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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
NOBCChE
CNBC
Seattle's prestigious Institute for Systems Biology has long been a draw for star experimental scientists. But it's now in a battle for talent with some deep-pocketed competitors: Amazon and Google.
Out of a group of a dozen researchers, four have recently left for Amazon, Google and Microsoft, said Nathan Price, associate director of ISB, which is now owned by Providence Health & Services, a non-profit network of hospitals.
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Mic
In the market for a new job? With hiring on the rise and the jobless rate at the lowest point in ten years, now is an ideal time to snag a new gig. But maybe you are not sure exactly where to start.
Sure, it can help to reach out to your network of friends, professional colleagues and acquaintances: In a new LinkedIn survey of 15,905 LinkedIn members, 70 percent of people said they were hired at a company where they had connections and 35 percent said a casual conversation led to a career opportunity.
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Fortune
NASA, it turns out, doesn't leave voicemail messages.
When Kayla Barron, a lieutenant in the U.S. Navy, was waiting to hear whether NASA had selected her for its next class of astronaut candidates, she actually missed the selection committee's first call.
"It was a horrifying experience," she told Fortune. "It was the most important call of my life."
Once Barron, 29, connected with NASA, she found out that the selection committee, after a rigorous, months-long evaluation process, had selected her as one of its 12 new recruits — from the biggest-ever pool of applicants: 18,300.
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Los Angeles Times
They have built careers isolating cells, designing integrated circuits and mastering computer languages. Now they are knocking on doors, being interviewed on TV and asking perfect strangers to give them money.
Across the country, scientists — card-carrying members of an elite that prizes expertise — are exiting their ivory towers to enter the political fray. There’s the cancer researcher from Mississippi, the integrated circuit designer from New York, the physician from Utah and the stem cell biologist from Southern California, among dozens of others.
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Forbes
Katie Elizabeth writes:
"I always knew I wanted to build a company. As a child, my fantasies of the 'future me' involved me sitting at the head of a table in a suit as the founder and CEO of a major, global company. That vision, however, never included connections to engineering, technology, math or science. Math was one of my hardest subjects, and anything technology/engineering seemed like a foreign language from a far off galaxy. I never thought STEM was important until I decided to launch my own company. Suddenly, science, technology, engineering and math really seemed to matter."
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Phys.org
Masculine stereotypes of STEM subjects corrupt the self-concept of female students and their career aspirations in such areas.
Science, technology, engineering and mathematics, the so-called STEM subjects, are traditionally male dominated and it is well established that female students remain underrepresented in such programs to this day. This gender discrepancy has been a hot topic among researchers and advocates who seek to understand this phenomenon to ultimately close or at least reduce the gap. For the few female students who successfully end up in STEM programs, one would assume they overcame the barriers and are less prone to stereotype views. But is this so?
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The Washington Post
The Environmental Protection Agency has given notice to dozens of scientists that they will not be renewed in their roles in advising the agency, continuing a scientific shake-up that has already triggered resignations and charges from some researchers that the administration is politicizing the agency.
Members of the EPA’s Board of Scientific Counselors (BOSC) whose terms end in August will not see them renewed, according to an email sent to members and obtained by The Washington Post, though they can reapply for their posts.
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USA Today
Your next Google search may help you land a new job.
That’s the promise behind the Google for Jobs search initiative that launches Tuesday, after first being announced last month during Google's annual I/O developer conference. It is aimed at those of you who are out of work, dissatisfied with your current employer or seeking to explore potential opportunities to advance your career.
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