FemaleScienceProfessor

From a reader seeking your comments: "I am currently on my 4th postdoc position and still have a 4 years left on my current fellows...

Owing to my frequent travels with a certain airline, I have a certain 'status' that has some nice features that make travel possibl...

Earlier this summer I met an undergraduate from another institution. The meeting was arranged by one of the student's mentors, who wrot...

Have you ever been attacked in a rather impolite way while giving a professional talk? OK, so "attacked" is a bit of hyperbole....

Earlier this year, I got a panicked call from a younger relative who was about to give birth to her second child. The baby was about 10 day...

Not long ago, a colleague discussed with me the recently-concluded faculty search in his department. His department decided to hire a male ...

As happens from time to time, a science-man having a conversation with me about science, or whatever, will feel the need to establish his I...

Last week when I was in a cafe waiting for my mediumskimicedmocha, I overhead one student say to another, "Of course it's true tha...

A colleague recently commented to me on the tendency for graduate students to introduce their talks at conference by telling the audience t...

Below is an e-mail message. It seems to refer to a comment (or two) that I did not see, perhaps because they got sent to the spam-box, whic...

From an interview of Rita Colwell (former NSF Director) by National Geographic : Are you still treated differently as a woman? Cert...

Question from a reader: In your experience in faculty search committees, with respect to hiring an assistant professor, are postdoc pos...

Yes, I know that Acceptance is Stage 5 in the evolution of grief, but in the academic context of graduate admissions, it is Stage 2(ish), i...

It was not inevitable, but once it happened, no one was surprised. This is particularly strange because even just a few years ago it would ...

A reader asks the perennial painful questions about why others were interviewed for a tenure-track faculty position and not them, despite t...

It comes as no surprise that (according to my unscientific poll) the two most-disliked questions that students ask professors are: Did I ...

Here it is: the poll based on your responses to my request for annoying questions and behaviors related to student-professor interaction. T...

This has surely been written about 57 million times before, but somehow it would be nice to get the message out to students about the peril...

The results of the Fake-CV Contest are in. I think we should call it a tie between Fake CV #2 (A. Lex) and #4 (Magical Robot Unicorn), wi...

It is indeed time to vote for your "favorite" CV (you can of course define "favorite" however you want: most entertain...