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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.
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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.)
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
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!
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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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Pew Research Center
What leads people to a career in science?
It's an important question because the road to a successful career in science — as with technology, engineering and mathematics, the other STEM fields — can be challenging, often requiring a Ph.D. or other postgraduate training. And once in their fields, there can be political and economic pressures with which to contend. The Bureau of Labor Statistics projects workforce shortfalls for many science fields, though the projected needs differ across the life, physical and natural sciences.
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Science
Diane Shao writes: "My research career started when, at 15 years old, I showed up at university laboratories asking for a job. When I told this story to my spouse, another academic, we laughed uproariously at the idea of a kid not even out of high school knocking down the doors of our future laboratories. It sounded utterly clueless. After all, many in the scientific community believe that 'talent' alone is the most important ingredient for a successful scientific career. To those with this mindset, people who actively promote themselves or advocate for their careers must be less intelligent or less deserving. But reflecting on my own trajectory, I'm glad that I was bold enough — or clueless enough — to proactively ask for what I needed early in my career."
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EdSurge
Many professions that were once the exclusive domain of men are no longer so. The percentage of women enrolled in law, medicine and physical sciences have been trending toward parity ever since the 1970s.
Computer science, however, is a different story. According to data compiled by Quartz, the percentage of females enrolled in the discipline has actually declined, from nearly 40 percent in the 1980s to under 20 percent today. Exposure may be one factor: A Google-sponsored Gallup report that found that female students are less aware of online and local opportunities to learn computer science.
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The Muse
Adrian Granzella Larssen writes:
"The other day, I was scanning through resumes for one of my open positions when a co-worker dropped by to recommend a friend of hers who had applied. 'He's amazing,' she said, 'and would be perfect for this role.' I went back to the applications and realized I had put him in the "probably not" pile. 'I'll talk to him,' I said, thinking that I'd have one conversation and pass.
Turns out, he was perfect for the position and made it to late stages in the interview process. So why did his resume almost get tossed? Because he had a bit of a different background than I was initially looking for for the role, and his application didn't connect those dots quite so clearly."
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Education Week
In 1983, "A Nation at Risk" raised grave concerns that America's schools, particularly in the academic area we now call STEM, were damaging the country's ability to compete. "If an unfriendly foreign power had attempted to impose on America the mediocre educational performance that exists today, we might well have viewed it as an act of war," warned the report from a federally appointed commission. Twenty-two years later, "Rising Above the Gathering Storm," a report from the National Academy of Sciences, leveled a similar charge: "[O]ur overall public school system — or more accurately 14,000 systems — has shown little sign of improvement, particularly in mathematics and science."
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The Atlantic
Black college graduates are more likely than their white peers to leave school with student debt and to default on those loans. Those are both well-known, widely covered issues. Now a Brookings Institution report from a pair of researchers at Columbia University points out a troubling new finding: The gap in debt between black graduates and white graduates more than triples just several years after college, a crucial time for saving and laying the groundwork for retirement.
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Forbes
It's commonly accepted advice that a large network is beneficial to your career, but how do you actually stay in touch with everybody? If you're career-minded enough to know you need a network, you're probably already working hard at your job. You will know more and more people as you gain experience, making it even harder to stay in touch. How do you stay in touch with your ever-growing network without getting overwhelmed?
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Washington University in St. Louis
Washington University in St. Louis is part of an alliance of Missouri institutions of higher education that recently received a $5 million grant from the National Science Foundation to fund efforts to more than double underrepresented minority science, technology, engineering and math graduates in Missouri within five years.
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