Search Results: SF declaration 2012

Minorities Affairs Committee Travel Grantees

…NIH/MARC or an NSF grant administered by the ASCB National Office. In 1993, thirty travel grants were made to minority graduate students, postdoctoral fellows and junior faculty. From 1994 through…

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Workforce Diversity Statement

…Committee created a subcommittee on postdoctoral training. The subcommittee was focused on developing mentoring and training opportunities along with providing networking opportunities. In 2012, the ASCB Council elevated the subcommittee…

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“People in this country have had enough of experts”: How Brexit Could Affect Scientists in the UK

…dependent on EU funding. In 2012, the UK spent only 1.63% of its GDP on research, lagging behind other countries with large research output. Jo Johnson, UK Science Minister, claimed…

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Women in STEM: Still So Few and Far Between

…PNAS, one study in 2012 and another in 2014. But the pipeline may not be the (only) issue affecting women in STEM, and this issue may also not apply to…

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Stem Cells: Future Scientific and Medical Opportunities

A Report of the ASCB Stem Cell Task Force Download as PDF During the spring of 2012, the American Society for Cell Biology (ASCB) leadership organized a retreat with several…

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Omar A. Quintero-Carmona Named Winner of 2021 Prize for Excellence in Inclusivity

…article in the ASCB Newsletter, and contribute an essay in Molecular Biology of the Cell. Quintero joined the faculty at the University of Richmond in 2012. He earned a BS…

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The key ingredients for a successful science outreach event

Have you ever taken part in a science outreach event? Three years ago, I heard the expression “science outreach” for the first time. A friend of mine asked me to…

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Best Practices in Science Communication

…on how to present yourself to others to make your communication more effective: Kuhnke E. Body Language for Dummies. For Dummies Series. 2012. Wiley. Books by Randy Olson, scientist turned…

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Students in Greensburg, PA, GASP at the possibility of careers in science

The year is 2012. A high school student in Greensburg, PA, desperately wants to become a scientist and decides to complete a scientific research project before she graduates to gain…

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