racism

The United States gets roughly an eighth of its tenure-track professors from just five institutions, according to an analysis of nearly 300,000 faculty.

A review of more than two decades of data finds racial disparities in the success rate of National Science Foundation grant proposals.

Archaeologist and paleontologist Juan Carlos Cisneros tells The Scientist that researchers frequently fail to involve local groups—and sometimes violate laws—when studying Latin American fossils.

Percy Lavon Julian, a young, Black scientist working in Jim Crow America, gained international recognition after beating chemists at the University of Oxford in the race to synthesize the alkaloid physostigmine, used for decades as a treatment for glaucoma.

Multiple prestigious US biomedical research awards have rarely or never been granted to a scientist with Asian ancestry, illustrating racial bias within American research societies and institutions, a researcher argues.

Justifying science funding through the lens of global competition risks fostering racial bias and discrimination.

The editor-in-chief will step down this month following the release of a podcast in February that suggested systemic racism does not exist in medicine.

Ruth Ella Moore had a trailblazing career, overcoming barriers of racism and sexism as she pursued her interest in microbiology.

Join The Scientist on May 21 to discuss Brandon Taylor’s novel about a biochemistry graduate student navigating relationships inside and outside the lab.

The move follows widespread criticism of the episode and its promotion, and the resignation of the podcast’s host.

Graduate student advocacy groups were central to designing the program, which provides a semester of funding if a trainee needs time to find a new mentor.

In a year of racial tumult, Black scientists are uniting for visibility and action. 

In Chapter 1, “An ABC of Early Classification,” author David Bainbridge explores the theological roots of zoology.

Meet some of the people featured in the September 2020 issue of The Scientist.

A new book explores the history of scientists’ efforts to classify living things.

Race has been used to segment humanity and, by extension, establish and enforce a hierarchy in science. Individual and institutional commitments to racial justice in the sciences must involve political activity.

Meet some of the people featured in the July/August 2020 issue of The Scientist.

Nearly two dozen higher education groups warn the government to be cautious when advising US research universities to keep an eye on students and faculty with ties to certain Chinese institutions.

Two scientists, who came to the Bethesda campus to give presentations, hold US green cards and had previously visited without incident.