The number of women being trained to enter engineering, science and social science academic careers is not the cause of female underrepresentation in those fields, attendees at a University of Virginia seminar on faculty hiring learned last week.

Emily Hernandez didn’t wait until college to start recruiting fellow minorities to science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) fields. She started as an eighth-grader during a University of Memphis camp called Girls Experiencing Engineering near her Germantown, Tennessee, hometown.

As a manager, you have three options when something needs to be done in your lab:
1. You can do it yourself.
2. You can delegate it to a specific person.
3. You can involve a group of people (two or more) to accomplish the task.

The Registration Committee announced Sept. 9 that conferee registration is now open for Pittcon 2015, the world’s largest annual conference and exposition for laboratory science. The event will be held March 8-12, 2015, at Ernest N. Morial Convention Center, New Orleans, Louisiana.

As we wind up this year’s Salary & Employee Satisfaction Survey, it seems that little has changed for many
of our 1,199 survey respondents. 

Liberal policies make people happy, personal beliefs make conservatives happier

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Dr. Carla Shatz, PhD, discusses her illustrious career in the latest interview.

Olin Business School study finds gender stereotypes continue to affect workplace behavior.

A Norwegian study shows that 8.3 per cent of the work force is addicted to work to the point where it becomes a health issue

New research shows the importance of social support for women preparing for STEM careers

Women applying for a job in male-dominated fields should consider playing up their masculine qualities, indicates new research by Michigan State University scholars that’s part of a series of studies on bias in the hiring process.