Association for Women in Science: AWIS Career Center
The Association for Women in Science Career Center features job opportunities across all STEM disciplines and employment sectors.…
Read MoreAMS Student Travel Grants
Travel grants are available for senior undergraduate and graduate students to attend AMS meetings held in the U.S. or Canada. AMS recognizes the considerable benefit that students can gain from attending conferences even if they are not presenting a paper …
Read MoreAssociation for Women Geoscientists Awards
The Association for Women Geoscientists offers several awards annually to women at a range of career levels. Information on the awards and nomination procedures are available on the website.…
Read MoreArticles from Nature about women in science
Science remains institutionally sexist. Despite some progress, women scientists are still paid less, promoted less frequently, win fewer grants and are more likely to leave research than similarly qualified men. This special issue of Nature takes a hard look at …
Read MoreAlternative Careers in Science, Second Edition: Leaving the Ivory Tower (Scientific Survival Skills)
Book by Cynthia Robbins-Roth containing advice for those dissatisfied with work, but not with science.
* An insider’s look at the wide range of job opportunities for scientists yearning to leave the lab
* First-person stories from researchers who successfully …
American Geosciences Institute Policy Webpage
Web resources about earth science policy and potential careers.…
Read MoreAmerican Geophysical Union Science Policy Webpage
Web resources about earth science policy and potential careers.…
Read MoreAmerican Chemical Society Public Policy Fellowships
The American Chemical Society (ACS) offers two public policy fellowships. The ACS Congressional Fellowship is a one-year opportunity; two ACS members per year are placed on Capitol Hill as part of the larger, AAAS-administered program. The ACS Science Policy Fellowship …
Read MoreAmerican Geosciences Institute Internships and Fellowships
The American Geosciences Institute (AGI) offers several internships and fellowships in the areas of policy and communication. They include:
-Geoscience Policy Internship (12-14 week internship for BS/BA or MS/MA students/recent graduates)
-AGI/Schlumberger Fellowship in Geoscience Communication (6-12 month appointment for …
American Geophysical Union Congressional Science Fellowship
The American Geophysical Union (AGU) Congressional Science Fellowship program places highly qualified, accomplished scientists, engineers, and other professionals in the offices of either an individual Member of Congress or on a committee for a one-year assignment. Past Fellows have been …
Read MoreAmerican Meteorological Society Congressional Science Fellowship
The American Meteorological Society (AMS) Congressional Science Fellowship makes it possible for one scientist to spend a full year in the U.S. Congress working on science policy issues. (S)he will also be a member of the AAAS Science and Technology …
Read MoreAmerican Association for the Advancement of Science
The American Association for the Advancement of Science has put together excellent resources about communicating science. They also offer various webinars on the topic, which can be found at http://membercentral.aaas.org/multimedia/webinars
Scientists and engineers often find that they need to discuss …
Read MoreAmerican Geophysical Union Honors (AGU)
The American Geophysical Union sponsors a number of awards and honors every year for excellence at a range of career levels. Information on the individual awards and nomination deadlines are available on the website.…
Read MoreAmerican Meteorological Society (AMS) awards
The American Meteorological Society (AMS) offers over 36 awards annually for a range of disciplines and career levels. Information on awards and deadlines are found on the website.…
Read MoreAmerican Association of Aerosol Research
The American Association of Aerosol Research offers several awards for a range of career levels. Information on deadlines and award eligibility is available on the website.…
Read MoreAmerican Association for the Advancement of Science Awards
The American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAS) offers a variety of awards for a range of career levels and disciplines. Information on the awards and nomination procedures are available on the website.…
Read MoreAGI Geoscience Policy Internships
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 water, energy, and mineral resources; geologic hazards, environmental protection, and …
Read MoreACS Public Policy Fellowships
From the page: “The American Chemical Society (ACS) offers two public policy fellowships. The ACS Congressional Fellowship is a one-year opportunity; two ACS members per year are placed on Capitol Hill as part of the larger, AAAS-administered program. The ACS …
Read MoreAGI Policy Fellowships
