Helping to build a university from scratch is the hardest job in my life, but the effort has paid off. Here, I stand at a learning space at the New Model Institute for Technology and Engineering (NMITE) in Hurford, UK. We were originally planning to begin directing in March, but the epidemic has pushed our… Read More »
Zeenat McLeod hid his interest in handicrafts for a long time. As a mathematician, she was sometimes the only woman in the room, and she did not want to do anything that would be naïve or clichéd. Then, in 2014, one of her colleagues at the University of Canterbury in New Zealand became pregnant. Along… Read More »
Joining a newly established laboratory as her first PhD student gave Sameera Asgari a great foreshadowing of life as an independent researcher and gained insight into setting up a research program from scratch. The work of computational biologist Samira Asgari focuses on communities and individuals that are often overlooked in studies on human genetics, particularly… Read More »
In North American education and industry, female scientists with PhDs earn significantly less than their male counterparts, receiving two reports that examine wages in the United States and Canada. The US National Science Foundation’s Survey of Arned Doctors tracked more than 55,700 people who earned PhDs between 1 July 2018 and 31 June 2019, including… Read More »