Women and science
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University of Iowa selects a new president
Posted by Tara C. Smith on June 21, 2007 Sally Mason Named University Of Iowa’s 20th President. Interesting. A female biologist, currently Provost at Purdue: During her tenure at Purdue, Mason invested both professionally and personally in diversity and innovative research and education. She raised funds for and implemented a number of major diversity initiatives at Purdue, including creation of a Native American education…
Irony
Posted by Tara C. Smith on February 20, 2007 So, I’m back from AAAS, and starting to catch up on everything. The conference flew by, and I still have a few posts in the wings on the evolution symposium that took place on Friday, as well as some other tidbits from sessions I attended. Overall, I thought the conference was very good from a…
There’s no crying in academia!
Posted by Tara C. Smith on February 13, 2007 Over at Am I a woman scientist? I ran across this post discussing crying in the workplace. I’d never given much consideration to the issue previously, but there are several thought-provoking posts and articles on the topic. First, let me take a step back to a post Am I a woman scientist? linked to, here…
NY Times on women and science
Posted by Tara C. Smith on December 20, 2006 After the discussion here and elsewhere in yonder blogosphere about women and stereotyping, Cornelia Dean in the New York Times writes about recent meeting aimed at helping women advance in science, where bias still rages. This fall, female scientists at Rice University here gathered promising women who are graduate students and postdoctoral fellows to help…
Science, intelligence, and teh pretty
Posted by Tara C. Smith on December 14, 2006 So, razib relates a recent observation of the apparently rare species hottus chicas scientificas at a local wine bar. Shelley’s ticked: Not sure whether to be more irked that Razib suggests that smart women aren’t hot (and vice versa), that hot women don’t like sci fi, or than sci fi somehow denotes intelligence. Booooooooo. While…
Microbiology pioneer dies
Posted by Tara C. Smith on November 30, 2006 Esther Lederberg dies at 83 Stanford University microbiologist Esther Miriam Zimmer Lederberg, a trailblazer for female scientists and the developer of laboratory techniques that helped a generation of researchers understand how genes function, has died at Stanford Hospital. Professor Lederberg, who lived at Stanford, was 83 when she died Nov. 11 of pneumonia and congestive…
New NAS report on women in science
Posted by Tara C. Smith on September 19, 2006 Matt has the scoop. Women in science and engineering are hindered not by lack of ability but by bias and “outmoded institutional structures” in academia, an expert panel reported today. The panel, convened by the National Academy of Sciences, said that in an era of global competition the nation could not afford “such underuse of…
Saturday roundup
Posted by Tara C. Smith on July 29, 2006 More fascinating topics I didn’t get around to:
Family + academic career: my take on it
Posted by Tara C. Smith on July 24, 2006 I see Janet has a post series going on family + academic career. (Part 1; Part 2). I’ve written a bit on my own experience at the old blog (and I do mean “a bit;” it’s much more of a Cliff notes version of events than Janet’s), so I’m re-posting it here for another view…
Trippin’ through history to do science
Posted by Tara C. Smith on July 21, 2006 This week’s Ask a science blogger question is: If you could have practiced science in any time and any place throughout history, which would it be, and why?… Discussion after the fold…