Her departure follows her denial of tenure.

Meet some of the people featured in the June 2019 issue of The Scientist.

Students, especially racial minorities, tend to perform worse when professors believe intelligence is fixed

The midterm elections flip several House seats in favor of Democratic candidates with STEM backgrounds.

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.