Speaker Series: Our current understanding of young sudden cardiac death in NL: the story of a multidisciplinary team of researchers, clinicians and families

The November WISE NL-Statoil Speaker Series lecture features Dr. Kathy Hodgkinson, Assistant Professor at the Faculty of Medicine, Memorial University. A core team of scientists and clinicins has been working together since 1996 on genetic causes of young sudden cardiac death in Newfoundland and Labrador. The team has been extremely successful, finding a hitherto unknown gene and mutation […]

CareerLinks – ready for early users

CareerLinks: Smart Choices for Women is now active at www.careerlinks.ca and available to early users. CareerLinks,  a project of WISE NL, is a new interactive tool that connects users to career information on science, engineering, trades, and technology (SETT). CareerLinks specifically seeks to bring visibility to the experiences, perspectives and priorities of SETT women in Newfoundland […]

Charting your career outside of academia

  The October WISE NL – Statoil Speaker Series event focuses on careers for women is science and engineering outside academia. Dr. Maryam Etezad (Northern Radar) and Dr. Jennifer Campbell (Avalon Holographics) will talk about their careers and reflect on the transition from academia to the private sector. They will share their lessons learned and thoughts about the opportunities for […]