On November 28, I visited the Auburn University NOBCChE chapter and gave a talk during their monthly chapter meeting. I presented my most requested workshop, “Building your Brand in STEM”. Although the students were in the middle of preparing for finals, there were ove...

Dear NOBCChE Family,

Thanksgiving is a time to express gratitude for all of our blessings. It is a time to celebrate those who arrived on this land to seek their freedom. That remembrance gives us pause to reflect on our values and what is important to us and our missio...

ISTG - The Innovative Science & Technology Group sat down with President Talitha Hampton and Board Chair Dr. Malinda Gilmore to learn more about their background and discuss ways to increase the number of minorities in STEM. Below is a snapshot of their conversati...

"Minorities in STEM have the drive and the entrepreneurial spirit to start businesses, many of us just need the exposure."

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Can you believe that we are halfway through the first quarter of the year? I hope that you had a safe and enjoyable holiday season and that 2016 is off to a great start.

For NOBCChE, it was a busy 3rd and 4th quarter with the transition to the new administration, launc...

The VA ACS section Minority Affairs Committee partnered with NOBCChE through a series of events to increase the professionalism of students in chemistry and to bring awareness of the value of belonging to chemistry professional organizations. Initiating this collaborat...

President Talitha Hampton attended the Council of Scientific Society Presidents (CSSP) December and participated on a CSSP organized panel to address issues of recruiting members to our societies, retaining them, and mentoring them.  The four panelists included:

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On December 5, 2015, I had the great pleasure of kicking off the holiday season with the Johns Hopkins University NOBCChE Student Chapter at their annual holiday party. There was delicious food, dancing, hilarious Karaoke (thankfully there is no video of this), and a g...

From the Georgetown News Site The Hoya

Director of the Drug Discovery Program at the Georgetown Lombardi Comprehensive Cancer Center Milton Brown received the annual Percy L. Julian Award for his work in new drug discovery and testing against molecular targets on Nov. 1...

The National Institutes of Health (NIH) gave out three-quarters of a billion dollars this year as part of a long-running federal research program to encourage innovation among small businesses. But for African-American scientists, the Small Business Innovation Researc...