Tag archive for ‘awards’
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WiGS founding member Joanna Kelley receives L’Oreal Women in Science fellowship
Dr. Joanna Kelley, a genome sciences alumna who contributed to the formation of Women in Genome Sciences, is one of five early career scientists to earn the 2012 L’Oreal Women in Science Fellowship. Since finishing her Ph.D. work in Willie Swanson’s lab, Joanna has done postdoctoral work with Molly Przeworski at University of Chicago and [...]
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9 of 72 new NAS members are women
The Association for Women in Science presents a series of charts and a summary of relevant data on the continuing and disturbing trend of electing a pathetic number of female scientists to the National Academy of Sciences. Particularly infuriating is their description of the NAS response in 2001 to complaints about the low numbers of [...]
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Informal selection criteria hurt women
While female faculty earn service and teaching awards in proportion to their representation in science, they are still severely underrepresented in the presentation of scholarly awards. This piece at Nature discusses some of the contributing factors to this phenomenon. If you are involved in a selection committee, you can take several steps to reduce any [...]