Earlier this month I had the pleasure of interviewing University of Rhode Island Professor Brice Loose for a Rhode Island … More
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SciStarter and revolutionary vaccine technology: new AAAS posts
SciStarter helps citizen scientists discover new projects: SciStarter is an incredible database of science projects that anyone can participate in. Read … More
What are the best ways to increase the number of women in computer science? – AAAS post
In some of my other posts (like here and here and most recently here), I’ve looked at factors that cause women to drop out … More
PhD parents: first to leave the pipeline?
A New York Times article posted yesterday presents a pretty convincing case for the financial reasons (and some other weighty reasons) not to … More
Insights from whale DNA: two new studies
My latest post for AAAS talks about a recent study by Elizabeth Alter and colleagues who used mitochondrial DNA (including DNA from … More
Summer E. Allen, PhD 