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Conferencia y Hackathon sobre equidad en educación STEM

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Invitamos a estudiantes, profesores, profesionales y miembros del público a registrarse para participar de la primera conferencia de "Project Kaleidoscope" de la AACU a realizarse en PR. La misma tocará temas de equidad en las disciplinas STEM, cómo lograr mayor participación de estudiantes hispanos y féminas en las ciencias, mejores prácticas para la enseñanza de STEM, y cómo lograr un ambiente más inclusivo en los campos científicos y tecnológicos.

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Request for Information (RFI): Strategies to Enhance Diversity in the Physician-Scientist Workforce

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Request for Information (RFI): Strategies to Enhance Diversity in the Physician-Scientist Workforce, NOT-OD-16-027, http://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/notice-files/NOT-OD-16-027.html. 

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Seeking Academic Administrator to Direct La Casa, Yale's Latino Cultural Center (All fields considered, not just STEM)

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Favor ver abajo un anuncio de trabajo que podría ser de relevancia para muchos de nuestros miembros que tienen experiencia administrando o manejando programas académicos enfocados en proveer servicios a estudiantes, sobretodo aquelos con trasfondos Latinos.

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Yale bets on Ciencia Puerto Rico's model

Submitted on 9 February 2015 - 4:59pm

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The newly formed Yale Ciencia Initiative will expand access to scientific knowledge, experiences, and careers among communities or populations traditionally underrepresented in, or underserved by, the scientific enterprise, the university has announced.

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Angela Ginorio: Building bridges between feminism and science

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Dr. Angela Ginorio (right) with her PhD student Noralis Rodríguez Coss (Department of Gender, Women and Sexuality Studies at the University of Washington).
Dr. Angela Ginorio (right) with her PhD student Noralis Rodríguez Coss (Department of Gender, Women and Sexuality Studies at the University of Washington).

During the last century, women have experienced great progress in science, technology, engineering and math (STEM) fields. However, we still face barriers that contribute to our underrepresentation in these disciplines.

Summer Institute in Cardiovascular Genetic Epidemiology at Washington University in St Louis

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Applications are being accepted for the all-expense paid Summer Institute in Cardiovascular Genetic Epidemiology at Washington University in St Louis, School of Medicine. I have included a link below to a flyer and brochure.  I would request that you print and post the poster and brochure prominently and if you know of contacts who may fit this program, please forward them the links or provide me with their information and I would be happy to send them some information.

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NIH busca evaluadores de trasfondos diversos - Excelente oportunidad de conocer más sobre la agencia

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Saludos a todos,

El NIH actualmente esta buscando mayor representación de grupos minoritarios en las ciencias entre los evaluadores pares (peer reviewers) de propuestas de fondos. Servir de evaluador para el NIH es la mejor manera de adquirir información clave que puede mejorar tus propuestas de fondos.

Aquellos interesados en participar como evaluadores, favor someter a NIH su información a través de este enlace antes del 14 de diciembre: 

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Making Astronomy Accessible for the Visually Impaired

Submitted on 22 September 2014 - 9:42pm

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This story was originally published on Voices, Scientific American Network Blogs.

A couple of years ago, one of my thesis mentors sought visually impaired scientists working at a major space science agency in the United States. I was surprised when he reported that there were several visually impaired engineers, but almost no visually impaired scientists like me.

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Program Officer, Science Education and Diversity – Burroughs Wellcome Fund

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POSITION ANNOUNCEMENT
Program Officer
Science Education and Diversity

The Burroughs Wellcome Fund, an independent private foundation established to advance biomedical research and education, is seeking to hire a program officer to manage its competitive award program in education and diversity, as well as develop and administer other award programs.  BWF is located in Research Triangle Park, N.C. and annually awards $35 million in grants.
 

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NIH Center for Scientific Review Sponsors Two Challenge[dot]Gov Competitions

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The National Institutes of Health, Center for Scientific Review, in collaboration with the ACD Diversity Working Group Subcommittee on Peer Review, has announced two America COMPETES Act Challenges. These contests solicit input from the scientific community and other stakeholders to aid our efforts to address the problem of racial disparities in NIH R01 grant funding. 

 

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