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NOBCChE
Dear NOBCChE Family and Friends,
We would like to invite you to the 44th Annual NOBCChE Conference and K-12 STEM Week held at the Raddison Blu Hotel in Minneapolis, MN Oct. 30 - Nov. 3. This year's conference is themed We Are NOBCChE: Community, Leadership, and Partnerships. NOBCChE is an inclusive community of STEM leaders focused on catalyzing STEM partnerships for the 21st Century, and we hope that the workshops and sessions at the 44th conference convey this message. Please read through the Call to Conference to learn more about Minneapolis, Registration/Hotel, opportunities to present your research, as well as, a preview of workshop offerings and our K-12 STEM Week activities.
Details about the conference can be found here.
We look forward to seeing you in Minneapolis!
— National Planning Committee
NOBCChE
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Argonne National Laboratory seeks applications for the highly prestigious 2017 Named Fellowship. Fellows are hired as Argonne Scholars with full benefits, a competitive salary and a stipend for research support.
For more information and to apply go visit: http://www.anl.gov/careers/apply-job/argonne-fellowships
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Phys.org
Excitement is contagious in a science classroom and could lead to greater interest in science careers, a new study has found.
This infectious trend can also help improve grades. When students see their science classmates as very interested in the class, they are more likely to develop an interest in science, technology, engineering and math careers, according to the national study led by Florida International University professors Zahra Hazari and Geoff Potvin and published recently in Science Advances.
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Science
You have all the elements needed for success: education, hands-on experience, the right CV and supporting materials. So why do you find yourself coming out of interviews not only without a job, but without a clue as to why?
The ingredient that seems to be missing in situations like this is persuasion. Scientists often have a hard time being persuasive. You live in a world where your science does the persuading, where you don’t need to be convincing because it is the science that leads to the conclusion — not your persuasion abilities.
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Vox
Google engineer James Damore wrote his now-infamous memo criticizing the company’s diversity programs in response to a big question Silicon Valley is grappling with: Why aren’t there more women in technology and leadership jobs?
His memo inadvertently answered that question — not in his criticism of Google's diversity programs, but by perpetuating the same stereotypes that keep women from choosing careers in science and engineering in the first place.
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Inside Higher Ed
It took almost three years, but Oliver Rosten’s paper was finally accepted by a physics journal.
It wasn’t the paper’s scientific findings that held it up. Instead, Rosten says, one paragraph — the paper’s acknowledgments section — was enough to prompt multiple rejections.
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Forbes
Aletta Henriette Jacobs, a Dutch physician who shattered a series of glass ceilings in rapid succession and spent her career advocating for women's reproductive rights, died 112 years ago today on Aug. 10, 1929.
She was born into a Jewish family in a small rural village grew up accompanying her father, a country doctor named Abraham Jacobs, on his rounds. Her father encouraged her growing interest in medicine and taught her classical languages, math and history by the time she finished primary school.
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By Catherine Iste
 Any particularly bad day in the office can inspire us to think about a career change. But taking the next steps requires more than just a lot of bad days in a row. Understanding whether it is the right time for a change and the reason for it are the first two important steps in the process. This last article in our three-part series will explain how to get the interview.
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Diverse
The flurry of public denouncements came quick. Some were bold and defiant.
Just as the announcement that the Trump administration was implementing an immigration ban drew the ire of administrators at colleges and universities across the nation, so too, did a media report that the Department of Justice was looking to go after universities that employ affirmative action in their admission processes.
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The Atlantic
Jessica Smith raised an arm and pointed across the lobby of the university student center like an ornithologist who had just spied a rare breed in the underbrush.
“There’s one,” she said.
It was, in fact, an unusual bird that Smith had spotted, especially on this campus: masculum collegium discipulus. A male college student.
Women outnumber men by more than 6 to 1 here at Carlow University, where Smith is a senior and an orientation leader who was preparing to welcome incoming freshmen.
That’s an extreme example of a surprising shift besetting all of higher education.
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