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Cinema talk show -Women in STEM: Navigating Challenges and Embracing Opportunities

Date: March 7, 2023

Time: 1:00 – 4 :00 p.m.

Location : Drs Sylvia & Richard Cruess Amphitheatre, E.S1.1129, RI-MUHC Glen site

Registration: Please register here. Admission is free

Description: To mark International Women’s Day, you are invited you to a cinema forum on Picture a Scientist. This documentary presents women’s challenges in science and “chronicles the groundswell of women scientists who are changing the face of science.”

After the film, we will discuss how to make labs, workspaces and teams more open to the needs and challenges of women and how to create sustainable conditions for women to thrive within a research environment.

The film will be screened with closed captions and the panel will count with simultaneous interpretation into French and into American Sign Language

Guest panelists:
Dr. Mariane Bertagnolli - Division of Experimental Medicine. McGill University
Éva Michaud, PhD - Postdoctoral fellow, RI-MUHC
Ana Castillo Orozco - PhD student, Cancer Research Program, RI-MUHC
Dr. Miguel Burnier - Senior Scientist, Centre for Translational Biology, RI-MUHC

Moderator:
Augusto Montezano, PhD – Chair of EACARE, Early and mid-Career Researchers network

This event is part of the RI-MUHC Equity, Diversity and Inclusion Action Plan and jointly led by the RI-MUHC’s Desjardins Centre for Advanced Training, Trainee Council, EACARE and Human Resources and Environmental Health & Safety Division.