Category: Academia
Via Ed, if you puked on VoxDay's shoes after his column earlier this week in WorldNetDaily: But this is not to say there is not a genuine threat to all three aspects of science today. Unsurprisingly, it comes from the...
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Category: Academia
Is it sending the wrong message to girls to tell them they can be fashionable and smart?
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Category: Academia
In terms of physical size, microbiologist Rita Colwell is a petitie woman. However, her distinguished research and service career has made her a giant in her field. Her research revolves around many aspects of water ecology, including the intersection...
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Category: Academia
Newly minted author (and "Wonder Years" alum) Danica McKellar chats with me about math education and much more.
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Danica McKellar (aka Winnie Cooper of Wonder Years fame) channels her love of math into a guide for middle school girls. Does it suck?
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Category: Women and science
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...
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One must keep a sense of humor...
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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...
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Category: Academia
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...
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Category: Science education
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...
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