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Do you love your job but feel like something is missing? If so, you may be experiencing burnout. Nataly Kogan, author of "How to Do the Work You Love Without Burning Out," shares tips to help anyone suffering from career burnout.
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Lab Manager
It looks like the "best practice" of removing gendered language from job listings may simply have been a "best guess" by managers seeking to increase diversity of applicant pools for their organizations. New research in the INFORMS journal Management Science finds that tweaking the language of job postings to make them more gender-neutral has negligible practical effects on men's and women's likelihood of applying for jobs.
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The 19th News
In the past 50 years, the share of women who earn as much or more than their husbands has tripled. But here’s what hasn’t changed: Even as wives in heterosexual relationships have started outearning their spouses, they are still doing more of the care and the housework while their husbands have more leisure time, according to a new study by Pew Research Center.
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Meet your most ambitious career goals—whether it’s engineering the next blockbuster pharmaceutical drug or transforming the agricultural industry. In our Professional Certificate Program in Biotechnology & Life Sciences (June 1-July 31, 2023), you’ll acquire the tools and techniques you need to capitalize on emerging biotech opportunities and thrive in this evolving
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The New York Times
Virginia Norwood, an aerospace pioneer who invented the scanner that has been used to map and study the earth from space for more than 50 years, has died at her home in Topanga, Calif. She was 96. Her death was announced by the United States Geological Survey, whose Landsat satellite program relies on her invention. Her daughter, Naomi Norwood, said that her mother was found dead in her bed on the morning of March 27.
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.CELEBRATING WOMEN in SCIENCE
Scientific American
After years of disappointing results in her quest to treat heroin addiction, Marie Nyswander was more than ready to try something new. When she met a prominent doctor at the prestigious Rockefeller Institute, now the Rockefeller University, the two embarked on an experiment that would define both of their careers and revolutionize the treatment of addiction for decades to come. But not everyone was happy about it.
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NIH
Veronica Gomez-Lobo, M.D., director of Pediatric and Adolescent Gynecology at NICHD, began her career as a clinician focused on caring for underserved populations. Taking advantage of interesting opportunities led her to become involved in medical education, and later, in scientific research.
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DVIDS
Naval Oceanography is home to the U.S. Navy’s first female Director at the Navy DoD Supercomputing Resource Center, Ms. Christine Cuicchi. Considering the vast amounts of data collected, analyzed and distributed around the globe through Naval Oceanography’s unique capabilities and techniques, the agency is fortunate the tall order of business and technical skill to manage and store that data rests in the hands of Cuicchi.
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Choose your path to discovery at Michigan State University College of Natural Science. With more than 25 graduate programs in the biological, physical and mathematical sciences, there are opportunities for all. Our interdisciplinary approach combined with our welcoming and exceptional faculty will help you grow as a student and an individual.
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.WOMEN in TECH
BBC
"I never considered myself as someone who could work in tech," says teacher-turned-coder Jessica Gilbert. It is sentiment that many women identify with — and something backed up by statistics. There is a major skills gap in the tech sector and, as things stand, there will be only one qualified woman for every 115 tech roles by 2025.
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Mashable
Jennifer Opal writes: When I decided to learn how to code in 2017, I was surprised — not just by how much I enjoyed the creativity involved, but even to find myself working toward becoming a software engineer. It was a complete turn of events for me, as someone who had been pursuing a career as a psychodynamic therapist, and I was so proud to begin sharing my progress on social media.
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Cornell Chronicle
It was the sight of two women computer science majors talking about their internships that changed everything for Jisha Kambo ’15, M.Eng ’15. It was 2011 and Kambo was a first-year student at Cornell. She was enjoying her computer science courses but was often the only woman in a class. She just couldn’t envision a career as a programmer, coding all day in a windowless office, which was the stereotype at the time.
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.WOMEN and HIGHER ED
Times Higher Education
Social isolation in academia is, as it sounds, keeping to oneself on campus. This is a habit we often pick up in graduate school while binge-writing our dissertation. It is tempting to protect ourselves when we are feeling anxious and unsure, but if we don’t get occasional feedback on how we’re doing, it will probably be too late to make adjustments when we discover that we aren’t meeting institutional expectations we didn’t even know existed.
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The Chronicle of Higher Education
It’s a common refrain that higher education’s commitment to diversity is performative. But there isn’t a blueprint on how to overcome barriers and turn platitudes into practices. A pair of new papers studying how to improve diversity, equity, and inclusion in medical schools and medical-residency programs tries to bridge that gap, offering administrators across higher ed ideas for change that might stick.
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BMC Medical Education
Mentoring programs are one mechanism used to increase diversity and participation of historically underrepresented groups in academic medicine. However, more knowledge is needed about the mentoring experiences and how culturally relevant concepts and perspectives may influence diverse students, trainees, and faculty success.
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Inside Higher Ed
Consider the following scenario that frequently occurs in math classes throughout higher education. On the first day of class, a math professor announces to students, “If you don’t know this, this and this, then you may as well leave, because you are not going to pass this course.” Five students collect their things and leave.
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.WOMEN in the WORKFORCE
Fast Company
Jennifer Hoff writes: During Women’s History Month in March, I reflected upon my own history as a woman working outside the home. I am from a family of women who all had careers while raising children. I am the third generation of working moms. Both my mother and grandmother worked out of necessity. When my grandfather was injured and unable to work, my grandmother stepped in and financially supported the family.
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Harvard Business Review
Colorism, or skin tone bias, is an insidious form of bias that impacts women with darker skin tones across ethnicities and races — and it’s an issue that isn’t on many leaders’ radars. An inclusive leader managing a diverse team must become aware of how colorism manifests not only among employees of different identities, but even among people from the same community who have different skin tones. Disrupting these biases in action could boost inclusion profoundly.
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.DIVERSITY in STEM
Government Executive
The space agency wants to hear from the public about how it can better advance racial equity and support underserved communities with the billions of dollars in procurements and other forms of federal assistance it doles out each year. A request for information from NASA that will formally be published in the Federal Register on Tuesday will further President Biden executive orders on equity, issued in January 2021 and February 2023. The agency specifically wants to hear feedback on outreach, engagement and training; barrier analysis; and diversity, equity, inclusion and accessibility for procurement, grants and cooperative agreements.
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Phys.org
Under the hotly debated impacts of generative AI lies the deeper problem of biased data teaching AI. Perhaps now more than ever, with growing numbers of people and organizations turning to tools such as ChatGPT to write their essays, legal briefs, or make critical decisions, the challenge of algorithmic bias and injustice built into AI systems is urgent. While racial and gender discrimination are often cited among harms resulting from bias in AI, broader and interrelated areas of impact include job loss, privacy violations, health care discrimination, political polarization, and the spread of disinformation.
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Chemistry World
It’s not widely known that "history’s first chemist" was a woman. Her name was Tappūtī-bēlat-ekalle, she lived in ancient Assyria, and was the head perfumer of an established professional group of female perfumers circa 1230 BCE. Tablets have been discovered with her recipes for perfumes which outline, among other things, how to conduct basic chemical processes such as heat extraction and filtration.
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