| SCHOLARSHIPS,
GRANTS AND OTHER FUNDING SOURCES |
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This section links to Web sites that help you learn
about financial aid and scholarship resources.
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| DEVELOPING
WORKPLACE SKILLS |
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| This summer, Ventures Scholars are participating in
research opportunities, internship programs or working
at a summer job. Make sure you use this experience to
analyze and improve your workplace skills. |
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| Obviously, skill requirements will vary from job
to job and industry to industry. But certain skills
exist that many employers across a variety of professions
seek. Examine the following list of skills, checking
off those you believe you have developed. Think back
to classroom projects, campus activities, part-time
jobs, internships, and volunteer work.
Read more:
http://www.careers.pitt.edu/cybercounselor/jobtoolboxskills.htm
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| ARTICLES
ABOUT THE WORKPLACE |
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| This section links you to articles about the latest
trends in the workplace. |
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| Many engineering and IT opportunities are open
in the government, as well as in companies that offer
contract services to government agencies. A large proportion
of these jobs are related to defense or security, and
many African Americans have taken advantage of these
opportunities and are doing very well indeed, as this
article demonstrates.
Read more:
http://www.diversitycareers.com/articles/pro/05-junjul/fod_africanAmericans.htm
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| Engineers with RF credentials are truly in demand,
as are those with backgrounds that could translate into
RF, such as digital signal processing or applied electromagnetic
engineering. Because RF is rarely taught at school,
opportunities abound for techies with experience and
also for EEs and others who are eager to learn on the
job.
Read more:
http://www.diversitycareers.com/articles/pro/05-junjul/techUpdate_rfEng.htm
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| Stronger defense and commercial markets should
translate into employment numbers for the aerospace
sector. Engineers and IT pros in aerospace will see
more hiring this year, says David Napier, research director
of the Aerospace Industries Association (AIA, Arlington,
VA). That's true, he maintains, even though the industry
experienced a fifty-year low in employment in 2004.
Read more:
http://www.diversitycareers.com/articles/pro/05-aprmay/chgTech_aerospace.htm
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| The U.S. Department of Labor's Bureau of Labor
Statistics (http://stats.bls.gov) reports that nearly
40 percent of all engineering jobs are in manufacturing.
That includes every type of manufacturing, from the
largest, heaviest transportation and construction equipment
to the latest, lightest pants-pocket electronic bauble.
Read more:
http://www.diversitycareers.com/articles/pro/05-junjul/chgTech_manufacturing.htm
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| Erica Lewis was working as a systems integrator
in the Washington, D.C. area, when her responsibilities
at work slowly began to change. Her one-time role as
a strict technical professional was now shifting in
a business direction as well.
“I’d moved into more of a managerial role,
and the business side of things,” recalled Lewis,
an electrical engineering graduate from Howard University.
“I was dealing with people, budgets and funding
and I realized, ‘I have no training in this.’”
Read more:
http://www.multiculturaladvantage.com/contentmgt/anmviewer.asp?a=662&z=135&isasp=
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| PROVIDING
YOUR INFORMATION TO MEMBER INSTITUTIONS |
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This section links to the Ventures Scholars
Program Consortium members.
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| Information
Link
Would you like to learn about the programs and opportunities
at our member graduate/professional schools? Click
here to access information. If you correspond directly
with the contact person, please remember to mention
that you are a Ventures Scholar.
Questionnaire
If you would like to share your academic and career
goals with the member graduate and professional schools,
please go to http://www.venturescholar.org/undergrad/gradinquiry.asp
and you will receive a response from the selected institutions.
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| CONSIDERING
GRADUATE OR PROFESSIONAL SCHOOL |
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This section links to Web sites that will help you
better understand the graduate and professional school
planning process.
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The Veterinary Medical College Application Service
(VMCAS) is pleased to announce that the Web Application
for 2006 matriculation is now live. Applicants can create
an account by visiting http://www.aavmc.org
and following the links for VMCAS. All VMCAS content
at aavmc.org
has been updated. There you will find application tips
and hints, updated college descriptor pages, a prerequisite
comparison chart, and a general school information chart
among other helpful resources.
New to the application this year is an online, real-time
credit card feature. Applicants will now know immediately
whether or not their payment has been accepted or declined.
