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OCTOBER 2024

How to Communicate with Teachers

Being able to effectively communicate with your teachers is critical to your academic success. In fact, according to the majority of people who responded to a Pew Research Center study, communication is the most important skill needed to succeed. Here are a few ways to help you communicate effectively with your teachers.

 

Address Them Respectfully

When your teachers introduce themselves and let the class know how they’d like to be addressed, take note. If someone goes by Ms., don’t call them Mrs., and vice versa. Only call them by their first name if they explicitly tell you to do so. If you’re not sure what to call them, ask. Addressing your teachers by their preferred title shows that you respect them and their expertise and will pave the way for smoother communication in the future.

 

Understand Their Preferred Communication Style

Don’t assume your teacher’s preferred style of communication. Instead, ask how they like to communicate. Knowing that your teacher prefers to chat via email, in person, on the phone, or during office hours can help you plan your time effectively and ensure that you communicate with them in the way that works best for them.

 

 

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ON TOPIC

Sterling Fox Cerda, Luiseño, is from Mission San Luis Rey in Oceanside, Calif. He is working toward an associate degree, studying mechatronics at Chaffey College in San Bernardino County on the Kizh and Tongva ancestral lands.

 

In today’s digital world, it is important for students to be comfortable with face-to-face communication. What have you done to increase your confidence when it comes to speaking with people in person?

Face-to-face communication is an important skill that continues to be harder and harder to master. Within myself, I have become more confident through a few tactics that I have learned in my educational journey.

• I am not afraid to mess up. I have seen others make mistakes and it doesn't make me hate them — it shows me that they’re human and I understand that it's OK.

• I didn’t jump straight into big crowds and high detail communication. It started by being social with my small friend group. I realized how nice it is to hear other people’s stories and I wanted more.

 

 

 

 

 

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CAREER CORNER

To help you on your journey to determine a career pathway, each month we'll highlight one STEM profession and how you might use that career to support and build your tribal community after earning your degree. Many career paths are worth exploring — even those you've never heard about. Keep an open mind as you learn about various options within STEM, and discover your path to opportunity.

 

ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENTIST

Environmental science is a growing field. Our planet comes under threats from pollution, global warming, mass extinctions, and limited resources. It is an interdisciplinary academic field. Students will typically take classes in math, biology, chemistry, geology, ecology, and other academic areas. Environmental science is an excellent choice for students interested in applying the analytical skills to large-scale problems affecting our world.

 

What they do:

Conducts research or performs investigations to identify, abate, or eliminate sources of pollutants or hazards that affect the environment or the population’s health. Using knowledge of various scientific disciplines, collect, synthesize, study, report, and recommend action based on data derived from measurements or observations of air, food, soil, water, and others.

 

A person in this career:

  • Reviews and implements environmental technical standards, guideline policies, and formal regulations that meet all appropriate requirements.
  • Provides scientific or technical guidance, support, coordination, or oversight to governmental agencies, environmental programs, industry, or the public.
  • Collects, synthesizes, analyzes, manages, and reports environmental data, such as pollution emission measurements, atmospheric monitoring measurements, meteorological or mineralogical information, or soil or water samples.
  • Communicates scientific or technical information to the public, organizations, or internal audiences through oral briefings, written documents, workshops, conferences, training sessions, or public hearings.
  • Provides advice on proper standards and regulations or the development of policies, strategies, or codes of practice for environmental management.
  • Prepares charts or graphs from data samples, providing summary information on environmental relevance of the data.
  • Conducts environmental audits or inspections or investigations of violations.
  • Monitors effects of population or land degradation and recommends means of prevention or control.
  • Analyzes data to determine validity, quality, and scientific significance and interpret correlations between human activities and environmental effects.

How can I use this type of career to help my community?

  • Serve as the Chief Environmental Liaison for a tribal nation in all matters related to the protection and care of tribal lands.
  • Provide expertise and advice in the development of policies and strategies affecting tribal lands.

 

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PK–12 STUDENT OPPORTUNITIES

If you are a U.S. student in grades 9–12, we want to hear your ideas for building a better future. Your challenge is to research past and future impacts of climate-related hazards in your community, including drought, wildfire, flooding, and extreme heat, then develop a proposed action to help build a more resilient community. Your entry must include a written explanation of your proposed climate action, title, and an image of a “poster” that supports your climate action. Your climate action should explain at least one way your community can prevent, withstand, respond to, or recover from a climate-related event. Enter by Feb.7.

