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2009 Starting Salaries - No Increase over 2008
Grad-School Blues Grad schools are hotbeds of anxiety and depression. But administrators and faculty members can improve the situation, too. More Details.
STEM Degree Production in International Context
US Economy Losing Competitive Edge, Study Finds The United States ranked 6th among 40 countries and regions among overall innovation and competitiveness; 40th in terms of progress made over the last decade; 6th in venture capital investment; 5th in corporate R&D spending; and 4th in science and technology researchers. More Details
Hispanic Enrollment In Schools, Colleges Rising Census data released on March 3 showed that Hispanics make up nearly one-fourth of the nation's kindergartners, about one-fifth of all K-12 students; and 12 percent of full-time undergraduate and graduate students. Still, that is short of Hispanics' 15 percent representation in the total U.S. population. More Details
Puerto Rico Ranks No. 1 Again in Engineering: Bachelor’s Degrees Granted to URMs in Electrical Engineering, Top 25 Institutions
Technology Review Reports "Ten Emerging Technologies of 2009." The March/April, 2009 issue of Technology Review reports its "Ten Emerging Technologies of 2009," technologies that it classifies as having "the potential to change lives around the world." More Details
Many Stimulus-Related Jobs Require Some Form Of Education Report indicates 54 percent of the 3.7 million jobs created with Obama’s economic stimulus bill will require at least a postsecondary certificate, and nearly 8 percent will require an advanced degree. More Details
Location-Tracking Tools to Track Down Your TA's Pop open your laptop and see students locations on a Google map, represented as push-pin-like icons scattered around the campus. More Details
Stimulus Package Adds H-1B Restrictions Obama’s economic stimulus package imposes higher government scrutiny and discourages companies that receive federal bailouts from hiring skilled foreign workers if they use the H-1B visa program. More Details
Saturday-Morning Cartoons as Graduate Therapy A workshop series that helps graduate students in engineering through the often-daunting task of writing a dissertation or master's thesis. More Details
New Group Aims to Be National Voice for Adjunct Faculty Members With nearly 70 percent of professors at the nation’s colleges and universities untenured, The National Coalition for Adjunct Equity, invites adjuncts to participate in the creation of its new organization. More Details
Study Finds Mixed Benefits To Campus Diversity The Diversity Challenge: Social Identity and Intergroup Relations on the College Campus, based on a long-term study on the effects of diversity on about 2,000 students at UCLA, suggests that neither the multicultural policies nor the general multiethnic environment had profound effects on the intergroup attitudes of the students, and that students became "less politically conservative, ethnocentric, and racist.” More Details
Balance Sheet: Staying Healthy, and Even Happy, in Graduate School Expert recommendation to filling life outside the library or lab to mitigate the stresses of graduate-student life. More Details.
The Grades are In - 2008: Is California Higher Education Measuring Up? The third report in a series analyzing the performance of California higher education. The state is failing to provide a new generation of low-income, Latino and immigrant students with a college education. More Details.
AAUP Leader Calls for Moratorium on 'U.S. News' College Rankings People in academe need to shift their thinking away from a market-oriented competition for status and toward the goal of serving the public good. More Details.
Best Places to Work for Postdocs, 2009 The Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research topped The Scientist latest list of the best American locations for postdocs in the life sciences. More Details
Americans Increasingly See College as Essential and Worry More About Access, Poll Finds Increasing numbers (from 30 percent in 2000 to 55 percent in 2008) say that obtaining a college degree is the only way to succeed in America. More Details.
National Academy of Engineering Elects 74 New Members and Foreign Associates The NAE announced that it had elected 65 new members and nine new foreign associates, bringing its total membership in the United States to 2,246 and the number of foreign associates to 197. More Details.
Doctoral, Masters Students Help Middle Schoolers Learn About Math, Science Through Fellowship The University of Colorado Denver program, Transforming Experiences, provides fellowships to place doctoral and masters students in middle schools to show the inter-relationship between math and science. More Details
Stimulus, Job Security May Be Contributing To Rise In Engineering Majors Boston colleges and universities are reporting a rise in engineer majors, a possible side effect of President Obama's plan to implement building and infrastructure projects as part of the Stimulus bill. More Details
Recession May Help Women Surpass Men In Workforce The reports that, as the recession continues, "women are poised to surpass men on the nation's payrolls, taking the majority for the first time in American history." More Details
Foreign Students' Visa Issues A Growing Concern Several hundred thousand students who need a visa to study in the United States, particularly for students in STEM are reporting increasing difficulty in obtaining them. More Details
Study Attributes Fewer Women In STEM Careers To Lifestyle Choices Study suggests that women don't choose careers in math-intensive fields because they want the flexibility to raise children, or because they prefer other fields of science that are less math-intensive, and not because they lack mathematical ability More Details
Parsing the Decision Letter Why is it so difficult to determine whether a journal editor has accepted or rejected your article? More Details.
