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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
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!
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.)
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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.
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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U.S. News & World Report
As millions of students of all ages return to school this fall, they are making important choices that have a strong influence on their eventual career path — which college majors to pursue, which high school classes to take, even which elementary school extracurricular activities to join. Many of them — especially women, girls and members of minority groups — make choices that lead them away from professions in the fields of science, technology, engineering and mathematics.
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National Geographic
Talk about an explorer moment.
For Harvard professor Pardis Sabeti, life inextricably changed on July 17, 2015, the moment the all-terrain vehicle she was riding in careened off a Montana road. The incident nearly killed her, shattering Sabeti's pelvis and knees and causing a host of lingering medical issues for the woman regarded as a rock star of the science world for her work in disease-related genetic research.
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Tech.Co
There's one big rule when it comes to job searching: Expect competition on the Monster.coms and the Indeed.coms of the world. Literally hundreds of people apply to the biggest job search sites out there, and practically none of them are qualified. You'll get drowned out in the surge, and wind up with nothing for your efforts.
Sure, you can try to network with actual people in LinkedIn in order to get a job, but you'll need to have a network first. If you didn't talk to enough people in college, you won't be able to swing it. And you could easily have a tough time getting any of that tidy $1 trillion that freelancers pulled in last year. And there are plenty of problems behind other non-application processes, too, like pain letters. What's the answer?
Finding the positions that aren't easily searchable.
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Futurity
Researchers say there are 3 main factors that explain why women are more represented in some STEM (science, technology, engineering, and mathematics) fields than others.
The most powerful one, they say, is a "masculine culture" that makes many women feel like they don’t belong.
"There is widespread knowledge that women are underrepresented in STEM, but people tend to lump STEM fields together," says lead author Sapna Cheryan, associate professor of psychology at the University of Washington. "This is one of the first attempts to really dig down into why women are more underrepresented in some STEM fields than others."
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MarketWatch
Our public higher education system, typically thought of as a great equalizer, isn't as great an engine of social mobility as we imagine, a new study suggests.
Just 9 percent of African-American students and 12 percent of Latino students enrolled in public colleges were at the nation's top public research universities, according to an analysis of government data released recently by the Center for American Progress, a left-leaning think tank.
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TIME
A team of scientists in Tennessee accidentally discovered a new method to convert carbon dioxide to ethanol, a finding that could aid the development of new methods to fight climate change.
The finding comes from a group of scientists at the Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory who created a catalyst out of carbon, copper and nitrogen. Scientists added the catalyst and voltage to carbon dioxide to create ethanol. ORNL researcher Adam Rondinone, the study's lead author, describes the discovery as "pushing [the] combustion reaction backwards."
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Inc.
There are several steps in the methodology of creating a resume, but know that there is not one exact, correct way to go about it. It is a good idea to have a target position in mind when you start so that you can tailor your resume to your audience. It also helps to have a master list of your education, professional experiences and accomplishments handy so that you can plug them into your final resume.
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Phys.org
Young women in STEM majors responding to a survey reported wanting to feel that the things they are learning in school are tangibly connected to their real-world professional goals and to making a difference in the world, according to a new study by Danielle Lindemann of Lehigh University and Dana Britton and Elaine Zundl of the Center for Women and Work at Rutgers.
"In this particular study, we wanted to look at why so many women who originally intend to major in STEM drop out early in their college careers," Lindemann says.
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Diverse
Black students are less likely than White students to have computer science courses in middle or high school — 47 versus 58 percent — and female students are less likely than male students to be told that they would be good at computer science, a new study released recently shows.
The study also found that Hispanic students are the least likely to use a computer at home most days of the week — 50 percent versus 58 percent and 68 percent for Blacks and Whites, respectively.
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