The US biomedical research workforce does not currently mirror the nation’s population demographically, despite numerous attempts to increase diversity. This imbalance is limiting the promise of our ...biomedical enterprise for building knowledge and improving the nation’s health. Beyond ensuring fairness in scientific workforce representation, recruiting and retaining a diverse set of minds and approaches is vital to harnessing the complete intellectual capital of the nation. The complexity inherent in diversifying the research workforce underscores the need for a rigorous scientific approach, consistent with the ways we address the challenges of science discovery and translation to human health. Herein, we identify four cross-cutting diversity challenges ripe for scientific exploration and opportunity: research evidence for diversity’s impact on the quality and outputs of science; evidence-based approaches to recruitment and training; individual and institutional barriers to workforce diversity; and a national strategy for eliminating barriers to career transition, with scientifically based approaches for scaling and dissemination. Evidence-based data for each of these challenges should provide an integrated, stepwise approach to programs that enhance diversity rapidly within the biomedical research workforce.
This Research Letter examines differences in the size of National Institutes of Health (NIH) grants awarded to first-time male and female principal investigators at top research institutions, ...including the Big Ten and Ivy League universities.
François Gros was Permanent Secretary of the French Academy of Sciences from 1991 to 2000. His immense scientific knowledge, his tireless efforts to develop international relations, particularly with ...developing countries, and his exceptional personality have greatly contributed to the modernisation and influence of the Academy.
Along the road with François Montarras, Didier
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It was at the Pasteur Institute, in François Gros' laboratory, that I had the opportunity to discover the world of research. An opportunity in more ways than one, first because of the nature of the ...subject, myogenesis, which lent itself particularly well to cellular and genetic approaches to development and differentiation in vertebrates. An opportunity also because the head of the laboratory, François Gros, who was responsible for the choice of this topic, had created an environment in which researchers could develop their projects with great confidence and freedom.
In Democracy's Think Tank, Brian S. Mueller places the Institute for Policy Studies (IPS) at the center of a network of activists involved in making the world safe for diversity. Unlike defense ...intellectuals at the RAND Corporation and other think tanks responsible for formulating military strategy, the "peace intellectuals" at IPS developed blueprints for an alternative to the U.S.-led world order.As the Iron Curtain fell across Eastern Europe, a triumphalist Cold War narrative emerged proclaiming victory for freedom, democracy, and free enterprise over totalitarianism. Yet for the peace intellectuals at IPS, the occasion did not merit celebration. Since its doors opened in 1963, IPS refused to embrace American exceptionalism and waged a battle against the Cold War and its liberal anti-communist supporters. As IPS founders Marcus Raskin and Richard Barnet saw it, in the process of fighting communism and preserving the liberal capitalist order, Cold War liberals had forsaken democracy. Democracy's Think Tank tells the story of IPS's crusade to resurrect democracy at home and abroad. Borrowing from populist, progressive, and New Left traditions, IPS challenged elite expertise and sought to restore power to "the people." To this end, IPS, in the words of journalist I. F. Stone, served as the "institute for the rest of us." Mueller tells the story of IPS's involvement in a broad range of grassroots campaigns aimed at ending the Cold War and increasing participatory democracy in the United States and across the globe. Contemporary observers seeking an alternative to American empire in the twenty-first century will find Democracy's Think Tank offers several possible paths toward a more democratic order.
The Cu.sub.3(BTC).sub.2(BTC = 1,3,5-benzenetricarboxylic acid) was synthesized by water/solvent heat method. The Cu.sub.3(BTC).sub.2 was characterized by SEM/EDS, Zeta potential and XRD. Batch static ...adsorption experiments investigated the various factors affecting the adsorption of Th(IV) in aqueous solution such as pH, solid-liquid ratio, contact time, initial concentration and temperature, and the adsorption mechanism is also discussed. The adsorption process was in line with the pseudo-second-order kinetic model and the Langmuir isotherm model. At the same time, compared with other adsorbents. The results showed that Cu.sub.3(BTC).sub.2 had good adsorption for Th(IV) with a maximum adsorption of 757.58 mg g.sup.-1.
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