This message was sent to ##Email## August 29, 2019     Home  |   Conference   |   About  |   Membership  |   Sponsors Subscribe  |   Archive  |   Advertise      TOP NEWS NOBCChE Midwest Region Chair profiled for work-life balance FairyGodBoss Dr. Bridgette Shannon is the Midwest Regional Chair of NOBCChE and an Application Engineering Specialist at 3M. Dr. Shannon provides sound advice on balancing the roles of parent, spouse and career.  READ MORE NOBCChE Faculty Adviser appointed to the inaugural D. Wayne Goodman Professorship Texas A&M University Dr. James Batteas, the Texas A&M Faculty adviser for NOBCChE was recently named the inaugural holder of the D. Wayne Goodman Professorship in Chemistry, effective Sept. 1. Batteas is a professor of chemistry and Associate Dean of research at Texas A&M University.  READ MORE University of District Columbia receives over 7M in funding for nanotechnology research and advanced manufacturing Black Engineer The University of the District of Columbia received over 7 million dollars in funding from the National Science Foundation and NASA for Nanotechnology Research and Advanced Manufacturing. Previous NOBCCChE President, Dr. Victor McCrarey is the Vice President of Research.  READ MORE    INDUSTRY NEWS How to give an excellent STEM job talk The Chronicle of Higher Education For Ph.D.s on the job market in the sciences, no element of the hiring process is more important for making or breaking your prospects than the job talk. At some point in the 2019-20 hiring season — once you’ve made the long journey from application packet to Skype interview to campus visit — you will have to deliver a job talk. It will play a large part in determining the next decade or more of your career.  READ MORE Female scientists are up against a lot of unconscious bias. Here's how to fight it. Vox Quick, close your eyes and picture a scientist. Did you just picture a man? There’s a pretty good chance you did. Many of us unconsciously associate the concept “science” with the concept “male,” even if we would consciously reject that association. Unfortunately, the “science = male” stereotype is making it harder for female scientists to get promotions they deserve. Yes, even in 2019.  READ MORE Most Americans say science has brought benefits to society and expect more to come Pew Research Center While public trust in scientists and their work can be mixed, a strong majority of the American public thinks of science as having a positive effect on society, and most expect continued benefits to accrue from science in the years ahead. About 7-in-10 U.S. adults (73%) say science has had a positive effect on society, just 3% say it has had a negative effect and 23% say it has yielded an equal mix of positive and negative effects, according to a Pew Research Center survey.  READ MORE For career support, tap your network! It's deeper than you realize Science “You’re screwed!” Jane says over breakfast, pointing at the one-page letter Otto just brought in from the mailbox. “I am not!” Otto responds. “They want to meet me!” “May I correct you,” Jane says, ironically emphasizing her posh Oxford accent. “They welcome you to give a lecture in an auditorium filled with professors and students about a topic you know nothing about, and you only have two weeks to prepare. If you ask me, that sounds like being invited for a confrontation with an armed gladiator in the Roman Empire.”  READ MORE How to close an interview to land the job Forbes Robin Ryan writes: “How do you end an interview?” asked Ken, a baby boomer. “Should I be bold and just say hire me, no one is better? Will I sound too cocky or demanding and lose the job?” Good questions. I have never been a fan of the sales strong-arm approach where you push for the job and blatantly ask for it at the end. I haven’t seen it work, and it can turn off employers. There is a much more effective way to end the interview and leave the employer with a strong impression of you.  READ MORE This is what it takes to get more women leaders in the workplace Fast Company Women frequently say to us, “The women I work with are just plain nasty,” or “The senior women act like queen bees; they only care about protecting their positions.” But there’s plenty of evidence that shows the “queen bee” syndrome is a myth. When we conducted research for our new book, "It’s Not You, It’s the Workplace: Women’s Conflict at Work and the Bias That Built It," we discovered that women’s often fraught relationships with the women they work with have nothing to do with women being predisposed to be antagonistic to or competitive with other women.  READ MORE Gender pay gap closes for Ph.D. grads, new study finds, but not other degrees Yahoo! News Women who graduate with Ph.D.s will get paid the same amount as their male counterparts, according to a new University of Guelph study, but the gender pay gap remains in place for other postsecondary graduates. The study, Employment and Wage Gaps Among Recent Canadian Male and Female Postsecondary Graduates, found that women and men with doctoral degrees have “virtually identical” earnings three years after graduation.  READ MORE Scientists avoid gender bias when they know they're being tested for bias Ars Technica When it comes to gender, science suffers from what has been called a "leaky pipeline." In some fields, like biology, women make up the majority of the individuals entering graduate school in the field. But at each successive career stage — post-doctoral fellowships, junior faculty, tenured faculty — the percentage of women drops. The situation is even worse in fields where women are in the minority at the graduate level.  READ MORE NOBCChE eBrief Connect with NOBCChE Recent Issues | Subscribe | Unsubscribe | Advertise | Web Version  Colby Horton, Vice President of Publishing, 469-420-2601 | Download media kit Christina Nava, Assistant Executive Editor, 469-420-2612  | Contribute news National Organization for the Professional Advancement of Black Chemists and Chemical Engineers 1783 Forest Drive, #316 | Annapolis, MD 21403  | Contact Us  Learn how to add us to your safe sender list so our emails get to your inbox. 7701 Las Colinas Ridge, Ste. 800, Irving, TX 75063