Oak Ridge Institute for Science and Education (ORISE)
ORISE offers hundreds of science education experiences (including internships, fellowships and scholarships) at national laboratories and federal agencies. These internships are for undergraduates, graduate students, recent graduates, postdocs, K-12 teachers, and faculty.…
Read MoreMass Media Science and Engineering Fellows Program (AAAS)
This 10-week summer program places science, engineering, and mathematics students at media organizations nationwide. Fellows use their academic training as they research, write, and report today’s headlines, sharpening their abilities to communicate complex scientific issues to the public.
Open to …
The National Sea Grant Knauss Fellowship
The Sea Grant Knauss Fellowship provides a unique educational experience to graduate students who have an interest in ocean, coastal and Great Lakes resources and in the national policy decisions affecting those resources. This fellowship is for current graduate students …
Read MoreSociety of Physics Students Internships
Through the SPS summer internship program, physics undergraduates are placed in organizations that utilize their knowledge, experience and energy to advance meaningful assignments relevant to the organization and the advancement of physics more generally. Participating organizations assign one or more …
Read MoreSOARS: Significant Opportunities in Atmospheric Research and Science
SOARS is dedicated to broadening participation in the atmospheric and related sciences. It is an undergraduate to graduate program built around a summer research internship, mentoring by top scientists, and a supportive learning community.…
Read MoreNSF Graduate Research Fellowship Program
The NSF Graduate Research Fellowship Program recognizes and supports outstanding graduate students in NSF-supported science, technology, engineering, and mathematics disciplines who are pursuing research-based Master’s and doctoral degrees at accredited United States institutions.…
Read MoreOpportunities with NASA: One Stop Shopping Initiative (OSSI) Student Online Application for NASA Internships, Fellowships, and Scholarships
Opportunities with NASA: One Stop Shopping Initiative (OSSI) Student Online Application for NASA Internships, Fellowships, and Scholarships
OSSI is a NASA-wide system for the recruitment, application, selection and career development of undergraduate and graduate students primarily in science, technology, engineering …
Read MoreNOAA Climate and Global Change Fellowship
The overarching purpose of the program is to help create and train the next generation of leading researchers needed for climate studies. Anticipating the large amounts of data that was gathered from NOAA efforts, such as TOGA and TOGA COARE …
Read MorePostdocs Applying Climate Expertise Fellowship Program
The goal of this postdoctoral program is to grow the pool of scientists qualified to transfer advances in climate science and climate prediction into climate-related decision framework(s) and decision tools. The program pairs early-career climate scientists with two co-hosting institutions: …
Read MoreNCAR Advanced Study Program
The Advanced Study Program (ASP) is unique in its encompassing support of NCAR goals and objectives. The ASP mission, broadly defined, is to help NCAR and the scientific communities it serves prepare for the future. We work across scientific disciplines …
Read MoreSafety while working in the field
Fieldwork plays an important role in initiating students into the geoscience community of practice, providing learning opportunities not possible through classroom lectures, lab work, or computer exercises alone [Mogk and Goodwin, 2012]. It’s no wonder, then, that fieldwork is a …
Read MoreSSSA Congressional Science Fellowship
From the webpage: “The Congressional Science Fellowship Program is unique opportunity for [Soil Science] Society members with an interest in working at the intersection of science and government. For almost 30 years, a graduate student member has been selected to …
Read MoreOak Ridge Institute for Science and Education (ORISE)
ORISE offers hundreds of science education experiences at national laboratories and federal agencies.
The Oak Ridge Institute for Science and Education (ORISE) administers a broad range of internships, scholarships, fellowships and research experiences. These programs are available to science and …
Read MoreNOAA Student Opportunitity
Multiple opportunities with NOAA for undergraduate students.
