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		<title>IWIS Newsletter &#8211; January 2012</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 06 Jan 2012 01:04:58 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[Annette Tushabomwe]]></category>

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		<pubDate>Thu, 08 Dec 2011 18:40:36 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>What an Event!</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 08 Dec 2011 18:36:55 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[Shabnam Rostamirad]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[What an event! Last Wednesday (Nov 30th), IWIS held an interesting and stimulating event with the name of “Major Cultural Challenges Facing Female Minorities in Engineeting and Sciences”. The speaker, Mehrnoush (Noush) Sardashti was a skillful, yet full of wit and energy who spoke about every day challenges women are faced with in the work [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=iwisblog.wordpress.com&amp;blog=9486921&amp;post=949&amp;subd=iwisblog&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 14 Nov 2011 17:09:22 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>Cafe Scientifique Cancer and Aging event a huge success!</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 14 Nov 2011 16:57:20 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Hi IWIS members, Hope you all had a great long weekend and are ready for the snow in Vancouver by the end of this week We wanted to thank those of you who attended our first Cafe Scientifique event and update those who could not make it. The event was a huge success with about [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=iwisblog.wordpress.com&amp;blog=9486921&amp;post=923&amp;subd=iwisblog&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Major Cultural Challenges Facing Female Minorities in Engineering and Sciences &#8211; Nov 30, 2011</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 08 Nov 2011 08:58:27 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Join us on November 30th at another IWIS event addressing the problems facing women immigrants. “Women face many challenges when it comes to working in a primarily male-oriented fields of science and engineering, but the problem goes even further when these women are from other cultures. As the world is globalized further and further, having [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=iwisblog.wordpress.com&amp;blog=9486921&amp;post=913&amp;subd=iwisblog&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>CIHR Café Scientifique &#8211; Nov 9, 2011</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 20 Oct 2011 05:35:36 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Canadian Institutes of Health Research in cooperation with IWIS organizes CIHR Café Scientifique. This time Cancer and Aging will be addressed by renowned scientists. This cooperation will continue in the future with other interesting topics. It’s long been clear that cancer is a disease of aging. While children and younger adults are of course afflicted [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=iwisblog.wordpress.com&amp;blog=9486921&amp;post=898&amp;subd=iwisblog&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>A new beginning</title>
		<link>http://iwisblog.wordpress.com/2011/10/12/a-new-beginning/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 13 Oct 2011 04:26:03 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[September brings the feeling of new beginnings as children start the new school year and everybody is still full of energy from the summer vacations. This September, SCWIST shares this feeling with all of you. SCWIST was developed 30 years ago to promote, encourage and empower women and girls in science, technology and engineering. Through [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=iwisblog.wordpress.com&amp;blog=9486921&amp;post=896&amp;subd=iwisblog&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>IWIS Newsletter &#8211; October 2011</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 01 Oct 2011 14:53:09 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The October 2011 issue of the IWIS Newsletter reports on financial support offered at Canadian post-secondary school.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=iwisblog.wordpress.com&amp;blog=9486921&amp;post=888&amp;subd=iwisblog&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Creating Connections 2.0 Conference &#8211; Sept 2011</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 23 Jun 2011 23:57:06 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Creating Connections 2.0 Conference is now open! This September, Creating Connections 2.0: A New Perspective will bring together 150 female engineering students, new immigrants, women in transition, and industry professionals to make connections that provide support, networking, mentoring, and partnerships, and to expand their opportunities to make positive contributions to the engineering community and to [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=iwisblog.wordpress.com&amp;blog=9486921&amp;post=877&amp;subd=iwisblog&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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