The L'Oréal-UNESCO For Women in Science Awards Ceremony, presided by Professor Günter Blobel, Nobel Prize in Medicine 1999, took place last night at UNESCO headquarters.
While trust in science remained stable among people who self-identified as moderates and liberals in the United States between 1974 and 2010, trust in science fell among self-identified conservatives by more than 25 percent during the same period...
The Pittcon 2012 Organizing Committee is pleased to announce that this year's conference and exposition for laboratory science attracted15,754 attendees (conferees and exhibitor personnel) to the annual event.
Applications are now being accepted for the eighth Dr. Mow Shiah Lin Scholarship sponsored by the Asian Pacific American Association (APAA) at the U.S. Department of Energy’s Brookhaven National Laboratory.
The Stanford Center at Peking University is available to the several hundred Stanford scholars studying, researching and conducting university activities in China each year.
As a woman pursuing a degree in a STEM (science, technology, engineering or math) field heavily dominated by men, Jessica MacAllister, a UW-Madison undergraduate, isn’t the only female who sometimes feels out of place.
Back when Roxanne Hughes was teaching high school science and coaching track, she noticed an inherent difference between boys and girls — both in the classroom and on the field.....
Despite gains over the past decade, women globally lag behind men in Internet usage, the science and engineering workforce, and leadership positions, reflecting a troubling divide in the emerging knowledge economy.