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Fast Company
When Tara Glasgow was in graduate school to earn a masters in engineering, she was surrounded by male faculty and students.
"I learned in my first semester, when entering a new class, to use only my last name on the top of my test, and leave my first name to my professor’s imagination," says Glasgow, who is now the vice president of R&D, Baby and Scientific Engagement for Johnson & Johnson Consumer.
She tells Fast Company that when the professor of a statistics class handed back their first exam in order of highest grade to lowest, her name showed up on the top of the pile. "As he called out 'Glasgow', I actually could see the disbelief, and he actually pulled the test back away from me when my hand went up to claim my 100%," Glasgow recalls.
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U.S. News & World Report
It's no wonder that having an up-to-date LinkedIn presence is key to any effective job search today. Consider these two statistics:
LinkedIn has job listings for about 3 million positions.
Ninety-four percent of recruiters use LinkedIn to source and vet candidates.
LinkedIn's functionality for job seekers is valuable in three primary ways.
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By Adam Ruben via Science
I'm not sure exactly when I started putting jokes in my scientific presentations, but I know why I started. I also know when and why I stopped.
I started sometime during college because, as a student who had sat through innumerable lectures, I enjoyed and appreciated when professors included rare moments of levity to make a point, enrich a metaphor or even just keep us awake. So I added a few jokes to my own talks to make them the kind of presentations that I would want to hear. It seemed reasonable. I wasn't delivering a 10-minute standup set about neutrons walking into a bar; I was just giving a few brief, silly diversions and then getting back to the science.
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The Huffington Post
As anyone who has been in a job search for a while knows, being invited to a job interview is not something easily achieved. Becoming one of the few "job candidates" rather than being part of the usually gigantic crowd of "job applicants" is a major victory.
Unfortunately, too many job candidates blow their interview opportunities, wasting all that time and effort. Don't be one of those candidates.
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The AAAS Science & Technology Policy Fellowships provide scientists and engineers with the opportunity to apply their knowledge and skills while learning first-hand about policy. Fellows serve yearlong assignments in all three branches of the federal government in Washington, D.C.
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By Kelly Sharp
 The components of the average resume include your contact information, past work experience and education with each section strategically written to highlight why you're perfect for the desired position. Nevertheless, the first thing companies look at on a resume is the applicant's name. Who you are begins and ends with your name. It establishes your identity and, in the job market, is your identifier from the rest. Which begs the question, does the name on your resume matter?
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Latin Post
Facebook's TechPrep hopes to boost diversity in technology by empowering underrepresented minority students and their parents to get involved in computer science.
On Tuesday, Oct. 20, Facebook announced it was launching a new initiative called TechPrep. It's an effort to boost diversity in Silicon Valley by providing underrepresented students and their parents the resources to get a head start on a career in science, technology, engineering and mathematics.
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Yahoo News
High school senior Geraldine Agredo fell in love with computer science in a surprising setting: her ninth-grade Spanish class. There, she learned to code in order to build games that teach simple Spanish lessons.
Coding "was a logical way of thinking" that she could apply to constructing essays and other schoolwork, she says. She's now planning to major in computer science in college.
There's much talk these days of a gender gap in science, technology, engineering, and math. One way educators are tackling that gender gap is by creating all-girls public STEM schools. Geraldine attends The Young Women's Leadership School of Astoria (TYWLS, or "twills," as they call it) — part of a network of five such schools in New York City that is often looked to as a model for public girls' schools around the country.
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The Wall Street Journal (subscription required)
Remember when Justice Sandra Day O'Connor predicted in Grutter v. Bollinger (2003) that universities would no longer need race-preferential admissions policies in 25 years? By the end of this year, that period will be half over. Yet the level of preferential treatment given to minority students has, if anything, increased.
Meanwhile, numerous studies show that the supposed beneficiaries of affirmative action are less likely to go on to high-prestige careers than otherwise-identical students who attend schools where their entering academic credentials put them in the middle of the class or higher. In other words, encouraging black students to attend schools where their entering credentials place them near the bottom of the class has resulted in fewer black physicians, engineers, scientists, lawyers and professors than would otherwise be the case.
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