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American Chemical Society
The American Chemical Society Bridge Project is pleased to announce a travel award for graduate students who will be presenting at the ACS National Meeting. The travel award will help support graduate students travel and/or registration costs to attend either the ACS Spring or Fall Meeting. Each award will be for up to $2500 of eligible expenses. Eligible students must be presenting a poster or an oral presentation at the conference apply to. Students should visit this link to determine more eligibility and apply. Deadline for students to apply for the ACS Spring National Meeting is Feb. 14!
American Chemical Society
The American Chemical Society Bridge Program (ACS-BP) assists underrepresented minority (URM) students with getting into and succeeding in graduate school.
Students, who have not applied to graduate school or have applied but were unsuccessful, or would benefit from additional coursework and research experience, are eligible to apply. Applications will be circulated to select chemical science departments that have committed to partnering with the ACS Bridge Program, at no cost to the students. As the new semester begins, please refer any eligible students to www.acs.org/bridge to learn more about the program and apply. Deadline for students to apply for the Bridge Program is April 1!
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KGBT-TV
On Tuesday, Feb. 11, President Donald Trump signed a bill changing how veterans looking to get into STEM fields land jobs after leaving active duty. The veterans usually are qualified but need some additional training.
“Yes, we need this type of thing,” said Harlan Lucas, Commander of the American Legion Post 439.
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Forbes
Feb. 11 was the International Day of Women and Girls in Science, a holiday which was instituted by the United Nations on Dec. 22, 2015 with an aim to recognize the important role women and girls in STEM, as well as foster more female participation in those areas. According to global statistics provided by the UN, female enrollment is low in areas such as mathematics, statistics and natural science, composing only 5%.
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Entrepreneur
Kanika Tolver writes: Most traditional career coaches teach you to prepare for a job interview the usual way: Know your resume, research the company and review the job description. But I like to instruct my clients to tell their brand’s story in a way that displays their subject-matter expertise.
When a person is looking for a new home, they want unique community amenities, appliances and spaces that other homes don’t offer. When you show up at a job interview, your goal is to showcase what’s unique and special about you.
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Science
Bill D. Roebuck writes:
About 10 years ago, I sat in my office, struggling to muster up the motivation to write an annual progress report for my dean. I enjoy writing grant applications and scientific papers—tasks that engage my creativity and further my research. But report writing doesn’t come with any reward apart from the momentary satisfaction of crossing something off my to-do list. Like other routine paperwork, I find it hard to get through. So that day, I offered myself a reward: When I finished the report, I’d give myself 2 hours to examine slides under the microscope — a task I’ve always loved but never had much time for as a faculty member.
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Education Dive
For years, employers have been lamenting the dearth of workers able to fill their open STEM jobs. The problem is particularly acute in fast-changing fields, such as data science and information technology.
Ramping up STEM education at community colleges has been floated as one way to address the yawning skills gap. Large technology companies — including Amazon, Google and Facebook — have bought into this idea and even helped two-year institutions develop STEM curriculum tailored to their workforce needs.
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ScienceDaily
When scientists and others use their specialized jargon terms while communicating with the general public, the effects are much worse than just making what they're saying hard to understand. In a new study, people exposed to jargon when reading about subjects like self-driving cars and surgical robots later said they were less interested in science than others who read about the same topics, but without the use of specialized terms.
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Slate
In 2018, a man-bites-dog claim appeared in the journal Psychological Science: In countries with less gender equality, like Algeria and United Arab Emirates, women were more likely to get higher education degrees in science, technology, engineering, and math than they were in more gender-equal countries like Norway and Finland. The authors, psychologists Gijsbert Stoet and David Geary, called this the “gender-equality paradox” in STEM. The counterintuitive finding brought headlines like the Atlantic’s dreary “The More Gender Equality, the Fewer Women in STEM.”
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