The MPOWIR Pattullo Conference deadline for registration is just over a week away. Are you considering attending? Here’s what past participants had to say about their experience: • I really enjoyed this meeting, learned a lot, and made new connections. …
Between 2001 and 2005, women earned 28% of awarded PhDs at the 17 US institutions with physical oceanography graduate programmes, yet only one out of eight talks was given by a female presenter in many of the relevant sessions at …
Old Dominion University currently has two tenure track faculty positions available in Marine Microbial Ecology and Coastal Processes. The Department of Ocean, Earth and Atmospheric Sciences (OEAS) at Old Dominion University seeks to fill two tenure-track faculty positions. One is …
Science is often hard to read. Most people assume that its difficulties are born out of necessity, out of the extreme complexity of scientific concepts, data and analysis. We argue here that complexity of thought need not lead to impenetrability …
This past autumn, I completed my PhD in Neurovascular Genetics. Simultaneous with writing my thesis, I finished the manuscript for my first book, which was handed one month after my PhD defense and is now published by Lulu. During this past year, …
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Successful women know only too well that in any male-dominated profession, we often find ourselves at a distinct disadvantage. We are routinely underestimated, underutilized and even underpaid. Studies show that women need to perform at extraordinarily high levels, just to …
In this TED talk Facebook COO Sheryl Sandberg looks at why a smaller percentage of women than men reach the top of their professions — and offers 3 powerful pieces of advice to women aiming for the C-suite. Watch: Why …
Explanations for women’s under representation in math-intensive fields of science often focus on sex discrimination in grant and manuscript reviewing, interviewing, and hiring. Claims that women scientists suffer discrimination in these arenas rest on a set of studies undergirding policies …
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FORWARD to Professorship conference May 23-25, 2011 FORWARD in SEM stands for: Focus on Reaching Women for Academics, Research and Development in Science, Engineering and Mathematics is a joint program of the George Washington and Gallaudet Universities funded by a …
Blaustein Postdoctoral Scholar in Earth and Planetary Sciences The Johns Hopkins University invites applications for the Morton K. Blaustein Postdoctoral Scholar in the Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences (EPS). We seek an outstanding individual with a recent Ph.D. in …
