Sentences with phrase «women scientists at»

The courteous 64 - year - old chemist welcomed their initiative to encourage the hiring of more women scientists at both the junior and senior levels.

A close look at women scientists at two of the nation's top universities, Harvard and MIT, reveals trends that likely affect women at most research universities, but are more acute and visible at these two elite schools.

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The system has been challenging for women with demanding careers, says Martin, who recalls hearing female scientists share their concerns at a conference.

He does not even touch on what the political scientists Valerie Hudson and Patricia Leidl have called the «Hillary Doctrine,» promulgated through the Office of Global Women's Issues established by Mrs. Clinton at the State Department, and according to which any denial of gender equality anywhere in the world is a threat to American order.

I wonder what would be revealed if scientists would be permitted to study the remains in the tomb at Machpelah... after all, like all things Biblical, we only have one reference, and we ONLY have Abraham's word that he saw the face of God (contrary to John 1:18: No man hath seen God at any time, AND John 6:46: Not that any man hath seen the Father)... Bet you those bones aren't from a 175 year old man and 127 year old woman...

Dec. 18, 2013 — The most complete sequence to date of the Neanderthal genome, using DNA extracted from a woman's toe bone that dates back 50,000 years, reveals a long history of interbreeding among at least four different types of early humans living in Europe and Asia at that time, according to University of California, Berkeley, scientists.

I am a scientist and not at all religious, but I applaud this woman.

Scientists at the Harvard School of Public Health followed 39,765 men and 157,463 women as part of the Health Professionals Follow - up Study and the Nurses» Health Study I and II.

On the International Day of Women and Girls in Science, we're talking to Marcia DeLonge, a senior scientist and agroecologist in the Food & Environment Program at the Union of Concerned Scientists (UCS) about working in environmental science.

To prove it, scientists tracked the eye movements of men as they looked at women wearing red lipstick, pink lipstick and no lipstick and found that they looked the longest at women wearing red lipstick — almost three times longer than they looked at women wearing none.

Fady Sharara, M.D., Contributes to Global Understanding of Fertility Breakthroughs at ASRM The world's most influential scientists and fertility specialists convened in Salt Lake City last month with one goal — to help men and women find a faster, more efficient path to pregnancy.

Scientists at Brigham and Women's Hospital, an affiliate of Harvard Medical School, used special techniques to detect healing molecules in human milk.

As political scientist Christina Greer told Politico last month, «Her campaign team clearly understands the importance of black women and how they've been neglected by the Democratic Party writ large, not just by Andrew Cuomo, but at the state, local and national level.»

And all that consistency will benefit Gillibrand's national standing with women voters, said Kelly Dittmar, a political scientist at the Center for American Women and Politics at Rutgers Univerwomen voters, said Kelly Dittmar, a political scientist at the Center for American Women and Politics at Rutgers UniverWomen and Politics at Rutgers University.

After accounting for factors such as productivity and field, the women patented at 40 % the rate of «equivalent male scientists,» the study states.

In Washington, the scientists participated in a roundtable discussion at the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering and Medicine and attended an Atlantic Live summit on recent achievements by women in STEM and strategies to boost their ranks.

The article «Breaking through the polycarbonate ceiling» highlighted programs led by AAAS that aimed at early - career support as well as professional advancement, for women scientists and engineers, including programs such as COACh (career - training and networking program) and WISC (Women's International Scientific Cooperatwomen scientists and engineers, including programs such as COACh (career - training and networking program) and WISC (Women's International Scientific CooperatWomen's International Scientific Cooperation).

The scientists were formally recognized for their achievements and acknowledged as representatives of the fellowship's goals to boost representation of women in science, technology, engineering and mathematics at an awards ceremony at the Embassy of France in Washington, D.C., where the winners celebrated with other women in science and their supporters.

She is especially concerned about the attrition rate of physician - scientists — men and women — who come up against the academic tenure clock at a time when many are starting families.

The scientists studied 24 men and women (11 of whom were in their 20s and 13 of whom were in their 60s) who lived for more than three weeks in an environment with no time cues other than a weak cycle of light and dark that was artificially set at 28 hours and that gave the subjects their signals for bedtime.

In her 2002 editorial in Nature Medicine, Nancy Andrews, now the Dean of Medicine at Duke University, noted that women physician - scientists may feel as though they must «outcompete» and «overachieve» relative to their male counterparts to attain equal standing [6].

