MentorNet News – November 2009 Volume 1

Recommended Opportunities

2009-2010 NSF Graduate Research Fellowship Program (GRFP)

The National Science Foundation (NSF) has announced the opening of the 2009-2010 competition for the Graduate Research Fellowship Program (GRFP). The NSF GRFP is one of the most prestigious science and engineering fellowship programs in the United States. Awardees are provided three years of graduate school support. Read more

Corporate Research Postdoctoral Fellowship Program
The goal of the Corporate Research Postdoctoral Fellowship Program, administered by the American Society for Engineering Education (ASEE), is to encourage the involvement of creative and highly trained engineers in areas of great interest and relevance to the nation as we face current economic challenges. With generous support from the National Science Foundation (NSF), this program provides recent engineering PhD recipients the opportunity to conduct postdoctoral research in a corporate setting. Read more

Society for Women's Health Research Accepting Nominations for Prize for Contributions to Women's Health
Nominations are now being accepted for the 2010 Society for Women’s Health Research Medtronic Prize for Scientific Contributions to Women’s Health. The annual $75,000 prize recognizes a woman scientist or engineer for her contributions to women’s health. It also encourages women scientists and engineers to work on issues uniquely related to women’s health and rewards women who have devoted a significant part of their careers to this area. Read more

Recommended Online Reading

Talking Yourself Up: How to Score Points During an Interview and What to do After It's Over
Anthony Brown has always been good at pharmaceutical medicine, but recently he's become a pro at being interviewed as well. Just 1 month and two interviews after graduating from St. John's University in Queens, New York with a bachelor's degree in toxicology and chemistry in May 2005, Brown landed a job in the pharmaceutical industry as a quality assurance professional, doing safety assessment and regulatory work for the company's pharmaceutical and biotech clients. Read more

The Persuasion Gap: Engineering Educators May be Missing the Chance to Influence Graduates' Career Choices
Do students who complete engineering majors pursue engineering-related careers? Not necessarily. Wrestling with career choices, graduates often reach impulsive and transitory decisions. Institutions and family wield important influence, and students can be disproportionately swayed by single experiences, be they internships, interactions with faculty, or advice from mentors. Yet seldom, it seems, do they get career guidance from engineering educators. Read more

ACM and Partners Applaud "National Computer Science Education Week" to Advance Computing’s Role in Preparing Skilled Workers and Creating Career Opportunities

ACM (the Association for Computing Machinery) joins with several partners from the computing community to commend the U.S. House of Representatives’ passage of a resolution to raise the profile of computer science as a transforming industry that drives technology innovation and bolsters economic productivity. The resolution, H. RES. 558, sponsored by Congressmen Vernon Ehlers (R-MI) and Jared Polis (D-CO), designates the week of December 7 as “National Computer Science Education Week.” Read more

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