University career services centers and corporate publications have long touted the importance of the internship to both employers and students. It's hard to overstate that importance, too. Very few things allow a company to improve its access to talent, and a student to promote his or her long-term career success, with more all-around impact than a positive internship experience. In spite of this...
I would describe my life, including my entry into the profession, as being characterized by my coming of age on the right side of several transition points from the totally segregated society in which I grew up to the quasi-open society in which we now live. I grew up in Alice, Texas, where I attended an all-black two-room schoolhouse with four grades to a room. There was a new elementary school ...
BACK TO THE FEATURE INDEX "No man is an island." However, this sense of isolation is felt by many black graduate students, postdoctoral fellows, and scientists in biomedical research. Support from colleagues who can readily identify with the difficulties of underrepresented minorities in navigating the biomedical research enterprise is scarce. I can understand this feeling, having been the only g...
One can only conclude from the small numbers of minority students pursuing degrees and careers in fields such as atmospheric sciences, oceanography, and geology that information about the many outstanding career opportunities available in the earth and space sciences is not reaching these communities. This failure to recruit and retain ethnic and racial minorities, and even women, in these fields...
BACK TO THE FEATURE INDEX I wasn't choosing to become a publisher when I came up with the idea for Newswise ( www.newswise.com) in 1990 and started it one year later. I chose to create something, and I didn't know exactly what it would be. The dream changed over the last 11 years, although the original concept remains intact (see sidebar below). It might be more analogous to a library than to pub...
