We will have the Holiday party on Monday, December 16 at Jeanne Freeland’s historic home, just a few blocks southwest of campus. More details to follow soon.
Meet the UT Leaders!
Please join us on October 23 (3:30 to 5:30 pm in MAI 212), where you’ll get to meet the fabulous female faculty members and the following UT leaders:
Rachel Mersey – Interim Provost, Jen Moon – Vice Provost for Professional Track Faculty, Tasha Beretvas – Senior Vice Provost for Faculty Affairs, Sarah Ades – Dean, Graduate School & Vice Provost for Graduate and Post-Doctoral Studies, Claudia Lucchinetti – Dean, Dell Medical School, Lillian Mills – Dean, McCombs School of Business, and Claudia Mora – Dean, Jackson School of Geosciences.
Please RSVP here: https://utexas.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_cYYInWpvjtSnDiC
Summer Goings-on!
The FWO’s first-every Child Care + Summer Camps list is up at https://docs.google.com/document/d/1P-ODnQkBlyy46iUp6bdJYSyrYpny_Tb_tYs0Znq2mas. Please don’t hesitate to let us know what improvements/additions & changes we can make.
Please hold the date for our Fall Meet the Leaders event! We’ll meet at a fun spot on campus on the afternoon of Wednesday, September 18, 2024 (tenatively 3:30 to 5 pm), with drinks & snacks, and an assortment of female deans, chairs, admin leaders, & beyond. Please tell your colleagues, stay posted for more details, & join us then.
UT’s New Faculty Launch will be on August 21, in the Alumni Cente
, from 8 to 9:30 am. Please let Diane Ginsburg know if you can help her stand by our FWO table, get signups for our listserv, & answer any questions our new colleagues have. Thank you!
2024 Promotion & Tenure Panels
UT FWO hosted its annual P&T Panels, with 5 distinguished panelists each, on April 16 & 18, 2024. Notes of all highlights/key take-aways are available here.
Women’s History Month celebration at UT
FWO just celebrated UT’s first-ever Women’s History Month celebration!! Please check out our amazing faculty members and their achievements: https://www.caee.utexas.edu/prof/kockelman/public_html/UTFacultyWomenPosters.pdf
Presidents’ Day with President Hartzell
Q&A with President Hartzell on February 19 (9:15 to 11 am)
Date: Monday, Feb 19, 2024
Time: 9:15 to 11 am
Location: Kendra Scott Center, inside UT’s Doty Fine Arts building: DFA 1.101 (or 2301 Trinity St).
RSVP by Feb 12: https://utexas.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_3yYGFirOOBbSPjg
The FWO Policy Committee has reserved the Q&A session with President Hartzell on Monday, February 19, from 9:15 to 11 am. Please mark your calendar now, and reserve your seat (& encourage your female colleagues to join!) by rsvp’ing before Feb 12. (Snacks & coffee/tea will be served.)
We’ll be at the Kendra Scott Center, inside UT’s Doty Fine Arts building: DFA 1.101 (or 2301 Trinity St). As you may recall, this lovely building is on the southwest corner of the Bass Concert Hall (and just north of the UT Stadium). Whether or not you can make it that morning, please provide us with a few salient questions for our President before February 2 to help improve understanding and operations across campus, by going to this survey form: https://utexas.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_8A080IuSeT8phMq
Thank you, & see you there!
FWO Holiday Party 2023
Women’s Basketball Game for FWO Members + Family, Friends, Colleagues & Others
Hao Zhu (in ECE) has worked with the Women’s Basketball Team to secure very low-cost tickets for all of us faculty women + friends/family on Sunday, Nov 19 at 2 pm, in the marvelous Moody Center (on SE corner of campus). You can purchase a slew of FWO tickets for just $7 each h
ere: https://fevo-enterprise.com/event/utfwo And we’ll be able to sit together (open seating for our group) in Section 101. Please contact haozhu@utexas.edu to let her know if you’re coming. (She’ll be emailing with more details about a week before the event.)
We’ll meet at the Dell Technologies
Plaza on the West side of Moody Center for the Longhorn Kids’ Court excitement at 1 pm (& head to Crown & Anchor or another easy spot for conversation, food & beverages afterward).
Meet the UT Women Leaders, 2023
Friday, October 6, 2023 from 3:30 to 5:30 pm in EER’s Texas Innovation Center (2nd floor – as you enter from west side, by PMA, and follow the corridor northward, toward ECJ)
The Cockrell School of Engineering and UT President’s Office are sponsoring our Meet the Leaders + Meet the President events this year, so we will be able to serve you delicious food and drinks at these events (including several wine options on October 6). Our Provost, structural engineer Sharon Wood, Associate Provost, ed psych expert Tasha Beretvas, & UT’s new (& first-ever female!) Chief of Police, Eve Stevens, were in attendance, along with many others for whom you may have questions.