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NOBCChE
On behalf of the NOBCChE Leadership, we would like to encourage you to SAVE THE DATE of Oct. 30 - Nov. 2, for the 44th Annual Conference and K-12 STEM Week. This year's conference will be held in downtown Minneapolis, MN at the Radisson Hotel.
Details for registration, exhibition, abstract submission and more will be available at www.NOBCChE.org/conference in the coming weeks.
We look forward to seeing you in Minneapolis!
— National Planning Committee
Minnesota Daily
When she was 6 or 7, Mona Minkara's eyesight began to fade.
Eventually diagnosed with macular degeneration and cone rod dystrophy, the post-doctoral research fellow in the University of Minnesota's chemistry department is now working to create a STEM curriculum for blind children in developing countries.
Minkara, is creating the curriculum with the help of her assistants, who aide her in her computational chemistry research. She studies surfactants — molecules with one end that is attracted to water and another end that is not.
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New American Economy
Each year on April 1, the U.S. government begins accepting applications for the H-1B program, a temporary visa program designed to bring in high-skilled workers from abroad. While the H-1B program has long been in need of updates and reforms — particularly since many of the wage requirements designed to protect American workers are almost two decades outdated — many technology firms say it has been instrumental in helping them recruit the talent they need to grow and remain competitive in our increasingly innovation-driven economy.
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By Catherine Iste
 The internet provides thousands of tips and tricks for nailing job interviews. However, sometimes we can get so lost in the advanced methods or overwhelmed by the preponderance of information available that we forget the basics of an interview. The bottom line is interviews are auditions. Just like with any actor trying to land a role, these three basic but critical steps can help ensure any interview is a success.
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Science
Approximately one-third of Ph.D. students are at risk of having or developing a common psychiatric disorder like depression, a recent study reports. Although these results come from a small sample — 3,659 students at universities in Flanders, Belgium, 90 percent of whom were studying the sciences and social sciences — they are nonetheless an important addition to the growing literature about the prevalence of mental health issues in academia.
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National Science Foundation
Today, 156 early career engineering faculty begin a five-year journey that will take them to the frontiers of fundamental engineering research.
Supported by grants from the National Science Foundation's Engineering Directorate, each researcher will set out with at least a $500,000 award and a plan to make advances in engineering. Their work will cover fields ranging from smart materials and advanced robotics to secure communications.
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By Danielle Manley
 Women have made significant strides in achieving equality in workplaces. However, it's apparent that the push for gender equality is just beginning to affect traditionally male-dominated industries like construction and mining. Those who have diversified are reaping the benefits — and they can be a useful resource for those unsure how to begin. Three female employees at Celadon, a transportation and logistics company, recently sat down for an interview to offer insights and tips.
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Forbes
How do you find age-friendly employers when you're job hunting?
Sadly, even in the current good economy, this question is as relevant as ever for people over 50 looking for work. As NPR's Ina Jaffe reported, a just-released study by David Neumark, an economics professor at the University of California, Irvine, and two others, tracked responses to over 40,000 resumés and found the call-back rate for interviews was lowest for older workers — and worse for older women than for older men.
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Ars Technica
The population of people doing science is increasingly older, and fewer young people are establishing careers in the field. A recent paper published in PNAS finds there are two main factors contributing to the aging STEM workforce (science, tech, engineering, and math). The first is that a large majority of current scientists come from the baby boomer generation — now ages 50 to 70. The second main contributor is that in 1994, universities eliminated mandatory retirement, so many older scientists continue to work long past traditional retirement ages.
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Science
As a new postdoc contemplating the tenure-track job hunt, Megan Spurgeon saw how mightily her fellow postdocs struggled to launch principal investigator careers. When she took her next career step 4 years later, she knew she didn’t want to spend all her time looking for funding, and she wasn’t sure whether she wanted to be the person in charge. But Spurgeon wanted to stay in academia — it was familiar, and she liked the collaborative environment. So she embarked on the staff scientist path. After almost 3 years as a staff scientist at the University of Wisconsin in Madison, in the lab where she began as a postdoc, she relishes her scientific freedom and the opportunity to mentor junior scientists.
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