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Females in Engineering Reaching Career Empowerment

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Susan Fullerton

Protect your energy by learning to say “no” to non-promotable tasks

Track: Revitalize and Refresh
Speakers: Susan Fullerton
Time: 10:30 - 10:50 am
Room: WPU 527

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Based on the highly acclaimed book, “The No Club: Putting a Stop to Women’s Dead-end Work”, this breakout session will highlight why women are asked to do non-promotable tasks, how to identify those tasks, and how to say no. Follow up this breakout session by reading the book, co-authored by Pitt Professor, Lise Vesterlund, to learn how to stop being overcommitted with unrewarded tasks.

About Susan Fullerton

Susan Fullerton is an Associate Professor, Bicentennial Board of Visitors Faculty Fellow, and Vice Chair for Graduate Education in the Department of Chemical and Petroleum Engineering at the University of Pittsburgh. She earned her Ph.D. in Chemical Engineering at Penn State in 2009, and joined the Department of Electrical Engineering at the University of Notre Dame as a Research Assistant Professor. In 2015 she established the Nanoionics and Electronics Lab at Pitt as a tenure-track Assistant Professor, and was promoted to Associate Professor in 2020. Fullerton’s work has been recognized by an NSF CAREER award, an Alfred P. Sloan Fellowship, a Marion Milligan Mason award for women in the chemical sciences from AAAS, and a Ralph E. Powe Jr. Faculty Award from ORAU. For her teaching, Fullerton was awarded the 2018 James Pommersheim Award for Excellence in Teaching in Chemical Engineering at Pitt. For more information: http://fullertonlab.pitt.edu/