Sentences with phrase «women faculty members»

And from Black Mountain College [Asheville, North Carolina] Josef Albers got the position of director of Yale Art School but Anni was not invited to teach because there were no women faculty members and no one was studying weaving at Yale.

«This has been a gnawing problem for too long, and something should be done,» particularly about the stagnant numbers of junior women faculty members.

Researchers at the University of California, Riverside and Indiana University have shown that women faculty members are doing more service work — primarily internal service — than their male colleagues, which may hinder their overall success in academia.

MIT President Susan Hockfield says the report, based on interviews with women faculty members, demonstrates the «stunning progress» MIT has made in hiring more women and increasing their job satisfaction.

* The number of women faculty members is a bigger issue for biologists (0.23) than for those in any other discipline.

Two recent surveys at major research institutions point to the bind women faculty members face.

We now have seven women faculty members (none in the underclass of instructors or sessionals) and, as of this year, five mathematical biologists.

As noted earlier, there are fewer high - ranking women faculty members at academic medical centers, so finding established women physician researchers to serve as mentors can be difficult.

The authors found some differences between the genders in graduate school — for example, women were more likely than men to work with women faculty members — but «no clear disadvantages in the aspects of training environments that we can measure,» they write.

These were the first steps in a journey that took her to Wisconsin (where in 1983 she earned a Master of Science in Food Science from Wisconsin University), Kenya (where she completed a two - year assignment, from 1981 - 1983 with Winrock International working with limited - resource farmers) and California (where she earned her PhD in Microbiology from the University of California, Davis in 1994) before returning to Cornell CALS in 1994 as the first woman faculty member in the Department of Food Science.

As a rare woman faculty member at Stanford Medical School in the late 1970s, neurobiologist Carla Shatz put her quest for tenure ahead of her desire to start a family.

Not exact matches

Amy Cuddy, a faculty member at the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard, has conducted an experiment with her graduate students demonstrating that holding an assertive body posture for as little as two minutes increases the amount of testosterone in the body, in men and women.

Nassar, a former faculty member and physician at an on - campus clinic at Michigan State University was sentenced in February to up to 125 years in prison after some 200 young women testified about decades of abuse at his hands.

Especially in the theo logical schools, which have a large enrollment of women students, Jesuit faculty members are reluctant to bring up the topic of priestly ordination.

Now, after a complaint was filed by eight faculty members, the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission has ruled that BelmontAbbey is discriminating against women: «By denying prescription contraception drugs, Respondent is discriminating based on gender because only females take oral prescription contraceptives.

Our physicians are faculty members in Obstetrics, Gynecology and Women's Health at Rutgers — New Jersey Medical School.

The medical directors and neonatologists at each SCN are members of the Women & Infants Division of Newborn Medicine and faculty members at The Warren Alpert Medical School of Brown University.

A new program aims to launch the careers of diverse life scientists — including women and members of other underrepresented groups — by providing up to 8 years of support, covering both the postdoctoral training and junior faculty stages.

For example, one young faculty member * who is gay stood up at a women's mentoring lunch and described how another professor had inquired about her personal life in an offensive and intrusive way.

The 2007 — 08 Women in U.S. Academic Medicine: Statistics and Benchmarking Report found that, of the 34 % of faculty members who are women, 40 % are assistant professors, 29 % are associate professors, and only 17 % are full professorsWomen in U.S. Academic Medicine: Statistics and Benchmarking Report found that, of the 34 % of faculty members who are women, 40 % are assistant professors, 29 % are associate professors, and only 17 % are full professorswomen, 40 % are assistant professors, 29 % are associate professors, and only 17 % are full professors [4].

The 2005 report included responses from 88 of the 140 graduate training programs that were members of the ANDP and indicated that women comprise more than 60 percent of the graduate students in neuroscience but approximately 25 percent of tenure - track faculty, a number that has changed little since 1998.

This is partly a result of the fact that, on average, men have attained a higher academic degree (42 % of female and 24 % of male faculty members have a master's degree as their highest) and partly a result of where they work (more women work at 2 - year institutions and colleges, where teaching is the primary mission).

Women S&E faculty members are far more likely than men to teach part time (40 % versus 25 % for men), and are also more likely to have fixed - term contracts — 54 % of women S&E faculty members were on a 1 - term or 1 - year contract, compared to 34 % of men, in 1993 (NSF, 1Women S&E faculty members are far more likely than men to teach part time (40 % versus 25 % for men), and are also more likely to have fixed - term contracts — 54 % of women S&E faculty members were on a 1 - term or 1 - year contract, compared to 34 % of men, in 1993 (NSF, 1women S&E faculty members were on a 1 - term or 1 - year contract, compared to 34 % of men, in 1993 (NSF, 1996).

A new study reports that, when faculty members rated hypothetical candidates for a tenure - track faculty position, a highly qualified woman is twice as likely to be hired as an equally qualified man.

