The National Academy of Sciences has elected 120 new members and 25 international members. Harvard led the way with 15 ...

According to the Buckley Institute, Republican professors at Yale are an endangered species. We’ve come to expect such a political monoculture in the humanities and social sciences departments, but ...

While much of the research on sexual harassment has focused on workplaces outside academia, the research reviewed in this chapter suggests that academia should not be considered an exception and that ...

There is a prevailing narrative that academic science is rife with gender bias against women. “A vast literature… shows time after time, women in science are deemed to be inferior to men and are ...

Stereotypical academic writing is rigid, dry, and mechanical, delivering prose that evokes memories of high school and undergraduate laboratory reports. The hallmark of this stereotype is passive ...

The Institute of Cognitive Science Academic Program includes a combined PhD degree between cognitive science and a core discipline, as well as a combined PhD plan of study tailored for students ...

Suggested Citation: "5 Institutional Constraints." National Academy of Sciences, National Academy of Engineering, and Institute of Medicine. 2007. Beyond Bias and Barriers: Fulfilling the Potential of ...

Nutritional sciences examine how diet intersects with human experience at many levels: from the molecular level—of genes, metabolites and cells—to the systems level: individual people, families and ...