This new feature streamlines the payment process and
is easy to use. Applicants will still have the option
of paying by check if they wish.
Please note: When students pay by credit card they
will be made aware that their application will not be
accepted until a valid payment is processed.
Please also remember that the deadline has shifted
to midnight eastern time on Monday, October 3rd because
the traditional deadline of October 1st falls on a weekend
day. This change ensures that we have technical support
if needed.
The VMCAS Student and Advisor Hotline is standing by
to answer any questions about the 2006 application season.
Please feel free to contact us at (toll-free) 1-877-862-2740
or by email vmcas@aavmc.org.
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Applying to graduate school can be a daunting and
confusing process. On the following pages we will try
to demystify this endeavor. While we will primarily
address those students applying in the sciences, the
comments, for the most part, are equally applicable
to students applying to any graduate field.
Read more:
http://www.theleadershipalliance.org/matriarch/documents/TIPSguide.pdf
(PDF File)
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The Minority Access to Research Careers (MARC) Program
was created by the National Institute of General Medical
Sciences (NIGMS) to increase the number of biomedical
and behavioral scientists from minority groups. A key
objective of the MARC Program is the encouragement of
minority students in the pursuit of graduate training
leading to the Ph.D. degree in the biomedical and behavioral
sciences.
Read more:
https://ns2.faseb.org/marc/
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| THE
PERSONAL SIDE |
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| This section links to Web sites that share informational
resources about undergraduate students' issues and concerns. |
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| I am now finishing up my first year and am considering
taking a Planned Educational Leave next year. My grades
have been poor and I lack any motivation to do well.
There may be a number of reasons, like not getting into
my top choice school last year, or not wanting to commit
to a major (and consequently, a career). I really didn't
feel ready to jump into college right after high school,
but the pressure to do so was definitely there.
Read more:
http://www.virtuallyadvising.com/qa/midstream20020519mh.html
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FOR
FRESHMEN ONLY
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| This section links to articles pertaining to the transition
from high school to college. |
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| When writing a college essay, you must be selective
in discussing an author's views, since not everything
in the text is relevant to a particular issue or question.
Rather than merely summarizing what you've read, you
must organize your essay by showing how the author's
views relate to a particular question or issue. Where
possible, clearly distinguish the author's conclusions
from the reasoning supporting the conclusions.
Read more:
http://www.mnstate.edu/gracyk/expectations%20of%20students/essayexpectations.htm
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| NEWS
AND VIEWS FROM VENTURES SCHOLARS |
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| Would you like to share information or resources with
fellow Ventures Scholars? Possibly you would like to highlight
a program or opportunity. You can also discuss an issue
or concern. Feel free to submit an article for the VSP
biweekly e-newsletter. Go to http://www.venturescholar.org/hs/answers/submission.asp. |
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| About the Author: La'Chia Harrison
is from Bowie, Maryland and is an incoming freshman
at Northeastern University. She will enroll in an exploratory
health sciences program.
High School Achievements
I graduated from Meade Senior High School as a member
of the National Honor Society. I graduated in the top
5% of my class and received the Maryland Certificate
of Merit. I was named Social Studies Student of the
year and I received a $10,000 scholarship from Northeastern
University.
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EXPLORING
MATH AND SCIENCE CAREERS
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| These articles provide you with some insight into career
paths of students in math and science career pathways. |
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| So, you've decided it's time to start thinking
about what you want to do with the rest of your life.
In many ways, making career plans is similar to planning
a vacation. Your first step will be to choose a destination.
Where do you want to go on your trip? Skiing in the
Rockies? Disneyland? A tour of Europe? A safari in Africa?
Even if you know that a ski trip would be your perfect
vacation, how do you decide on the best ski resort?
Unless you do some "homework," your vacation
may end up being less than you had hoped for.
Read more:
http://www.nextsteps.org/career/index.html
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| Making informed decisions about specialty choice
can be challenging without current and trustworthy information
about the medical specialty you are researching. This
section provides credible resources that help you find
answers to questions about a career in family medicine.
In this section, you can watch video profiles of family
physicians in action, peruse practice diaries, read
family physician profiles and review the most current
facts about the specialty.
