Renee JiJi and Jason Cooley work together at the University of Missouri (MU), Columbia, and have a daughter at home. The two met in graduate school and got married when they were postdocs living apart—she…
Cornell University psychologists believe they have crossed one factor off the list of obstacles to women in academia: the hiring committee. Read more | Science 348, 269 (2015)
An important part of the mentoring role of academic advisors is writing letters of recommendation for worthy students who are applying for research grants, fellowships, and entrance to elite programs. Read more | Science 348,…
There has never been a better time for American women to enter academic careers in math-intensive science fields. That's the message Cornell University psychologist Stephen Ceci says he was hoping to get across in an…
I was shielded from stereotypes during my young and impressionable years. I didn’t realize they existed until maybe middle school, and by then, I’d already decided I wanted to build the Bionic Woman. Read more…
“It happened again — another major theoretical chemistry conference features an all-male program” says a recent open letter authored by three renowned theoretical chemists and materials scientists1. Read more |Nature materials 13, 427 (2014)
Does discrimination contribute to the low percentage of women in mathematics and science careers? We designed an experiment to isolate discrimination’s potential effect. Read more | PNAS 111, 4403 (2014)
When I became the inaugural recipient of a research fellowship this year, my department commemorated the occasion with a ceremony for which they asked me to prepare a ten-minute talk. I was to thank the…