08/27/2010 :
According to a recent poll by ICM, a public opinion researcher from England, two-thirds of British population (who participated in the survey) cannot name even one famous female scientist.
07/02/2010 :Gerald R. Fink, a geneticist at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, has been awarded the $500,000 Genetics Prize for 2010 presented by the Peter and Patricia Gruber Foundation, for his pioneering work in yeast genetics and in the use of model organisms to study broader questions in biology, and for inspiring a generation of geneticists at the Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory and at the Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research, the foundation announced today. Mr. Fink will receive the award in November in Washington. The foundation also recently announced the winners of its $500,000 prizes in cosmology and neuroscience: Charles Steidel of the California Institute of Technology and Robert H. Wurtz of the National Institutes of Health, respectively.
06/15/2010 :In the URL of my blog, I am simply "science-professor," but the pseudonymous name I use as a blogger is "Female Science Professor." Why the extra adjective? Does it matter in my work as a scientist and a professor that I am female?
06/12/2010 :Carol C. Nadelson, M.D., Director, Partners Office for Women's Careers, Brigham and Women's Hospital (Harvard Medical School), Boston, Massachusetts, was named the 2009 Alma Dea Morani, M.D. Renaissance Woman Award recipient by The Foundation for the History of Women in Medicine (FHWIM). Wilma Bulkin Siegel, M.D., Chair of the FHWIM Awards Committee, announced, “Carol Nadelson has had a major impact on the career development and advancement of women physicians and scientists throughout the world, making her an ideal candidate for the Alma Dea Morani Renaissance Woman Award.”
03/22/2010 :The American Association of University Women, in a new report, weighs in on the social and environmental factors that contribute to the underrepresentation of women in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics. The report, titled "Why So Few?" and released today, follows a series of recent efforts to reverse that pattern, including work by colleges to support female scientists, another report on the issue from three Berkeley researchers, and a push by the National Science Foundation's Advance program.
