasn’t been set, but for planning purposes, you can expect:
Friday evening, October 31. [Shall we make a Halloween Party of it?]
Saturday, November 1.
If either Friday or Saturday fits your schedule, please let Denny or someone else on the council know. [branch contacts]
This year’s NC NOW conference will be held in Raleigh on Saturday, Oct. 11. You may want to attend to see how one of our coalition partners formats their state meeting — and to take advantage of workshops on issues that are apt to be related to AAUW priorities. Watch this space or the Raleigh NOW site for more details.
Wake County Commissioners Candidate Forum
Wednesday, September 17th
7:00 - 9:00 p.m.
Holy Trinity Lutheran Church
2723 Clark Ave, Raleigh
The League (Wake-LWV), the American Association of Retired Persons (AARP), the Woman’s Club of Raleigh and Young Women’s Christian Association (YWCA) are co-sponsors.
Again this year, the Wake County League of Women Voters will sponsor Women’s Equality Day Celebration:
Tuesday, August 26
5:30 -7:30
Unitarian Universalist Fellowship Hall
3313 Wade Ave.
For more information, see www.lwvwake.org (especially their August 2008 newsletter).
From Papyrus to Nano-fibrils: The History and Science of Paper
Tuesday, July 22
6:30 - 8:30 pm
Tir Na Nog, 218 South Blount St, Raleigh, 833-7795
Paper science is thousands of years old and has made many of the civilized world’s greatest innovations possible. From nanotechnology to sustainability, join us to learn some surprising things about the science and engineering of a material that we all often take for granted.
For more information: www.naturalsciences.org/calendar/scicafe.html
