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Black Engineer
Dr. Victor McCrary was named as Vice Chair of the National Science Board (NSB). Dr. McCrary served as NOBCChE President from 2007 to 2013. The NSB establishes the policies of the National Science Foundation and serves as advisor to Congress and the President.
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Howard University
Jaquesta Adams was recently named one of the National Science Foundation’s 2020 Graduate Research Fellows. Ms. Adams was NOBCCHE’s 2019 Winifred Burks-Houck Undergraduate Leadership Award Recipient.
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American Chemical Society
Isaiah Speight is the NOBCChE National Student Representative. As the National Student Representative, Isaiah represents student interests at the National Board Level. Mr. Speight recently provided tips for surviving and being successful in graduate school.
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US Black Engineer
Recently, nearly all 50 states began to lift COVID-19 restrictions on public spaces. There’s hope that the pandemic will be kept under control as leisure and tourism businesses pick up to help bolster the economy. In a recent poll, more than 77 percent of Americans surveyed said that they believe they will get their jobs back. Recently, over 33 million people were furloughed or lost their jobs as a result of the national public health emergency.
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Black Enterprise
Just 17% of workers at companies across America support increased recruiting of underrepresented racial and ethnic groups, a new survey by Clutch shows.
Simultaneously, merely 20% of employees value hiring women in leadership positions and just 14% find value in boosting LGBTQ awareness and sensitivity at their companies. The findings are thought-provoking as Clutch’s new data about diversity in the workplace overall revealed that 79% of people believe their company is diverse.
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NPR
In Afghanistan, a group of teenage girls are trying to build a mechanized, hand-operated ventilator for coronavirus patients, using a design from M.I.T. and parts from old Toyota Corollas.
It sounds like an impossible dream, but then again, the all-girls robotics team in question is called the "Afghan Dreamers." Living a country where two-thirds of adolescent girls cannot read or write, they're used to overcoming challenges.
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NBC News
Keisha Blain attended a top program in her field, collaborated with renowned scholars and wrote an award-winning dissertation — all of which she was sure would lead to an immediate and secure academic appointment.
But upon graduating from Princeton University with a Ph.D. in history in 2014, she discovered that she had vastly underestimated the number of scholars seeking tenure-track positions.
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Science
On a typical workday, Katy Hosbein — a postdoc in chemistry education at East Carolina University in Greenville, North Carolina — attends lab meetings on Zoom and logs into Slack to connect with lab members. That work arrangement will sound familiar to many scientists now, in the age of COVID-19. But it isn’t new for Hosbein; she’s worked remotely from Portland, Oregon, since July 2019.
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Education Dive
A new classroom toolkit for junior high school and high school students includes the stories of real scientists, including women and people of color, to give more students the opportunity to see themselves represented in science, technology, engineering and mathematics fields.
The kit is part of an initiative from educational nonprofit The Plenary, Co. to increase the diversity of those pursuing STEM fields.
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Jaxenter
A research study by The National Center for Women & Information Technology showed that “gender diversity has specific benefits in technology settings,” which could explain why tech companies have started to invest in initiatives that aim to boost the number of female applicants, recruit them in a more effective way, retain them for longer and give them the opportunity to advance. But is it enough?
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