From Antarctica to PHAS: Lessons on inclusive leadership and collaboration in STEM

Event Date:
2024-04-11T16:00:00
2024-04-11T17:00:00
Event Location:
HENN 202
Speaker:
Allison Man, PHAS Astrophysics
Related Upcoming Events:
Department Colloquia
Intended Audience:
Undergraduate
Local Contact:

Georg Rieger (rieger@phas.ubc.ca), Allison Man (aman@phas.ubc.ca) and Brett Gladman (gladman@astro.ubc.ca)

*We welcome all PHAS students, staff and faculty/instructors to this in-person event! Please join us and participate in this friendly departmental discussion.

*Pizza & drinks will be available after the talk.

Event Information:

Abstract:
I will share my reflections upon my four-year journey in the Homeward Bound Program, a leadership training for women in STEM that culminated in an expedition to Antarctica. This will be an interactive session geared towards all members of PHAS, including undergraduate/graduate students, postdocs, faculty and staff. You will learn more about the wildlife and landscape of the Antarctic peninsula, and what I did in the expedition with women leaders in various STEM disciplines. Most importantly, I will use this opportunity to gather your ideas on how to make our department and discipline more inclusive and welcoming for all.

Bio:

Allison Man is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Physics & Astronomy at UBC. Her  research area is galaxy evolution. She studies how massive galaxies assemble their stars in the first few billion years of the cosmic history. She uses gravitational lensing to obtain a resolved view of distant galaxies — they are otherwise too faint and too small to be observed with current telescopes. 

On a lighter note from discussions on her Homeward bound experience, she has described a new-found delight in penguins, Antarctic ocean swimming and learning from others in multidisciplinary STEM fields to the Fine Arts! 

Learn More:

Add to Calendar 2024-04-11T16:00:00 2024-04-11T17:00:00 From Antarctica to PHAS: Lessons on inclusive leadership and collaboration in STEM Event Information: Abstract:I will share my reflections upon my four-year journey in the Homeward Bound Program, a leadership training for women in STEM that culminated in an expedition to Antarctica. This will be an interactive session geared towards all members of PHAS, including undergraduate/graduate students, postdocs, faculty and staff. You will learn more about the wildlife and landscape of the Antarctic peninsula, and what I did in the expedition with women leaders in various STEM disciplines. Most importantly, I will use this opportunity to gather your ideas on how to make our department and discipline more inclusive and welcoming for all. Bio: Allison Man is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Physics & Astronomy at UBC. Her  research area is galaxy evolution. She studies how massive galaxies assemble their stars in the first few billion years of the cosmic history. She uses gravitational lensing to obtain a resolved view of distant galaxies — they are otherwise too faint and too small to be observed with current telescopes.  On a lighter note from discussions on her Homeward bound experience, she has described a new-found delight in penguins, Antarctic ocean swimming and learning from others in multidisciplinary STEM fields to the Fine Arts!  Learn More: Read this article about Allison being chosen as a participant on the 5th Homeward Bound Program Check out the Homeward bound website Learn about the UBC Extragalactic Astrophysics Group and what they study on Allison's faculty webpage Event Location: HENN 202