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Way to go..Canada #federalbudget2024 #gradstudents #scholarships "To foster the next generation of research talent, Budget 2024 proposes to provide $825 million over five years, starting in 2024-25, with $199.8 million per year ongoing, to increase the annual value of master's and doctoral student scholarships to $27,000 and $40,000, respectively, and post-doctoral fellowships to $70,000. This will also increase the number of research scholarships and fellowships provided, building to approximately 1,720 more graduate students or fellows benefiting each year" more on https://lnkd.in/gMmnUdjm

𝐈𝐯𝐲 𝐋𝐞𝐚𝐠𝐮𝐞 𝐜𝐨𝐥𝐥𝐞𝐠𝐞𝐬 𝐦𝐚𝐲 𝐧𝐨𝐭 𝐛𝐞 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐛𝐞𝐬𝐭 𝐟𝐢𝐭 𝐟𝐨𝐫 𝐲𝐨𝐮!!! 🎓 𝐖𝐡𝐲 𝐈 𝐑𝐞𝐣𝐞𝐜𝐭𝐞𝐝 𝐈𝐯𝐲 𝐂𝐨𝐥𝐥𝐞𝐠𝐞𝐬 𝐭𝐨 𝐉𝐨𝐢𝐧 𝐔𝐂𝐒𝐅: 1. 𝐅𝐢𝐭 𝐎𝐯𝐞𝐫 𝐅𝐚𝐦𝐞: High rankings are great, but the best fit matters more. UCSF's innovative research in stem cell biology resonated with me. 2. 𝐂𝐨𝐥𝐥𝐚𝐛𝐨𝐫𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐯𝐞 𝐕𝐢𝐛𝐞𝐬: The collaborative and supportive environment at UCSF felt right. It's where I knew I could thrive. 3. 𝐏𝐚𝐬𝐬𝐢𝐨𝐧-𝐃𝐫𝐢𝐯𝐞𝐧 𝐏𝐚𝐭𝐡: I followed my passion and found the perfect place to nurture it. UCSF's focus aligns perfectly with my career goals. 💡 𝐊𝐞𝐲 𝐓𝐚𝐤𝐞𝐚𝐰𝐚𝐲𝐬: - Rankings don’t define your success. - Find a place where you can grow, contribute, and be happy. - Trust your instincts and choose what’s best for your personal and professional journey. Remember, it's your path—make it uniquely yours! 🚀 For more content like this follow Bivas Nag. #FindingYourFit #phd #opportunity #reachout #AcademicJourney #ResearchCareer #MastersToPhD #NetworkingTips #CareerAdvice #GradSchoolLife #Motivation #PhDApplication #PhDStudent #JobSearch #Success #Application #PersonalDevelopment #PhDPosition #Europe #Mindset #Students #PhDLife #Experiences #Growth #GradStudent #sop #GraduateSchool #abroadapplication

Really interesting to look at this recent ranking of the "Top 50 Universities Led by Women" - the international comparison speaks to questions we're trying to answer in our Northwestern Buffett Institute for Global Affairs working group, empowering the next generation of women leaders around the world. The US claims only 15 of the 50 top women-led institutions (30%), despite taking up 44% of the spots on the international university rankings list. It's interesting to examine those countries where this trend reverses. The UK is close, with UK institutions capturing 16% of the top women-led universities and 14% of the overall top university rankings. Germany has 12% of the top women-led universities but only 6% of the overall top rankings, and Australia lands at 8% of the top women-led and only 2% overall. The winner, I think, is the Netherlands claiming 12% of the top women-led universities despite an overall ranking claim of only 2%.

Excited to share that I have been selected as 1 of 10 recipients of the Chancellor's Undergraduate Research Fellowship for the Fall 2024 semester through the University of Pittsburgh's David C. Frederick Honors College! A little bit about my planned project: All organisms have evolved mechanisms to combat cellular stress, with many of these stress response pathways being conserved from single cellular yeast to the more complex human system. The integrated stress response (ISR) pathway is one such evolutionarily conserved mechanism. In complex organisms, certain tissue types (e.g. adipose) rely on constitutive activation of ISR signaling for their homeostatic function. ATF4 (Activating Transcription Factor 4) is the best studied transcription factor downstream of ISR signaling and has been demonstrated to be required for adipocyte function in organisms across the evolutionary spectrum including humans, mice, zebrafish and fruit flies (Drosophila). Our lab has recently found that ISR signaling is sexually dimorphic, with fat tissues from female Drosophila showing higher levels of ATF4 activity than males. We determined that such dimorphic ATF4 signaling is due to higher transcript levels of ATF4 in females, which in turn is orchestrated by the canonical sex-determination pathway. Through my work in the Vasudevan lab, I plan to investigate the physiological consequences of dimorphic ATF4 activity in Drosophila. Specifically, I will investigate whether higher ATF4 signaling in female adipocytes better equips them to handle amino acid deprivation, and in turn, cellular stress.

