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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
Harvard Business Review
In the last week, film producer Harvey Weinstein’s decades of sexual harassment — which many have described as an open secret in Hollywood — have exploded onto the pages of the New York Times. The New Yorker documents even more disturbing accusations of rape and assault. It’s now clear that many men and women in Weinstein’s company and in the film industry knew about these alleged crimes but remained silent, allowing it to continue.
How does something like this happen? It happens for some of the same reasons that equal pay, parental leave, and equitable hiring and promotion have stalled in many companies: Women lack genuine male allies in the workplace.
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USA Today
In a job search, it’s hard to go wrong with a solid set of basics: resume, cover letter, firm handshake.
But sometimes getting the job you want means getting a little creative, and thinking outside the applicant box. After all, if a hiring manager is going to look at hundreds (and maybe thousands?) of job applications, it can't hurt to stand out from the crowd if the time and place is right.
Let’s look at six daring aspirants who stepped outside the usual — and succeeded.
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Education Dive
"What’s up with chicks and science?”
The inquiry — often referred to as the “Larry Summers question,” named after the former Harvard President, who drew criticism for attributing lack of gender diversity in STEM fields to genetic differences between men and women — was cheekily presented to a panel of science experts at the 2014 Center for Inquiry conference, where Dr. Neil deGrasse Tyson was quick to respond.
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ScienceDaily
Stereotypes suggest that women love to talk, with some studies even finding that women say three times as much as men. But, new research from a team from the Universities of Oxford and Cambridge, shows there is an exception to this rule: professional STEM events, which could be indicative of the wider problem of gender inequality in the field.
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Space.com
Four trailblazing figures from NASA's history are set to launch as new Lego minifigures on Nov. 1.
NASA astronauts Sally Ride and Mae Jemison, astronomer Nancy Grace Roman and computer scientist Margaret Hamilton are celebrated for their contributions to space exploration and astronomy in the new Lego Ideas set, "Women of NASA."
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Scientific American
Male scientists are more likely to share their published work than are women — but only with other men, a study of hundreds of researchers has found.
Humans are generally considered to be a highly cooperative species, says Jorg Massen, a cognitive biologist at the University of Vienna. But most of the evidence for that assumption comes from artificial situations such as computerized cooperation tasks.
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The Richmond Standard
Nearly two decades ago, when Tamara Shiloh was using Microsoft Publisher to create small pamphlets and booklets for a business owner, she received an email that contained a short story about African American inventors and scientists.
The email profoundly affected the Richmond, California native. While Shiloh considered herself an educated African American woman, she had never heard of these influential inventors and scientists.
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The Associated Press via U.S. News & World Report
The vast majority of Ph.D. students in a science, technology, engineering and math at the University of Wyoming are male.
The Laramie Boomerang reports that a National Science Foundation survey found 38.8 percent of doctorates awarded in Wyoming in 2015 went to women. Only Alaska and Utah scored lower.
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