LuAnne Thompson from the University of Washington sent the following information on reviewing papers and proposals. Thanks LuAnne! I thought I would write some tips about how to review papers and proposals for the first timers. The first time you …
A workshop on Negotiating the Ideal Faculty Position will be held at Rice University in Houston, TX October 18-19. The deadline for applications is August 13. Please read the description below and visit the Rice Advance website for more information. …
An announcement from the Earth Science Women’s Network: We are pleased to announce the third annual GAIN writing retreat for women in the Geosciences, July 26-31, at the Connors Family Retreat & Conference Center in Dover, MA (same place as …
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Women are 37 percent less likely than men to earn science-related bachelor’s degrees, and they hold only a quarter of the jobs in the field. In a new paper titled “Sex and Science,” economists Scott Carrell, Marianne Page and James …
Mentor Group 3 recently discussed an article from the Journal of Engineering Education by Joanna Wolfe and Elizabeth Powell. The article focuses on how gender-typical speech can sour teamwork. Click here for the full article: Download He said she said article …
The Royal Society has put together a booklet about 64 different women and their varied paths to motherhood and research career aspirations. A pdf version of the booklet is available here: http://royalsociety.org/page.asp?tip=1&id=1782 Scroll to the bottom of the page to …
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“When you meet someone new in a professional context, your goal should be to communicate four things: who you are, what you do, why you’re meeting them, and most of all, why they should care that they are meeting you.” …
With generous support from NASA, MPOWIR is soliciting applications for the NASA MPOWIR Speaker Series. The goal of NASA’s MPOWIR speaker series is to familiarize junior women in the field of physical oceanography with the research conducted at the NASA …
I gave a presentation on MPOWIR activities to the Ocean Studies Board (OSB) on Wednesday, March 18th, at the National Academy of Sciences in Washington, D.C. Members of OSB were very supportive of our efforts and particularly interested in how …
Storm Peak Laboratory was recently funded by the NSF ADVANCE to create ASCENT,a program for women in Atmospheric Science and Meteorology. Atmospheric Science Collaborations and Enriching NeTworks (ASCENT) is a program focusing on women in atmospheric science/meteorology and is designed …
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