Over a 30 - year period, the percentages of ranked women S&E faculty members with doctorates at 4 - year colleges and universities has grown considerably decade by decade, but are still not nearly what the percentages are for men.

Lutkenhaus is one of three women on the 27 - member faculty of the Texas A&M chemical engineering department.

When women have it all Jyoti Mishra, 27 August A young faculty member argues that it is, indeed, possible for a woman (or a man) to «have it all.»

The study shows that highly productive faculty members, both male and female, employ others to help with core housework at a higher rate than others — but women do it much more often than men.

The college has also tried to provide more role models and mentoring for female students by using more women as teaching assistants, hiring more female faculty members, and promoting them into leadership positions.

Nelson's report corroborates a recently released study by the U.S. Department of Education that emphasizes the disproportionately high number of male S&E professors.10 The report also cites the salary advantage men of all racial groups enjoy over women.10 While the unadjusted salaries of African - American faculty members were lower than those of whites, when variables were controlled, the wage gap disappeared.10 However, the study cautions that the markedly lower numbers of tenured and working African - American faculty at doctoral institutions could obscure racially biased salary discrepancies.10

It follows that many female faculty members will be the only woman in their department.

By comparing the actual distribution of women in physics with simulated results, the report shows, if anything, that today there are more departments than expected with at least one female faculty member.

«We wanted to evaluate whether the absence of female faculty members in physics departments is an appropriate measure of women's progress in physics,» said Susan White, research manager in the Statistical Research Center (SRC) at AIP, who conducted the study with Rachel Ivie, associate director of the SRC.

In departments where faculty members reported feeling comfortable heading out early to catch a kid's soccer game or requesting family leave or a tenure - clock extension, for example, faculty members published fewer papers, and the drop was most dramatic among senior women.

«We see this mild increase in Aβ42 in cells from patients with Alzheimer's disease, which seems to be enough to trigger disease processes,» said Young - Pearse, a Harvard Stem Cell Institute - affiliated faculty member at Brigham and Women's Hospital.

The team's insights not only illuminate normal vertebrate development but also could lead to improved understanding of human spinal defects such as scoliosis, said Pourquié, who is also the Harvard Medical School Frank Burr Mallory Professor of Pathology at Brigham and Women's Hospital and a principal faculty member of the Harvard Stem Cell Institute.

While still a resident in internal medicine at Brigham and Women's Hospital in Boston and a junior faculty member at the Harvard School of Public Health, the economist - turned - doctor researched various attempts since the 1960s to create a combined measure of impairment, illness and death.

As part of the University of Oklahoma's Multi-Cultural Engineering Program, Simmons joined a close - knit group of students and admired faculty member Pamela McCauley - Bell, a former welfare recipient and teen mother who earned a PhD in engineering — the first black woman in Oklahoma to do so.

Departments that already have female faculty members are likely to have a climate that is friendlier to women, he explains, and therefore attract more women.

It is important that all students see diverse faculty members, which leads me to the second reason you might want to consider a PWI over an HBCU: Majority students need to see minority professors in their classrooms if they're going to develop healthy respect for minorities (and women!)

Gender plays a complicated role in the hiring of computer science tenure - track faculty members, of which on average only about 15 % are women, according to a study presented today at the peer - reviewed International World Wide Web Conference in Montreal, Canada, and posted on the arXiv preprint server in February.

Although the percentages of female junior faculty members in all of these categories are roughly double those of full professors — a promising trend — women remain a small minority on science and engineering faculties.

But she and a handful of other female as well as male senior faculty members at the nation's oldest university echo the chief concerns of their MIT colleagues: too few women and too little respect and power for the few who are there.

Just make sure to check in with your MD first: «Because every woman is unique, it's difficult to make recommendations across the board, so consult with your doctor before changing the timing of your birth control,» says ob - gyn Mache Seibel, MD, a faculty member at the Harvard Medical School.

Roughly 63 percent of female students identify as feminists, and while no similar statistic is available for female faculty or staff members, most likely an even... Continue reading «Campus Feminism: The Real War on Women»

Last year, much of the positive feedback we received was around our faculty members, so we are excited to bring a new and inspiring group of women to the conversation.

A member of the faculty of the Gender Studies Department at Mount Holyoke College in Massachusetts, Ackmann teaches courses in women's public writing.

A student at the Bauhaus since 1922, and faculty member since 1929, Albers's relegation to the weaving workshop — banned as a woman from painting — did not hold her back.

Join us in the Rereading Room, a reconstruction of the Vancouver Women's Bookstore (1973 - 1996), as we celebrate new books by UBC faculty members Amber Dawn, Kevin Chong, Maureen Medved and Timothy Taylor.

The teleconference presents the perspectives of three Leadership Academy alumnae; Wilma Wallace, Associate General Counsel of the Gap and Leadership Academy faculty member; and Keith Wetmore, the Chair of Morrison & Foerster, which has had women attend the Leadership Academy each year since it began.