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In recent years, women have emerged as powerful leaders and innovators in science and technology. Their influence is e ...
Carol’s creations are Toys-R-Us meets steampunk, the science-fiction genre in which modern technology is anachronistically re-imagined in pre-20th century materials like brass, wood and leather.
Jane Willenbring’s opening salvo in the documentary “Picture a Scientist” is one that still brings tears to her eyes. The geomorphologist recalls taking her daughter to work one d… ...
Overall, women hold 17% of the total space even though they constitute 26% of space holders, including emeriti. None of the 16 space holders who occupy over 3,000 square feet are women.
It's hard to overestimate the importance of professional meetings to any scientist's career. But it is particularly crucial for women to attend, organize, and present their work at conferences, ...
A scientist and Nobel laureate apologized Wednesday after saying that women in laboratories “fall in love with you and when you criticize them, they cry.” ...
For the first time in its 85-year history, NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory has a female director. Geochemist and space scientist Laurie Leshin will serve as the director for JPL as well as the ...
Nearly 300 local high school girls interested in life science got a pep talk and hard-won perspective from Karen J. Nelson, president of the J. Craig Venter Institute, and a panel of other successf… ...
From ballerina to biology and forensic science, Broward Sheriff's Office Crime Lab Director Claudine Carter Pereira is the first female Crime Lab director at BSO and the first and only Black Crime ...
Lab Rats: How the Misogyny Police and Sloppy Journalists Smeared a Top Scientist When “fauxminist” outrage over a minor faux pas can ruin a Nobel winner's career, this is not good for women ...
But with as many professional accolades as she has pieces of turquoise jewelry, she represents an underrepresented example of women in Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics, known as STEM.
Steampunk, the reimagining of modern day technology through a Victorian perspective, has found an unlikely follower in the US Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA). A DARPA-funded ...