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Science
Despite an increasingly diverse pool of scientists earning Ph.D.s, the upper echelons of academia — tenured professors and those on the tenure track — remain stubbornly dominated by white men. In 2017, for instance, women made up 55% of life science Ph.D. recipients in the U.S., yet only 35% of faculty members were women. The percentage of life science faculty members who identify as an underrepresented racial and ethnic minority is even lower.
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By Hank Boyer
 Over the past two decades, much work has been done to understand what causes some employees to have high engagement with their employer — actively realizing personal and professional growth — while other staff members are disengaged and feel tired, stagnant, and disinterested in their work. Most employees want what they do for a living to serve a greater purpose for both personal and professional growth; not just something to do to fill time and earn money.
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Fast Company
Your stomach drops to the floor. Your palms get sweaty. You begin to ramble incoherently, or worse, can’t come up with anything to say at all. Almost all of us know the feeling of making a big mistake during an interview.
Great. There goes that opportunity, you might think.
Don’t be tempted to wave the white flag of surrender just yet, though. Everyone stumbles in interviews once in a while — the trick is to handle it well, so that your interviewer is able to look past it.
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The New York Times
Alaina Gassler often saw her mother growing frustrated with blind spots when driving the family’s old Jeep Grand Cherokee in their Pennsylvania neighborhood.
The issue inspired Ms. Gassler, 14, to design a system that uses a webcam to show anything that might be blocked from a driver’s sight.
A panel of scientists, engineers and educators was so impressed with her prototype that she won the $25,000 top prize at the annual Broadcom MASTERS competition in Washington last week.
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Forbes
Adunola Adeshola writes:
With Thanksgiving, Christmas and New Year’s Eve around the corner, you’re probably in the middle of deciding if you should “put things on hold for the holidays.”
You're probably telling yourself, “It’s too late for me to get a new job this year, I guess I have to wait and try again next year.”
I understand why. It can be tough to balance tackling work, going to holiday parties, hosting family from out of town, and all the other things on your holiday to-do list, while still actively searching for new positions.
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Nature
Most applications to academic institutions around the world include a box to check if a student has a criminal history, but a ‘ban the box’ movement is now under way. Last year, the U.K. Universities and Colleges Admissions Services — which manages application to all British universities — dropped its criminal-history question. And in August, the U.S. Common Application, used by 800 colleges and universities, removed the question — although individual institutions can still ask it.
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Science
Vivienne Tam writes:
I had always heard the stereotype: North Americans value independence, and Europeans value togetherness. But I never fully understood it until 2 months ago, when I left my Ph.D. lab in Canada for a 4-month stint in a lab in France. On my first day, Pierre — a Ph.D. student whose desk is across from mine — tapped me on my shoulder and asked: “Coffee?”
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By Catherine Iste
 As seems common in many conferences lately, the audience was asked to participate in a brief group mindfulness exercise. After we all adjusted our postures and closed our eyes, the facilitator asked us to take a deep breath and, while exhaling, acknowledge that we were done for the day, free to let our minds go and… something. I do not know what the last thing she said was, because I could not get past the phrase: done for the day. It was 4:30, how could anyone possibly be done for the day?
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