The Student Opportunities website is designed to provide information about educational opportunities that are available throughout NOAA. Information on scholarships, internships and fellowships including a brief description of each program; application deadline; award …
Preparing for an Academic Career in the Geosciences
As you prepare to begin your career as a geoscience faculty member, you’re probably wondering how to land a job you’ll enjoy, as well as what you can do now to lay the groundwork for a successful career in academia. …
Read MoreThe Dissertation Coach
This company is focused on helping graduate students finish their thesis or dissertation and making graduate school a positive learning experience.One person indicated that they had attended seminars presented by Alison Miller, a dissertation and life coach from the Dissertation …
Read MoreJason test resource
this thing is really super handy…
Read MoreJo Van Every.ca
Imagine the academic life you would really like to have.
It would include all the best parts of what you have now. It might also include some things you wish you had but have set aside as impossible dreams.
What …
Read MoreJournal of Science Communication
The Journal of Science Communication is an online, open-access journal focused on the relationship between scientific research and the media. Since the world of communication and the scientific community are now undergoing a rapid and uncertain transition, JCOM wants to …
Read MoreLeopold Leadership Program
Scientific research provides knowledge that is needed for innovations and breakthroughs for sustainability. The Leopold Leadership Program provides outstanding academic researchers with the skills, approaches, and theoretical frameworks for translating their knowledge to action and for catalyzing change to address …
Read MoreJoint Fire Science Program
FireScience.gov is your one-stop source to access fire science information, resources and funding announcements for scientists, fire practitioners and decision makers.
We are committed to improving your access to fire science information. On this site, you can:
-Apply for funding…
Read MoreIshmael: An Adventure of the Mind and Spirit
The narrator of this fictional tale by Daniel Quinn is a man in search for truth. He answers an ad in a local newspaper from a teacher looking for serious pupils, only to find himself alone in an abandoned office …
Read MoreLiving Downstream: An Ecologist’s Personal Investigation of Cancer and the Environment
Poet, biologist, and cancer survivor, Sandra Steingraber investigate the links between cancer and environmental toxins.The updated science in this exciting new edition strengthens the case for banning poisons now pervasive in our air, our food, and our bodies. Because synthetic …
Read MoreLeadership Training fro Early Career Researchers
A decade ago, the “sink or swim” culture was widespread in research. But academic institutions across the United States and Europe are now investing resources in helping young researchers gain the skills they need for climbing the career ladder. Top …
Read MoreLeaks in the pipeline
Family issues can cause women to abandon academia at every rung of the career ladder. Policy- makers have addressed some ways to get more women on to the lower rungs of the ladder. But solutions at the higher steps — …
Read MoreLearning Through Life: Balancing Graduate School and Motherhood
There are salient similarities among the cultures of mothering and academia. They both, for example, place harsh demands on one’s body and mind. If one were offered a purview into homes across the country in the wee hours of the …
Read MoreIndividual Development Plan: Science Careers
You have put a lot of time and effort into pursuing your PhD degree. Now it’s time to focus on how to leverage your expertise into a satisfying and productive career. An individual development plan (IDP) helps you explore career …
Read MoreImproving Your Success in AGU Honors
To reduce the barriers for engagement and success in this essential scientific enterprise, the American Geophysical Union is working to build a more transparent culture around the awards and nomination process.…
Read MoreInternational Contact and Research Performance
The scope of this article is to illuminate the relationship between degree of international contact and research performance among researchers in small countries. Comparisons are done between the natural, medical and social sciences, technology and the humanities. Three indicators on …
Read MoreInternational Collaborations in Behavioral and Social Sciences Research: Report of a Workshop
International collaborations in behavioral and social sciences research can be immensely fruitful. These collaborations enable researchers to go beyond a view of culture as a static variable to be examined in isolation or controlled in an analysis. They give substance …
Read MoreInfluential Women in Science and Scientific Publications
Three engaging women spoke of their lives and how all have worked to encourage other women in the sciences, from medicine to geosciences to astrophysics.
