U.S. Environment Protection Agency

U.S. EPA Climate Change Recruitment Webinars for Students in STEM: Thursday, January 12, 2023 at 1PM ET (10AM PT)

Interested in air and well-studied in the sciences? This event is for you! We’re seeking climate-minded students and recent grads to apply for dozens of openings across the nation. We’ll show you how to have a successful application and what opportunities we have available in real time! No pre-registration is required.

Thursday, January 12 at 1PM ET (10AM PT): Click HERE to join

View the Flyer here: Virtual Job Fair

Advisory Council on Historic Preservation

In the summer of 2022, the Advisory Council on Historic Preservation (ACHP) partnered with USDA Forest Service’s Heritage Program and the White House Initiative on Advancing Educational Equity, Excellence, and Economic Opportunity through Historically Black Colleges and Universities to bring anthropology students from HBCUs into the forest and introduce them to careers in the Heritage Program. Watch this video: https://youtu.be/M6fYjnv32JA

Preserve the Past, build for the Future is a webinar series produced by the Advisory Council on Historic Preservation, an independent federal agency, designed to introduce college students to historic preservation and related fields. In 2023, the series will consist of five webinars. Register for all or individual webinars with one convenient link! We hope you will join us in the conversation.

January 25, 2023 – 3 p.m. ET – Mobilizing Community Preservation. Join this webinar to hear about the experiences of leaders in this area, how to encourage volunteerism, and how to get started on preserving your own community’s heritage.

February 22, 2023 – 3 p.m. ET — Saving Black History: Gullah-Geechee Islands. This webinar addresses the islands’ history, what is happening there now, and the work being done to preserve the culture.

March 22, 2023 – 3 p.m. ET — Create a Future Through Careers in Historic Preservation. This webinar will focus on providing students and others interested in historic preservation and related fields with insight into the needs of the profession, as well as the skills they should have to move into these positions. Also, learn what steps you should take to become a part of the preservation community.  

April 26, 2023 – 3 p.m. ET — History Right on Your Campus: Preserving Historic HBCUs. This webinar talks about how HBCUs, communities, and advocacy groups are working together to preserve and restore these historic campus buildings and the significance of the buildings in the lives of students.  

Blue Campaign: Virtual Human Trafficking Youth Forum

January is National Human Trafficking Prevention Month (HTPM), and U.S. Department of Homeland Security’s Blue Campaign will be hosting a virtual Human Trafficking Youth Forum. The virtual forum will be held on January 31, 2023, via Goto Webinar from 10:00am–4:15pm EST.

Caretakers and Adults who work with youth are invited to attend this webinar to hear from experts in the human trafficking and youth space. Featured speakers and panelists include representatives from U.S. Department of Justice, National Center of Missing and Exploited Children (NCMEC), National Human Trafficking Hotline – Polaris, Love 146, and U.S. Department of Homeland Security. Presentations and panel discussions will involve:

• Youth and online safety
• Online human trafficking case study
• Human trafficking trends and how they affect the youth population
• Criminalization of youth victims
• Victim Assistance Program
• Available resources for youth and individuals working with youth

REGISTER HERE to join us on January 31, and we welcome you to share this event with other caretakers and adults working with youth in your organization and community. Note that registration is free yet required to attend this webinar, and additional details regarding agenda sessions will be distributed at a later time.

Howard University Spring 2023 Recruitment

Fair 1: Howard University Spring 2023 All Majors On-site Job & Internship Fair, Tuesday, February 28, 2023, 1:00 pm – 5:00 pm powered through Handshake

Registration Open: https://app.joinhandshake.com/career_fairs/38042/employer_preview?token=SVxrsx8Crn4xwCegu8BmXHLRJlonCjQ2TY76uk_GicCDeetXLh_lAQ

Fair 2: Howard University Spring 2023 All Majors Virtual Job & Internship Fair, Thursday, March 16, 2023 1:00 pm – 5:00 pm

https://app.joinhandshake.com/career_fairs/38173/employer_preview?token=GsfAeJbsGq-KzXDt-WaOMExAsbrg9k5p3DjxR2eeYztkoRbB1MLcEwomqB4B76ApzIAkmsfTKA

U.S. Department of Energy

Registration is Open! Join Us for DOE’s 2023 MBE Connect Summit!

