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Tamara Terry started out at RTI International, a nonprofit research institute, as a telephone interviewer. Fast forward 20 years: she's RTI's Research Survey Scientist; Equity, Diversity, Inclusion, and Belonging Leadership Council Domestic Outreach Chair; and University Collaborations HBCU Relationship Manager. Learn more about her impactful career — and her advice for overcoming obstacles.
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Physics
Despite decades of trying, universities in the U.S. have barely moved the needle on the percentage of women studying physics and then making it a career. The most recent data from the National Science Foundation shows that 21% of physics Ph.D.s in 2018 were awarded to women, up just two percentage points from the 2008 figures. Studies also show that women are more likely than men to feel out of place in a physics class, something that has been directly linked to this underrepresentation.
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CNN
A rocket built by Jeff Bezos' Blue Origin carried its fifth group of passengers to the edge of space, including the first-ever Mexican-born woman to make such a journey. Katya Echazarreta is the first Mexican-born woman to travel to space and the second Mexican after Rodolfo Neri Vela, a scientist who joined one of NASA's Space Shuttle missions in 1985. Echazarreta is working on her master's degree in engineering at Johns Hopkins University. She previously worked at NASA's famed Jet Propulsion Laboratory in California. She also boasts a following of more than 330,000 users on TikTok, hosts a science-focused YouTube series and is a presenter on the weekend CBS show "Mission Unstoppable."
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Science
The Howard Hughes Medical Institute (HHMI) is taking a novel approach to the chronic problem of underrepresentation in U.S. academic science: Lavishly fund a relatively small number of young scientists and then sit back and let their “happy labs” produce a more diverse workforce.
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It takes special effort for researchers to maintain a healthy equilibrium between their work and personal lives. This challenge can look very different, depending on where one works and what stage of career they are in. ACS Publications hosted a webinar on work-life balance in the lab, as part of the Changing the Culture of Chemistry series.
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Scientific American
We saw the story over and over again: computer programmer Klára Dán von Neumann was a pioneer in weather forecasting. But when we talked to Thomas Haigh, a historian who studies Dán von Neumann’s work, he said he’s found absolutely no evidence of this. How did this weather myth start? We set out to answer that question. And in the process, we asked this: Why is it so tempting to credit the wrong person, even when that false credit is given with the best of intentions?
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Science
On May 16, planetary scientist Laurie Leshin became director of NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL), one of the world's leading labs for robotic space science. Coming off the successful landing of the Perseverance rover on Mars, JPL is readying several more flagship missions for NASA, including a probe of Jupiter's icy moon, Europa, and a complicated campaign to gather the rock samples collected by Perseverance and return them to Earth.
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.HEALTH EQUITY
Harvard Business Review
As physicians, it is all too obvious to us that women’s health in the United States is in a state of crisis. Compared to other high-income countries, women of reproductive age in the United States have the highest rates of pregnancy-related death, preventable death, chronic health conditions, and mental health care needs.
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Ms. Magazine
Kanika Harris writes: As a Black mother and daughter, I was proud to witness the confirmation of Kentanji Brown Jackson for a seat on the Supreme Court. I was especially touched when she said during her confirmation hearings that she “did not always get the balance right” when juggling career and motherhood, “but if you do your best and you love your children... things will turn out okay.”
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The New York Times
When Sheryl Sandberg said that she was resigning as chief operating officer of Meta, she also reflected on her legacy as a woman in tech. “I’m especially proud that this is a company where many, many exceptional women and people from diverse backgrounds have risen through our ranks and become leaders — both in our company and in leadership roles elsewhere,” she wrote in an announcement posted on her Facebook and Instagram pages.
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Fast Company
You’ve probably heard the idea that we cannot solve our problems with the same thinking we used to create them. It’s a compelling argument for why diversity is so crucial for innovation. Solving big, technical problems requires a new point of view — a multiplicity of new points of view, in fact. And we won’t get there unless we expand the universe of engineers from all backgrounds, including women.
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CNBC
The tech industry has grappled with a diversity problem for years, with little progress to show for it. For one tech CEO, the only way forward for the industry is clear. “Accountability needs to happen,” Suneera Madhani, the co-founder and chief executive of billion-dollar fintech start-up Stax, tells CNBC Make It. She says government incentives or even mandates for tech companies and investment firms might be necessary to force the issue — because despite several years of tech leaders trying, and failing, to address the industry’s diversity issues, women and people of color remain woefully underrepresented.
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Nature
On 4 March, Christopher Jackson tweeted that he was leaving the University of Manchester, UK, to work at Jacobs, a scientific-consulting firm with headquarters in Dallas, Texas. Jackson, a prominent geoscientist, is part of a growing wave of researchers using the #leavingacademia hashtag when announcing their resignations from higher education. Like many, his discontent festered in part owing to increasing teaching demands and pressure to win grants amid lip-service-level support during the COVID-19 pandemic.
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Harper Bazaar
Lorgia García-Peña writes: Soon after I was hired as assistant professor of Latinx studies, my department, Romance Languages and Literatures, was presented with what in the university we refer to as a “line,” the opportunity to hire a full-time tenured or tenure-track professor. Tenure is an unusual system, unique to academia, that guarantees lifetime employment for faculty. It was designed to protect academic freedom and the intellectual work of faculty from external pressures, allowing for necessary but often controversial work to be done without fear of losing employment.
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Los Angeles Times
Cindy R. Escobedo’s college years have been, in many ways, shaped by her mother’s. When Cindy completed an undergraduate degree in political science at UCLA in 2015, she followed her mother, Cecilia, who had earned her bachelor’s degree at Azusa Pacific University a year earlier. In 2016 Cindy graduated with a master’s degree in education. Her mother caught up one year later, obtaining her master’s in nursing. And in 2021, the same year Cecilia’s doctorate in nursing practice was conferred, Cindy successfully defended her own dissertation and her degree was also conferred.
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Inside Higher Education
When medievalist Mary Rambaran-Olm wrote about having her book review “torpedoed” for not being “more generous” to the book’s authors, no one could have expected that this would send shock waves across the academic community in what became an online maelstrom revealing the extent of white academic gatekeeping, ally performativity and blatant racism.
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