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Ending US funding discrimination against Black scientists
NOBCChE
A contributing piece this week in the scientific journal Cell, under the title “Fund Black Scientists,” calls upon the National Institutes of Health and other funding agencies to address disparities in allocating support for Black researchers.
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Upcoming NOBCChE Virtual Talks
NOBCChE
Join us for the next talk in the NOBCChE Virtual Series:
Thursday, Feb. 18
7 p.m. - 8:15 p.m. ET
Building Wealth On A Fixed Income
Catherine Latoya Grant-Alston
Wealth is a state of mind! Learn about steps to take to build wealth regardless of income level. This workshop will simplify the overall process and strive towards building a wealth mindset.
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Latest NOBCChE job postings
NOBCChE
If you are an employer interested in posting a job or internship please visit
the Corporate/Academic Partners page. For details on openings visit here.
Corporate Opening
- Pfizer, Senior Associate, Scientist, Medicinal Chemistry
- Genentech, A1 Scientist, Small Molecule Pharmaceutical Sciences
Government Opening
- ACS Science Writer
- Beyond Benign, Program Manager, Green Chemistry Teaching Learning Community
Academic Openings
- University of California, Davis, Schore Teacher-Scholar Position
- Stanford Medicine, Faculty Cluster Hire on Impact of Race in STEM
- East Stroudsburg University, Full-Time, Tenure-Track, Chemistry/Biochemistry Department
- University of Pennsylvania, Managing Director, Center for Sustainable Separations of Metals
- Samford University, Assistant Professor, Department of Chemistry, Biochemistry
- Baker University, Assistant Professor, Organic Chemistry/Biochemistry
- Denison, Chemical Instrumentation Specialist
- Towson University, Assistant Professor, Organic Chemistry
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ACS Scholars
American Chemical Society
The ACS Scholars Program is offering renewable scholarships of $1,000 to $5,000 per year for Black/African American, Hispanic/Latinx, and Native American undergraduate students majoring in chemistry-related fields and pursuing chemistry-related careers (visit the How to Apply page for a full list of eligible majors). In addition to scholarship support, ACS Scholars also helps students identify academic and/or professional mentors, offers internship opportunities, and conference travel awards. Note that there is no limit on the number of awarded students from a single institution, so encourage all eligible students to apply and spread the word. Scholarship applications must be submitted online via the ACS Scholars Program website through March 1, 2021, for the 2021-2022 academic year. Additional information is available by emailing scholars@acs.org.
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.INDUSTRY NEWS
3 tips on how to gain momentum in a February job search
Forbes
With a little planning and effort, you can make significant progress in your job search this month, attracting new opportunities and converting promising leads. But to be successful in these endeavors, you need to know what to expect so that you can get ready to adjust to the current and often-turbulent job market trends.
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Diversity in STEM includes scientists with disabilities
Science
When Kelly Gilkey was in high school, she sent an email to astronaut Pamela Melroy, asking if it might be possible for a person with a hearing loss like Gilkey to become a NASA astronaut. Today, Gilkey is a biomedical engineer and manager at Glenn and credits her internship with introducing her to a network of “highly capable and intelligent peers with various forms of disabilities,” she said.
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Stop using these boring opening sentences in cover letters
HuffPost
The first sentence of your job application should ideally hook a hiring manager. But too often, job seekers resort to formulaic introductions in cover letters because selling the story of one’s career on paper is an understandably difficult task. Nevertheless, cover letters can make or break who gets a callback from an employer.
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Scientists believe studies by colleagues are more prone to biases than their own studies
EurekAlert!
The properties of human mind affect the quality of scientific knowledge through the insertion of unconscious cognitive biases. Scientists from the University of Turku, Finland, have found that the current level of awareness about research biases is generally low among ecology scientists. Underestimation of the risks associated with unconscious cognitive biases prevents avoiding these risks in a scientist's own research.
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The diversity problem in science
Duke Today
With COVID-19 being a fixture of our lives for nearly a year now, science has been a staple in the news. Along with science, though, a long-overdue conversation about the state of race relations in America has taken center stage, which makes diversity in science a critical topic to delve into.
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5 resume refresh tips to land a job during an uncertain year
Fast Company
If you’re a recent job-hunter wondering where to begin, it may be a good idea to start with refreshing your résumé, which you probably haven’t looked at since the last time you searched for a job. Ask yourself which elements are still serving their purpose and which are not. In a difficult job market, you must be inventive. Use this unique moment in 2021 to carve out a résumé that shows you are prepared for a new opportunity — and have the skills to make the transition.
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Representation of women in STEM
Omniscience
About 28% of the workforce in Science, technology, Engineering and Mathematics is made up of women. This underrepresentation is a continuous and relentless fight for decades and Dr. Kahn tells us about the roots of underrepresentation. “Girls’ educational choices are constrained. Underrepresentation is determined long before the first STEM job i.e in kindergarten, solidified by high school.”
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NOBCChE Co-Founder William Jackson, of University of California Davis has been named the 2-2021 recipient of the prestigious Julius Edgar Lilienfeld Prize
