A new study has revealed the importance of female leadership and mentorship when it comes to advancing in your career as a woman in STEM.
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Published to coincide with STEM Day, the new study looked at all 38 OECD member countries and multiple variables, including the number of STEM job vacancies in each country, to complete the ranking.
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While she was not awarded the Nobel prize, we know that Rosalind Franklin, a physical chemist, played a vital role in Watson and Crick’s ultimate discovery.
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The second CZ Biohub in Chicago will focus on engineering technologies to make precise, molecular-level measurements of biological processes within human tissues, with an ultimate goal of understanding and treating the inflammatory states that underlie many diseases.
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It’s a simple concept, but a drastic departure from the status quo of chemicals management in the U.S. and Canada.
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Based on an examination of almost 7 million published papers, scientific teams that include female authors produce higher-impact discoveries.
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A new study of leadership behavior in men and women in a simulated Mars analog habitat has revealed that women may be better suited for long-term space missions.
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A new video game, "A Lab of One’s Own," creates an immersive environment in which players discover archival materials that tell the stories of women from MIT’s history.
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When Rebecca Doerge became dean of Carnegie Mellon University’s College of Science in August 2016, the statistician was handed a big challenge: elevate the reputation of the College of Science to the same level of recognition as the university’s engineering and computer science departments.
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Calling the current scientific reward system problematic and narrow, 24 female scientists from across the globe have proposed a new framework that can be implemented system-wide to increase equality and innovation based on a multidimensional mentorship model.
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In an article titled, "Ten simple rules for women principal investigators during a pandemic," a network of women PIs share suggestions for how to better balance work and life during these unprecedented times.
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“The approach to product research within an academic environment is primarily focused on novel findings,” Rasmussen explained. “You can have a great foundational idea but having the means to translate that idea into a viable therapy or product in an efficient and cost-effective way is critically important.”
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Candice Bridge is the founder of the Sexual Lubricant Database, a compilation of reference lubricants, characterization data, instrumental data and classification models that can assist forensic scientists in conducting lubricant analysis in sexual assault cases.
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What does a particle physicist look like? Dr. Jessica Esquivel is a Black, Mexican female with a wife. At Fermilab, she works on the Muon g-2 experiment.
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Langer’s research is just the beginning, and while she stressed that much more research is necessary, she spoke to Laboratory Equipment about her paper for this month’s “Women in Science.”
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