Have you registered to join DOE’s first-ever MBE Connect Summit?

You are receiving this message because you have signed up to receive information from the U.S. Department of Energy’s Office of Economic Impact and Diversity. 

Register for DOE’s 2023 MBE DOE Connect Summit! Registration is now open for the U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) Office of Economic Impact and Diversity’s 2023 MBE DOE Connect Summit. This event is geared toward minority business, minority serving institutions, non-profit organizations and Community Development Financial institutions within the energy sector. We hope to connect and build meaning relationships with DOE program offices and representative from various federal agencies.  

Here’s what you need to know: 

When: (In Person) February 23, 2023, 8am – 5pm, (Virtual) February 28, 2023, 8am – 5pm  

Where: Forrestal Building, US Department of Energy – 1000 Independence Ave SW, Washington, DC 20024/ Online

Purpose: Minority Business Enterprises and higher education institutions will learn how to interface with DOE, the Federal family, Green Banks, and Community Development Financial Institutions (CDFIs) to discover where the industry and billions of dollars in funding opportunities are going.

Accessibility: Mirrored programing will be presented virtually on 2/28/23 via recorded sessions during the in-person conference.  Sessions will be translated to multiple languages.

This summit is free, and registration is required. To register for the virtual day, please click here.

2023 journalism scholarships worth $50,000 now open!!

Applications are open for the 2023 National Press Club scholarships — a total of $50,000 is available to aspiring journalists.

The deadline to apply, unless otherwise specified, is February 15 by 5 p.m. ET, and we would appreciate your help getting the message out to your network, social media channels, and newsletters.

The 2023 National Press Club scholarships are:

• The Scholarship for Journalism Diversity Honoring Julie Schoo is a $5,000 scholarship awarded to a high school senior. The purpose of the scholarship is to recruit promising future journalists who will bring diversity to American journalism. The award can be renewed for up to three years at $5,000 per year.
• The Richard G. Zimmerman Scholarship is a one-time scholarship of $5,000 to support a high school senior who wishes to pursue a career in journalism.
• The Wes Vernon Broadcast Scholarship, established in 2021, supports diversity within the field of broadcast journalism. The scholarship is $5,000 per year awarded to a student who demonstrates a commitment to a career in broadcast journalism. The award can be renewed up to three years. The award is open to any student at any stage in their career pursuing an education in broadcast journalism, with a preference for community college students.
• The Dennis and Shirley Feldman Fellowship recognizes a student pursuing graduate studies in journalism with a one-time stipend of $5,000 to help defray tuition costs. The deadline for this fellowship is April 15, 2023.

Please let me know if you have any questions. We really appreciate your help spreading the word, especially as students are home for the holidays! For more information and the application and eligibility requirements, please visit here. To retweet these opportunities, please click here.

 North Carolina Department of Transportation

The NCDOT’s HBCU/MSI Transportation Scholarship is accepting applications through December 21, 2022. Scholarships in the amount of $1500 will be awarded for the spring 2023 semester to students currently enrolled at a North Carolina HBCU or MSI. You can access the application portal here: www.ncdot.gov/hbcu

For additional information, please reach out to Ashley Houston at aahouston@ncdot.gov.

General Services Administration

We are excited to announce that the GSA Office of Evaluation Sciences (OES) is accepting applications for the 2023 Fellowship. All fellowship positions will be remote and location flexible within the United States. Fellows will serve at least a one-year term, with availability to serve additional years preferred.

