Happy Wednesday MEGA members!

As many of you may know, the university has canceled all events till April 6th. We hope that everyone is safe and staying healthy. Please see below for additional resources and opportunities. 

1. Additional resources for those affected by the COVID-19 closure

2. Industry Symposiums

3. Oracle Careers- Software Developer Position

4.Instructions for to the listserv

5. Wednesday’s Fun Fact

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1. Additional resources for those affected by the COVID-19 closure

Hello all,

As I’m sure you all know by now, in order to proactively reduce the spread of COVID-19, Penn State has suspended all in-person classes, asked students to not return to their dorms, and decided to keep dining halls closed until April 3rd.
As we have seen at other universities, we predict this will result in a lot of housing and food insecurity, and gaps in access to education for many graduate and undergraduate students.
To help combat this, we will be asking for volunteers to offer any aide they can, including, for example a couch to sleep on, meals, grocery store pick-ups, rides (eg. to libraries for internet access), tutoring to help with online learning, and anything else you can think of! We are also asking what do you need and how can we help?
Anyone in need of additional help or resources let us know using this form: COVID-19 at PSU: Request for help/ resources
Anyone who can offer help let us know using this form: COVID-19 at PSU: Offer of Help/ Resources
Please, share these forms as widely as possible– this is not only for the use of graduate students.
We are additionally preparing an official response, which will include requests and recommendations for Penn State to mitigate negative impacts of these new policies; we will release this soon. If you or anyone you know has any concerns about the impacts of these policies to you, please let us know.
In solidarity, and with well-washed hands,
The Coalition of Graduate Employees

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2. Industry Symposiums

Hi,

 

Here are two industrial symposiums that might be of interest to your membership.

 

Dow’s Building Engineering & Science Talent Symposium. A two-day symposium primarily intended for African American, Hispanic, and Native American US doctoral and postdoctoral scientists to learn more about exciting science at Dow.

 

For more information (see attached flyer) and https://corporate.dow.com/en-us/careers/work-at-dow/best-symposium.html

 

Applications Deadline April 15, 2020. If you have any questions please email us: BEST@dow.com

 

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3M Raising Influence in Science & Engineering (R.I.S.E) is primarily intended to introduce emerging female and/or underrepresented science and engineering graduate talent to wide range of rewarding careers in research and development at one of the world’s most recognized innovation companies. Date: June 8 – 10, 2020, Location: St. Paul, MN, Application Deadline: Wednesday, April 1, 2020

 

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If you need anything else, let me know.

 

Best,

Tiffany

 

Tiffany A. Mathews, Ph.D.
Program Co-Director for Education & Outreach
Penn State MRSEC: Center for Nanoscale Science
Office: 325 Davey Lab
814.867.2461 (phone)

Mail: Department of Physics

104 Davey Lab Box #22

University Park, PA 16802

 

Pronouns: she, her, hers

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3. Oracle Careers – Software Developer Position

Hi Penn State Multicultural Engineering Graduate Association!

I want to let you know that Oracle has Software Developer roles available working in our Oracle Cloud Infrastructure team! The roles are for MS level students. The job is posted on the campus job board, but I’ve also attached the job description here. Please feel free to share with your MS members.

Best regards,

Victoria Davis | College Recruiter

Mobile: +1 925.388.9090
Oracle Campus Talent Advisory

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4. Instructions for submitting to the listserv

 

Please submit the email with the subject line ‘MEGA Listserv submission’ to Cierra Chandler at cbc5718@psu.edu

Please submit with complete text and any fliers or images that can be directly copied into the email.

Please submit by 5:00 PM Tuesday prior to the MEGA update Wednesday.



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5. Wednesday Fun Fact 

There are soo many other songs to sing besides happy birthday while washing your hands effectively, such as Bohemian Rhapsody by Queen and Baby Shark by Pinkfong. – Independent
 
Have fun washing your hands and staying healthy! 
 
 
Have a great week!
 
Best Regards,
 
Cierra Chandler
Doctoral Student, Material Science and Engineering 
MEGA Web Master 
Pennsylvania State University