Becoming a neuroscientist with a service dog by your side presents numerous challenges. Joey Ramp, who went back to college to study her own post-traumatic stress disorder, is learning this the hard way.

After a surge of political enthusiasm among the scientific community since 2016, only a small fraction of candidates with science and engineering backgrounds made it through primary elections this year.  

Women who identified as sexual minorities, however, were more likely to remain in a STEM field.

Institutions document the effects of unconscious bias and set specific goals for gender balance.

To correct gender disparities in academic science, the Max Planck Society and the Australian government are taking the uncommonly direct approach of affirmative action.

STEM faculties at public universities have an underrepresentation of African Americans, Hispanics, and women, but there are signs of change.

The president has signed two bills encouraging NASA and the NSF to recruit women into science, technology, engineering, and mathematics professions. 

Despite a committee of educators recommending the removal of language challenging evolution in science curricula, state education board members vote to reintroduce controversial concepts. 

Mentoring is critical for students just beginning to learn the ropes of biomedical research.