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Washington Wire
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Trudy L. Jackson Bosilovic, MS
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Thanks to members like you, AWIS has again been able to step up efforts in advocacy and public engagement. In appreciation for your support, we've begun adding to our portfolio of benefits - all designed to help you achieve your full potential through leadership and professional talent development at all career stages and across all workplace settings.
In 2014, look for:
- A new, more robust website and resource center
- Additional workshops and professional development opportunities, including an impressive line-up of webinars (valued at $199, but free for AWIS members)
- AWIS Forums - live events covering topics such as Advanced Manufacturing
- Advocacy breakthroughs on Capitol Hill
- A new book on Work/Life Satisfaction, by our very own Dr. Donna Dean
On behalf of the entire AWIS Team, we wish you a most Happy & Prosperous New Year!
Best Regards,
Janet Bandows Koster
Executive Director & CEO
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Contributed by Meghan Mott, PhD
13 Confidence Strategies for Career Success
Women have a higher fear of failure than men, which creates a "sticky floor" that inhibits our ability to succeed professionally. Confidence breeds success, and the good news is it can be taught. So speak up, walk into a room like you belong there, be comfortable with silence, do your research, and don't apologize for your ideas. → Fake it 'til you make it
PSMs: A New Path to STEM Careers
Professional Science Master's (PSM) Degree Programs were established in the late '90s to assure that students in STEM acquire skills employers need beyond those typically taught in graduate school. These 2-year career-focused science degrees teach skills in management, teamwork, and communication - and almost 80% of new PSM holders have a job soon after graduation. → Proliferating prospects
8 Ways to Boost Your Meaning at Work
Your career is about more than just a paycheck - it should be meaningful and have value. Work feels more meaningful when it has purpose, makes positive contributions to others, offers opportunities to learn, improves self-awareness, awards and recognizes accomplishments, provides an arena for acquiring and exercising power, instills a sense of community, and furnishes freedom. → Find meaning
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Contributed by Katherine Wendelsdorf, PhD
Poor U.S. PISA Scores are No Surprise
NPR's Claudio Sanchez details the poor performance of U.S. students in the Program for International Student Assessment standardized test. He reminds us that despite the feigned media shock, the poor performance is typical. He then describes evidence provided by top ranking countries/states on how to break this pattern. → How to change
Hot Topic Education Issues
The American Federation of Teachers union funded a million dollar campaign against education reform. Joy Resmovits reports the issues that are most troublesome to the union. The piece highlights the current hot topics in education policy circles. → The hot stuff
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Contributed by Demetra Farley, PhD
Nobel Laureate Boycotts Top Tier Journals
Dr. Randy Schekman, a 2013 Nobel Prize winner in Physiology, has announced he will no longer submit articles to high-impact journals such as Nature, Cell, and Science. Schekman argues that the pressure to publish in "luxury" journals detracts scientists from performing sound and necessary research in lieu of more trendy, attention-grabbing science. → "Luxury" journals under attack
Father's Health and Child Development
A new study published in Nature Communications has identified an important relationship between a father's diet prior to conception and the development of offspring in mice. Dr. Sarah Kimmins and colleagues demonstrate that fathers whose diets were severely lacking in vitamin B9, or folate, were linked to a nearly 30% increase in birth defects → Like father, like son
Merriam-Webster's Word of the Year Is...
Science! Interest in the term experienced an amazing rise, as online searches for "science" increased by 176% compared to last year. This year's thought-based runner-up, "cognitive", also saw dramatic increases in the number of online searches. → And the winner is
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Contributed by Catherine Moorwood, PhD
Dads Not Doing the Dishes
Despite all the gains in workplace gender equity, guys still aren't doing their fair share at home; only 35% of household tasks are done by men. One reason may be that societal norms teach us to regard housekeeping as a female role. → Mr. Clean
More Flexibility in 2014
Allison O'Kelly, CEO of recruitment agency Mom Corps, predicts that next year will see workplace flexibility become a central social issue, and a key tool that companies will use to retain the best people. Additionally, the Affordable Care Act will open the door to more non-traditional ways of working. → Future is flexible
Streamline the Season
Struggling to finish off that project while endeavoring to juggle holiday cards, gifts and family visits? Try these online resources suggested by Working Mother magazine to help your holidays run more smoothly. → Stress busters
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Member Profile
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2014 AWIS Webinars
Mark Your Calendars!
January 16, 2014
1:00 - 2:00 p.m. EST
Developing a Mentoring Program: Lessons from Experience
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January 23, 2014
1:00 - 2:00 p.m. EST
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February 5, 2014
1:00 - 2:00 p.m. EST
12:00 - 1:00 p.m.
