Sentences with phrase «women faculty members in»

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.

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.

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

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.

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].

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

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.

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).

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

«Unfortunately, Brazil is a source, a destination, and a transit point for men, women, and children subjected to human trafficking and slave labor,» said Carlos Henrique Haddad, a federal judge in Brazil and a member of the law faculty at UFMG.

Day 5: Sunday 9:15 am — 12:30 pm — For the last 13 years VSNT faculty member Rosa Arteaga MA has been the acting clinical director and supervisor of Battered Women's Support Services in Vancouver.

Linda Arkin, LCSW is a graduate and faculty member of the Women's Therapy Centre Institute, a feminist psychoanalytic institute, as well as the supervisor of their Postgraduate Training Program in Eating and Body Image Problems.