A mother of three and winner of a European Research Council starting grant, Michal Sharon has managed to have both a family and a scientific career.

Concern for lab safety advances -- slowly -- while University of California postdoc contract negotiations stall.

Workplace gossip may have its positive effects, but it needs to be handled with care.

Diverse probationary faculty members may be celebrated at first but denied a fair chance to become tenured colleagues.

Workplace gossip may have its positive effects, but it needs to be handled with care.

Physicists, mathematicians, and others are finding new ways to apply quantitative skills to biomedical sciences.

Electronic patient data and research repositories mean new opportunities in medical informatics.

Spanish statistician David Rossell supports other biomedical scientists while pursuing his own research.

Physicists, mathematicians, and others are finding new ways to apply quantitative skills to biomedical sciences.

Most universities continue to tightly constrain faculty hiring, but a few are taking advantage of a rich applicant pool.