The latest federal Higher Education Research and Development Survey puts University of Southern California within an exclusive pack of 13 private universities whose research expenditures top $1 billion annually. Research expenditures are a nationally recognized measure of a university’s discovery and innovation enterprise. The report shows that USC ranks first on the West Coast and fifth in the nation with $112 million in research spending in computer and information sciences in 2022. Among private universities, in research spending on social sciences — a category that includes economics, political science, public policy analysis and gerontology — USC’s $76 million trails only Harvard University. #usuniversities #universities #university #uscedu #uscindia #innnovation #research #researchers #researchanddevelopment #researchexcellence #economics #politicalscience #publicpolicy #educationusa #usief

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Why female STEM PhDs are less likely to become new inventors Why It Matters Female STEM PhD students are less likely to become new inventors than their male counterparts — a statistic that’s bad news for both inclusive innovation and commercial science.

Call for book chapters! As part of the NSF-funded project Leveraging, Enhancing and Developing Biology (LED-BIO) Scientific Societies Shedding Light on Persistent Cultural Challenges, project leaders are organizing a book—a collection of chapters that highlight scientific or professional societies (all STEM disciplines, sizes, and regions welcome) as agents of change for more inclusive STEM communities and workforce. The goal is for each chapter to be a case study to facilitate the discussion of practical considerations when trying to make our disciplines and practice more inclusive. Lexington Books, a publisher affiliated with Rowman & Littlefield, is very interested in the book and has commissioned a book proposal. As part of the proposal process, the editors are collecting titles, abstracts, authors bylines, and author bios. These will all be included in the proposal. Why case studies? Case studies can be a powerful tool in revealing process and implementation details that can help societies take action. With this in mind the editors envision that each chapter/case study will be composed of the following sections: 🔹Title 🔹Author Byline 🔹Case Abstract (alongside keywords for indexing) Society Context or Setting (authors provide context about the society in which the described approach was implemented or tried—for example, size, region, specific STEM discipline, and/or its relevant history) 🔹Case Study (this is meant to be the main narrative and include relevant scenarios; you can divide this narrative into different sections or parts as needed to layer information or present different aspects of the case study to the reader. If you have data to share as part of the case study, this is welcome, although not required) 🔹Discussion and Reflection Questions (we hope these questions will facilitate discussion and conversation of interested communities once the book is published) 🔹References Cited To secure a spot for your chapter/case study in the book proposal, please submit drafts of the first three sections by December 1st, 2023. With this in mind, as you make your decisions and think about ideas for case studies, the editors want to make themselves available to meet and answer all your questions. 🔹11/7/23; 11am-12 pm EST and 3-4 pm EST 🔹11/21/23; 11am-12 pm EST and 3-4 pm EST If you are interested in meeting and none of these dates work for you, appointments can be set up. Thanks so much for your interest. For more information, to register for an interest session, or if you have any questions, please contact Verónica A. Segarra [email protected]. 

The U.S. National Science Foundation has awarded teams from South Dakota, New Hampshire and Maine approximately $8 million each through the Established Program to Stimulate Competitive Research Collaborations for Optimizing Research Ecosystems Research Infrastructure Improvement program. This initiative aims to enhance states' research and development competitiveness and drive scientific progress nationwide. "By boosting their state's R&D capabilities, these teams are poised to drive use-inspired research and transform STEM education and workforce development within their regions." This investment underscores our commitment to advancing research and building robust research infrastructure hubs, fostering innovative ecosystems, and creating pathways for economic growth and societal impact,” said NSF Director Sethuraman Panchanathan. Teams will spend the next four years collaborating across diverse academic, governmental, industry and nonprofit sectors to address core research infrastructure needs. Their goal is to cultivate self-sustaining research ecosystems and foster pathways to STEM fields, driving both economic growth and societal impact. Learn more: https://bit.ly/3WEZImf #EPSCoR

How inspiring is this? A glimpse into the future of STEM. The Regeneron Science Talent Search 2024, America's oldest and most prestigious STEM competition for high school seniors, announced that Achyuta Rajaram won first place 🥇 and $250,000 for developing an automatic method to discover which parts of a computer model are involved in decision-making. This knowledge sheds light on what these algorithms are "thinking," which can help make them more effective, fair and safe. 🥈 Second place and $175,000 went to Thomas Cong, 17, of Ossining, NY for investigating the rapid growth of certain cancers and whether information controlling metabolism is primarily controlled by the expression of genetic information. 🥉 Third place and $150,000 went to Michelle Wei, 17, of San Jose, CA for finding that second-order cone programming problems can be solved more quickly than previously thought by converting the original problem into a modified form. Learn more about Regeneron Science Talent Search at https://lnkd.in/dQsCcPnC.