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June 25, 2020

TOP NEWS

NOBCChE Annual Meeting goes virtual NOBCChE This year’s NOBCChE Annual Meeting will be held virtually. In response to the COVID-19 pandemic and in the interest of attendee safety, the NOBCChE Board and National Planning Committee are excited to offer the NOBCChE experience virtually. NOBCChE looks forward to welcoming you to our family in the digital realm. REGISTER TODAY

Organic chemist named Associate Dean of Boston University Graduate School Boston University Dr. Malika Jeffries-EL was recently named the Associate Dean of the Boston University School of Graduate Studies. Dr. Jeffries-EL received the NOBCChE 2015 Lloyd Ferguson Award and is a Fellow of the American Chemical Society. READ MORE

Black chemists voice concerns about science inequities Chemical & Engineering News Chemical and Engineering News recently interviewed several black chemists. The chemists shared their experiences with bias, systemic racism and injustice in the STEM community. READ MORE

Chicago-area high school chemistry teacher profiled Chicago Tribune Ms. Nina Hike was recently profiled by the Chicago Tribune for her efforts towards teaching AP Chemistry despite the COVID-19 pandemic. In face of technical challenges Ms. Hike continues to engage her students. READ MORE

INDUSTRY NEWS

How to network when there are no networking events Harvard Business Review We all know the typical ways to network: by attending industry mixers, business dinners, and conferences. But of course none of those have been possible over the past few months, with so much of the world in quarantine. And even as various regions start to open up, large gatherings will be slow to come back, and long-distance travel will be limited. How should you be making new professional connections during this time? READ MORE

Rapid responders: Engineer helps battle COVID-19 with science funded by CARES Act University of Virginia On April 3, as COVID-19 was already rapidly spreading across the U.S., the National Science Foundation issued a call for immediately implementable research to fight the disease as part of CARES — the federal Coronavirus Aid, Relief and Economic Security Act. Within a week, University of Virginia associate professor of chemical engineering Bryan Berger and his longtime collaborator, Jeffery Klauda, responded. READ MORE

MULTIBRIEFS EXCLUSIVE A crisis shatters your complacency — and that's good By Anne Rose Almost everyone has experienced some sort of personal crisis in life, some more cataclysmic than others. Some of us have endured divorce, job loss, death, estrangement, and broken relationships. No one can escape a crisis of some kind because it’s the human condition. But recently, we have collectively undergone several public crises in health, societal fabric, trust in our institutions, and morality. And that’s shattered our complacency that life is good, life is predictable, life is fair, and life is secure. READ MORE

Black women scientists missing from textbooks, study shows BBC News U.S. biology textbooks highlighted seven men for every woman scientist. And Black women were not represented a single time in any of the works analyzed. Based on the current rate, it will be centuries before the books used to teach undergraduate biology in the U.S. match the diversity of their readers, say researchers. READ MORE

I am a scientist Harvard Engineering As Nabiha Saklayen carried samples between the various buildings and labs of the Harvard John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, she frequently ran into visitors who were curious about what she was doing. When she told them she was carrying cancer cells or plasmonic nanoparticles as part of her work, more often than not, she was met with quizzical expressions from people who were surprised to discover she was a physicist. READ MORE

How has COVID19 impacted Indigenous women in STEM? Women’s Agenda Aboriginal people were the first astronomers of this beautiful country. Yet the field of astronomy and astrophysics is male-dominated and non- Indigenous. When Kirsten Banks set out her career in astrophysics, she didn’t see many people who looked like her. The young Wiradjuri woman studied physics at UNSW and is currently doing her Ph.D. in Astrophysics. READ MORE

Bankruptcy is extra burden for some job seekers Fox Business Hundreds of thousands of Americans who have lost their jobs during the coronavirus pandemic could be confronting an added barrier as they seek to rejoin the workforce: a bankruptcy on their record. Federal law allows private employers to turn down a job applicant because of a past bankruptcy filing, which employers can ask about on a job application or learn about through a credit check. READ MORE

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