Events

CBE Women conducts a variety of events year-round. Check this page to stay up-to-date!

A DIVERSITY OF EVENTS

CBE Women regularly hosts a variety of events:

A lunch with a Cornell female faculty member for an informal conversation in a small group about career-path and building resilience.

Eat with Academic with Prof. Silvia Ferrari

An opportunity to converse with the female seminar speakers over a Taverna Banfi breakfast.

Several officers had the thrilling opportunity to join Dr. Kathy Vaeth for a lively breakfast discussion!

Usually an hour long workshop aimed at cultivating skills useful for graduate students in their future professional lives.

We invite an experienced professionals (often Cornell alumni) from academia/industry to talk about their journey

Prof. Alex Woltornist, Prof. Kathleen Vaeth, Dr. Jordan Atlas (Microsoft);
Prof. Frank Lomax, Ken Rother (Enterpreneur), Dr.Andrea Ippolito

CBE Women is back with the annual WOMEN event.

Building resilience within the community with some quality socializing

Apple Picking 2023!

CBE Women is organizing Leaders Day, a day-long event focused on professional development and networking on April 28th, 2025.

As part of this event, we are hosting a Panel Discussion on Professional and Personal Development from 12:15 PM to 1:15 PM in Olin 245, followed by a networking lunch for attendees. The panel discussion features esteemed professionals from academia, industry, and entrepreneurship, including our keynote speaker, Professor Karen K. Gleason, the Alexander and I. Michael Kasser Professor of Chemical Engineering at MIT, renowned for her pioneering research in chemical vapor deposition, and Judith A. Rowe, Principal of Judith A. Rowe Consulting, LLC, who brings extensive experience in coaching, training, and organizational development.

EVENTS

Join us for a Pumpkin Carving Extravaganza!

Events, News, Socials, Upcoming

CBE Women is thrilled to announce the return of our Pumpkin Carving Event. It’s time to get into the Halloween spirit and showcase your creative flair. Unleash your inner artist and carve your own pumpkin masterpiece—we’ll provide the pumpkins! Indulge in the delectable taste of pumpkin pie and have a chance to win exciting prizes. Thanks to support from GPSAFC, this event is open to all graduate students. Don’t miss out on this fantastic opportunity to celebrate the season with CBE Women. Join us for an evening of carving, camaraderie, and a whole lot of fun. We can’t wait to see your spooktacular creations!

Date: Wednesday, October 25th 2023
Time: 3:30 pm – 5:30 pm
Location: Olin Hall, B57

Career Seminar: Lakshmi O’Dwyer

Events, Highlights, Professional Development

CBE Women organised an inspiring career seminar featuring CBE alumni, Lakshmi O’Dwyer, who talked about working at BASF and careers after graduate school.

LISA WALKER TRAVEL GRANT: XIN WANG

News

The Lisa Walker Award allowed me to attend two virtual conferences, ACS Meetings & Expos and ACS Colloid and Surface Science Symposium in 2021. I was awarded in 2019, but because of the COVID–19 pandemic, my conferences were postponed for one year. During this difficult time, thanks to the Lisa Walker Award, I was able to present my work on liquid crystal sensors for dynamic reaction pathways and active liquid crystal droplets that can both self–propelling and
achieve functions, where I received a lot of interest from the audiences. I also attended the talks presented by top academic researchers and industrial leaders in chemistry, chemical engineering and biochemistry. These conferences were great professional development opportunities for me. The ideas inspired me not only on active materials and sensors that I am currently working on but also on directions I can possibly pursue my postdoc research.