External Resources for STEMM:
- Being Human in STEM: For students and faculty – An initiative that aims to foster a more inclusive, supportive STEM community by helping students, faculty, and staff collaboratively develop a framework to understand and navigate diverse identities in the classroom, lab, and beyond.
- Yale Ciencia Academy for Career Development – This is a free, year-long program that provides doctoral students with opportunities for mentoring, peer support and networking, career advancement skills, and ways to contribute to their communities through science outreach. There are several benefits and components to this program. If you are interested in learning more and applying, visit their website here.
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Making Room for Diverse Populations in STEM: – 101 Resources to Help You Improve STEM Engagement at Work and School. The theme of ‘making room’ involves increasing understanding and acting with intention to improve STEM spaces for diverse populations. Specifically, we want to highlight people with disabilities, people from the LGBTQ+ community, BIPOC, Women and a group often overlooked in STEM, those with strong religious convictions.
- Online Resources for Women in STEM – While there are many exciting opportunities for women in STEM and 48% of STEM doctorates were female in 2018, most were in health sciences (77%). Less than 30% were in math, computer science, or engineering. To improve this low percentage of women with PhDs in these fields, this guide was put together to help find scholarships, identify solutions to challenges, and give tips on mentoring other women. Finally there is a comprehensive list of resources for women in STEM including scholarships and a Q&A with two professors.
Resources for starting researchers:
Lab notebook:
- Ten Tips For Keeping a Better Lab Notebook (video)
- Keeping a Laboratory Notebook (video) (slides)
- How to keep a lab notebook (article)
- Maintaining a laboratory notebook (blog)
Research Posters:
- How to make an academic poster in PowerPoint (video):
- Making a better research poster Generation 1 (video), Generation 2 (video)
- How to prepare a scientific poster (article)
- How to create a better research poster in less time (video)
- How to make an academic poster (journal article)
Research Presentations:
- How to Design Research Presentation – Academic Presentation Tutorial (video)
- How to… give a research presentation (website)
- A Good Method to Prepare and Use Transparencies for Research Presentations (journal article)
- How to Give Exciting Research Presentations (video)
- Presenting research: Effective paper presentations and impressive poster presentations (journal article)
Writing a scientific paper:
- Scientific Writing Made Easy: A Step-by-Step Guide to Undergraduate Writing in the Biological Sciences (journal article)
- How to write a scientific paper (video)
- 10 Simple Steps to Writing a Scientific Paper (website)
- How to Write a Scientific Paper (video
For College Students and Postbacs:
- Interviewing Basics
- Applying to the NIH Postbac Program
- Marcela Hernandez’s mentoring journey
Getting to Professional (Medical/Dental) School:
- Applying to Medical School: Assessing Your Application (6/25/2013) an overview of everything you need to know to get into medical school.
- Interviewing for Professional School (9/21/2009)
- Advice from the Trenches: Getting to Professional School (6/30/2009)
MD/PhD: Is It for You? (6/30/2009) - Applying to Medical School (1/18/2011)
- Writing Personal Statements for Professional School (3-29-12; NOTE that you may need to click on “CC” to make the closed captioning visible.)
- Preparing for the MCAT 2015 (NOTE: this is a YouTube video)
- Medical School Application Schedule for Admission in Fall 2019 (handout)
- Identifying Medical Schools for Your AMCAS Application (handout)
- Guidelines for REAPPLYING to Medical School (handout)
Videos about NIH Training Programs:
- HiSTEP, the High School Scientific Training and Enrichment Program
- Applying to CCSEP, the Community College Summer Enrichment Program
- How to Apply to the NIH Undergraduate Scholarship Program
- Applying to the Summer Internship Program
- Applying to the NIH Postbac Program
- Graduate Partnerships Program – Individual Partnership