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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.
Equities
It’s almost 2018 and it’s a good time to take a look at your resume.
It’s a living document that should be periodically updated to reflect what you have done and to position yourself for what you want to do. Once it’s updated, you can reconnect with recruiters and contacts.
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SiliconRepublic
How can we make engineering and computer science better fields for women to have a career? A new report published by the Royal Irish Academy has a few suggestions for academia, industry and government.
It calls for more research on the extent and benefits of gender equality; improved work-life balance and paternity leave; more training for research supervisors; and a networking approach for small and medium enterprises.
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Inside Higher ED
Quality instruction goes a long way toward keeping students — especially underrepresented minorities and women — in the sciences, technology, math and engineering.
But measuring educational quality isn’t easy. A new report from the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering and Medicine, “Indicators for Monitoring Undergraduate STEM Education,” says that assessing quality and impact in STEM at the national level will require the collection of new data on changing student demographics, instructors’ use of evidence-based teaching approaches, student transfer patterns and more.
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Nature
Interdisciplinary skills are more important than ever. Many people try to prepare for an interdisciplinary career by taking a lot of different courses during their Ph.D., but that should be a time to focus on the fundamentals and build a strong technical background. After you get a Ph.D., you can take your bag of tools and do a postdoc in a different field. You’ll learn things from your new adviser, but you might be able to teach that adviser something as well.
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Science
Samantha Grover writes:
When I turned 28 years old, midway through my Ph.D., my biological clock went “BRRRRING!” My rational self thought, “Hmm, not a good time. Fact A: I love research and want a career in academia. Fact B: There are only two female faculty members in my department, and neither has children.” So, I put off having children, planning to secure a tenured position and publish at least a dozen papers before a “career interruption.” But biology couldn’t wait for my career. When I saw that thin blue line on a pregnancy test at age 34, I was overjoyed—and terrified about the career compromises I expected to face.
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Pacific Standard
America's science community can breathe a sigh of relief: The provisions to tax graduate student tuition and eliminate the student loan interest deduction have been removed from the final version of the GOP tax bill. These provisions would have made it more expensive to attend graduate school, and would have discouraged students from low- and even middle-income families from considering a career in science.
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The Motley Fool
As the entire job application process is becoming increasingly digitized, job applicants are racing to catch up. The year 2017 has seen some resume trends on the rise — like adding hyperlinks to your resume or building it with a template. But also, some resume tips never get old, like keeping it one page, simple and sweet.
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