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NOBCChE
Dear NOBCChE Family and Friends,
We would like to invite you to the 44th Annual NOBCChE Conference and K-12 STEM Week held at the Raddison Blu Hotel in Minneapolis, MN Oct. 30 - Nov. 3. This year's conference is themed We Are NOBCChE: Community, Leadership, and Partnerships. NOBCChE is an inclusive community of STEM leaders focused on catalyzing STEM partnerships for the 21st Century, and we hope that the workshops and sessions at the 44th conference convey this message. Please read through the Call to Conference to learn more about Minneapolis, Registration/Hotel, opportunities to present your research, as well as, a preview of workshop offerings and our K-12 STEM Week activities.
Details about the conference can be found here.
We look forward to seeing you in Minneapolis!
— National Planning Committee
NOBCChE
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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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Diverse
Are text-based “nudges” the answer to helping students succeed in school? Up to a point, many experts say.
While they are not a silver bullet that will transform student retention and completion, “behavioral nudges,” as they are also known, have been shown to be effective to that point that they are now a part of the education mainstream. Schools use text messages to remind students to sign up for classes, touch base with their academic advisors and a whole host of other necessary items on any college student’s agenda.
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The Atlantic
Last week, a day after The New York Times reported many years’ worth of sexual-harassment allegations against film producer Harvey Weinstein, another alarming report appeared, this one in Science magazine. The setting was different — Antarctic research expeditions, not Hollywood — but the narrative was the same. A man, well aware of his position of power, had preyed on women in his field, and his behavior had gone unchecked for years.
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Science
What do you think makes a scientist credible? The first thing you’re likely to think of is their technical skill base. You might say that a cell biologist projecting credibility must have a fair number of publications in their area of expertise, or a very special niche that they are known for, right? To some extent, you’d be correct — but that’s only when it comes to technical credibility. In reality, your overall credibility is composed of much more than that technical skill base.
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USA Today
Women-led breakthroughs in science, technology, engineering and mathematics have often been lost or overlooked.
Getty Images has released a set of historical images, in honor of Ada Lovelace Day, to remind viewers that these women existed — and should be a source of inspiration. Lovelace, born in 1815 London, is credited as the first computer programmer after she translated complicated algorithms into simple English, years before the first computer.
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Fast Company
So you’ve prepared for the phone interview, a video chat, the one-on-one interview, and the salary conversation with HR. But, if you’ve forgotten to plan for a possible panel interview, you’ve missed a step.
Panel interviews, for those who haven’t encountered them before, involve a candidate sitting across from three or more hiring managers and meeting with them all at once in a 45- to 60-minute interview — cue the panic sweats and visions of a firing squad.
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Scientific American
The UNESCO Institute for Statistics estimates that only around 30 percent of researchers worldwide are women. Similarly, according to the Economics and Statistics Administration of the US Department of Commerce only 24 per cent of STEM jobs are held by women, with individual disciplines like Engineering having a significantly worse gender bias. There’s also extensive literature on biases against women in STEM, affecting all aspects of academia, including hiring, publishing, citation counts and teaching.
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Forbes
Yesterday, Oct. 11, was United Nation's International Day of the Girl, a day dedicated to creating equality for the 1.1 billion girls around the world. Debbie Sterling, the founder of GoldieBlox, has made it her mission to inspire girls to love Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics to contribute to closing the gender gap in STEM fields. GoldieBlox is an award-winning children’s multimedia company that creates toys, books, apps, videos and other products to "empower girls to build their confidence, dreams and ultimately, their futures."
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Inside Higher Ed
International students make up the large majority of full-time students in many graduate science- and engineering-related programs, and their numbers have been rising much faster than the number of domestic students, according to a new report from the National Foundation for American Policy, a research organization focused on immigration and the economy.
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