Lab Leadership
Overweight women are more likely to work in lower-paying and more physically demanding jobs; less likely to get higher-wage positions that include interaction with the public; and make less money in either case compared to average size women and all men, according to a new Vanderbilt study.
Unstructured hiring practices and over-reliance on personal networks is limiting opportunities for women in biotech.
Electronic health records increase doctors’ bureaucratic burden
Some scientists share better than others. While astronomers and geneticists embrace the concept, the culture of ecology still has a ways to go.
ISU researcher examines the struggles for victims to tell their story.
Recently, uncertainty has been getting a bad rap. Hundreds of articles have been printed over the last few years about how uncertainty brings negative effects to the markets and creates a drag on the economy at large. But a new study appearing in the February 2015 edition of the Journal of Consumer Research finds that uncertainty can be motivating.
The Pittcon Organizing Committee has recently announced the topics for Conferee Networking during Pittcon 2015, which will be in New Orleans, Louisiana, Ernest N. Morial Convention Center, March 8-12, 2015.
Tracey Holloway was a postdoctoral researcher at Columbia University in 2002, Ph.D. from Princeton University freshly in hand, when she and five colleagues teamed up to create an informal support network for other women in their field.
Scientists are beginning to embrace social media as a viable means of communicating with public audiences.
