Apply Now for the WISE NL Mentorship Program! The Mentorship Program is open to post secondary students, new graduates and career professionals. Mentors will have the opportunity to provide advice to a young woman on her post-secondary education or career path. Mentees will benefit from being connected to a network of professional women who can provide […]
Gloria Montano WinSETT, Board of Directors WISE NL, 2010-2014 past president From engineering student days in El Paso Texas, to a successful career with Silicon Valley companies big and small, to a national leadership role for women in engineering, what then led Gloria to direct an innovative program in the non-profit sector seeking to bring […]
Kelly Hawboldt, PhD, P.Eng. Professor Process Engineering Memorial University Dr. Hawboldt is a Chemical Engineer with a particular interest in the sustainable processing and extraction of natural resources, from forestry residues to offshore oil and gas to the food industry. She studies the wastes and residues degenerated in forestry, fisheries, oil and gas, and mining, […]
Speaker Series: From Grains of Sand to a Map: Looking at the geologic past of the Avalon Peninsula
Robbie Hicks Earth Sciences Department Memorial University of Newfoundland The island of Newfoundland’s geology is world-class. Our rocks demonstrate grand tectonic movements, resulting in mountain chains to rival the Rockies and the opening and closing … and opening again … of vast oceans. But what is it that geologists do day-to-day to tease out the […]
Speaker Series: What Does “Smart” Mean? Applying Multiple Intelligences in an Engineering Setting
Katy Warren, MUN Fourth-year electrical engineering student Memorial University We often get in the bad habit of assuming that to be smart you have to be a major math whiz at the top of your class, but intelligence is a much more complex subject. Join Katy Warren for a discussion on the theory of multiple […]