OES is a team of interdisciplinary experts that works across the federal government to help agencies build and use evidence. We partner with federal agencies to answer priority questions with rigorous evaluation methods and administrative data. We design and conduct impact evaluations of programs and evidence-based program changes. To date, OES has completed nearly 100 impact evaluations with dozens of agency partners.

Our evaluations, in collaboration with agency partners, span areas such as increasing environmental protection, supporting equitable delivery of the American Rescue Plan, improving public health outcomes, and increasing educational opportunity. Join the OES team if you are interested in working closely with key decision makers in government and evaluating promising interventions at a national scale!

Learn more about the OES Fellowship here.

• Annual Fellowship Federal Details
• Team members work alongside agency collaborators to make concrete
•  recommendations on how to improve government and evaluate impact using administrative data.
• Deadline: Wednesday, January 11, 2023. 

U.S. Department of Energy

Technology Commercialization Internship Now Accepting Applications. The Office of Technology Transitions Technology Commercialization Internship is a unique paid opportunity for undergraduate STEM and business students to explore and contribute to advances at the intersection of business and innovative clean energy technologies. Interns undergo intensive training as they join the world-class National Laboratory sys. tem, boost entrepreneurial thinking, and explore market opportunities.

This internship focuses on the business side of technology commercialization where interns will learn skills such as customer discovery, value propositions development, and market sizing. Students will be paired with cutting edge technologies at National Labs in fields spanning machine learning, artificial intelligence, data science, biofuels, and more.

Apply before Jan. 16, 2023

Request for Information: Accelerating Innovations in Emerging Technologies. The Office of Science invites interested parties to provide input relevant to developing approaches for:

• Accelerating innovations in emerging technologies to drive scientific discovery to sustainable production of new technologies across the innovation continuum
• Training a science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) workforce to support 21st century industries
• Meeting the nation’s needs for abundant clean energy, a sustainable environment, and national security.

Respond by Dec. 23, 2022.

SCHOLARSHIP OPPORTUNITY: Critical Materials Institute Course, January 23-24, 2023, Colorado School of Mines, Golden, CO

The Critical Materials Institute leadership academy is organizing a short course on fundamentals, applications, and supply chain of rare earth elements. See Brochure Here

The course will take place in person at the Colorado School of Mines on January 23 – 24, 2023.

The objective of the course is to engage emerging and early career professionals in discussions of and solutions for clean energy technologies in the context of critical rare earth elements. This course will focus on the fundamentals and applications of rare earth permanent magnets through the wholistic lens of market and economy. Course outline and registration information are available in the brochure.

The attendants of the course are students, postdocs, and researchers from academia, national labs, industries, and government organizations. The class is limited to 50 attendants. Scholarships are available to cover travel expense.

U.S. Department of Energy

U.S. Department of Energy’s Mickey Leland Energy Fellowship
Audience: Undergraduate and Graduate Students Who Are U.S. Citizens
Application Deadline: Jan. 16, 2023

Application Link: www.energy.gov/fe/mlef
Contact: mlef@hq.doe.gov

The U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) Mickey Leland Energy Fellowship (MLEF) Program is currently accepting applications for their Summer 2023 program. This 10-week summer research fellowship is for undergraduate and graduate students in STEM majors seeking to gain experience in energy research. Participants complete a cutting edge research project at one of DOE’s national laboratories or at DOE headquarters under the mentorship of our scientists and engineers. Stipend provided. Participants may be eligible to receive travel and housing assistance.

            Bureau of Economic Analysis

Opportunities Available!!

IT Specialist (Policy and Planning)

Department: Department of Commerce Agency: Bureau of Economic Analysis Number of Job Opportunities & Location(s): Few vacancies – Suitland, Maryland Salary: $106,823.00 to $164,102.00 / PA Series and Grade: ZP-2210-4 Open Period: Tuesday, December 13, 2022 to Thursday, December 22, 2022 Position Information: – Who May Apply: Career transition (CTAP, ICTAP, RPL), Competitive service, Individuals with disabilities, Special authorities, Veterans