7 Tips for Masterful Negotiating
Whether you’re trying to close a major account or get a better rate from a vendor, here are expert pointers on how to win in negotiations.…
Read MoreA Short Guide to Writing about Biology
Providing students with the tools they’ll need to be successful writers in college and their profession, A Short Guide to Writing about Biology emphasizes writing as a means to examine, evaluate, share, and refine ideas. The text teaches students how …
Read MoreA Short Guide to Writing About Chemistry
Providing students with the tools they’ll need to be successful writers, A Short Guide to Writing about Chemistry emphasizes writing as a way of examining, evaluating, and sharing ideas. The book teaches readers how to read critically, study, evaluate and …
Read MoreA Climate for Change: Global Warming Facts for Faith-Based Decisions
Most Christian lifestyle or environmental books focus on how to live in a sustainable and conservational manner. A CLIMATE FOR CHANGE shows why Christians should be living that way, and the consequences of doing so. Drawing on the two authors’ …
Read More30 Useful Social Media Monitoring Tools
If you work in online marketing or social media, you know how difficult it can be to try and be everywhere at once. Social media monitoring tools can be extremely useful to help brands, companies and individuals keep up with …
Read More6 steps for nominating a colleague for a professional award
Article by ESWN member Tracey Holloway on how to go about nominating a colleague for a professional award…
Read MoreA Lab of Their Own
Attract them as students and recruit them as faculty. Do what you can to keep them in the academy. That’s generally been the mantra of those who are concerned about the dearth of women in university science.
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute …
Read More2009 Nobels: Break or Breakthrough for Women?
Article from 2009
“The first Nobel Prizes were awarded in 1901. But this is the first year that more than one woman has been chosen as a science laureate. Indeed, the four distinguished scientists in the class of 2009—Elizabeth Blackburn …
Read MoreA Message to Women From a Man: You Are Not “Crazy”
You’re so sensitive. You’re so emotional. You’re defensive. You’re overreacting. Calm down. Relax. Stop freaking out! You’re crazy! I was just joking, don’t you have a sense of humor? You’re so dramatic. Just get over it already!
Sound familiar?
If …
Read MoreA Bad Reputation for Academic Careers
Why are more and more graduate students turning away from careers at research universities?…
Read MoreA New Frontier for Title IX: Science
Until recently, the impact of Title IX, the law forbidding sexual discrimination in education, has been limited mostly to sports. But now, under pressure from Congress, some federal agencies have quietly picked a new target: science.
The National Science Foundation, …
Read More10 Tips for Women Students in Science Fields
There is growing concern at American colleges about why so few women study science, technology, engineering, or math (the so-called “STEM” fields). Though women constitute more than half of undergraduates, according to a study of college students in 2009, 138,000 …
Read More10 Tips for Women Students in Science Fields
A recent and quite interesting meta-study, sponsored by the National Science Foundation and the American Association of University Women (AAUW), located eight factors that contribute to the disparity between the number of female and male college students electing the sciences: …
Read More10 simple rules to get a grant via PLOS
This is an editorial from PLOS to try to help scientists in making the next academic career step—becoming a young principal investigator. Leo Chalupa has joined us in putting together ten simple rules for getting grants, based on our many …
Read More“So What Are You Going to Do with That?”: Finding Careers Outside Academia
Graduate schools churn out tens of thousands of Ph.D.’s and M.A.’s every year. Half of all college courses are taught by adjunct faculty. The chances of an academic landing a tenure-track job seem only to shrink as student loan and …
Read More“Negotiation Academy” Podcasts
Each podcast is about 10 minutes long, and has a mini-lesson, based on a Columbia University MBA class in negotiation.
Negotiation often comes up on ESWN discussions, and was identified as a major professional development topic in our surveys (in …
Read More10 Steps to Becoming a Better Writer
A blog: 10 Steps to Becoming a Better Writer…
Read More“Why Aren’t More Women in Science?
The year 2006 may be remembered for unprecedented attention given to issues related to women in science. Numerous expert panels — most notably one appointed by the National Academies — examined barriers facing female scientists. A new collection published by …
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