“In the early 1970s, Judith Curry was the only woman in her class at Northern …
Read MoreInformal relations
Women are more likely to realize career benefits from informal relationships with colleagues and others if they are in a discipline that comprises at least 15% women and are not simply tokens, finds
a study.…
Indecent advances
Surveys of sexual harassment and assault during field research and on campus reveal a hitherto secret problem.…
Read MoreIncreasing the Recruitment and Retention of Women in Academic Geosciences: Where We Are and Where We Should Be
Having just completed a Ph.D. in geological sciences and now preparing to embark on an academic career in geosciences, I am inspired by senior female professors who have successfully juggled raising families and climbing the ranks in academia. I often …
Read MoreHow to Leave Academia
Blog of peer-to-peer post academic support. From leaving, the transition, and career advice.…
Read MoreHow To Negotiate Your Tenure Track Offer
“The Professor Is In” gives advice on negotiating a tenure track offer.…
Read MoreHow to Start Tweeting (and Why You Might Want To)
Here are some tips about how to start Tweeting (and why you might want to) from the Chronicle of Higher Education.…
Read MoreHow to Write and Publish a Scientific Paper
An essential guide for succeeding in today’s competitive environment, this book provides beginning scientists and experienced researchers with practical advice on writing about their work and getting published. This new, updated edition discusses the latest print and Internet resources. Preparing, …
Read MoreHow to Write a Lot: A Practical Guide to Productive Academic Writing
All students and professors need to write, and many struggle to finish their stalled dissertations, journal articles, book chapters, or grant proposals. Writing is hard work and can be difficult to wedge into a frenetic academic schedule. In this practical, …
Read MoreHot: Living Through the Next Fifty Years on Earth
A fresh take on climate change by a renowned journalist driven to protect his daughter, your kids, and the next generation who’ll inherit the problem.…
Read MoreHow Elementary School Teachers’ Biases Can Discourage Girls From Math and Science
We know that women are underrepresented in math and science jobs. What we don’t know is why it happens.
There are various theories, and many of them focus on childhood. Parents and toy-makers discourage girls from studying math and science. …
Read MoreHousework Is an Academic Issue
Scientists are likely not to be interested in thinking about housework. Since René Descartes, Western culture has stringently separated matters of mind from body. Housework is, however, related to the life of the mind. Scientists wear clean clothes to the …
Read MoreImmigrants’ Success in Science Education and Careers
Written by ESWN member, Gyami Shrestha.
“The contribution of immigrants to the scientific and technological innovation and
progress of the United States is significant. Beyond the existing statistics describing their
status, this study explored the factors driving such immigrants’ success …
Igniting Girls’ Interest in Science
Girls’ interest, participation, and achievement in science decline as they advance in grade levels. For example, in fourth grade, the number of girls and boys who like math and science is about the same, but by eighth grade, twice as …
Read MoreGSA Congressional Science Fellowship
From the webpage: “Put your expertise to work helping shape science and technology policy on Capitol Hill. The GSA-USGS Congressional Science Fellow spends a year working as a staff member for a Member of Congress or congressional committee.” Part of …
Read MoreHenry Rutgers Professorship in Earth, Ocean and Atmospheric Sciences
Rutgers University – New Brunswick seeks an accomplished scientist to serve as the first Henry Rutgers Professor of Earth, Ocean and Atmospheric Sciences. The successful candidate will conduct innovative research as a member of Rutgers’ newly formed Institute of Earth, …
Read MoreHiring Authorities: Students and Recent Graduates
The Recent Graduates Program affords developmental experiences in the Federal Government intended to promote possible careers in the civil service to individuals who have recently graduated from qualifying educational institutions or programs. Successful applicants are placed in a dynamic, developmental …
Read MoreGoing Alt-Ac: How to Begin
Maybe you have become disenchanted with academia and/or the academic job search, or you have recently discovered the numerous possibilities outside of the university. Perhaps you have known from the beginning that a different path calls to you, or maybe …
Read MoreGoogle Faculty Research Awards
At Google, we are committed to developing new technologies to help our users find and use information. While we do significant in-house research and engineering, we also maintain strong ties with academic institutions worldwide pursuing innovative research in core areas …
