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NOBCChE
Dear NOBCChE Family and Friends,
We would like to invite you to the 44th Annual NOBCChE Conference and K-12 STEM Week held at the Raddison Blu Hotel in Minneapolis, MN Oct. 30 - Nov. 3. This year's conference is themed We Are NOBCChE: Community, Leadership, and Partnerships. NOBCChE is an inclusive community of STEM leaders focused on catalyzing STEM partnerships for the 21st Century, and we hope that the workshops and sessions at the 44th conference convey this message. Please read through the Call to Conference to learn more about Minneapolis, Registration/Hotel, opportunities to present your research, as well as, a preview of workshop offerings and our K-12 STEM Week activities.
Details about the conference can be found here.
We look forward to seeing you in Minneapolis!
— National Planning Committee
The Atlantic
For some women, enrolling in an engineering course is like running a psychological gauntlet. If they dodge overt problems like sexual harassment, sexist jokes or poor treatment from professors, they often still have to evade subtler obstacles like the implicit tendency to see engineering as a male discipline. It's no wonder women in the U.S. hold just 13 to 22 percent of the doctorates in engineering, compared to an already-low 33 percent in the sciences as a whole.
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Science
Papers with female first authors receive 10 percent fewer citations than comparable papers with male first authors, a new study in Nature Astronomy reports, with potential implications for women's career trajectories. "Citations from publications are currency — that is your net worth in academia," says Anna Kaatz, director of computational sciences at the Center for Women's Health Research at the University of Wisconsin in Madison, who was not involved in the work.
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Fast Company
Your job interview might go perfectly, or it might not. Maybe you've been sailing through the first 20 minutes, feeling totally prepared for everything the hiring manager is asking you. You're having no trouble giving tidy, satisfying, well-spoken answers, and you're feeling great — until she asks you this next question. Uh, what?
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U.S. News & World Report
Andrew Moore, the dean of Carnegie Mellon University's School of Computer Science, was blown away upon reading a college application essay from a student in rural Texas who described how he spent evenings writing computer code in pencil because he didn't have a computer at home. He'd head to school the next morning to try the codes out on the school's computers. "That is awesome," Moore said. "That is so much a Carnegie Mellon person."
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The Washington Post
In 2013, the Monkey Cage published a symposium of pieces that examined gender biases in political science — in professional networks, in teaching evaluations, in scholarly recognition and in citations of published work. But one of the most important measures of professional academic success was not covered in the symposium: the number of articles one publishes in peer-reviewed journals.
To advance the discussion, we asked: Is there gender bias in journal publications, particularly in top political science journals that are so important for tenure and promotion?
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By Catherine Iste
 A well-worn Post-it displaying "WHY" with a circle around it and line through it was hanging from my colleague Pam's monitor. She is respected for her fair, objective approach and is considered by subordinates and peers to be professional, composed and accomplished. When I interviewed her about her stress management techniques, she noted that when she took a break from asking why, she reduced her stress significantly. Here are her tips.
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Rice University
Educational attainment is a national priority because it creates both economic and personal gains: higher incomes, better individual and family health and deeper civic engagement. U.S. college enrollments are increasing, suggesting greater educational attainment; however, national college completion rates are lagging behind other developed nations. Recent research suggests that U.S. college students could succeed if they are encouraged to develop a sense of belonging, a growth mindset and salient personal goals and values, according to a new national report co-authored by a Rice University psychology professor.
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U.S. News & World Report
Community colleges are playing an increasingly important role in providing students the science, technology, engineering and math, or STEM, skills they need for the thousands of jobs employers are having a hard time filling.
In San Diego, Californina, the genomics hub on the country, companies like Illumina, a DNA and gene sequencing startup, are constantly reimagining their workforce needs.
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