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NOBCChE
Technical Programs would like to present a new competitive technical session to market your research to industry. This session will give pre-selected participants the opportunity to present their research in 2 minutes. Cash prizes will be given to winners.
NOBCChE is introducing a new competitive technical session titled "The Two-minute Drill approach to marketing your research to industry." This session will give 20 pre-selected participants the opportunity to present their research in two minutes. Participants for this session will be selected based on the following criteria:
- Timely submission of abstract by the deadline, July 31
- Original research work
- Merit of the research
- Quality of written abstract content
- Progress in school
- Participants that covey they have a strong interest in pursuing an industrial career as stated on their submitted resume.
Graduate students interested in the "Research Pitch Competition" can apply by emailing nobcche.techprograms@gmail.com with their name, title, abstract submission ID number, phone number and resume. Students can also submit online.
Tech Programs will send detailed guidelines and a presentation template to selected participants one month before the conference.
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Tuesday Morning Keynote Panel: STEM Role Models: Lighting the Way to Career Success. Panelists L to R: Stephanie Reeves, Jose Romero-Mariona, Ph.D., and Racquel C. Jemison, Ph.D
President Judson Haynes led a round table discussion during the STEM Experts Session. The format was like speed dating (30 minutes) with stakeholders in the STEM arena
Check out NOBCChE on Instagram, Twitter and Facebook to see some "selfies" of Dr. Judson Haynes, Dr. Bobby Wilson NOBCChE 2014-2015 Board Chair, and Dr. Racquel Jemison.
To learn more about STEM Solutions 2015 or view the session recaps and archived videos, visit http://usnewsstemsolutions.com
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U.S. News STEM Solutions is a mission-critical event focused on the shortage of STEM-related skills in the American workforce. U.S. News & World Report will bring together major corporations, leading educators, top policy makers and education technology companies to create a collective that will fill jobs now and advance the future STEM workforce. The theme of the 2015 conference – "Teach, Inspire, Hire: Discovering and Growing America's Diverse Talent Pool" — was a call to action, and the program put special emphasis on increasing the ranks of women, minorities, veterans and other underserved and underrepresented populations in STEM careers.
Dr. Racquel Jemison, Senior Chemist at the Dow Chemical Company, and the 2015-2017 NOBCChE Northeast Regional chair shared her thought leadership as a part of the Tuesday Morning Keynote Panel: "STEM Role Models: Lighting the Way to Career Success." Dr. Judson Haynes, 2013-2015 NOBCChE President led an expert roundtable to discuss how minority focused professional organizations can help diversify the talent pool. Other familiar faces in our STEM network included Dr. Michael Lomax, UNCF President and CEO, Dr. Wanda M. Austin, President and CEO, The Aerospace Corporation, and Dr. Shirley Malcom, Head of Education and Human Resources Programs – AAAS. Click here to see the entire speaker list.
The keynote and breakout sessions highlighted the solutions, best practices and model programs making an impact across the nation. The 40 breakout sessions allow attendees to explore in-depth topics such as "Recruiting and Retaining Minorities in Your Workforce," "Progress on the Gender Front in STEM," "Improving Teacher Prep," "Cultivating College Access and Completion," "Engaging Parents in Their Children's STEM Educations," and "Beefing Up Career and Technical Education."
This conference was a great opportunity to gather those on the front lines of STEM; the educators and professionals shared ideas, connected, and inspired one another. This was one of the few opportunities that primary school educators could share a table with those in industry and government and gain a true sense of what is needed to properly equip today's students. I hope to see this conference increase in momentum and continue to bring national attention to a very real problem.
–Dr. Racquel Jemison, NOBCChE Northeast Regional Chair
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The AAAS Science & Technology Policy Fellowships provide scientists and engineers with the opportunity to apply their knowledge and skills while learning first-hand about policy. Fellows serve yearlong assignments in all three branches of the federal government in Washington, D.C.
