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MorgannaLeFey

Mar 8

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Public Service and Women in Tech

I just attended an EPA user’s conference for a solid waste management program called RCRA. The EPA has system called RCRAInfo, which is where states submit the pertinent data for consumption by a wide variety of individuals.

During one of the panel discussions I was struck by how many women there are working on the technical side of things for this application. There were fifteen individuals introduced as members of the team doing the actual work on the software. Ten of them were women (and, because women ARE good at math, I don’t need to tell you how many men that (read more...)

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clara

Mar 5

10:01 PM

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Sunny Friday Links

Here in Boston, it’s one of the first spring-like days: hooray! Here are some links for your weekend enjoyment:

  • Brown University’s Artemis Program for 9th grade girls interested in science and tech is seeking funding.
  • The National Center for Women & Information Technology is offering an award for high school girls interested in computing.
  • Rebecca Skloot talks
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jennybmurphy

Mar 4

8:41 PM

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The Thrilling Adventures of Lovelace and Babbage

There is a lovely homage to the history of Ada Lovelace and Charles Babbage created by Syndney Padua. It is a comic strip, very entertaining and pretty well researched. I believe it was created for Ada Lovelace day last year. Enjoy! http://sydneypadua.com/2dgoggles/lovelace-the-origin-2/

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gwenrose

Feb 28

6:15 PM

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new media, new you?

This quarter’s issue of Bitch Magazine had an interesting article about Facebook and how we (or perhaps some of us?) construct our lives on it in order to impress our former classmates, work friends, and what-have-you, as part of the 21st century ‘keeping up with the Johnsons’ sort of rigmarole. For me, on Facebook at least, that’s fairly true. My Facebook is my “public face” on the internet – it’s the one that’s tied to my real name, for one thing, and it’s one of the few sites online that I don’t tie to my Livejournal, where, for the (read more...)

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clara

Feb 26

9:00 PM

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links for a gray february friday

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clara

Feb 25

7:03 PM

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clara

Feb 23

6:34 PM

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Resources for Beginning Programmers

In almost all areas of STEM, there’s a good chance that you’ll need to learn a little coding at some point to crunch your fruit fly data or make your robot go. Even if it’s not totally necessary for your projects, it’s often good to know some programming anyway — it’ll give you an advantage in your lab or office, it’s a great skill that can get you plenty of jobs on its own, and more importantly, it’s fun to learn and do.

Think you might want to learn programming, but don’t know where to start? Here are some great, (mostly) (read more...)

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yrret107

Feb 20

8:12 AM

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My advice- Do an internship!

My advice to anyone who wants to get a job in pharmaceutical research is to get experience in school. Do a co-op or an internship! Or work in one of your professor’s labs. In 2006, when I graduated it was tough to get a job. I can’t imagine how hard it is now. But the one thing they look for is EXPERIENCE. Something, anything. Yes, we all took classes that has some experience but it’s not applied experience. Lab experience is what they are looking for.

I know a few friends who didn’t want to delay their graduation because of taking (read more...)

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Awesome! I have seen this before and I still really like it.

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Even though I am not a kid, but I still enjoyed the Secret Ada game – good fun!

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Congrats jabfish, that is great news!

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