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Training Minority Scientists: Mind Matters: Stress, an Uninvited Lab Visitor

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Highlighting Best Practices in mentoring a diverse generation of young scientists, and showcasing career opportunities for them. Thursday, February 5, 2009. Mind Matters: Stress, an Uninvited Lab Visitor. Most workplaces are stressful, to varying degrees. In one survey, one-fourth of all employees said that they view their jobs as the number-one stressor in their lives. Another survey found that three-fourths of employees believe that on-the-job stress is greater than it was a generation ago.

Training Minority Scientists: Life's bitter-sweet symphony

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Highlighting Best Practices in mentoring a diverse generation of young scientists, and showcasing career opportunities for them. Thursday, February 5, 2009. An orchestra integrates disparate instrumental sections to achieve beautiful musical harmony. In the same way, for personal and professional success I seek to balance family life with the demands and pressures of a postdoc's life. Conducting experiments, completing data analysis, writing and hearing cries of "Daddy, you're home! Hope in the recession.

Training Minority Scientists: December 2007

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Highlighting Best Practices in mentoring a diverse generation of young scientists, and showcasing career opportunities for them. Tuesday, December 11, 2007. Salaries for scientists and engineers remain healthy — but differ by field, sector and country. What attracts researchers to a specific country or institution? Posted by cbr web editor. Tuesday, December 4, 2007. Girls Make History by Sweeping Top Honors at a Science Contest. Janelle Schlossberger and Amanda Marinoff, both 17 and seniors at Plainview...

Training Minority Scientists: Where's that girl power?

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Highlighting Best Practices in mentoring a diverse generation of young scientists, and showcasing career opportunities for them. Thursday, February 5, 2009. Where's that girl power? Women in university classrooms succeed at similar rates to their male peers, but researchers find a disconnect once women get into the workforce. Midmorning examines why success in school is not a predictor of success in the workplace for women. Linda Hallman: Executive director of the American Association of University Women.

Training Minority Scientists: August 2008

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Highlighting Best Practices in mentoring a diverse generation of young scientists, and showcasing career opportunities for them. Friday, August 22, 2008. Fish Tale Has DNA Hook: Students Find Bad Labels. One evening at a sushi restaurant, Ms. Stoeckle recalled asking her father, “Could you bar code sushi? Dr Stoeckle replied, “Yeah, I think you could — and if you did that, I think you’d be the first ones.”. Ms Stoeckle, who is now 19, was intrigued. She enlisted Ms. Strauss, who is now 18.