Science Career Magazine

Issue for November 12, 1999

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From MIT, a Primer on Boosting Women's Status

By  Andrew Lawler  - F or researchers eager to improve the position of women at their own institutions, scientists from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) offer some hard-won advice.

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INTERNATIONAL COLLABORATION: University of Cambridge to Team Up With MIT

By  Michael Hagmann  - CAMBRIDGE, U.K.-- O n Monday, Britain's Chancellor of the Exchequer Gordon Brown announced that the British government would invest more than $100 million over the next 5 years to help jump-start a broad new research and education alliance between the University of Cambridge here and the

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Grad School Survey: Organizers Postpone Department Rankings

By  Mark Sincell  - T oday Geoff Davis, creator of PhDs.org, and Peter Fiske, motivational speaker and columnist for Science's Next Wave, announced that they will not be ranking graduate departments based on the anonymous online survey that they conducted from 25 April to 8 July 1999. One of

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Underfunded? Someone Out There Is Listening

By  Kirstie Urquhart  - "T here is no other profession where at 30 you have to seriously think about changing your career course," states Julie Cooke, a postdoc in the Department of Anatomy and Developmental Biology at University College London (UCL). Katie Woolley is a couple of years behind

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MIT as 'Intractable Enemy'

By  Andrew Lawler  - T oday women from Hillary Clinton on down are praising the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) for recognizing and beginning to correct its unfair treatment of female scientists (see main text ). But 5 years ago, at least one woman