Read MoreHot, Flat, and Crowded: Why We Need a Green Revolution–and How It Can Renew America
Pulitzer Prize-winning author Thomas Friedman explains how global warming, rapidly growing populations, and the astonishing expansion of the world’s middle class through globalization have produced a planet that is “hot, flat, and crowded.” Already the earth is being affected in …
Read MoreGreen Gone Wrong: How Our Economy Is Undermining the Environmental Revolution
In “Green Gone Wrong” environmental writer Heather Rogers blasts through the marketing buzz of big corporations and asks a simple question: Do today’s much-touted “green” products—carbon offsets, organic food, biofuels, and eco-friendly cars and homes—really work? Implicit in efforts to …
Read MoreHeatstroke: Nature in an Age of Global Warming
Around the world, climate change is indicated by natural events-especially in shifting migration routes-leading to results familiar (species die-out) and unexpected-like the discovery of a heretofore unprecedented “pizzly,” a bear cub with one polar parent and one grizzly. In this …
Read MoreHope for Graduate School Childbirth Policies
A majority of prospective and current female graduate students believe that academia is incompatible with a fulfilling family life. These concerns are exacerbated when institutional support regarding childbirth is unstated, incoherent across disciplines, or informal in nature.…
Read MoreHarassment in Science, Replicated
As an undergraduate student in biology, I spent several weeks in Costa Rica one summer with an older graduate student on a research project deep in the cloud forest. It was just the two of us, and upon arriving at …
Read MoreGlobally Diversifying the Workforce in Science and Engineering
To remain competitive in this global and technological world, academic institutions and corporations worldwide need to take serious steps to created a diverse, well-trained and multicultural workforce. To this end, the Global Alliance in Science and Engineering for Diversifying the …
Read MoreGeoscience Policy Internships and Fellowships with AGI
Be a Geoscience Policy Intern with the American Geosciences Institute! The Geoscience Policy Program represents the geoscience community in Washington DC, and actively works with Congress and federal agencies to foster sound public policy in areas that affect geoscientists, including …
Read MoreGeological Society of America Congressional Science Fellowship
Put your expertise to work helping shape science and technology policy on Capitol Hill. The GSA-USGS Congressional Science Fellow spends a year working as a staff member for a Member of Congress or congressional committee.
If you are an earth …
Read MoreGirls on Ice
A mountaineering adventure and learning experience for young women. Girls on Ice is a unique, FREE, wilderness science education program for high school girls. Each year two teams of 9 teenage girls and 3 instructors spend 12 days exploring and …
Read MoreGeological Society of America Awards
List of awards sponsored by the Geological Society of America. Awards are for a range of career stages and information on due date and nominations are on the website.…
Read MoreGlobal Warming: Understanding the Forecast
David Archer’s book is an accessible, entertaining, but detailed account of how scientists are trying to predict future climate change. It is an excellent book and should be the first port of call for anyone wanting to delve deeper into …
Read MoreGeoscience Education and Diversity: Vision for the Future and Strategies for Success
The second Geoscience Education Working Group (GEWG II) met on October 25-27, 2004 at the headquarters of the National Science Foundation (NSF) in Arlington, Virginia. The GEWG II evaluated the effectiveness of prior and ongoing geoscience E&D programs in the …
Read MoreGendered Innovations in Science and Engineering
The discussion of gender and science can take place on many levels. Some focus on issues of bias in who gets to do science. Others use much broader definitions, looking at the impact of gender on scientific questions and findings, …
Read MoreGirls’ and boys’ math performance now equal
Girls now equal the performance of boys on standard mathematics assessment tests, probably because girls now match boys in the number and level of math courses they take in elementary and high school, according to a new study by researchers …
Read MoreGender Relations as a Particular Form of Social Relations
The attempt by Foord and Gregson (1986) to reconceptualize ’patriarchy’ through realist methods of analysis is excellent. We find ourselves in particular agreement with their arguments concerning the superiority of the concept ’gender relations’ over ’gender roles’, and with their …
Read MoreGender progress (?)
