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As the Pandemic Hits Campus Finances, Faculty Face Layoffs
Diana Kwon | Jun 4, 2020 | 5 min read
Many colleges and universities across the US have lost millions of dollars in revenue due to COVID-19.
Dr. Mom
Vanessa Fogg | Aug 21, 2008 | 4 min read
A new book explores the challenges of balancing motherhood and a career in science
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Opinion: 10 Ways to Support New Mothers in STEM
Michele Hoffmann | Jun 27, 2019 | 4 min read
A support group for mothers is a model for practical, inexpensive steps to ease women’s transition to motherhood—and hopefully retain them in science.
Contributors
The Scientist | Jul 16, 2017 | 3 min read
Meet some of the people featured in the July/August issue of The Scientist.
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Opinion: Universities Must Incentivize Field-Based Research as an Equity Issue
Jessica C. Thompson | Dec 22, 2022 | 6 min read
Female and minority-identifying researchers face extra challenges in becoming field project leaders. Universities should be providing equivalent numbers of solutions.
Book Publishing Jobs Offer Scientists Flexibility, Security
Ricki Lewis | Mar 20, 1994 | 8 min read
A publishing job, for example, can offer flexibility in work sites and schedules, greater job security than many research positions, and a relief from the burnout that can result from focusing too intently on a single scientific question. One editor's chair that's especially well filled by scientists is that of an acquisitions editor, who signs up new books for publication. "About half of the acquisitions editors I know got a Ph.D.
Book Publishing Jobs Offer Scientists Flexibility, Security
Ricki Lewis | Mar 20, 1994 | 8 min read
A publishing job, for example, can offer flexibility in work sites and schedules, greater job security than many research positions, and a relief from the burnout that can result from focusing too intently on a single scientific question. One editor's chair that's especially well filled by scientists is that of an acquisitions editor, who signs up new books for publication. "About half of the acquisitions editors I know got a Ph.D.
Scientific Enterprise At Critical Juncture, Say Panelists, Researchers
Steven Benowitz | Oct 13, 1996 | 10+ min read
MISCONDUCT POLICY: University of Illinois' C.K. Gunsalus cites problems of oversight in academia. Is science in crisis? Scientists, historians, administrators, and others have debated this issue over the last few decades. The controversial topic was the impetus for a September 19 conference at George Washington University (GWU). Panelists at the day-long symposium, titled "Science in Crisis at the Millennium," think something has gone awry. Keith Yamamoto, University of California, San Franc
The Plight of Postdocs
Harvey Black | Jan 21, 2001 | 6 min read
Michael Cowan Many consider postdoctoral fellows the sinew of American science; they enable forward motion and new discoveries as science flexes its muscle. "Since the 1960s, the performance of research in the United States has relied more and more on graduate scientists and engineers who have recently earned a Ph.D. and are pursuing further education and training," asserts a recently published report on postdocs by the Committee on Science Engineering and Public Policy (COSEPUP) of the National
Report: Gender, Ethnic Diversity Coming Slowly To Science
Neeraja Sankaran | Mar 6, 1994 | 4 min read
Professional Women and Minorities: A Total Human Resources Data Compendium, published in January. The statistical compendium shows that a significant number of women are getting higher educational degrees (54 percent of bachelor's and master's degrees in all fields in 1991 were obtained by women), but are still represented relatively poorly in the natural sciences and engineering, compared with their male counterparts, earning betwe

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