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NOBCChE
NOBCChE is sad to announce the passing of Dr. Ella L. Kelley (Southern University)
Scholar. Leader. Mentor. Dr. Ella Kelley, Associate Vice Chancellor for Academic Affairs and Dean of the Dolores Margaret Richard Spikes Honor’s College at Southern University, was an active NOBCChE member and avid supporter of underrepresented minorities in the sciences.
Co-Director of the Timbuktu Academy and previous Chemistry Chair, Dr. Kelley devoted her time to the advancement and education of students. It was her belief that all students can succeed. As an act of her commitment to mentorship, Dr. Kelley brought a team of scholars from Timbuktu Academy to NOBCChE's STEM Weekend Science Bowl almost every year.
"Ella was another outstanding individual who touched so many through NOBCChE and especially through her long service in dedication to the Science Bowl. She has been a mentor to me [since] I was 16, having met her through the Science and Engineering Alliance (via Bob Shepard), and she made sure I joined NOBCChE when I became an undergraduate at Southern. My PhD dissertation was in part dedicated to her and her husband, Diola Bagayoko. She was a wonderful mentor, friend, teacher, and also my Soror."
– Gloria Thomas, PhD
"The officers and members of the National Organization for the Professional Advancement of Black Chemists and Chemical Engineers, express our deepest and sincerest sympathy to the family of Dr. Ella Kelley. We know your loss is deep, and your sorrow is great, but we want you to know that we share in your pain. Dr. Kelley was a pillar in NOBCChE and her example touched so many lives—we lost a true gem. NOBCChE is appreciative of the legacy of service from Dr. Ella L. Kelley and we pledge that it will not be forgotten."
– Talitha Hampton, President NOBCChE
Services for Dr. Kelley will be Saturday, July 18, in Baton Rouge, LA.
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Date: Monday, Aug. 3
Time: 7 p.m. EST
Where: Live on YouTube
#NOBCCHEWebinars #NOBCChE2015
Tish Archie-Oliver serves as the Head of Campus & Diversity Recruitment at Colgate-Palmolive. She leads the development, oversight and implementation of U.S. Campus and Diversity sourcing strategies in alignment with current programs and strategies.
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Poster and Professional Poster abstract submissions are being accepted through July 31. Click here.
If you have questions, please email Nobcche.techprograms@gmail.com.
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We look forward to hearing from you!
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Although female and male students earn high school math and science credits at similar rates, boys are still far more likely to participate in engineering and technology courses and major in STEM subjects during their post secondary education. The National Center for Education Statistics published the latest update for their 2009 High School Transcript Study, which revealed blatant differences in how students of different genders and races earn STEM credits during high school.
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There is apparently no shortage of ways that you can sabotage a job interview.
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Diverse
Executives from Morgan State University and the Verizon Wireless Foundation announced a new partnership recently in Baltimore aimed at exposing minority males to STEM via HBCU campuses.
The Minority Male Makers Program — which will be housed on the campuses of Morgan State University, North Carolina A&T State University, Jackson State University and Kentucky State University — pulls rising black seventh- and eighth-grade students from the communities surrounding the campuses into an immersive STEM training program on campus.
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Maybe you recall the Verizon commercial that follows a young girl as she's growing up. Samantha takes a keen interest in activities like wading in a stream and building a rocket ship; activities that explore science, technology, engineering and math fields.
Yet she's discouraged from pursuing those interests by the folks around her with comments like "Why don't you hand that to your brother" or "Don't get your dress dirty." It concludes with a thoughtful question: Isn't it time we told her she's pretty brilliant, too?
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U.S. News & World Report
"No matter what I do, my job search goes nowhere." That's a common refrain from frustrated job hunters.
Of course, there are many reasons why searching for a new job is a difficult endeavor. Sometimes, like at the height of the recession, the situation is simply out of job seekers' control. However, the economy is now much improved, and the situation has reversed in some markets, in which qualified candidates are in short supply.
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