Sentences with phrase «women at research universities»

She says women at research universities aren't successfully negotiating for the things that would help them succeed in research, such as a lower teaching load, lab space, funding, and other resources.

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University of Virginia Lecturer Ann Reimers, a former fellow at the Department of Energy, marched on Washington during the women's march carrying a «support climate research» sign.

The field of AI has been criticized for its lack of women in prominent research roles at universities as well as at major technology companies.

John Kirton, co-director of the G - 20 Research Group at the University of Toronto's Munk School of Global Affairs, called the summit a «very solid success,» pointing to broad agreement on the agenda, much of it focusing on less controversial issues such as women's empowerment and promoting digitalization.

Women tend to give to more charitable causes and organizations than do men, according to research from the Women's Philanthropy Institute at the Indiana University's Lilly School of Philanthropy.

«We know that women entrepreneurs are developing innovative approaches to business and actively contributing to growing the Canadian economy,» said Clare Beckton, co-author and executive in residence at Carleton University's Centre for Research and Education on Women and women entrepreneurs are developing innovative approaches to business and actively contributing to growing the Canadian economy,» said Clare Beckton, co-author and executive in residence at Carleton University's Centre for Research and Education on Women and Women and Work.

Researchers from Stanford University's Clayman Institute for Gender Research Recruitment sat in on tech company recruiting sessions at a top - tier West Coast university; their findings hint at what's keeping women out of tech jobs: «As students entered, women were often setting up refreshments or raffles and doling out the swag in the back; the presenters were often men, and they rarely introduced the rUniversity's Clayman Institute for Gender Research Recruitment sat in on tech company recruiting sessions at a top - tier West Coast university; their findings hint at what's keeping women out of tech jobs: «As students entered, women were often setting up refreshments or raffles and doling out the swag in the back; the presenters were often men, and they rarely introduced the runiversity; their findings hint at what's keeping women out of tech jobs: «As students entered, women were often setting up refreshments or raffles and doling out the swag in the back; the presenters were often men, and they rarely introduced the recruiters.

Dr. Edward Donnerstein of the Center for Communication Research at the University of Wisconsin told the hearing that his study of films which combine erotic material with violence indicates that exposure of young men to violent sexual scenes, especially rape, tends to desensitize them to aggression toward women.

Dr JaneMaree Maher of the Centre for Women's Studies & Gender Research at Monash University in Australia, offers a very different way of conceptualizing pain and empowerment, one that resonates with the majority of wWomen's Studies & Gender Research at Monash University in Australia, offers a very different way of conceptualizing pain and empowerment, one that resonates with the majority of womenwomen.

Research also suggests that women who use hospital - based birthing centers are more likely to have a normal vaginal birth and more likely to be breast - feeding six to eight weeks after delivery than those who give birth in a typical hospital setting, said Ellen Hodnett, a professor of nursing at the University of Toronto and a review author for the Cochrane Collaboration Pregnancy and Childbirth Group.

And perhaps part of it is because women who have only children are happier than women who have more than one, according to research by Hans - Peter Kohler, sociology professor at the University of Pennsylvania.

Research led by a team at Women & Infants Hospital of Rhode Island and The Warren Alpert Medical School of Brown University has been published in the February 10, 2014 online edition of Pediatrics, the official journal of the American Academy of Pediatrics.The research indicates that premature babies benefit from being exposed to adult talk as early as pResearch led by a team at Women & Infants Hospital of Rhode Island and The Warren Alpert Medical School of Brown University has been published in the February 10, 2014 online edition of Pediatrics, the official journal of the American Academy of Pediatrics.The research indicates that premature babies benefit from being exposed to adult talk as early as presearch indicates that premature babies benefit from being exposed to adult talk as early as possible.

Women who pursue in vitro fertilization (IVF) to become pregnant are more likely to give birth if they have health insurance that covers the procedure, according to new research at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis.

Research led by Barry M. Lester, PhD, director of the Brown Center for the Study of Children at Risk at Women & Infants Hospital of Rhode Island and professor of psychiatry and pediatrics at The Warren Alpert Medical School of Brown University, found the single greatest contributor to long - term neurobehavioral development in preterm infants is maternal involvement — and that a single - family room NICU allows for the greatest and most immediate opportunities for maternal involvement.

According to 2016 research out of the University of British Columbia on women in power, 48 percent of female chief executives at S&P 500 companies and 35 percent of female US senators are blondes.

