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2010 SPIE Women in Optics Monthly Planner
The SPIE Women in Optics Monthly Planner is a valuable resource for young women interested in entering the field of optics. This piece features stories and pictures from SPIE Members making a difference through their work and contributing to the field of optics. SPIE is happy to provide free copies to SPIE Members, career counselors, science teachers, and community clubs (while supplies last).
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2010 Events 
SPIE Women in Optics Lunch
Tuesday 23 February, Noon to 1:00
San Jose, California, USA
Open to all conference attendees.
Join us for an opportunity to network with other professionals at this lunch hosted by SPIE. Register at the SPIE Cashier on-site by 3 pm Monday; location information provided upon sign-up.
Guest Speaker: Anna Sidana, Founder and CEO, One Million Lights
Small Things Matter
Light is as fundamental as food, water and shelter. The discussion will cover a journey of discovery in understanding how a small thing such as a light can change a life forever.
One Million Lights is a part of the World of Color public charity, a 501c3 nonprofit organization based in Palo Alto, CA. One Million Lights' mission is to improve the daily lives of children and adults by providing clean and healthy lighting. www.onemillionlights.org
SPIE Women in Optics Presentation and Reception
Tuesday 6 April, 4:30 - 6:00 pm
Orlando, Floriday USA
Open to all conference attendees. Talk title to be announced.
Speaker: Angelique Irvin, President and CEO, Clear Align
Angelique has 23 years of professional experience, focused on technology driven businesses. Her experience includes successful corporate and entrepreneurial business launches at companies including Clear Align, Coviant, NEC, AT&T Microelectronics, and AT&T Bell Laboratories.
Angelique leads Clear Align, a company that designs, prototypes, and manufactures custom imaging, sensing, and fiber-optic systems for defense and aerospace customers. Clear Align's imaging expertise spans the UV, visible, NIR, SWIR, MWIR, and LWIR portions of the spectrum, delivering both narrow- and wide wide-field-of-view systems. The company's fiber-optic and sensing expertise includes optical integration for communications, remote sensing and targeting, as well as for medical applications. Under Irvin's leadership, Clear Align has earned a multitude of growth and technology awards including the Inc. 500™, the Deloitte Technology Fast 500™, and the SBA minority entrepreneur of the year award.
Prior to Clear Align, Angelique founded and built Coviant, a world-class electro-optics manufacturing company serving tier-one customers such as Intel, Unilever, Northrop Grumman and Lockheed Martin. She developed the intellectual property strategies that aligned the company with fortune 500 technology partners such as Agilent and Rohm and Haas. Angelique was responsible for a new product launch at AT&T Bell Laboratories where she led a team that built out optical assembly facilities and developed new markets for a $500 million product line. Angelique graduated with honors from Alfred University, with a Bachelor's degree in Ceramic Engineering and earned an MBA from the Wharton School of Business of the University of Pennsylvania. Angelique is currently a regular speaker and an Entrepreneur in Residence at The Wharton School and teaches others how to build technology companies.
IN THE NEWS European Platform of Women Scientists, NEWSLETTER, Issue 25, December 2009
Women In Science: A Discussion On The Diane Rehm Show
Wednesday, December 2nd, 2009 at 1:36 pm by Phillip Larson
Two of this year's American Nobel winners-Elizabeth Blackburn of the University of California-San Francisco and Carol Greider of Johns Hopkins University-were featured on WAMU's Diane Rehm show today, along with Melody Barnes, director of the White House Domestic Policy Council, to talk about the importance of attracting more girls and women into science, engineering, and math school programs and careers, and to discuss policy approaches to ensure that women can stay in those careers and rise through the ranks.Staying Competitive
Patching America's Leaky Pipeline in the Sciences
Women represent a large part of the talent pool for research science, but many data sources indicate that they are more likely than men to "leak" out of the pipeline in the sciences before obtaining a tenured position at a college or university.
By Marc Goulden, Karie Frasch, Mary Ann Mason | November 10, 2009
UnderTheMicroscope.com is publishing stories by women in science, technology, engineering and math!
UnderTheMicroscope.com, a website funded by the National Science Foundation and built by IBM, is looking for women interested or involved in science, technology, engineering, and math to submit stories about their experiences to the website.
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