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PR Newswire
L'Oreal USA announced the recipients of its 2021 For Women in Science Fellowship, an annual program that awards five female postdoctoral scientists $60,000 grants to advance their research. This year's Fellows conduct research in the areas of neurobiology, microbiology and biogeochemistry, physics and materials chemistry. In addition to grant funding, Fellows receive mentorship, career coaching and recognition.
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Scientific American
A passionate outdoorswoman, a "rugged individualist" and a bit of an enigma—the few traces Dorothy Andersen left behind give us glimpses into who she was. In this episode of the Lost Women of Science podcast, we track down people determined to stitch together her life. Our associate producer Sophie McNulty rummages through the basement of one of Andersen's colleagues for clues about the elusive pathologist.
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NBC News
Administrators at historically Black colleges are eagerly awaiting passage of President Joe Biden's Build Back Better agenda, with hopes that the bill's record funding for HBCUs could put the schools on a path to compete with top-tier research universities specializing in science and technology.
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Nature
Last month, Jucelaine Haas returned home to Brazil after spending a year as a visiting scientist at the Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research in Leipzig, Germany. Now at the Federal University of Technology in Parana, Haas says her tenure-track position offers some security but she has little opportunity for advancement. "I'm a university professor," she says. "It's such a nice title."
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.DIVERSITY in STEM
EurekAlert!
Providing some basic standards of support will greatly increase diversity in fields of science and medicine, a group of hard of hearing and deaf scientists argue in a perspective published in the journal Frontiers in Education. The perspective was co-authored by more than 40 deaf and hard of hearing engineers, scientists and clinicians from around the world, including four from Oregon Health & Science University.
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Space.com
If you look at pictures of some of NASA's first astronauts, you might notice they all have something in common — every one of them is a white man. While there is much progress still to be made, in recent years more women and people of color have trained as astronauts and traveled to the International Space Station.
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Technology Networks
A commentary by researchers from Mayo Clinic and the University of Southern California suggests that agencies funding biomedical research must strive for diversity, equity and inclusion in research decisions, and that these agencies will only be successful if they address bias in the research funding process. The commentary is published in Nature Medicine.
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Chemistry World
One reason why you don't see many queer scientists is that many feel they have to keep their identity to themselves. Sexual and gender identity is usually not openly discussed in the workplace or classroom and is often regarded as irrelevant. People think all that matters are the results of your research or, as a student, your grades and your performance in the lab.
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.WOMEN in INNOVATION
WBUR-FM
In one of the largest industries in Massachusetts, gender diversity on the boards of biopharmaceutical companies has improved significantly over the past four years, but women have not made the same progress advancing into senior executive roles and Black and Latinx workers continue to be underrepresented in the workforce, according to a new industry survey.
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CNBC
At 27 years old, Sarah has already reached a salary milestone she didn’t expect to hit for another few decades. She currently works as a software engineer for a start-up in Austin, where she joined the company at a base salary of $80,000. It was her first job in tech after working as a speech pathologist for two years, and the pay was far above what she thought she'd be earning at her age.
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Women Love Tech
Even today, discussing certain women's health and wellness topics makes some people uncomfortable. Topics such as menstruation, contraception, fertility and urinary tract infections are common issues which affect millions and millions of women around the world and yet they remain taboo. However, there's one new female startup which is applying science to these topics and the results are bringing women’s health out of the shadows.
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.GENDER EQUITY in STEM
Scientific American
In 1981, as a young scientist, Naomi Oreskes applied for her dream job as a geologist with the British Antarctic Survey. As a child, she had adored snow and ice, and her most cherished book was Wilson A. Bentley's atlas of snowflake photographs. She studied earth science in college, and when she graduated with top honors from a premier university in Britain, it did not seem like a stretch to apply for a job as a geologist in a cold and snowy place.
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Fast Company
Tennis legend Billie Jean King says her first "she-ro" was Althea Gibson, the first Black athlete to win a Grand Slam title. So King, who has spent her career fighting for women's equality in sports, didn't hesitate to help fund a new study on the experiences of women of color in the workplace, PowHer Redefined: Women of Color Reimagining the World of Work, out now.
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