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AAAS
Welcome to the student travel award application process for the 2019 Emerging Researchers National (ERN) Conference in STEM. The ERN Conference is cosponsored by the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), Education and Human Resources Programs (EHR) and the NSF Division of Human Resource Development (HRD), within the Directorate for Education and Human Resources (EHR). The conference will be held in Washington, D.C. on Feb. 21-23.
A limited number of travel awards are available for students who are selected for poster or oral presentations at the ERN Conference.
The 2019 ERN Travel Award covers the conference registration fee, housing, airfare, and ground transportation. The conference will begin at 6 p.m. on Thursday, Feb. 21, and will end at midnight on Saturday, Feb. 23.
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Goldman Sachs
Our Exploratory Programs allow college freshmen and sophomores to learn more about financial services as well as our firm’s business, people and culture. Our goal is to bring students together from different schools, majors and backgrounds and to help set them up for success as they explore future career interests and opportunities. Our program includes skill-building workshops, interactive case studies and networking sessions with Goldman professionals. Click here to learn more.
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Vanderbilt University
A new National Science Foundation-funded report published in AERA Open documents the negative effects labels and stereotypes are having on high-achieving Asian and black college students.
Vanderbilt professor Ebony O. McGee studied the collegiate experiences and academic and career decisions of 61 black, Latinx and Asian advanced undergraduate STEM college students from six U.S. postsecondary institutions.
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The Chronicle of Higher Education
The University of Arizona has a grim message for professors on its website: If the partial government shutdown stretches on, the impact on research and science will only grow.
New funding? Don’t count on it. Payment on existing grants? On pause. Peer-review of pending grant applications? Postponed.
On Friday, Jan. 11, the 21-day shutdown was tied for the longest in U.S. history, and it appeared poised to break the record as elected officials adjourned for the weekend early in the afternoon.
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CNBC
If the start of the new year has you thinking more "new job" than "new you," we have some good news — with a catch.
Job openings and ads skyrocket in January, but so does the number of people looking for a different gig.
That's according to data from online job hub ZipRecruiter. Because employers typically start the year with new programs or projects planned and new growth targets to hit, they are also keenly aware of any personnel holes they may have that would prevent them achieving those goals.
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Fast Company
Before Autumn Adeigbo launched her eponymous eco-fashion brand for professional women, she was a hard-working student at Parsons dreaming of a career as a designer. And like many of her peers, the quickest way she saw to make that dream come true was to get a foot in the industry’s door via an internship.
For Adeigbo, landing that internship was partly about skill and partly about being in the right place at the right time.
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Campus Technology
A group of higher education, government, nonprofit and business leaders believes that minority-serving colleges and universities are well positioned to serve as a "greater resource" for meeting U.S. STEM workforce needs. What's needed is more "attention" and "investment" to steer this diverse set of students to science, technology, engineering and math fields.
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Forbes
As much as you may want to believe that quitting your job to parent won’t affect your career long term, the unfortunate reality is that landing a job after a gap can be a challenge. You may have to learn new skills to stay current and the longer you have been out of work, the harder it can be. You will also be competing against applicants who haven’t left the marketplace and other parents looking to restart.
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