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NOBCChE
Three NOBCChE award recipients were announced recently. These awards represent NOBCChE's most prestigious awards, each named after a prominent black chemist/chemical engineer. The awards will be presented at the NOBCChE Annual Meeting in St. Louis, MO the week of Nov. 18. Dr. Zakiya Wilson-Kennedy, Dr. Paula Hammond and Dr. Christine Grant will be some of the individuals recognized for their contribution to the chemical sciences.
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ACS
The ACS Scholars Program is a community that is dedicated in supporting underrepresented minority students from high school seniors to undergraduate students who want to enter fields in the chemical sciences. Scholars are selected based on academic standing, financial need, career objective, leadership skills, and involvement in school activities and community service. Applications are being accepted through March 1.
Roche
Dr. Levi Garraway has a MD, Ph.D. in biological chemistry and medical pharmacology. Dr. Garraway was recently named the Chief Medical Officer and Head of Global Product Development at Genentech and Roche. Dr. Garraway was influenced by his father to pursue research.
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CNN
Four African American women known as the "Hidden Figures" who worked at NASA during the Space Race are being awarded Congressional Gold Medals, the highest civilian award in the US.
President Donald Trump signed into law the Hidden Figures Congressional Gold Medal Act on Friday, Nov. 8.
Engineers Christine Darden and Mary Jackson, as well as mathematician Katherine Johnson and computer programmer Dorothy Vaughan were awarded Congressional Gold Medals.
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Fast Company
Gwen Moran writes:
When I think about it now, I cringe. A newly minted Syracuse University graduate, wanting to prove to prospective employers how clever I was, I packaged four résumés to my the top employers on my list, each with a brand-new shoe. As my cover letter explained, I wanted to get a foot in the door.
It was a tired stunt even back when you sent paper résumés to employers. And it didn’t yield the results I wanted. But, apparently, others have had better luck.
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Physics World
Gender biases exist at “each step” of the publication process in chemistry publishing. That is according to a 30-page report – Is Publishing in the Chemical Sciences Gender Biased? — released on Nov. 5 by the Royal Society of Chemistry. The report, which examines the diversity of authors, referees and editors of RSC journals, finds that while these biases appear minor in isolation, their combined effect puts women at a significant disadvantage when publishing their research.
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MarketWatch
New research suggests that the gender gap in so-called STEM careers — science, technology, engineering and mathematics — may be more due to nurture than to nature.
A study published in the peer-reviewed journal Science of Learning found that the brains of young boys and girls react the same to mathematics problems, and yet women make up 26% of people in computer and mathematical occupations, 21% of computer programmers and 16% of those in architecture and engineering, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics.
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Science
Anila began to work on her poster one week before the conference. The quality didn’t matter that much, she thought. After all, hers would be one in a sea of other boring posters, each nervously guarded by a grad student. “No one is even going to look at it,” she told herself. Anila — a third-year graduate student at the time—considered presenting a poster an obligation, merely what she had to do to secure entry to the conference.
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Fast Company
You know the feeling: As the minutes count down to your big job interview and your stomach twists into tighter and tighter knots. That faint twinge of anxiety that has been building all day continues to worsen. Then comes the actual interview, and your mind is a whirlwind of thoughts. You find yourself speaking with a breathlessness that’s out of character for you. What’s happening?
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The Business Journals
Family-friendly policies and support are second in importance only to grant funding among factors that keep women working in STEM careers, according to alumni of L’Oreal USA’s For Women in Science fellowship program.
To mark the 15th anniversary of FWIS, L’Oréal USA partnered with the Heising-Simons Foundation to commission a study of scientists who have received grants from the program since its launch in 2003. All of the survey respondents currently work in paid science-related positions.
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Inside Higher Ed
Some of the university research administrators in the audience seemed loaded for bear, ready to scold the Trump administration officials in front of them for what many academics have perceived to be racial profiling of Chinese scientists in recent months.
Roger Wakimoto, vice president for research at the University of California, Los Angeles, didn't soft-pedal the issue as he introduced the session on science and security here Monday at the annual meeting of the Association of Public and Land-grant Universities.
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Forbes
The ever-evolving world of technology has made it increasingly easy for us to do, well, everything, which has ironically led to us to doing much less.
It has become increasingly easy for applicants to put minimal effort into the recruitment process, which has been made less effort-intensive by the many tools we have at our disposal. HR professionals can tell when you are being lazy and will consider this when making a decision about your candidacy.
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