Despite some success, the proportions of women in Nature’s pages and as referees are still too low.…
Read MoreFulbright Scholar Program
A program of the United States Department of State Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs…
Read MoreFulbright Canada
Foundation for education exchange between Canada and the United States of America…
Read MoreFrom Research to Manuscript: A Guide to Scientific Writing
Observations Plus Recipes It has been said that science is the orderly collection of facts about the natural world. Scientists, however, are wary of using the word ‘fact. ’ ‘Fact’ has the feeling of absoluteness and universality, whereas scientific observations …
Read MoreGeek Feminism Blog
The Geek Feminism blog exists to support, encourage, and discuss issues facing women in geek communities, including science and technology, gaming, SF fandom, and more.…
Read MoreGender Equality in Academia: Bad News from the Trenches, and Some Possible Solutions
Despite numerous scholarly discussions of gender politics, there is little work on the situation of women within the Academy itself. Several recent reports and the brouhaha surrounding public comments about innate limitations on women’s scientific abilities by the former president …
Read MoreGender issues related to graduate student attrition in two science departments
This study explored the gender issues that contributed to the differential attrition rate of men and women graduate students in two science departments (biology and chemistry) at a large research university. Departmental records were used to compute the student attrition …
Read MoreGender differences in conference presentations: a consequence of self-selection?
Women continue to be under-represented in the sciences, with their representation declining at each progressive academic level. These differences persist despite long- running policies to ameliorate gender inequity. We compared gender differences in exposure and visibility at an evolutionary biology …
Read MoreGender and Letters of Recommendation for Academia: Agentic and Communal Differences
In 2 studies that draw from the social role theory of sex differences, the authors investigated differences in agentic and communal characteristics in letters of recommendation for men and women for academic positions and whether such differences influenced selection decisions …
Read MoreFrom Summers to Sommers
Lest anyone think the academic world has settled into a consensus on the status of women in the sciences during the two years since a very public controversy thrust the issue onto the national stage, Christina Hoff Sommers all but …
Read MoreGender imbalance in US geoscience academia
Geoscientists explain women’s under-representation in our field along three dominant themes: the structure of academia, historically low numbers of women, and women’s views and choices. Which factor they perceive as most important depends overwhelmingly on their gender.…
Read MoreGender Differences at Critical Transitions in the Careers of Science, Engineering and Mathematics Faculty
The 1999 report, A Study on the Status of Women Faculty in Science at MIT, created a new level of awareness of the special challenges faced by women faculty in the sciences. Although not the first examination of the treatment …
Read MoreFaculty for the Future Program
The Schlumberger Foundation Faculty for the Future Program supports outstanding women from developing countries in their pursuit of advanced Graduate Studies in STEM at leading universities worldwide.
The program also has an extended mission to encourage community building through in-person …
Read MoreFinding a Job
The post graduate degree job hunt varies widely across the disciplines. The process for securing a job with an MBA will look much different than hunting for an academic home for your PhD. While excellent programs and professors will provide …
Read MoreFind Jobs: Vitae
The Chronicle of Higher Education contains job searches for careers in academia, educational organizations, for-profit organizations, and non-profits/government organizations.…
Read MoreFor gender equity at scholarly conferences
Check out this interesting Q&A about striving for gender equality at scientific conferences.…
Read MoreFemaleScienceProfessor Blog
Musings of a science professor at a large research university…
Read MoreFast Food Nation: The Dark Side of the All-American Meal
Fast food is so ubiquitous that it now seems as American, and harmless, as apple pie. But the industry’s drive for consolidation, homogenization, and speed has radically transformed America’s diet, landscape, economy, and workforce, often in insidiously destructive ways. In …
Read MoreField Notes from a Catastrophe: Man, Nature, and Climate Change
Elizabeth Kolbert’s environmental classic “Field Notes from a Catastrophe” first developed out of a groundbreaking, National Magazine Award-winning three-part series in The New Yorker. She expanded it into a still-concise yet richly researched and damning book about climate change: a …
