786 Date: Mon, 8 Jul 2013 02:23:03 -0400 (EDT) From: Sultana Nahar To: ISMWS -- Alaa Abdelaziz Physics-Egypt , Alshaymaa Ramadan Special Physics-Egypt , Alya AB Azman Astronomy-Malaysia-USA , amaal6916@hotmail.com, Amany M Gouda Physics-Egypt , Anwari Akhter Biology-USA-Bangladesh , Ariba A S Medicine-India , Asmaa G Mohamed Physics-Egypt , Asmaa Mohamed Biophysics-Egypt , Asmaa M Selim Special Physics-Egypt , Ayah Abu Hani Engineering-UAE-Jordan <200834675@uaeu.ac.ac>, Ayesha Arzumand Engineer-Bangladesh , Derya Kanbur Physics-US-Turkey , Doaa Taha Physics-Egypt-USA , Dr Abeer Esmat Aly Physics-Egypt , Dr Alaa Azzam Physics-Jordan , Dr Alaa Khalaf Physics-Iraq , Dr Alia Adam-Physics-Egypt , Dr Amaal AM Shahin Physics US-Egypt , Dr Amal Abu Almakarem Biology-USA-SaudiArabia , Dr Amal Amer InfectionImmunity-USA , Dr Amal Ibrahim Refaie Physics-Egypt , Dr Asmaa Fahiem Mansour Physics-Egypt , Dr Azza Farrag Physics-Egypt , Dr Bediha Beser-Physics USA-Turkey , Dr Bediha Beser-Physics 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---------------------------------------- Dear All, Assalamu alaikum and pray this finds you all in good health and good spirit. Hearty welcome to our new members! Followings are some news: 1. Opportunity to study in University of Houston-Clear Lake, Texas: Professor Samina Masood, an ISMWS member, has negotiated with the Dean of the university to admit 10 graduate students at her recommendations. This university offers MS in Physics. Hence after receiving the degree, the student can move to another research oriented university for Ph.D. Her email address is: Samina Masood Note: Hoda, you may be interested in this university. 2. Congratulations, Farah! Farah Islam's article "Examining the Healthy Immigrant Effect for Mental Health in Canada" has been published in the University of Toronto Medical Journal, Vol. 90, Issue No. 4, 2013. The following link for the paper: http://utmj.org/ojs/index.php/UTMJ/article/view/1517/1318 is not accessible now, although it worked earlier. 3. Olla made presentation in Chemistry at the Denman Research Forum at OSU in March 2013 (picture attached) 4. Khadije Bazzi presented at APS March meeting, Baltimore. She also won the Best Presentation Award on Physics Graduate Research Day at Wayne State University (picture attached) Note: Thank you Khadije for the kind treat in Shatila in Michigan during my visit for the Headliner Award (picture attached) 5. ISMWS member Maria Bergemann from Max Planck Institute gave a seminar at OSU and we discussed about collaborative research (picture) 6. Sultana Nahar received 3 awards: 1. Shield of Faculty of Science, Cairo University, 2. Woman Physicist of the Month, March 2013, of APS (picture attached), 3. Headliner Award from Women of Wayne State University Alumni Association Under Obama-Singh 21st Century Knowledge Initiative of US-India Education Foundation, a proposal for STEM education and research between OSU and Aligarh Muslim University in India has been awarded. Sultana is involved with this proposal. 7. Sultana taught Atomic Spectroscopy and Opacity course at Cairo University, Participating researchers and students from 7 institutions received certificates at the end of the course. Sultana also had presentation at the Zewail City of Science & Technology in Cairo, an innovative center for the Arab world aimed at eminence in innovation, created by Nobel prize winner Ahmed Zewail of CalTech. (picture) 8. Sign up to receive the COM/CSWP Gazette newsletter which features various articles on programs designed to increase the participation of women and minorities in science. The Gazette is distributed free of charge. To add your name to the Gazette mailing list, e-mail to women@aps.org and include your postal mailing address. Visit: http://www.aps.org/publications/apsnews/201307/diversitycorner.cfm 9. It is important to register ISMWS. It will allow us to have some funds for any immediate need for the members. I have not been able to find any organization or office to register it. I would ask you to contact any Education Department or Ministry of Culture that can help registration. Please feel free to share your news directly to ISMWS list. A list of job postings is appended below my message. With advanced Ramadan Mubarak and all the best, - Sultana _______________________________________________________ Dr. Sultana N. Nahar Department of Astronomy, The Ohio State University 140 West 18th Avenue, McPherson Laboratory Columbus, OH 43210, USA Tel: 1-614-292-1888, Fax: 1-614-292-2928 Email: nahar@astronomy.ohio-state.edu, nahar.1@osu.edu Website: http://www.astronomy.ohio-state.edu/~nahar _______________________________________________________