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Progress magazine
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The Candidates Tackle Health Care |
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Health care will be a focus of this presidential election, but there is limited attention being given to eliminating health disparities.
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Dark Matters |
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In this excerpt from his memoir, The Sky Is Not the Limit: Adventures of an Urban Astrophysicist, Neil deGrasse Tyson confronts the idea that “Blacks in America do not have the luxury of being astrophysicists.”
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Still Absent |
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In this forthright essay, Cornell University Professor Eloy Rodriguez addresses the lack of Latinos in science graduate programs and faculty positions at the top research universities in the United States, and offers recommendations to improve the situation.
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Winter2007 Vol. 4 No. 3
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Bridging the Gap
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Diversity programs that encourage minorities to bring their skills to the sciences are making a big impact, finds Becky Oskin. Courtesy of Sciencejobs.com.
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From The Director: Winter 2007
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Director Robert Dottin highlights the work of the New York City Minority Graduate Students Network, articles on health disparities that affect minorities outside the U.S., and Just Garcia Hill's new podcasts of selected articles.
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Health Disparities
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Lives and Works |
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Strength without numbers? |
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In the early noughties, a series of surveys by associate professor Donna Nelson found a severe lack of women and minorities in university science departments. Roshan McArthur asks her if any advances have been made since then - and what are the best ways to surmount any barriers. Courtesy of Sciencejobs.com.
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Tyrone Hayes, Professor of Integrative Biology at UC Berkeley, is an endocrinologist known for his work on atrazine, a common pesticide used on corn crops. Hayes has found that atrazine causes hermaphrodism in male frogs by causing them to synthesize estrogen, the female hormone.