Women in science have made many advances in recent years, but as delegates at the recent 12th International Conference of Women Engineers and Scientists (ICWES12) discussed, much more work needs to be done to attract and retain women, particularly in areas such as engineeWomen in science have made many advances in recent years, but as delegates at the recent 12th International Conference of Women Engineers and Scientists (ICWES12) discussed, much more work needs to be done to attract and retain women, particularly in areas such as engineeWomen Engineers and Scientists (ICWES12) discussed, much more work needs to be done to attract and retain women, particularly in areas such as engineewomen, particularly in areas such as engineering.

After she wrote a commentary published in Nature Medicine in 2002 questioning where all the women physician - scientists have gone, she was asked repeatedly to address the topic at meetings, something she declined to do.

In an additional group of endometriosis samples biopsied from 15 women at the University of British Columbia, the scientists looked specifically for mutations in the KRAS gene, whose expression signals proteins that spur cell growth and replication.

The network has tried to raise the profile of women scientists by increasing the numbers invited to speak at local seminars.

Hormone therapy «was always primarily a product to use in women entering menopause,» says Howard Hodis, a physician scientist who focuses on preventive medicine at the University of Southern California's Keck School of Medicine in Los Angeles.

A few female scientists reported their relief at no longer having to choose between Miss («I'm a single woman looking to mingle!»)

Universities need to do more to convince women that raising a family and being a scientist are compatible, says Rachel Tobbell at the UKRC, a government organisation that aims to promote gender equality.

«I am very aware of how few minority women scientists with any profile at all are out there.»

Scientists at the University of Soutahmpton's Faculty of Medicine have discovered that maternal diet affects the nutrient composition of fluid in the womb of women and thus may aid in the development of nutritional interventions to support the very earliest stages of pregnancy.

Male scientists — especially at the upper echelons of the profession — are far more likely than women to commit misconduct.

The study was a partnership between scientists at UM SOM and researchers at the University of Massachusetts Medical School, Massachusetts General Hospital and Brigham & Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School and Yale University.

Many women scientists he has spoken with say, after looking at «the life of an assistant professor, «You can't do that and have a family.»»

Although women scientists continue to be underrepresented at the faculty level, many women have established rewarding and successful careers in science — thanks in part to having had role models and mentors whose paths they could follow.

The fact that Israeli scientists must spend time abroad before successfully launching an academic career at home provides a particularly stark illustration of a problem that appears to exist in the United States as well, if less obviously: Women with husbands and children often find it far harder than comparable men to move in pursuit of career opportunities.

«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.

In particular, «societies and associations are not doing enough to help postdoc women and early - career scientists by providing child care and dependent care at their meetings,» Huang says.

Women athletes and scientists today marked the 37th anniversary of a U.S. law prohibiting discrimination against women in education at a White House event during which young women were urged to go for the Women athletes and scientists today marked the 37th anniversary of a U.S. law prohibiting discrimination against women in education at a White House event during which young women were urged to go for the women in education at a White House event during which young women were urged to go for the women were urged to go for the gold.

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.

«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.

I would like to encourage women to see that they can have a family and still be effective as a scientist even though at times it feels as though you're not dedicating enough time.

«Having more women at the top could mean that more barriers in [women's] way are broken,» says Adelina Huminic - Orzu, a project manager at the European Commission — funded European Platform of Women Scientwomen at the top could mean that more barriers in [women's] way are broken,» says Adelina Huminic - Orzu, a project manager at the European Commission — funded European Platform of Women Scientwomen's] way are broken,» says Adelina Huminic - Orzu, a project manager at the European Commission — funded European Platform of Women ScientWomen Scientists.

It means that women somehow have less of a tendency to apply, even if they are at an adequate level of qualification — and this is the case for both younger and more established scientists.

I would like to think that it's a positive thing, not a negative thing, and I would like to encourage women to see that they can have a family and still be effective as a scientist even though at times it feels as though you're not dedicating enough time.

Description: Program for scientists (not only women) at U.K. universities or in industry who have taken a break of at least 2 years from a science -, engineering -, or technology - related career.

Scientists at the University of Waterloo have developed a new tool to protect women from HIV infection.

Sue Rosser, dean of Ivan Allen College at the Georgia Institute of Technology in Atlanta and former chief of women's programs at NSF, conducted a survey of 598 POWRE recipients to learn about «the most significant issues / challenges / opportunities facing women scientists today as they plan their careers» (2).

In October scientists at Sun Yat - sen University in Guangzhou, China, announced that they had nearly perfected a controversial technique that could allow women with problematic eggs to bear their own children.

But experienced male scientists submit more R01 applications and they are more successful at renewing these grants than women.

The paper showed that elite male scientists do a significantly worse job than other men and elite women at hiring women as postdocs and graduate students.