Read MoreExpectations of brilliance underlie gender distributions across academic disciplines
The gender imbalance in STEM subjects dominates current debates about women’s underrepresentation in academia. However, women are well represented at the Ph.D. level in some sciences and poorly represented in some humanities (e.g., in 2011, 54% of U.S. Ph.D.’s in …
Read MoreFour Ways Women Stunt Their Careers Unintentionally
Looking back through scores of interviews we’ve conducted in the course of training and coaching engagements, and returning to the 360 reports, these are the four specific low-confidence behaviors cited by managers (male and female alike):
-Being overly modest
-Not …
Feminism & Geography: The Limits of Geographical Knowledge
Geography is a subject that throughout its history has been dominated by men; men have undertaken the heroic explorations that form the mythology of its foundation, men have written most of its texts, and, as many feminist geographers have remarked, …
Read MoreEnvironmental Protection Agency (EPA) Science to Achieve Results (STAR)
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), as part of its Science to Achieve Results (STAR) program, is offering Graduate Fellowships for master’s and doctoral level students in environmental fields of study.…
Read MoreEarthWorks-Jobs
EarthWorks-Jobs advertises worldwide employment opportunities in the geosciences, energy, and resource management.…
Read MoreEloquent Science: A Practical Guide to Becoming a Better Writer, Speaker and Scientist
Eloquent Science evolved from a workshop aimed at offering atmospheric science students formal guidance in communications, tailored for their eventual scientific careers. Drawing on advice from over twenty books and hundreds of other sources, this volume presents informative and often …
Read MoreEarth: The Operator’s Manual
Since the discovery of fire, humans have been energy users and always will be. And this is a good thing-our mastery of energy is what separates us from the rest of the animal kingdom and has allowed us to be …
Read MoreEPA Funding Opportunities
Supporting high quality research by the nation’s leading scientists and engineers to improve EPA’s scientific basis for decisions on national environmental issues.…
Read MoreEcological Society of America (ESA) awards
The Ecological Society of America (ESA) sponsors multiple awards annually for a range of career levels. ESA encourages nominations from traditionally underrepresented groups and also have an awards specifically for the commitment to increasing diversity of future ecologists. Information on …
Read MoreEncounters with the Archdruid
In “Encounters with the Archdruid” John McFee recounts three episodes in the life of famous environmental activist David Brower. The three people he encounters are a geologist, a land developer, and a dam builder.According to a review from the Wall …
Read MoreElite male faculty in the life sciences employ fewer women
Women make up over one-half of all doctoral recipients in biology-related fields but are vastly underrepresented at the faculty level in the life sciences. To explore the current causes of women’s underrepresentation in biology, we collected publicly accessible data from …
Read MoreEl tesoro de una científica rebelde
Ana Roqué de Duprey (1853-1933) was an educator, suffragist, and one of the founders of the University of Puerto Rico. This article talks about her book “Botánica antillana” in which she described more than 6,000 species of plants and trees. …
Read MoreEnough is Enough
Power differentials among individuals are inevitable and they certainly exist in academia, where power comes from the perception that an individual is more influential and has greater access to resources than the majority of their peer group. This influence then …
Read MoreEarly Career Geoscience Faculty: Teaching, Research, and Managing Your Career
If you’re just beginning (or about to begin) a career as a geoscience faculty member, you’re probably wondering how to balance teaching, research, and other demands on your time, so that you can succeed without having to sacrifice your sanity. …
Read MoreEarly Career Geoscience Faculty: Teaching, Research, and Managing Your Career
If you’re just beginning (or about to begin) a career as a geoscience faculty member, you’re probably wondering how to balance teaching, research, and other demands on your time, so that you can succeed without having to sacrifice your sanity. …
Read MoreEarly Career Geoscience Faculty: Teaching, Research, and Managing Your Career
If you’re just beginning (or about to begin) a career as a geoscience faculty member, you’re probably wondering how to balance teaching, research, and other demands on your time, so that you can succeed without having to sacrifice your sanity. …
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