It happened again last week, and we’ve been mulling it over since then. It happens about once a semester: a random student wanders into the Lair of Dr. Medusa and asks for help. No, this is not a student in our class, or a graduate student, or even a potential student. Mr. Random Student just [...]
We were pleased to see in today’s New York Times (registration required) that James Watson has been fired from his directorship of Cold Spring Harbor lab. Well, technically, he “retired”. But he is quoted in the article as saying that the circumstances of his resignation “are not those which I could ever have anticipated [...]
We can’t believe that we only found out about this. Theoretical physicist Lisa Randall - Harvard professor, poster girl for women in physics, and author of the popular-science book Warped Passages - appeared in Vogue (August 2007). She’s in a photo spread on “Ageless Beauty.” There’s a picture of her standing behind a messy desk, [...]
The Female Science Professor blog is written by a full professor in an unspecified physical science at a US research university. She blogs regularly about her life and work in academia. A series of recent posts caught our attention, because they’re a great example of day-to-day sexism that affects women academics. They describe the exploits [...]
Last week, Jerald Walker’s thought-provoking column at the Chronicle of Higher Education careers site dealt with pressure on black faculty to be visible at “black” campus events. Yes, as if minority faculty members don’t have enough to do. The trouble started when Walker didn’t attend the campus Kwanzaa celebration. Why not? Well, he doesn’t celebrate [...]