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ZERO-ed out! NOBCChE board member leads Alabama A&M University's NASA Reduced Gravity Flight Team
Alabama Agricultural and Mechanical University students went where only few have gone before when they experienced zero gravity as part of NASA's Microgravity Research Flight Program during the week of Nov. 8-15. AAMU's team, led by NOBCChE board member Dr. Malinda Gilmore, designed and built the experiment and transported it to NASA's Johnson Space Center in Houston for tests aboard an aircraft modified to mimic a reduced gravity environment. The modified aircraft flew approximately 30 parabolas with roller-coaster like climbs and dips to produce periods of weightlessness and hyper-gravity ranging from 0 to 2gs.
FACULTY POSITIONS IN CHEMISTRY
The Department of Chemistry of the University of Kentucky invites applications for two tenure-track positions at the assistant professor level. The first position combines computational chemistry with other areas of research. The research area for the second position is open, but we are specifically interested in candidates whose research activities will complement and strengthen existing strengths at UK, such as materials, energy, or biological/pharmaceutical chemistry. For more information, please visit http://chem.as.uky.edu/chem-faculty-positions.
Checking in with the Tox Doc: Are your Thanksgiving ingredients potentially toxic?
NOBCChE member Dr. Noreen Khan-Mayberry, also known as "The Tox Doc," is a toxicologist specializing in environmental, space, food and nutritional toxicology. Dr. Noreen's core mission is to take her knowledge as a toxicologist and make it easily understandable to everyone in order to improve their quality of life. Last week she was a featured guest on Fox News Houston discussing what is potentially toxic in your Thanksgiving ingredients. Click here to view the segment
Dr. Noreen's latest book "Talking Toxicology" explains how to recognize and reduce personal exposures to toxic chemicals. You can watch her latest video broadcasts on her YouTube Channel and follow her on Twitter @DrNoreen.
Member news: Celebrating success!
Paul Adams Named to National Fellowship Panel
Have you been promoted, had an article recently published, won awards or made other strides in your career that you would like us to know about and want to share the good news? Send them to us at communications@NOBCChE.org, and we will feature your success.
Strategy for women in STEM
When researchers at Worcester Polytechnic Institute began surveying alumni to assess how their project-based curriculum impacted their students in the long term, they simply hoped to see that students did well after graduating. That appeared to be true. But what also emerged was evidence that WPI's approach to engineering education appeared to be substantially more effective for women, suggesting that a project-based curriculum may boost female success in the science, technology, mathematics and engineering fields.
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Why you should look for 'thought diversity' in new hires
When it comes to hiring talent, one CEO says she looks for a "diversity of thought" first and foremost. Paulett Eberhart, CEO of client services firm CDI Corporation, told the Wall Street Journal she always looks for thought diversity in the candidates she interviews. That means looking for people that bring different backgrounds and experiences to the table and, importantly, might be different from her.
White House forum encourages STEM education for minorities
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It is no surprise that STEM education is a challenge to take on. But, with the evolution of today's generation in technology and lifestyle, it is critical that more youth get involved in the rapid growing STEM industries of our future, according to educators and lawmakers. Focusing on the minority youth involvement in STEM has officially become a focus of the U.S. Department of Energy.
Opinion: STEM education, business schools need to be joined at hip
STEM education is en vogue as the U.S. government and plenty of executives are bemoaning the lack of talent and worrying about this country's competitive edge. Meanwhile, business schools continue to churn out those students who become auditors, accountants and investment bankers. These two educational institutions — found at most universities — have existed as silos for decades. But that education as usual practice needs to end in a hurry.
Workforce racial gaps stagnate while rich get richer
DiversityInc
Despite efforts to close racial and ethnic inequities in the workforce, a new report shows that Blacks and Latinos are no closer to closing employment and salary gaps. The facts the report presents are not new: Blacks and Latinos earn less money and have higher unemployment rates than whites. But what the data show is that rather than narrowing gaps, the disparities on the graph below appear almost layered by race, indicating little, if any, change.
Employee engagement is a result of leader engagement
Business 2 Community
A few weeks ago, Gallup released its State of the Global Workplace Report 2013. The report is a result of an ongoing study of workplaces across 140 countries from 2011 through 2012. The most disturbing number pointed out in the study was the engagement levels of leadership. The common perception is that leaders are typically more engaged than frontline employees. The prevalent thinking is that the more vertical you go in an organization, the more of an emotional investment the individual has in the success of the organization.
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