The American Geosciences Institute offers policy-focused fellowships working on policy “in areas that affect geoscientists, including water, energy, and mineral resources; geologic hazards, environmental protection, and federal funding for geoscience research and education.” Geoscience Policy Internship is for bachelors or …
Read MoreAGU Congressional Science Fellowships
From the webpage: “The demands on Congress to establish sound public policy on scientific issues have never been greater, the effects of which are far-reaching. In response to these congressional needs, AGU is pleased to have sponsored a Congressional Science …
Read MoreAAAS Mass Media Science & Engineering Fellows Program
From the webpage: “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 …
Read MoreACS Six Tips for Writing an Effective Teaching Statement
From the webpage: “Teaching is a major component of almost all faculty positions. Surprisingly, then, even an almost complete lack of experience and training–in teaching and student learning–will probably not prove to be a major obstacle to your obtaining a …
Read MoreAAAS Mass Media Sciene and Engineering Fellows Program
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. Fellows often …
Read MoreAAAS Science and Technology Policy Fellowships
AAAS Science and Technology Policy Fellowships are opportunities for accomplished accomplished scientists and engineers to participate in and contribute to the federal policymaking process while learning firsthand about the intersection of science and policy.
Must hold a doctoral level degree …
Read MoreAGU Career Center
The American Geophysical Union (AGU) has a free Jobs list-serve.…
Read MoreAdvancing Institutional Transformation for Minority Women in Academia: A Conference
While the numbers of women pursuing higher education in science, engineering and medicine has grown (including the number of minority women) there is still a relatively small number of minority women faculty in all institutions of higher education including minority …
Read MoreAcademic Coaching and Writing
Academic Coaching and Writing (ACW) is a group of professional academic coaches and consultants dedicated to supporting your academic writing and career needs. Our services include research consulting and coaching for dissertation and academic writing; career and professional growth (including …
Read MoreAll About That Space
Video on NASA Youtube channel “ReelNASA” set to music from musician Meghan Trainor’s mega hit “All About That Bass”. Includes shots of space and dance routines featuring interns at NASA’s Johnson Space Center…
Read More12 Things Successful Women Do Differently
Every woman has her own definition of success. But there are certain traits that most successful women share.…
Read MoreA Little Advice From 32,000 Graduate Students
When you entered graduate school, did most doctoral students want an academic job and think they would be able to get one? According to 32,000 students who participated last year in the National Doctoral Program Survey, that was the common …
Read More5 Tips to a Great Skype Interview
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Read More7 Tips for Masterful Negotiating
Whether you’re trying to close a major account or get a better rate from a vendor, here are expert pointers on how to win in negotiations.…
Read More30 Useful Social Media Monitoring Tools
If you work in online marketing or social media, you know how difficult it can be to try and be everywhere at once. Social media monitoring tools can be extremely useful to help brands, companies and individuals keep up with …
Read More10 Tips for Women Students in Science Fields
There is growing concern at American colleges about why so few women study science, technology, engineering, or math (the so-called “STEM” fields). Though women constitute more than half of undergraduates, according to a study of college students in 2009, 138,000 …
Read More10 Tips for Women Students in Science Fields
A recent and quite interesting meta-study, sponsored by the National Science Foundation and the American Association of University Women (AAUW), located eight factors that contribute to the disparity between the number of female and male college students electing the sciences: …
Read More10 simple rules to get a grant via PLOS
This is an editorial from PLOS to try to help scientists in making the next academic career step—becoming a young principal investigator. Leo Chalupa has joined us in putting together ten simple rules for getting grants, based on our many …
Read More“Negotiation Academy” Podcasts
Each podcast is about 10 minutes long, and has a mini-lesson, based on a Columbia University MBA class in negotiation.
Negotiation often comes up on ESWN discussions, and was identified as a major professional development topic in our surveys (in …
Read More10 Steps to Becoming a Better Writer
A blog: 10 Steps to Becoming a Better Writer…
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