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 Shaping a career in science has never been a solitary experience. Extending one's hand to help others experience the thrill of discovery and to forge a successful scientific career is one way AAAS advances science and serves society.
AAAS career development initiatives provide information, training,
and opportunities for collaboration among educators, scientists,
policy makers, professional organizations, non-profits, government,
and industries regardless of geographic origin.
The Center for Careers in Science and Technology is a collaboration
of AAAS departments and its affiliated organizations. Collectively, these groups offer a wide range of programs and services for AAAS members and the larger science community.
Partners include:
Featured AAAS Career Programs
- Communicating Science: Tools for Scientists and Engineers
Traditional scientific training typically does not prepare scientists and engineers to be effective communicators outside of academia. AAAS has partnered with the National Science Foundation to provide resources for scientists and engineers, both online and through in-person workshops to help researchers communicate more broadly with the public.
- AAAS Mentor Awards
AAAS has two categories of Mentor Awards: the Lifetime Mentor Award and the Mentor Award. Both honor individuals who during their careers demonstrate extraordinary leadership to increase the participation of underrepresented groups in the science and engineering PhD workforce. These groups include: women of all racial or ethnic groups; African American, Native American, and Hispanic men; and people with disabilities. We are now seeking nominations for the 2008 AAAS Mentor Awards. All nominations are due by July 31st, 2008.
- Understanding Interventions that Encourage Minorities to Pursue Research Careers
This conference focuses on the development and recognition of a multidisciplinary community of scholars in the behavioral, social and economic sciences who will present their research and participate in discussions that will address issues of funding, collaboration, and the development of outlets for disseminating interventions research.
Featured Career Programs and Resources
- Using Women in Science Blogs to Encourage Girls in Science
FairerScience has a new resource called "Building Web Communities." It includes three multi media presentations from the 2008 AAAS session "Blogs, Boards and Bonding: Using Electronic Communities To Support Women in Science." Hear Annalee Newitz present on "Women. Blogs and Science", Rosa Carson talk about "Using Action Boards to Support Women in Science", and Claudia Morell provides an international perspective speaking about "Using Electronic Communities To Support Women in Science".
 For more information about AAAS Center for Careers, contact us
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