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NOBCChE
The Southeast and Southwest regions of NOBCChE will hold a 3-day joint annual meeting, #JARM2016, at Lousiana State University April 21-23.
Information concerning registration and housing will be available next week. Please check www.NOBCChE.org/JARM2016 and the hashtag #JARM2016 frequently for updates concerning the regional meeting.
NOBCChE
Important Election Dates for 2016
- March 15: Voters must be regular members in good financial standing by 11:59 p.m. PST.
- April 15: National Elections open and ballots are sent electronically.
- May 15: National Elections Close.
- May 18: Results of the National Elections are communicated to the NOBCChE membership.
Click here for more information.
Indiana University
Click here to submit a nomination.
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University of Pittsburgh
The University of Pittsburgh Department of Chemistry is hosting a summer undergraduate research fellowship for summer 2016. The 10-week program includes a $3,500 stipend and housing on the campus of the University of Pittsburgh.
The program is holding five positions for students from underrepresented groups in chemistry.
For more information click HERE.
To access the application click HERE.
Science
The plight of the shrinking middle class has been a resonant theme in the 2016 presidential campaign. The issue of job loss for American science, technology, engineering, and mathematics workers has now also entered the enduring national debate over high-skill guest workers, as illustrated recently at a hearing of the Senate Judiciary Committee's Subcommittee on Immigration and the National Interest.
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The Huffington Post
Here's a strategy for acing your next job interview: Don't answer the questions that you are asked. Instead answer the real reason that the employer is asking the question.
Decoding the secret language of employers can help you deliver the right answers that will convert more interviews into actual job offers. Here is a translation of what they really mean by the things that they say.
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New York Magazine
A. Hope Jahren, a professor of geobiology at the University of Hawaii, published excerpts from an email between another (male) colleague at the university and one of her best (female) students. "Can I share something deeply personal with you?" the email begins. "All I know is that from the first day I talked to you, there hadn't been a single day or hour when you weren't on my mind." It continues along the same lines but ends with something of a quiet threat: "That's just the way things are and you're gonna have to deal with me until one of us leaves."
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Science
Most companies in the recruiting business are experiencing a great start to 2016. It appears that the job market is finally picking up a bit of steam, at least across the world of commerce and industry. There will always be a fair amount of stress and uncertainty for scientists looking for Ph.D.-level jobs.
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Diverse
The longstanding demographic mismatch between America's public school teachers and the students they serve got a fresh airing recently at Howard University, where a panel explored the nature of the problem and discussed a variety of potential solutions.
Acting U.S. Secretary of Education John B. King Jr. said the lack of diversity among America's teachers emanates from problems of recruitment and retention.
"Without question, when you have a majority of students in our public schools who are students of color, but only 18 percent of teachers are of color and only 2 percent are African-American men, we have an urgent need to act," King said during a panel discussion in the auditorium at Howard's school of social work. "The question for the country is: How do we address this quickly and thoughtfully?"
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Business News Daily
If you are out of work, you might be inclined to take any job you can just to get yourself back into the workforce. New research shows, however, that taking a job you are overqualified for could hurt your employment opportunities down the road.
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Education Week
White female students are more likely to pursue STEM fields in college if they attended a high school with a high proportion of female math and science teachers, according to a recent study. The results were not as conclusive for black female students.
Researchers from the University of North Carolina at Charlotte and Duke University looked at a sample of 16,300 students who attended secondary school in North Carolina and went on to a college through the University of North Carolina system. The study, "Demographic Characteristics of High School Math and Science Teachers and Girls' Success in STEM," published in the journal Social Problems, focused on how the race and gender of teachers affect students' decisions to pursue further science, technology, engineering and math education.
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