This message was sent to ##Email## August 1, 2019     Home  |   Conference   |   About  |   Membership  |   Sponsors Subscribe  |   Archive  |   Advertise      TOP NEWS ORNL engineer the 1st African American woman involved in discovery of an element Oak Ridge Today A nuclear engineer at Oak Ridge National Laboratory is the first African American woman to be involved with the discovery of an element, tennessine.  READ MORE Ernest Chemists wins big at Ghana Pharma Awards 2019 MyJoyOnline.com Ernest Chemists Limited has once again confirmed its position as the leading pharmaceutical company in Ghana.  READ MORE The National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship Program is now accepting applications National Science Foundation The NSF Graduate Research Fellowship Program recognizes and supports outstanding graduate students in NSF-supported science, technology, engineering, and mathematics disciplines who are pursuing research-based Master's and doctoral degrees at accredited U.S. institutions. Applications are due Oct. 25. Chemical Engineer named director of the Center for Outreach in Alzheimer's Aging and Community Health (COAACH) COAACH North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University announced Raymond E. Samuel, M.D., Ph.D., has been named director of the Center for Outreach in Alzheimer’s Aging and Community Health (COAACH), effective July 15.  READ MORE    INDUSTRY NEWS How to make professional connections at a social event Fast Company Picture this: You’re at a friend’s birthday party and chatting with a new acquaintance. As the conversation goes on, you discover they’re in a senior-level position at your dream company. You know it’s obnoxious to immediately start selling them on your qualifications and career history, but you also really, really want to connect with them professionally. What should you do?  READ MORE For academics, what matters more: Journal prestige or readership? Science With more than 30,000 academic journals now in circulation, academics can have a hard time figuring out where to submit their work for publication. The decision is made all the more difficult by the sky-high pressure of today’s academic environment—including working toward tenure and trying to secure funding, which can depend on a researcher’s publication record. So, what does a researcher prioritize?  READ MORE Wikipedia bios for women scientists are more likely to be flagged for removal TNW It comes as no surprise that women are grossly underrepresented in fields of science, technology, engineering, and mathematics. Although the stats are disheartening, it doesn’t reflect women‘s ability, instead it acts as a stern reminder on the realities of the society we live in.  READ MORE 3 ways to say no By Catherine Iste No is such a powerful word, and yet few of us seem to know how to use it. We gracefully accept additional work, commitments and obligations, then spend our energy either trying to improve our time management to fit it all in or stressing about the fact that we will never have enough time to do it all. Instead of focusing our efforts on getting it all done, here are three ways to say no and save our energy.  READ MORE Americans find high value in STEM careers, digitalization Consulting.us "Employees understand the value of STEM talent today; they see their employers on the hunt for that talent and how in demand STEM skills are in the modern workforce," Graig Paglieri, group president, of Randstad Technologies and Engineering, said. "The survey endings don't necessarily mean people in non-STEM roles have career regret or think their jobs will be taken over by automation and robots. However, it's clear most people think having at least some formal STEM education continues to be valuable in today's job climate."  READ MORE In science, questions matter a lot. Men are more likely than women to ask them Phys.org When Beryl Cummings asked her first-ever question in the auditorium at a genetics conference, she chose a topic she knew a lot about, formulated her question as meticulously as she could, and addressed her query to a female presenter. In science, questions matter a lot, said Cummings, who was then working on her doctorate in computational genomics at Harvard. But as a young female scientist speaking up in a public forum, she said, the stakes just felt a little higher.  READ MORE No coding required: Companies make it easier than ever for scientists to use artificial intelligence Science Yang-Hui He, a mathematical physicist at the University of London, is an expert in string theory, one of the most abstruse areas of physics. But when it comes to artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning, he was naïve. "What is this thing everyone is talking about?" he recalls thinking. 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