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NOBCChE and Chemical & Engineering News
Just days before the New Year, International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry announced the approval of four new elements - 113, 115, 117 and 118. With this approval, the seventh row of the periodic table is complete. The discovery of heavier elements can aid in the development of new technologies as well as give insight into scope and limitations of periodic trends. Scientists tout this as a major success and are eagerly working to discover other proposed elements. Read more about the new elements and their discovery here.
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NOBCChE and The Huntsville Times
Tuskegee physics professor, Dr. Hadiyah-Nicole Green received a $1.1 million grant to progress her cancer research. As one of less than 100 black women with a Ph.D. in physics, Dr. Green asserts her success is an anomaly but the result of opportunity. Read more about Dr. Green here.
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MarketWatch
Some American colleges are finding answers to a question that has bedeviled employers and policy makers alike: how to get more women into the high-paying, in-demand fields that drive today's economy.
Those schools, a new analysis finds, are using a range of strategies — from hiring more women faculty in fields where they’re traditionally underrepresented to setting up specific programs geared toward advancing female students’ ambitions in science, technology, engineering and math, or STEM — to prepare women for careers historically dominated by male graduates.
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Tech Insider
Countless politicians and thought leaders say the U.S. has to regain its prominence in science if we are going to maintain our role as a flourishing, leading superpower.
If you want to figure out why the U.S. is lagging behind the rest of the world in math and science, looking at the pipeline pouring into these fields is a good place to start.
Of the 40 most advanced countries, the U.S. is No. 38 when it comes to graduating science majors. That's embarrassing.
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By Betty Boyd
 We all know there are inherent differences between the male and female genders. As it turns out, these differences apply to leadership styles in the workplace as well. In 2008, the Pew Research Center surveyed 2,250 individuals for their report, "A Paradox in Public Attitudes: Men or Women: Who's a Better Leader." While the majority of those surveyed said men and women make equally good leaders, differences showed up in character attributes.
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Forbes
It is a harsh reality for job-seekers that our judgment is most impaired at exactly the point when we need our senses most — the moment when we’re evaluating a job offer.
We fall into the vortex very easily on a job search, as soon as a company is interested in us. We see the finish line to a tedious job search and our judgment falls away. Our senses abandon us.
When we should be asking tough questions, we think "I want that offer!" and if we get it, we sign it and say "Phew! At least I have a job now."
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Diverse
Diversity, the elusive goal that has had its share of ups and downs over the last few decades as successor to the pioneering affirmative action steps taken by corporate America in the 1960s, is getting a boost from students in colleges and universities across the nation.
Higher education, which has been slower than corporate America in expanding its efforts beyond student enrollment to include staff and program diversity, got a stunning reminder this fall of the work still to be done.
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Business Insider
A fresh start for 2016 may include a new job — or a new career — and now is the perfect time to start the search.
According to Vicki Salemi, a career expert for Monster Worldwide, January 6 has been the busiest day for job searching on Monster.com for the past two years.
She says the beginning of the year is an ideal time to kick off a job search because people tend to be more motivated and clear on what they want to accomplish for the year.
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The AAAS Science & Technology Policy Fellowships provide scientists and engineers with the opportunity to apply their knowledge and skills while learning first-hand about policy. Fellows serve yearlong assignments in all three branches of the federal government in Washington, D.C.
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Education Week
The new federal education bill gives states and districts more leeway in many areas, including how they use federal dollars for science, technology, engineering, and math programs.
And while the bill eliminates authorization for a key STEM initiative — the Math Science Partnerships program — advocates say it more than makes up for the loss.
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U.S. News & World Report
The gender gap in science, technology, engineering and mathematics in the U.S. is well documented. Men earn more STEM degrees than women at every level. Even worse, the gap doesn't seem to be decreasing.
If that wasn't bad enough, researchers have given us another reason to shake our heads at the STEM field. Already, studies have found systemic biases against women in STEM including hiring decisions for lab positions, selection for mathematical tasks, evaluation of research abstracts for conferences, research citations, invitations to speak at symposia, postdoctoral employment and tenure decisions.
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