WHEN A GROUP of researchers at NYU Abu Dhabi published a paper in Nature Communications last fall suggesting that young women scientists should seek out men as mentors, the backlash was swift and vociferous. Countless scientists, many of them women, registered their indignation on Twitter—some even penning open letters and More
The National Research Mentoring Network, supported by the U.S. National Institutes of Health, is a free social and professional networking tool that matches and facilitates mentoring relationships using evidence-based best practices and online resources. More
Women in the field have come so far—and have some distance yet to go. More
Fifteen colleagues and friends reflect on Gordon Bower’s influence on them and his legacy’s impact on the field. More
Receiving honors for valuable mentoring contributions are APS James McKeen Cattell Fellow Carol S. Dweck. APS William James Fellow Marcia K. Johnson, and APS Fellows Geraldine Downey and Mark H. Johnson. More
Some scientists are truly extraordinary mentors. Take, for example, professor Charlotta Turner, a chemist at Lund University in Sweden, who in 2014 received a text from her Ph.D. student telling her that he might not finish his thesis in time. When she learned that her student, Firas Jumaah, was in More
