Most Recent Articles from Academe

• PERIPATETIC SCIENCE LUMINARIES, AND OTHERS 

  As an English professor, I don't often run into scientists on my professional travels - I'm more likely to bump into etymologists than...

  05/01/09 by Krebs, Paula M · More from publication

• Why Are We Still Worried about Women in Science? 

  We still haven't solved the problems that kept women out of science decades ago. On January 14, 2005, Sue Rosser, one of this article's...

  05/01/09 by Rosser, Sue V; Taylor, Mark Zachary · More from publication

• Change Institutional Culture, and You Change Who Goes into Science 

  The University of Maryland Baltimore County has a winning strategy for encouraging students of color to pursue careers in science. In the late...

  05/01/09 by Hrabowski, Freeman A; Maton, Kenneth I · More from publication

• Meyerhoff Scholarship Program, The 

  Launched in 1988 with support from Baltimore philanthropist Robert Meyerhoff, the Meyerhoff Scholarship Program at the University of Maryland...

  05/01/09 · More from publication

• "I'll Break His Goddamned Hands" 

  How one working-class boy found his way to a tenure-track job in chemistry. I'll break his goddamned hands," my father said. I wonder if he...

  05/01/09 by Hicks, Randall · More from publication

• What We Can't Say about Contingent Faculty 

  You can't draw any conclusions about the conditions of contingent labor until you have the data on wages. The effects of reliance on part-time...

  05/01/09 by Tam, Teresa; Jacoby, Daniel · More from publication

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