Welcome to WIPP's Blog

Check out WIPP's  blog to learn about WIPP events, discussions and the latest from WIPP! We have a great line-up events for the fall semester. Check out our calendar to view upcoming events. Make sure to mark your calendar for the first meeting of the year on Tuesday, September 7 at 6:00 p.m. in 232 Warren Hall. Shape WIPP's agenda for the year and learn about how you can become involved and take an active role in the organization.

Make sure to scroll down to check out some of our events from last year that we will be gearing up to do again this year!

WIPP's Service and Outreach Events

Last fall WIPP participated in the Cancer Resource Center's Walkathon. Be on the lookout for information from our Events Chair about the 2010 Walkathon!


Thirty-five WIPP members participated in the Cancer Resource Center's Annual Walkathon and 5K Run on Saturday, October 17. The WIPP team raised $1,450. Two members of the team--Tymothy McGuire and Lee Robinson--were recognized by the Cancer Resource Center for placing within the top-three times for racers in their age bracket.

WIPP Sponsors Speakers and Hosts Discussions

      


Isatou Jallow (right), Chief of Woman, Child and Gender Unit at the World Food Programme,spoke with WIPP members at a September luncheon.  In October,  Dr. Suzanne Snedeker spoke to Women in Public Policy about environmental chemicals that affect cancer risk and the challenges to changing relevant policy. Dr. Snedeker is Associate Director for Translational Research for the Program on Breast Cancer and Environmental Risk Factors (BCERF) at Cornell University. 

In the 2009-2010 school year WIPP sponsored more than ten speakers and round table events with women working in a variety of fields including international development and health policy.

WIPP's Trip to Senca Falls

We are just a stone's throw (OK, maybe about an hour's drive) away from the birthplace of the women's suffrage movement in the United States. In 1848 in Seneca Falls, New York, about 300 people gathered to hear the reading of the Declaration of Sentiments (styled after the Declaration of Independence) which demanded, among other rights, suffrage for women. The struggle, borne at the Seneca Falls Convention, was to last 72 years until women were granted the right to vote in 1920 with the passage of the 19th amendment to the U.S. Constitution.

WIPP sponsored a trip to Seneca Falls last semester.


Thirteen WIPP members explored the Women's Rights National Historical Park
Visitor Center in Seneca Falls, NY on April 17, 2010.