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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
Dallas Innovates
A Plano game developer is hoping its new card game will offer a fun way for young learners to get engaged in Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math and show that not all superheroes wear capes.
From physicist and mathematician Isaac Newton to Satoshi Nakamoto, the name used by the unknown person who created the cryptocurrency bitcoin, STEM: Epic Heroes features prominent STEM figures throughout history who team up with players in a fast-paced journey to make discoveries. It’s the first project from Hologrin Studios, a Plano independent game development studio.
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The Atlantic
On April 22, more than a million people took to the streets, in Washington, D.C., and over 600 satellite locations around the world, to march for science. But six months later, the eponymous organization behind those gatherings — March for Science — is still struggling with many of the same issues that have troubled it since its conception.
On Monday, Aaron Huertas, the former communications lead for MFS, posted an open letter that called out the group’s leaders for creating a culture beset by miscommunication, opacity and disorganization.
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NBC News
The Oscar-nominated film “Hidden Figures” has been shown at U.S. embassies around the world as dozens of countries have requested showings to inspire their girls to become scientists and engineers.
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Nature
For his 2012 Ph.D. thesis, the sociologist Chris Platts surveyed and interviewed more than 300 young footballers — aged 17 and 18 — at U.K. club academies who were hoping to pursue a career in the game. He told the newspaper The Guardian this month that just four of them currently have gained a professional contract. That’s a drop-out rate of 99 percent.
For our Careers section this week, Nature surveyed more than 5,700 early-career scientists worldwide who are working on Ph.D.s.
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Forbes
With the Bureau of Labor Statistics recently reporting that there are currently 6.1 million job openings in the U.S., one would think that finding a job would be a simple process. But, not so fast. Finding a job takes time, dedication and a major undertaking, as the process is filled with massive competition with hundreds of candidates all vying for the same position.
Online platforms such as LinkedIn have made it easier for job seekers to find jobs or build connections that can help their future professional growth. Navigating the site, however, takes some practice, and making the most of its features can leave some potential job candidates in the dark.
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Inside Higher Ed
What can I do with my Ph.D. and how do I get started? Those are the questions that most often lead Ph.D. students from the humanities and social sciences to our advising offices. They expose complex issues such as a lack of confidence in the skills acquired during doctoral training, anxiety about unknown work and a feeling of disempowerment in the job search. They are the conversations that drove more than 80 career professionals from 56 universities across the United States and Canada to create an online tool to help bridge the knowledge gap between doctoral education and the realm of career possibilities.
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WIRED
Here's a depressing number for you: 12. Just 12 percent of engineers in the U.S. are women. In computing it’s a bit better, where women make up 26 percent of the workforce — but that number has actually fallen from 35 percent in 1990.
The U.S. has a serious problem with getting women into STEM jobs and keeping them there. Silicon Valley and other employers bear the most responsibility for that: Discrimination, both overt and subtle, works to keep women out of the workforce.
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Science
When you ask a question at a talk, you turn from an anonymous listener sitting in the dark to a speaker in the spotlight. The attention can be nerve-wracking. But an insightful query can bring valuable visibility to junior researchers (not to mention fill in knowledge gaps). However, according to two recently released studies, women ask disproportionately fewer questions than men at conference talks, even when women make up a majority of the audience.
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Phys.org
With the increased politicization of science, more and more people continue to be skeptical of research, especially when it comes to hot-button topics such as climate change and vaccines.
Michigan State University researchers wondered whether it would be better for scientists to acknowledge some of their personal or social values up front when reporting on their studies in order to gain trust. Turns out, not so much in certain situations.
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