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Chemical & Engineering News
Nominations are now open for “Talented 12,” C&EN’s annual feature that highlights a dozen brilliant young scientists who are shaping the future of chemistry. Talented 12 is an excellent launch pad for early-career researchers to attract students and postdocs, enhance their grant applications, and generally raise their profile within the scientific community. Do you know an outstanding young researcher that should be featured on C&EN’s list? Submit their name through this short form by April 15 for consideration in our 2019 class.
For more information please contact:
Lisa M. Jarvis
Senior Correspondent, C&EN
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The Washington Post
It is a big step for women.
If all goes according to plan, on March 29, astronauts aboard the International Space Station are scheduled to conduct the first all-female spacewalk. Anne McClain and Christina Koch will venture out together about 240 miles above Earth and make history. Adding to the significance of their mission, the spacewalk will take place during Women’s History Month.
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Fast Company
The interview went well and you left feeling optimistic about the potential of getting an offer. If you’re like the majority of job seekers, you’ll take a wait-and-see attitude, checking your email and keeping your fingers crossed. This can be a mistake.
“Just because interview is over doesn’t mean you should stop,” says Helen Oloroso, assistant dean and director of the McCormick Office of Career Development at Northwestern University. “Following up is an important part of the process.”
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Inc.
While a resume is never enough to get the job you really want, you do need a good resume and cover letter to land an interview -- and you need to be prepared to answer the most commonly asked job interview questions.
But how do you define "good"?
To answer that question, researchers at the University of Michigan conducted a study "systematically examining the impression management content of actual resumes and cover letters and empirically testing the effect on applicant evaluation."
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Science
Some scientists are truly extraordinary mentors. Take, for example, professor Charlotta Turner, a chemist at Lund University in Sweden, who in 2014 received a text from her Ph.D. student telling her that he might not finish his thesis in time. When she learned that her student, Firas Jumaah, was in fact hiding with his family in an Iraqi factory as armed members of the Islamic State group roamed the streets outside, she leapt into action and worked with the university’s security chair to arrange a daring rescue operation.
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Diverse
A new volume about the “complexity of inquiry” around undergraduate women in the fields of science, technology, engineering and mathematics responds to what scholars and co-editors Drs. Lara Perez-Felkner and Joy Gaston Gayles say is a need for a more in-depth understanding from scholarly, policy, practitioner and institutional research communities in order to address and eliminate gender disparities in STEM.
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By Roberta Matuson
 I was speaking with an executive the other day who told me he was thinking about quitting his job. I asked him why he didn't just do that. He explained that occasionally he had a few good days where he enjoyed coming to work. Making a life-changing decision like quitting your job doesn't come easy, especially when you've reached the top of the organization. Take it from me. There will never be the perfect time to quit. But that doesn't mean you should remain in your current situation. Here are six questions to consider when evaluating if the job you have is worth continuing.
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USA Today
March 14 is a great day for fans of math. And pies or pizza.
Thursday marks Pi Day, held on March 14 in honor of 3.14, the measurement calculating the ratio of a circle's circumference to its diameter.
The number itself is rounded up to 3.14 but it can go on forever. On Thursday, Google confirmed it was able to compute Pi to 31.4 trillion decimal places, setting a new Guinness World Record.
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Science
The job market for U.S. science and engineering Ph.D.s is about to pass a long-anticipated milestone. For decades, educational institutions have been the largest employer of Ph.D.s. In 1997, for instance, they eclipsed private sector employment by 11 percentage points, according to the U.S. National Science Foundation’s biennial Survey of Doctorate Recipients.
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