Government watchdog groups — including the Brennan Center for Justice at New York University School of Law, Common Cause New York, the League of Women Voters of New York State and the New York Public Interest Research Group — sent a complaint to the state's Committee on Open Government while the hearing was still under way on Tuesday afternoon, alleging violations of the state's Open Meetings Law.

One example is the work of Monika Janda at the Queensland University of Technology, who won this year's Women in Research Award.

In a 2000 survey of postdoctoral fellows in the biological and physical sciences at the University of California (UC), Berkeley, 45 % of married women with children reported that they hadn't presented research at national conferences the previous year, compared to 24 % of all other postdocs.

Women may be at the forefront of the fast - growing forensic science field, but they're also more stressed than their male counterparts, indicates new research led by a Michigan State University criminologist.

«Down the road, we hope to be able to treat pregnant women whose babies are at risk for this type of neurologic damage and prevent it from happening,» says study leader Irina Burd, M.D., Ph.D., an assistant professor of gynecology and obstetrics and neurology at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine and director of the Integrated Research Center for Fetal Medicine.

Researchers at the University of Pittsburgh and Magee - Womens Research Institute (MWRI) have devised a cell - based model of the human placenta that could help explain how pathogens that cause birth defects, such as Zika virus, cross from mother to unborn child.

Survivors of melanoma were more likely to limit exposure to the sun than people who had never had the disease, but some still reported seeking out suntans and getting sunburns, reports a new article in Cancer Epidemiology, Biomarkers & Prevention, a journal of the American Association for Cancer Research by Rachel Isaksson Vogel, PhD, an assistant professor in the Department of Obstetrics, Gynecology and Women's Health at the University of Minnesota.

The research team was led by Jennifer S. Gass, MD, FACS, chief of surgery at Women & Infants Hospital, a Care New England hospital, director of the breast fellowship at the Breast Health Center at Women & Infants, and clinical assistant professor at The Warren Alpert Medical School of Brown University.

Even if the sex ratio at birth were to normalize tomorrow, Catherine Tucker and Jennifer Van Hook, demographers with Pennsylvania State University's Population Research Institute, recently calculated that fully 10 percent of working - age men in China would still lack a female counterpart in 2050 — and that's assuming that men start marrying women their own age, a change from their current practice of seeking mates a few years younger.

In «Calibrating 30 Years of Experimental Research: A Meta - Analysis of the Atmospheric Effects of Music, Scent, and Color,» Professors Holger Roschk of Alpen - Adria - Universität, in Austria, Professor Sandra Maria Correia Loureiro, of the Instituto Universitário de Lisboa, and Jan Breitsoh, lecturer at the UK's Aberystwyth University, analyzed 66 studies of 15,621 shoppers — mostly women — conducted between 1982 and 2016.

Elite schools, both liberal arts colleges and research universities, do a better job overall of retaining undergraduates in the sciences: At these institutions 54 % of women but only 39 percent of men drop out of science before attaining a degree.

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In a chapter of her book titled, «A Lab of My Own,» Neena B. Schwartz, a retired neuroendocrinologist at Northwestern University in Evanston, Illinois, chronicles what it was like for her to start a research lab in the 1970s as both a woman and a lesbian.

Now, a new study from a team at the Research Institute of the McGill University Health Centre (RI - MUHC) and McGill University shows that the risk of developing those conditions post pregnancy is drastically higher if the women had both diabetes and high blood pressure during pregnancy.

Ayanna Howard is a rarity: an African - American woman with an endowed engineering faculty chair at a major research university.

We also examined more health outcomes than previous studies and were able to thoroughly check women's medical records,» says the lead author Dr. Abbey B. Berenson of the Department of Obstetrics & Gynecology and Center for Interdisciplinary Research in Women's Health at University of Texas Medical Brwomen's medical records,» says the lead author Dr. Abbey B. Berenson of the Department of Obstetrics & Gynecology and Center for Interdisciplinary Research in Women's Health at University of Texas Medical BrWomen's Health at University of Texas Medical Branch.

«We know a lot about the closures and about the workforce challenges, but we don't really know how these things impact women and the health of their infants,» says Britta Anderson, a senior research scientist at NORC's Walsh Center for Rural Health Analysis at the University of Chicago.

Writing in the January 2012 issue of Alcoholism: Clinical and Experimental Research, principal investigator Claudia Fahlke from the Department of Psychology at the University of Gothenburg in Sweden and her colleagues found that alcohol's ability to reduce serotonin neurotransmission, was «telescoped» in alcoholic women compared with their male counterparts.

