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Student Notebook: 7 Tips for Being an Effective Graduate Student Mentor
Given the significance of mentoring and the lack of structured training on it, Kaley Davis gives a list of seven mentoring tips specifically geared toward graduate students.
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There Are Too Few Women in Computer Science and Engineering
Only 20 percent of computer science and 22 percent of engineering undergraduate degrees in the U.S. go to women. Women are missing out on flexible, lucrative and high-status careers. Society is also missing out on the potential contributions they
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Student Notebook: The Outstanding Impacts of Supervisors on Student Success and Well-being
Samira Feizi discusses the importance of finding the right supervisor for doctoral students’ success and well-being.
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Scientists Have Passions Outside the Lab. We Should Embrace That
In August, I contemplated revealing a personal secret about a postdoc in my lab. But before I did, I reached out to the postdoc, Victoria, to ask for permission: “Do you want me do a
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Colleges Have a Guy Problem
American colleges and universities now enroll roughly six women for every four men. This is the largest female-male gender gap in the history of higher education, and it’s getting wider. Last year, U.S. colleges enrolled
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Universities Say They Want More Diverse Faculties. So Why Is Academia Still So White?
When she was hired as a professor by Harvard University in 2013, Lorgia García Peña was the only Black Latina on a tenure track in the university’s Faculty of Arts and Sciences. But in 2019