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GWIS
Graduate Women in Science (GWIS) is offering research fellowships (up to $10,000) to self-identified women in any STEM Field. Eligible applicants are women who have received a bachelor’s degree (undergraduate students are not eligible) and are conducting hypothesis-driven research in any STEM field. Applicants do not need to be U.S. citizens. Prior winners have included graduate students, postdoctoral scholars and early career faculty members. Fellowship applications are due Jan. 12, 2018. Click here for fellowship details.
Diverse
As an immigrant student attending an American institution in the 1980s, Dr. Dorceta E. Taylor — a professor of environmental justice at the University of Michigan School for Environment and Sustainability — noticed something she had not expected.
In Jamaica, where she was from, every student in her science classes was either Black or Brown, but in the U.S., when she started taking environmental courses in college, she was often the only student of color.
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Science
Ph.D. holders in a variety of careers agree that they started developing many of the professional skills they use in their jobs while they were in grad school. The information interpreting, data analysis, and problem solving they did as Ph.D. students were important in research and nonresearch positions alike, a recently published survey of 3803 science and engineering Ph.D.s shows.
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Forbes
Georgene Huang writes:
A few years ago, I was on the job hunt. I remember the experience vividly because I was also two months pregnant and doing my best to hide it. As a woman, I knew if hiring managers focused on the size of my belly, they’d make assumptions about what type of employee I’d be. They’d process my appearance and think, “Well, she won’t be around long” or “Clearly, she won’t be focused on this job.” While none of that was true, it’s a reality women face every day in a job interview.
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By Fred Berns
 This is the time that many business professionals review the results of the year gone by. But what if looking back is a bummer? What if those lofty goals and resolutions you set months ago feel like distant and daunting dreams? How do you deal with the disappointment of a record year that wasn't, of sales numbers that didn't add up, of outstanding outcomes that didn't materialize? How do you rationalize a lousy year? You don't.
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U.S. News & World Report
Despite modest gains in degree attainment in science, technology, engineering and math, women and minorities remain grossly underrepresented in the fields, according to a new report out recently.
Women are also less likely to enter STEM occupations after earning a STEM degree as are blacks, Hispanics and Native Americans, according to the report, which was prepared by the RAND corporation and commissioned by the American Petroleum Institute, a trade association with over 625 members in the oil and natural gas field.
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The Verge
Scientific disputes traditionally have been settled by time and experiment, but lately researchers are using the judicial system to resolve what appear to be fundamentally scientific issues, or to defend themselves against critiques of their work. The latest such case was filed by Mark Jacobson, a climatologist at Stanford University, who wants $10 million from the first author and publisher of a recent critique of his work.
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Fast Company
When trite music and corporate cheer assault your senses from every imaginable screen and storefront, it means at least two things: that the holidays are here, obviously, and also that fewer companies are hiring.
If you’re looking for a job, that doesn’t mean you should give up. But it probably means you should hold off sending out cover letters and resumes, because at recruiting firms and within employers’ HR departments, they’re much more likely this time of year to go unread.
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