Hometown: Baltimore, MD Engineering Major: Electrical Engineering Degree Granting Institution(s): Hampton University, Georgia Tech Job Title: Staff Circuit Design Engineer, PowerPC Embedded Processor Development, IBM, Research Triangle Park, NC Job Responsibilities: My position involves the detailed design of VLSI (Very Large Scale Integration) custom circuits for microprocessors at the transisto...
For much of my life, I have searched for my own cultural identity. Coming from a family with a white father and a Mexican mother, I have been confused as to where my roots really are. Because I grew up with my mother, I was raised in the Mexican culture and am a Mexican at heart, although the color of my skin is comparatively light. So I have involved myself with minority educational and outreach...
One of the most challenging experiences I have encountered in my life thus far is to be separated from my comfort zone. Although being displaced from one's normal environment and culture can be stressful, there are ways to handle the situation that result in positive and productive gains in personal development. This kind of separation first occurred with me in Southeast Asia, while I was studyin...
Ecologists on a Mission to Save the World At Home on the Range Role Model for Ecology's Generation X A Reluctant Warrior Citizen-Scientist Guru For months, David Wilcove peppered the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (FWS) with letters protesting the agency's plans to save the threatened Utah prairie dog. Wilcove, a conservation biologist, and his colleagues at Environmental Defense in Washington, D...
Connections are key to obtaining a challenging research experience. And scientific conferences are an ideal place to make those connections. Conferences allow you to network with peers, colleagues, and experts in your field. In addition, you are able to attend workshops, panel discussions, poster sessions, and technical presentations describing the latest innovations in science. In this article, ...
Reposted from Science magazine, November 8, 2002 The news photos from San Giuliano di Puglia were heart-wrenching: a rainbow of backpacks brightening the cold ground; piles of concrete rubble strewn amid unscathed apartment buildings. Until last week the litter was an elementary school. Then an earthquake struck southern Italy, leveling the building and killing dozens of its youngest pupils. To B...
When it comes to practical matters such as managing money, scientific training seems woefully inadequate. Although you may be an ace at balancing your personal checkbook each month, this doesn't mean that you are automatically qualified to prepare a scientific budget. If your budget is not realistic or in line with other current grants, you could run into serious stumbling blocks during the grant...
High school was always a breeze for me. Looking back, I can easily say I wish that I had put more effort into learning and had gotten more involved in my classes and in science and math clubs. The effort would have helped reduce the shock of the amount of work required for college life. Although I achieved a cumulative GPA of 3.8 by the end of my senior year at Aliso Niguel High School, I know th...
EURODOC EXCHANGE HOME Before the Ph.D. British undergraduate (bachelor's) degrees are usually of 3 or 4 years duration. It is also possible to undertake a 4-year enhanced undergraduate degree giving a master's level qualification (Mchem, etc), although this is distinctively different in nature to a postgraduate master's level qualification. A number of UK institutions encourage students, particul...
Ecologists on a Mission to Save the World A New Breed of Scientist-Advocate Emerges Role Model for Ecology's Generation X A Reluctant Warrior Citizen-Scientist Guru If there is a Shangri-La where conservation biologists and resource managers work in harmony, it just might be Illinois. While the two worlds often are out of sync elsewhere ( see main text), a close-knit collaboration has nurtured th...
EURODOC EXCHANGE HOME Their numbers may be growing--today more than 14,000 doctorates are awarded each year, compared with 7500 in 1995--but for many doctoral students in the UK, the biggest problem is knowing what to expect. Many standards and provisions are still largely ad hoc. Fortunately there are signs that things could be about to get better. The UK's Higher Education Funding Councils are ...
