Student Evaluations Show Bias Against Female Professors

Despite earning more than half of all doctoral degrees conferred in the U.S., women are significantly underrepresented in faculty positions at colleges and universities. This is particularly true in tenure-track and tenured positions, with women making up just over a third of all full professors. Women are also less likely to receive tenure or be promoted to full professor, a situation known as the academic “leaky pipeline,” where women’s representation continues to decline the further they advance in their careers.

Stephanie Moody

1. What’s the coolest part of your work at your animal rescue?

Seeing animals transform physically, mentally, and emotionally, gaining confidence and freedom from their past with lots of love. Sprinting across acres of grass, playing with sticks, chasing each other, just thriving once home at the sanctuary.

Trading One Waste for Another? Unintended Consequences of Fly Ash Reuse in the Indian Electric Power Sector.

Ph.D. student Archana GhodeswarFly ash is a byproduct of burning pulverized coal in electric power generating plants. It can be a pollutant when carried in the exhaust gases from the plant chimneys or stored at large external containment sites, but collected fly ash may be reused to make cement, bricks, roads and bridges.

Shehryar Rashid

1. What do you do?

I am currently working as a Field Coordinator for the International Organization for Migration (IOM), and I am based in South Sudan. IOM is a part of the United Nations system.

In my current role, I am leading a team in three counties in South Sudan to support the establishment, construction, and promotion of sustainable community infrastructure and services. Specifically, I am responsible for working with local communities in implementing a community-based development project.