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GWIS
Graduate Women in Science (GWIS) is offering research fellowships (up to $10,000) to self-identified women in any STEM Field. Eligible applicants are women who have received a bachelor’s degree (undergraduate students are not eligible) and are conducting hypothesis-driven research in any STEM field. Applicants do not need to be U.S. citizens. Prior winners have included graduate students, postdoctoral scholars and early career faculty members. Fellowship applications are due Jan. 12, 2018. Click here for fellowship details.
Bustle
2017 has been, in many ways, a great year for girls and women in science, technology, engineering and mathematics. An 11-year-old girl won a national science prize for inventing a water filter to help solve the Flint water crisis. A Japanese physician gained international acclaim after she combated misinformation about the HPV vaccine. Even the Girl Scouts got in on the act, announcing a new middle-school program to attempt to close the gender gap for women in STEM. And as the next year rolls around, new women will be coming to the forefront to get their time in the spotlight.
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TIME
Let’s be honest: Writing a resume is a drag.
After all, this isn’t exactly a task for the gainfully employed. If you’re reading this, you’re probably out of work or daydreaming of greener pastures.
But here’s the good news: Learning how to write a killer resume can ratchet up your job search, cement your status as a top notch candidate and increase your chances of landing a new gig. In other words, it’s a major game changer.
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USBE Information Technology
When Jeffrey Tate, a senior engineering fellow in Raytheon company’s Systems Engineering Center, spoke to students about STEM recently he remembers getting blank stares.
To break the ice, he asked the students to pull out their cellphones.
“I knew they all had one,” he said.
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The Business Journals
A trend in recent tech news coverage suggests it is not a good time to be a woman in a STEM profession.
Tech companies struggle with what some characterize as systemic gender bias. Just look at the tumult Google or Uber experienced last year alone on this subject.
There are, however, some positive actions being taken, such as Facebook’s TechPrep initiative and an increasing number of scholarships offered to women who wish to study in STEM.
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Fast Company
Plenty of New Year’s resolutions include searching for a new job. And people don’t just add it to their lists because they hate their current job. Overall, ZipRecruiter found that nearly half (49 percent) of Americans who are actively looking for a new job said they love, or at least like, their current job. But 68 percent of employed job seekers believe that the types of jobs available today are better than what was available before.
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Motherboard
Sexism in science is nowhere near a new phenomenon. Biology nerds will never forget Rosalind Franklin’s X-ray diffraction of DNA and her largely unacknowledged contributions to Watson and Crick’s DNA double helix model in 1953. Today, women are gaining more traction in many scientific fields, but our deeply-ingrained sexism remains clear in many facets of academic research.
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Forbes
Anna Powers writes:
In my previous post, I wrote about how some of the highest paying jobs were in the STEM fields. In this post, I'd like to highlight how the STEM skill sets are not only used in what we think of as traditional STEM jobs but also steeping into all areas of the professional world, due to the digitalization of our landscape. In my own experience, as well as according to research done at Monster.com and USA Today, tech skills will continue to revolutionize all industries and continue to be in high demand. These skill sets will make you more competitive and give you an advantage in practically all careers.
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