Read more:
http://fmignet.aafp.org/familymedicine.xml
For additional information, contact:
Jay Fetter
Student Interest/Special Constituencies Manager
American Academy of Family Physicians
Phone: (913) 906-6000 x6724
E-mail: jfetter@aafp.org
Zori Rodriguez
Student Interest/Special Constituencies Manager
American Academy of Family Physicians
Phone: (913) 906-6000 x4134
Email: Zrodrigu@aafp.org
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Occupational therapists help people of all ages
regain, develop, or master everyday skills in order
to live independent, productive, and satisfying lives.
Read more:
http://www.otjoblink.org/links/link05.asp
For additional information contact:
Frank E. Gainer, MHS, OTR/L, FAOTA
Student Liaison
American Occupational Therapy Association
Phone: (301) 652-6611 ext. 2051
E-mail: fgainer@aota.org
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As a child, Scott Williams loved math, and when
his mother told him that great mathematicians are educated
at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT),
he immediately told her he would be doing mathematical
research there one day.
Williams's career plans were unthinkable to his parents.
Although they both held graduate degrees, as African
Americans living in pre-civil-rights America, "all
they could do was teach," as Williams puts it.
"They did not even realize research was an option
for me."
Read more:
http://nextwave.sciencemag.org/cgi/content/full/2005/02/03/6
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Contrary to popular opinion, minorities seeking
success in the workplace regularly encounter a variety
of roadblocks that prevent them from reaching their
full potential. Many find themselves watched by their
superiors. They take a wait and see position with their
minority employees while they make sure that their white
mail peers are “fast tracked” early in their
careers, thus enabling them to reach executive levels
fairly quickly. The successes of minorities are more
often attributed to affirmative action or luck, and
not skill and talent as with their white peers. To overcome
these obstacles, minorities often find they must perform
above and beyond what is expected in order to get the
same treatment of others that have lower levels of performance,
and still many continue to earn significantly less than
their white male peers.
Read more:
http://www.multiculturaladvantage.com/contentmgt/anmviewer.asp?a=840&z=135&isasp
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Before finishing her Ph.D. in math at the University
of California, Berkeley (UCB), Concha Gómez (pictured
left) envisioned her dream job: "I would be in
a large research university and teach math and be around
mathematicians. But my job would be to focus on students
of color in science." Five years later, that's
precisely her role at the University of Wisconsin, Madison
(UWM). Gómez is not only a math teacher, she
supports and helps retain underrepresented minority
students in science, math, and engineering as director
of the Wisconsin Emerging Scholars (WES) program. As
a Latina mathematician, Gómez is, without question,
a rare find, but one who is committed to helping others
follow in her footsteps.
Read more:
http://nextwave.sciencemag.org/cgi/content/full/2005/05/12/9
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Once in a while, at informal gatherings, Francisco
Samaniego notices an unmistakable cringe in people's
faces when they learn that he is a statistician. But
he wouldn't change his career for anything. For more
than three decades, Samaniego has been doing his dream
job as a statistics professor at the University of California-Davis
(UCD). He has inspired several students to take on statistics
careers, and he hopes there will be more, especially
from underrepresented minority groups. His plan is to
simply keep doing what he has been: "being the
best that I can be."
Read more:
http://nextwave.sciencemag.org/cgi/content/full/2005/03/10/9
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| UPCOMING
EVENTS AND OPPORTUNITIES |
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| This section links to various summer research and internship
programs available to Ventures Scholars as well as upcoming
scholarship opportunities. |
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| Recently, the Ventures Scholars Program asked Ventures
Scholar graduates to provide information about next
steps. Some are heading to the workplace, while others
will be going to graduate/professional school.
We are eager to develop an e-program that enables
undergraduate Ventures Scholars to communicate with
college graduates. Also, college graduates will have
a venue to communicate with like-minded graduates. Additional
information is forthcoming!
If you are a college graduate and you would like to
participate, please remember to provide us with your
information. Go to http://www.venturescholar.org/undergrad/graduate.php.
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| DiversityInc Magazine, a business publication and
Web site on the business benefits of diversity, has
released the results of its third annual "Top 50
Companies for Diversity" study. The list also names
the "Top 10 Companies for Diversity Recruitment
and Retention," and the "Top 10 Companies
for Supplier Diversity," both areas that are particularly
significant indications of a company's commitment to
diversity.
Read more:
http://www.multiculturaladvantage.com/contentmgt/anmviewer.asp?a=693&z=57&isasp=
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