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NOBCChE
Colleagues,
Please start making plans to attend the 2018 NOBCChE National Meeting Sept. 17-20 in Orlando, FL at the Rosen Centre. Please click here for additional details.
Best Regards,
Emanuel Waddell, Ph.D.
President
National Organization for the Professional
Advancement of Black Chemists and
Chemical Engineers
www.NOBCChE.org
Forbes
The United States Postal Service is commemorating the first American woman in space, Sally Ride, on a Forever stamp, which will be released following a dedication ceremony today. Ride was the youngest American astronaut in space, as she was just 32 years old when she joined the crew of the space shuttle Challenger. Following her career as an astronaut, Ride worked as a physics professor at the University of California, San Diego and as director of the California Space Institute.
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Fast Company
You can’t always know what employers are looking for in job candidates, but it’s a safe bet that you’re better off coming across as more, rather than less, curious. Not only do companies need to bet on people who can adapt and learn (since, according to one estimate, up to 85 percent of the jobs that will exist in 2030 don’t exist today), but organizations are already having trouble filling open positions right now.
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Harvard Business Review
Frustrated by the behavior of some men in their workplace, a group of women working at Nike anonymously surveyed other women colleagues a few months ago about their perceptions of sexual harassment and gender discrimination at the company. The results painted a clear picture of a workplace where women often felt marginalized, disrespected and discriminated against. The survey reached the hands of the company’s CEO.
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ABC News
Dr. Mae Jemison, the first black woman in outer space, fell in love with science at an early age. Decades later, she's encouraging girls of all ages and backgrounds to engage in STEM education and is sharing insight on how to overcome obstacles.
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Entrepreneur
Dominic Soh writes:
“Son, don’t apply for a job just to pay the rent. You need to think beyond yourself. You need to start thinking of building a career and providing for your family in the future.”
My mom gave me that three-sentence career advice over dinner when I was at the lowest point in my job search. And those words changed everything for me.
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Science
In some ways, Jennifer Schumacher can attribute her career to a rat. As an undergraduate researcher, she worked in a lab developing better prosthetics by combining neuroscience and engineering—which required performing delicate brain surgery on the lab’s rats. After practicing on “lots of bananas and hard-boiled eggs,” Schumacher was ready for the big time as the lead surgeon for the hourslong operation, conducted in a special rat surgical suite in the lab.
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EurekAlert!
Young children with early vocabulary difficulties in turn often have difficulty with reading during the primary grades. Penn State researchers will investigate if these oral vocabulary difficulties also lead to math and sciences difficulties throughout elementary school in a three-year, $1.5 million National Science Foundation-funded research project.
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