This page is for all female undergraduate, graduate, postdoctoral and young faculty looking for advice and brainstorming on their career steps.

Access the Women in ECE website here.

Prof. Lipson and her sons at the Thank You address at the MacArthur Genius Award Faculty Recognition Event at Cornell, 11 Oct. 2010.

Events in which Prof. Lipson is participating (click to access):

• Global Online Town Hall meeting with U.S. Vice President Al Gore, 17 November 2010
• Guest speaker at the Minorities and Women in OSA Tea held during OSA's Annual Meeting, Frontiers in Optics (FiO), in Rochester, NY, 24-28 Oct. 2010.

Link to the speech that Prof. Lipson gave at the FiO Conference in Rochester - watch the video here.

 

Prof. Lipson and her youngest son.

During our career we all struggle with questions such as:

• How do I get invited to give lectures on my work?
• How do I get 5 (!) recommendation letters?
• What is the best way to recruit a good postdoctoral student?
• How do I solve my two-body issue?
• How do I choose a good project to work on?
• If I TA during my graduate studies, will it help me get a faculty job?
• How do I balance my career and family?
• When I negotiate a faculty position, what kind of a startup I should aim for?
• What is the most efficient and effective form of mentoring and helping female undergraduate students?
• What should I focus on as a priority, in order to promote myself and my research in the wider world, besides conference presentations and peer-reviewed papers?
• Which factors and strategies improve the chances of being invited to present my research at reputed institutions relevant to my field?
• How do women faculty insulate themselves from unconscious and unspoken gender-bias originating from within the department?
  
• How to get most from undergraduate students?
  

Although several of these questions are not necessarily related only to women, a woman's perspective on these issues is usually quite different than a man's.

Prof. Lipson and her oldest son.

During her travels, Prof. Lipson meets regularly with female students to discuss these questions. Send us an email if you would like to schedule such a visit. Alternatively, feel free to contact Prof. Lipson directly by email regarding any of these issues. All emails and questions will remain completely confidential.