During the last year I’ve noticed more and more colleagues talking to me about their health. These conversations are always initiated by a senior professor (at least 20 years older than I am) who is a man. I’ve heard about joint replacements, heart problems, and cancer treatments. I now know details of hospital stays, treatment [...]
Here’s a simple idea advocates of diversity in science can get excited about: when girls receive the same math education as boys do, they perform just as well on math tests. A paper published in Science magazine on July 25 compared the performance of girls and boys on standardized math tests. The study is strikingly large: [...]
One of the oddest academic phenomena is the nostalgia professors profess for graduate school. It’s something I’ve heard for years, beginning when I myself was a grad student. At the time I thought the faculty who told me they envied my position were out of their minds. While doing research for a science PhD, most [...]