This will allow us to research obstructive sleep apnea in pregnant women more effectively, and to develop and implement more effective treatments,» said co-author Dr. Suzanne Karan, a visiting researcher at the Hebrew University - Hadassah Medical Center who is an Associate Professor of Anesthesiology and Director of the Anesthesiology Respiratory Physiology Laboratory at the University of Rochester School of Medicine.

And although Zuber is not the first women to chair the board, NSF's press release touts her as part of the first all - female leadership team at the agency, joining NSF Director France Córdova and the board's new vice-chair, Diane Souvaine, a theoretical computer scientist and vice provost for research at Tufts University in Medford, Massachusetts.

Forced to abandon the project, Kaatz found her way to the then - new school of public health at the University of Wisconsin (UW), Madison, and to Molly Carnes, who, in addition to working as a geriatrician, holds faculty appointments in three UW Madison departments and heads UW's Center for Women's Health Research.

To investigate whether hair samples could be used to assess the effects of asthma on cortisol levels during pregnancy, a research team led by Gideon Koren, MD, a clinical pharmacologist at the University of Toronto, and Bruce Carleton, PharmD, at the University of British Columbia, collected hair samples from 93 pregnant women, of whom 62 had asthma and 31 did not.

Li says he and colleagues at the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center and the University of Washington found the correlation between migraines and breast cancer during a survey of 2,000 post-menopausal women with breast cancer and 1,500 post-menopausal women with no history of breast cancer.

«What we've discovered will help clinicians to better treat women with ovarian cancer,» says Dr. Ben Tsang, senior scientist at the Ottawa Hospital Research Institute and professor at the University of Ottawa.

In the mid-20th century, before women were permitted aboard research vessels, Tharp explored the oceans from her desk at Columbia University.

A geneticist at the University of California, Los Angeles, Fejzo began to research hyperemesis gravidarum (HG), an extreme form of the «morning sickness» that afflicts most pregnant women.

Lead author, Dr Richard Dodds, Wellcome Trust Research Training Fellow at the MRC LEU at the University of Southampton, comments: «We found that men were typically stronger than women from adolescence onwards, but both men and women reached a peak level of strength during their thirties before becoming weaker with age.

One question these studies bring up is whether women are not putting themselves forward, are not being given the opportunity to ask questions, or some combination of the two, says Anna Kaatz, the director of computational sciences at the Center for Women's Health Research at the University of Wisconsin in Madwomen are not putting themselves forward, are not being given the opportunity to ask questions, or some combination of the two, says Anna Kaatz, the director of computational sciences at the Center for Women's Health Research at the University of Wisconsin in MadWomen's Health Research at the University of Wisconsin in Madison.

Today, Sheridan works to address these types of issues at the University of Wisconsin (UW) in Madison, as executive and research director of the Women in Science and Engineering Leadership Institute (WISELI).

The epidemic of obesity is felt in prenatal clinics and delivery rooms around the world with a worrisome trend in high - risk pregnancies that could impact mother and child, according to Patrick M. Catalano, MD, the Dierker - Biscotti Women's Health and Wellness Professor and Director of the Center for Reproductive Health at MetroHealth and Director of the Clinical Research Unit of the Case Western Reserve University.

«Despite the presence of a universal health insurance system in Ontario, our research highlights the persistence of significant health disparities in breast cancer screening, particularly for women who are more vulnerable due to severe disability, multiple chronic conditions, low income and lower education,» said Dr. Guilcher, who has a PhD in Clinical Epidemiology at the Institute of Health Policy, Management and Evaluation, University of Toronto.

The research, led by Professor Joachim Stoeber at the University's School of Psychology, considered the response of 366 women who completed two surveys in the period December 2013 to February 2014.

While busy directing two research centers at Harvard University, Guttentag began Too Many Women as a true labor of love.

Professor Kristina Akesson, Clinical and Molecular Osteoporosis Research Unit at Lund University, Chair of the IOF Capture the Fracture Campaign, stated, «This study concludes that in the population sample of elderly women, vitamin D insufficiency sustained over 5 - years was associated with increased 10 - year risk of osteoporotic fracture.»

«Married women diagnosed with a serious health condition may find themselves struggling with the impact of their disease while also experiencing the stress of divorce,» said Amelia Karraker, a researcher at the University of Michigan Institute for Social Research, who presents her findings May 1 at the annual meeting of the Population Association of America.