Please join Women in Graduate Sciences for our 9th annual Winter Benefit on Thursday, March 9th at the Ford Alumni Center on the UO campus. We are hosting two back-to-back events, designed to provide an in-depth and engaging evening celebrating women and all marginalized genders in STEM! From 5-6 pm, join us for a cocktail hour where local community members are invited to learn about WGS’s initiatives, mix with our members, and hear from former WGS scholarship recipients about their research and experiences during a brief panel discussion. Then stay for the main event from 6-8 pm, where we welcome everyone for a buffet style dinner, silent auction, and lively seminar titled “Being a coral biologist during the climate crisis: Grief, hope and the importance of discovery in developing climate solutions,” by Dr. Virginia Weis, a marine physiologist with a focus on coral-algal symbiosis at Oregon State University. As the annual WGS fundraising benefit, the event offers a sliding scale of ticket prices ($30 for students, $70 for non-students, $130 for two tickets, and $500 for an 8-person table). RSVP here by March 1st to attend this event. Please share this information and the attached flier widely. If you have any questions please email Erin Jezuit: ejezuit@uoregon.edu.