30 April 2021
by: Andrea Korte The Emerging Researchers National Conference in STEM draws undergraduate and graduate student researchers from around the country. | Michael J. Colella for AAAS The Emerging Researchers National Conference in STEM draws undergraduate and graduate student researchers from around the country. | Michael J. Colella for AAAS
In the second installment in a two-part series, learn how AAAS serves undergraduates, graduate students and new Ph.D. holders – and how you can take part in AAAS programs to enhance your education or kick-start a career that draws upon your scientific expertise.
FINDING A COMMUNITY AMONG EMERGING RESEARCHERS
For more than a decade, the Emerging Researchers National Conference in STEM has brought together undergraduate and graduate student researchers in STEM – especially those from underrepresented minority groups and those with disabilities – and given them opportunities to develop critical communication ski
PHOTO: MICHELLE M. MURPHY/NASA GLENN RESEARCH CENTER
When Kelly Gilkey was in high school, she sent an email to astronaut Pamela Melroy, asking if it might be possible for a person with a hearing loss like Gilkey to become a NASA astronaut.
“Amazingly, she responded and said the sky was the limit,” Gilkey recalled. “If NASA could fly astronauts who needed glasses to see clearly, who was to say what might be possible some day?”
Gilkey got her first chance to work for NASA as a participant in Entry Point!, the American Association for the Advancement of Science s internship program for undergraduate and graduate students with disabilities in science, engineering, mathematics, and computer science. As an Entry Point! intern, she worked at NASA Glenn Research Center and NASA contractor Wyle Laboratories.
6 January 2021
by: Andrea Korte AAAS carried out its mission in 2020 in the face of a pandemic. | Clockwise from left: Michael Colella/Colella Digital; University of California, Davis; AAAS; courtesy Odiney Álvarez-Campos; Robb Cohen Photography & Video; Steve Ringman/The Seattle Times AAAS carried out its mission in 2020 in the face of a pandemic. | Clockwise from left: Michael Colella/Colella Digital; University of California, Davis; AAAS; courtesy Odiney Álvarez-Campos; Robb Cohen Photography & Video; Steve Ringman/The Seattle Times
Throughout a year when the world’s eyes were upon science, the American Association for the Advancement of Science responded to the COVID-19 pandemic that dominated headlines throughout 2020 with evidence-based research, took steps toward systemic change as the national conversation turned to diversity, equity and inclusion, and pursued a wide variety of activities to advance science and serve society. Although the pandemic took