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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
- 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.
Rochester Institute of Technology
The Future Faculty Career Exploration Program is a cornerstone of our faculty recruitment strategy. It is designed to increase the diversity of faculty at Rochester Institute of Technology. This innovative program is key to RIT's strategic plan and its diversity goals, as it attracts scholars nearing the end of their doctoral MFA or post-doc studies, as well as junior faculty, to visit RIT for a prospective look.
For more information and to apply, click here.
Indiana University
Click here to submit a nomination.
Click here to submit an application
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.
Chem.Info
Industry experts anticipate that U.S. universities will generate nearly 10 times more chemists than available chemical industry jobs over the next decade.
Bryan Balazs of the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory also said that chemistry jobs will lag behind other sciences in employment growth in coming years.
Balazs participated in a recent American Chemical Society task force on employment issues convened by ACS President Donna Nelson. Chemistry World reports that the panel presented its findings at the ACS annual convention in San Diego recently.
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The Washington Post
On a typical day, Emily Temple-Wood, a molecular biology student at Loyola University in Chicago, juggles back-to-back classes, volunteer work and research projects in the school’s developmental biology lab.
Then she comes home, makes herself a cup of tea — and gets to work at channeling online harassment into female empowerment. Temple-Wood has been an active Wikipedia contributor since childhood, and like many women with an online presence, she is often bombarded by emails filled with crude messages and misogynist slurs.
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The Daily Muse
A September 2015 Jobvite survey found that 55 percent of hiring managers consider cover letters unimportant in their search process. As in, even if you do go through all the hard work of writing one, personalizing it for each company and addressing it to the right person, it might not get read or considered at all.
So, what's a job seeker to do?
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Marvel via Polygon
Marvel is launching a new program to encourage more teenage girls to explore the possibility of a career in scientific fields.
The studio has partnered with the National Academy of Sciences' Science & Entertainment exchange, according to Marvel's website, and is offering girls between the ages of 15 and 18 the chance to submit video proposals for scientific ideas that could have a resounding effect on the world today and in the future.
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DiversityInc
Latino and Black parents are significantly more likely than white parents to believe it’s essential that their children earn a college degree, according to a Pew Research Center survey.
Released in February, the survey found 86 percent of Latino and 79 percent of Black parents with children under the age of 18 said it is either extremely or very important their children earn a college degree. However, only 67 percent of white parents said the same.
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The Brown Daily Herald
Within certain Brown University biology departments, women make up nearly half of the faculty, and within the department of behavioral and social sciences, 70 percent of faculty members are women.
But disparities still exist within science, technology, engineering and math fields. In the applied math, mathematics and physics departments, women represent under 20 percent of faculty members, according to faculty lists on each department's website. One department head within the STEM fields is a woman.
Nationally, the fields of engineering, computer science and physics retain the lowest percentages of women, and female representation is also low in mathematics and statistics, according to the National Science Foundation.
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Forbes
Are you really qualified for the position you're interviewing for? Do you know enough about the company you're applying to? Can you establish rapport with those you'll be meeting with when you make your first impression?
Going out for job interviews can be a giant stress sandwich if you aren't prepared. Luckily there are things you can do to get ready for a tête-à-tête with a prospective employer. To get a handle how job seekers can best arm themselves for job interviews, FORBES chatted with Susan Vitale, CMO of iCIMS, a New Jersey-based provider of Human Resources software that's been in the game for 17 years.
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Science
Excellent scientists are good at recognizing patterns within masses of phenomena. In an example that has been getting wide attention in the media — both journalistic and social — University of Hawaii, Manoa, geobiologist A. Hope Jahren, a full professor who has spent decades building a successful career in academe, warns fellow female scientists of one pattern they are pretty likely to encounter as they try to make their way in academic science: the telltale strategy of a male colleague or superior bent on an exploitative sexual relationship.
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WTIC-TV
In honor of Pi Day–no, not "Pie Day" – female broadcast meteorologists across the country wore "the dress" to inspire young women to join STEM fields.
"The dress" became popular in November when it was discovered that many women in television news wear the same dress.
An Imgur user took screengrabs of weather reporters from across the country. The viral image has a caption, "This is what happens when you post a link to a $23 dress on Amazon that flatters everyone to a female meteorologist Facebook group."
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