March 5, 2014
1:00 - 2:00 p.m. EST
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March 25, 2014
1:00 - 2:00 p.m. EST
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Keep Women in the Picture
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Member Spotlight
Deborah Kilpatrick, PhD
AWIS member since 1997
Congratulations to Deborah Kilpatrick, Chief Commercial Officer at CardioDx, who was named one of the top women in biotech for 2013 in the November 26th issue of FierceBiotech.
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Contributed by Natalia Sanchez, MS
Eating Healthy Is Cheaper Than You Think
Cost of fresh produce has been thought to be an issue when people attempt to maintain healthy diets. However, a study from the Harvard School of Public Health has determined that the healthiest diets cost just $1.50 more than unhealthy diets. → Same money, less lbs.
Brain 'Wired Differently' in Men and Women
University of Pennsylvania studies looking at "connectomes" - comprehensive maps of neural connections in the brain - of male and female humans have finally explained why men are better at learning and performing single tasks while women tend to be better at multitasking. → Give men a break?
Parental-Stress Linked To Obesity in Children
Children whose parents have high levels of stress have a Body Mass Index, or BMI, about 2 percent higher and gain weight at a 7 percent higher rate than those whose parents have low levels of stress. If that weight gain continues and is compounded over a lifetime, it could lead to serious obesity and health issues. → Relax for your children
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The Editor's Choice is a new Washington Wire section and will be filled with reports and articles that the AWIS National Staff and other AWIS members would like you to see. In this issue we have a few additional articles that we thought you might be interested in reading.
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University of Nebraska-Lincoln Career Services New Public Service and Nonprofit Career Fair
Organizations representing service and non-profit sectors attend this new event to talk with students and alumni about full-time and internship opportunities. NEW OPPORTUNITY! February 26, 2014.
NIH Funding Opportunity Announcement - Modeling the Scientific Workforce (RFA-GM-14-011)
This FOA solicits cooperative agreement applications that propose to develop computational models for better understanding of the dynamics of the scientific workforce in the United States. These models may be used to inform program development and management, identify questions that need additional research, and guide the collection and analysis of the data to answer these questions. NEW OPPORTUNITY! (Open January 4, 2014 - February 4, 2014, by 5:00 pm local time of applicant organization)
BBRG Scholars-In-Residence Program
Each year, the BBRG hosts a new group of approximately ten competitively selected scholars from the U.S. and abroad for a period of one academic year. (from August 21, 2014 to May 15, 2015). The BBRG Scholars-in-Residence Program is open to senior and junior faculty (tenured and untenured), visiting scholars, postdoctoral scholars and independent scholars, from any country, whose work is centrally on gender and women. Applicants must have received their Ph.D. (or its equivalent) at least one year prior to the projected beginning of their residency at BBRG. (Applications due March 15, 2014)
BBRG Affiliated Scholars Program
The BBRG Affiliated Visiting Scholars Program is designed to accommodate scholars who would like to spend a relatively short period of time in residence, ranging from one month to six months. The BBRG Affiliated Visiting Scholars Program is open to senior and junior faculty (tenured and untenured), visiting scholars, postdoctoral scholars and independent scholars, from the U.S. and abroad, whose work is centrally on women and gender. Applicants must have the Ph.D. (or its equivalent) in hand one year prior to the beginning of the appointment. (Applications accepted throughout the academic year)
Applications for support are invited from ornithologists world-wide. Funds have been committed by the American Ornithologists' Union and Cooper Ornithological Society (and hopefully will be forthcoming from the National Science Foundation) of the USA, to help participants attend the 2014 IOC in Tokyo, Japan (IOC Website http://ioc26.jp/). The amount available to awardees may vary, although the Committee hopes to provide from $500 - $1,000 per individual. Awards will reimburse selected individuals for legitimate expenses (e.g., air fare, lodging at the congress, and registration fees: original receipts required). Applicants must be registered participants in the congress. Applications must be submitted by January 1, 2014, and will be evaluated by an international committee of ornithologists with announcement of awards by February 1, 2014.
Keystone Symposia on Molecular and Cellular Biology will offer a limited number of travel awards to early career investigators at the Assistant Professor or equivalent industry scientist level.
Small Business Postdoctoral Research Diversity Fellowship
The Small Business Postdoctoral Research Diversity Fellowship program aims to encourage creative and highly-trained recipients of doctoral degrees in NSF-supported science, technology, engineering and mathematical disciplines to engage in hands-on research projects in their areas of expertise at the kind of small innovative businesses that historically have fueled the nation's economic regime. Each research fellow will receive a stipend of at least $75,000 plus health insurance benefits.
NSF's Career-Life Balance (CLB) Initiative
Scientists now have the opportunity to submit supplemental funding requests to support additional personnel (e.g., research technicians or equivalent). This will help sustain research when the Principal Investigator is on family leave.
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