From Student to Scholar A senior professor writes a new guide for graduate students on pursuing a faculty career. More Details.
The Demand for Diversity Institutional commitment to diversity is integral to creating a welcoming and supportive culture for new faculty members. More Details.
Engineering Image Problem Could Fuel Shortage According to a new ASQ and Harris Interactive survey, 85% of kids say they don’t want to enter the engineering field. Only 20% of parents have or will encourage their children to consider engineering. More Details.
Obama's Higher Education Goal Seen As Ambitious But Achievable. Highlights of President Obama's Budget for Education and Research for FY2010. More Details
Meeting Obama's Higher Ed Goal Lumina Foundation Report Provides 50-State Roadmap to Increasing College Attainment. More Details.
Stimulus Seen As Early Indicator Of Obama's Commitment To Science An early indicator of Obama's stance on science has been roughly $21.5 billion set aside for R&D. More Details.
High Tuition/High Aid: Colleges Boosting Financial Aid To Maintain Enrollment New York Times front page reports a wide range of private schools need full enrollment to survive, and they are anxious to prevent top students from going elsewhere. More Details. |
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Advancing Hispanic Excellence in Technology, Engineering, Math and Science |
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AHETEMS Scholarships — Deadline April 1, 2009 New AHETEMS Dissertation Scholarship for doctoral candidates PLUS general scholarships for masters and doctoral students up to $3,000. More Details. NNSA Internships — Deadline May 1, 2009 Apply now for a fall graduate internship with the National Nuclear Security Administration More Details. Graduate Student Mentors Needed!!! MUST (Motivating Undergraduates in Science and Technology) is currently recruiting STEM graduate students and faculty to serve as mentors to underrepresented students, who are MUST Scholars. Mentors will receive a Certificate of Recognition, are eligible for the Presidential Service Award, will be highlighted on the MUST Consortium Web sites and may be nominated for the NASA MUST Distinguished Mentor Award. More Details. White House Internship Program — Deadline March 22 This hands-on program is designed to mentor and cultivate today’s young leaders and provide a unique opportunity to gain job experience and an inside look at the life of White House staff. White House Internships are full-time unpaid positions and participants are responsible for arranging their own transportation and housing for the duration of the program. More Details. |
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Francisco Evangelista, Jr. Doctoral Candidate Civil Engineering - Infrastructure of Transportation & Computer Science and Engineering University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign
Current Research: Originally from Brazil, Francisco is conducting his doctoral research at University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign (UIUC) in the area of transportation infrastructure. Specifically, he is working in two applied research projects. The first is to Stress-Strain predictions on airfield rigid pavements for the FAA; the second project sponsored by NSF is related to Fracture Mechanics of Functionally Graded Concrete Materials (FGCM) applied to concrete pavements systems. |
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AVANZANDO! - Congratulations SHPE Graduate Students |
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SHPE Graduate Student Newsletter Information for Today’s Latino Graduate Students |
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Welcome to the Graduate Student Newsletter with news and information for Latino graduate students. If you have any content suggestions, please write to graduate@shpe.org. |
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You are invited to submit nominations for our Graduate Student of the Month, which highlights Latino/a graduate students who are excelling in their academics, research, teaching and community service. Please submit your resume/CV and your biographical sketch to graduate@shpe.org for consideration. |
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MARK YOUR CALENDAR !!!! AHETEMS will pilot a Graduate Leadership Institute as part of the SHPE National Institute for Leadership Advancement (NILA), from August 6 - 8, 2009 in Fort Worth, Texas. Stay tuned for more details
The application for the AHETEMS Travel Grants to attend the 2009 AHETEMS Graduate Institute in Washington DC, from Oct. 29 - 30, 2009 will be available in April. Hispanic full-time masters and doctoral students are encouraged to apply for this two-day academic and professional development event. More Details. . |