 

America’s Field Trip is back! Submissions are now being accepted for the 2025 America’s Field Trip contest. America’s Field Trip gives students an opportunity to celebrate and commemorate the 250th anniversary of the signing of the Declaration of Independence, the Semiquincentennial. Students in grades 3 through 12 are invited to share artwork or an essay answering the following prompt: What does America mean to you? Submit by April 16.

 

UNDERGRADUATE STUDENT OPPORTUNITIES

Cascadia Region Earthquake Science Center (CRESCENT) – Arcata, Calif.

Cores to Code (C2C) is a three-week summer research experience that will delve into the interdisciplinary study of the earthquake and tsunami history of the Cascadia subduction zone. The program will be based out of Cal Poly Humboldt, a minority-serving institution. Students will conduct geologic fieldwork in Humboldt Bay coastal marshes, collect marsh sediment cores, conduct laboratory analysis on the cores, and explore how these geologic data are integrated into the geophysical models that help characterize past earthquakes along the Cascadia subduction zone. At the end of the program, students will synthesize and present their findings to their peers, mentors, and local community.

  

Northwest Native American Center of Excellence – Portland, Ore.

The Wy'east Nursing Pathway is a post-baccalaureate pathway for American Indians and Alaska Natives (AI/ANs) committed to a nursing career, hosted in partnership with the OHSU School of Nursing. The Pathway provides a holistic, culturally-aligned framework to prepare scholars to excel as nursing students and throughout their careers. Through a partnership between the OHSU School of Nursing and the Northwest Native American Center of Excellence (NNACOE), the Pathway recruits, educates, and retains AI/ANs into Accelerated Bachelor’s of Nursing (ABS) and Doctor of Nursing Practice programs to address critical workforce needs. Apply by Nov. 4.

 

GRADUATE/POSTDOCTORAL OPPORTUNITIES

Oak Ridge Institute for Science and Education – Washington, D.C.

The DOE’s Office of Policy is seeking a talented and passionate fellow interested in supporting strategic, analytic, and policy efforts aimed at decarbonizing the industrial sector. You will collaborate closely with multiple staff across DOE — including several former fellows — and will develop a broad understanding of the potential of new technologies and current barriers to technology deployment. 

 

University of Hawaii at Manoa – Honolulu, Hawaii

The Marine Innovation Lab for Leading-edge Oceanography (MILLO) based in the Department of Ocean and Resources Engineering (ORE) at the School of Ocean and Earth Science and Technology (SOEST), University of Hawaii at Mnoa is actively recruiting up to two MS/PhD students for Fall 2025. These positions include stipend, full tuition support, benefits, and travel support. Apply by Nov. 5.

 

Oak Ridge National Laboratory – Oak Ridge, Tenn.

Innovation Crossroads, a Lab-Embedded Entrepreneurship Program, at Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) is the Southeast’s only entrepreneurial research and development program based at a U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) national laboratory. Innovation Crossroads will help selected innovators in the physical sciences and energy technologies to mature their early-stage innovations. DOE and TVA will provide funding to ORNL to support selected innovators in developing their technology. Additionally, program sponsors will provide an Oak Ridge Institute for Science and Education (ORISE) fellowship to the selected innovators for the first year with the possibility of renewal, subject to a one-year review, for support of up to two years through this program. ORNL is presently searching for innovators for cohort 2025. Benefits to selected innovators may include up to 24 months of Innovation Crossroads resources, subject to performance and availability of funding.

 

Mayo Clinic – Rochester, Minn.

Two fellowship positions for research offered to those underrepresented in medicine. These positions are for one year in length. 

 

NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory – Pasadena, Calif.

Offered by the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, Calif., AMDS is a three-month (Feb 6 - Apr 25) career development experience to learn the development of a hypothesis-driven robotic space mission in a concurrent engineering environment while getting an in-depth, first-hand look at instrument design, mission life cycle, costs, schedule, and the inherent trade-offs. Engineering students close to completing their MS degree, science & engineering, doctoral candidates, recent PhDs, postdocs, and junior faculty who are U.S. citizens or legal permanent residents are eligible. Applicants from diverse backgrounds are particularly encouraged to apply.

 

Gund Institute for Environment – Burlington, Vt.

The Gund Institute for Environment at the University of Vermont (UVM) seeks exceptional PhD applicants to conduct interdisciplinary research on global environmental challenges beginning in fall 2025. Apply by Jan. 5, 2025.

 

 
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