CU-WISE Blogs

Have you ever lost a particular item and reunited with it months later, so surprised to have found it. This happened to 16 year-old Marty Ingham Everett almost 65 years ago. Yes 65 years! It was 1954, Marty had lost her black purse containing her checkbook, lipstick, school dance photos and letters from three boys — including a junior prom invite. The purse was connected back to its owner through FaceBook. An astonishing story of an unintentional time capsule, Marty tells " It was amazing to reconnect and reminisce about a time that is so different from today ". Keeping that same theme, WISE hosted a Time Capsule earlier this month. The event involved writing a letter to your future self, sealing it in an envelope and keeping it tucked away for a year. Participants were free to write whatever you want in your letter: words of encouragement, of self-love, words of advice, goals... . Most thought it was a cool idea and an eye-opening experience allowing for some

The WISE National Conference took place at the end of January. We were excited to see so many past & present CU-WISE members there! Check out some photos from the conference and what some of our #smartgirls took away from the experience.  Thank You Faculty of Science and Faculty of Engineering & Design for helping send 8 CU-WISE representatives to the conference this year! "This was my first time going to the WISE National Conference and I am very glad I got to. The conference was full of inspirational talks by very interesting and high achieving women. I was personally impacted by the diversity of the speakers. As a woman of colour, listening to a panel of women in medicine who were all women of colour and were all able to get where they were in their various careers in their own right was very motivating for me. In addition to the various panels, we also had some amazing keynotes from individuals who had interesting careers and hobbies.

Our Chapter President has made headlines again and we couldn’t be more proud of the legacy she is leaving. Earlier this month our mighty leader was named a Queen Elizabeth II Diamond Jubilee Advanced Schloar ( QES website & Carleton QES ) and will be headed to Malawi, Africa in 2019 ... yeah that’s right AFRICA!!! Partnering with a local community organization, Find Your Feet, Alicia will use her unique skill set to help minimize the effects of climate change on immobilized populations. She is paired with Mzuzu University to conduct her research aiding limited or immobile populations to better obtain life necessities such as food, water, and shelter. Climate change has been deemed one of the top factors to affecting human health in the 21st century, and our Gal (pun intended) is headed 1/2 way around the world (literally) to help create a societal transformation concerning education, application, and distribution on how to improve mobility issues in a developing country. Alici