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NOBCChE
Registration is open for the 43rd Annual NOBCChE Conference being held Nov. 8-11 at the Raleigh Convention Center in Raleigh, NC.
Don't miss the early bird specials for conference registration! Click here to register!
Technical abstracts, Advancing Student Conference Grant applications and award nominations can now be submitted. Click here.
Interested in exhibiting or becoming a conference sponsor? Click here.
View full conference details here. Click here.
NOBCChE
The National Organization for the Professional Advancement of Black Chemists and Chemical Engineers (NOBCChE ™) is dedicated to building an eminent cadre of people of color in science and technology. As part of this broader mission NOBCChE is committed to inspiring and supporting promising African-American, Latino, and other minority students in pursuit of careers in science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM).
At the conclusion of its Annual Conference at the Raleigh Convention Center, NOBCChE will offer a STEM Weekend providing a wide range of educational programs and activities for elementary, middle and high school teachers and students.
All activities are free to participants.
Click here to learn more about STEM Weekend.
NOBCChE
COACh will offer two workshops during the 43rd Annual NOBCChE Conference.
Professional Skills Training for Minority Graduate Students and Postdocs
Open to current Graduate Students and Postdocs
Monday, Nov. 7 from 1 p.m. – 5 p.m.
COACh: Negotiations, Communications and Leadership Workshop for Faculty
Open to current Women Faculty/Researchers
Tuesday, Nov. 8 from 8 a.m. – 12 p.m.
For detailed descriptions the workshops click here.
Preregistration is required through COACh. Click here to register.
(This is separate from the NOBCChE registration; there is no fee for COACh workshops. Travel assistance is available upon request.)
NOBCChE
Nov. 8-11 NOBCChE will celebrate its 43rd National Conference in Raleigh, NC. During this time, our country will elect public officials at all levels, including the highest office of President of the U.S. Voting is a right of every American citizen and critical for the progression of the country. As the 43rd National Conference coincides with the November Election, NOBCChE encourages you to partake in Early or Absentee Voting prior to Tuesday, Nov. 8(Election Day).
Many states offer early voting beginning at the end of September, however, exact dates/restrictions differ state by state and even county by county. To find a full list of early voting dates, locations, and deadlines by state click here. In addition, instructions and deadlines for absentee voting ballots can also be found here.
Please take the time to vote early or submit an absentee ballot. Your vote matters!
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CEF
The Chemical Educational Foundation®, a nationally recognized nonprofit organization dedicated to enhancing grade K-8 students' appreciation of the science and value of chemistry, is currently looking for science educators and professionals who are interested in volunteering as part of their Content Development Team. CDT reviews the scientific content for our You Be The Chemist Challenge® program. The Challenge is an academic competition for students in grades 5-8 that tests their knowledge of chemistry against the backdrop of a fun, quiz-bowl style competition. The CDT collaborates with CEF staff via email, which allows CDT members to shape their involvement to fit their own time constraints.
Last year the challenge reached over 50,000 students across 37 states, the District of Columbia and Puerto Rico. By collaborating with CEF as part of the Content Development Team, you can have a significant, far-reaching impact on students at a time that is crucial to developing an interest in the sciences and in STEM careers.
If interested, contact Katie Wetstone at kwetstone@chemed.org.
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CSB
CSB Safety Video on TTU accident entitled "Experimenting with Danger"
The CSB's Investigation Information Page on the TTU Incident
Information on Safe Education Demonstrations
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Argonne National Laboratory seeks applications for the highly prestigious 2017 Named Fellowship. Fellows are hired as Argonne Scholars with full benefits, a competitive salary and a stipend for research support.
For more information and to apply go visit: http://www.anl.gov/careers/apply-job/argonne-fellowships
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The FlowSight offers high performance in a small package. Its design increases signal and minimizes noise to provide unmatched fluorescence sensitivity. Twelve detection channels simultaneously produce brightfield, darkfield and up to ten channels of fluorescence imagery of every cell. This enables a broad range of applications.
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Engadget
Netflix has revealed a collaboration Melinda Gates would approve of. The streaming service has teamed up with Girl Scouts of the USA for a project that aims to encourage young girls to pursue careers in science, technology, engineering and math. To start with, they launched an online resource called STEM Superstars Guide that scouts across the U.S. can access to find out more about what pursuing a career in those fields mean. Volunteers can also check it out to find activities they can do and ideas they can use to start relevant conversations.
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NPR
The 2016 Nobel Prize in Chemistry has been awarded to three scientists for their groundbreaking work on molecular machines — tiny, man-made structures with moving parts capable of performing tasks.
Jean-Pierre Sauvage, Sir J. Fraser Stoddart and Bernard L. Feringa share the prize equally.
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U.S. News & World Report
When 32-year-old Amy Orsborn was studying engineering physics as an undergraduate at Case Western Reserve University, she didn't even realize she was the only female in her class — until a male peer pointed it out, that is.
Once she realized her classmate was right, she began to doubt her academic abilities, even as she went on to earn a Ph.D. in bioengineering at the University of California-Berkeley.
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TIME
You're probably familiar with ways to sabotage an interview, such as dressing inappropriately, showing up late, and giving poor responses to an interviewer's question. But sometimes, job seekers sabotage themselves before getting their foot in the door. If you're applying for jobs but not getting a call back, you could be unknowingly sabotaging your job hunt with these bad moves.
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CNN
"Conversations became increasingly sexual and they eventually progressed to physical touching, like skin on skin on my neck."
"He would actually come up to where I was staying at the observatory at 11 p.m. at night, and knock on the door and wait on my porch as I would hide under my bed with all of the lights off."
"It became clear that he actually wanted a sexual relationship. ... He got very drunk and physically separated me from the group."
These are the experiences of three women who spoke to CNN about a culture of pervasive sexual harassment in academia, especially in the sciences. They were harassed by different men, throughout different parts of their education and careers.
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Business News Daily
When you land a job interview, it means someone believes you have great potential to fill an important role at a company. But although it's a big step, getting through the in-person interview does not mean you will get the job offer.
In fact, how you conduct yourself after an interview can greatly impact the next steps in the hiring process. In 2015, an Illinois man lost a job offer after texting nude photos of himself to the HR director he'd interviewed with. Even though the photos were intended for another recipient and not meant to go to the man's new employer, the damage was done, and the job offer was rescinded.
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Science
Female geoscientists are less likely to be described as excelling beyond other students than their male counterparts are, according to a study of recommendation letters for highly selective postdoctoral fellowships published recently in Nature Geoscience. The letters written for female applicants typically praised them as solid scientists doing good work, using comments such as "highly intelligent" and "very knowledgeable," but were less likely to set the applicant apart from the others.
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The Wall Street Journal
Say goodbye to the traditional, third-person résumé. The first-person resume is the wave of the future.
It needed to happen. The typical resume is boring and often meaningless, largely because it is written in the disembodied third person. The trend toward first-person resumes, in which candidates forge a connection between themselves and their potential employer, is one way job applicants are breaking through.
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USA Today
At the quiet corner of a table in a noisy ballroom, Kat Kenton molded pieces of foam into the tail and wings of a rudimentary glider.
"I'm not trying to make it perfect, just as straight as possible," Kat, a 10-year-old from Frederick, Md., said as she adjusted the tail rudder.
She was one of 200 children Wednesday at the National Press Club and 100,000 nationwide participating in the 4-H National Youth Science Day under the theme of "drone discovery."
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