A series of graduate student conversations with leading women biologists, at the Women in Science Symposium at Cornell April 2-3. Dr. Pamela Ronald Prof. Pamela Ronald, a Professor in Plant Pathology at University of California, Davis and director of Grass Genetics at the Joint Bioenergy Institute, studies genes that control the plant response to stress. [...]

A series of graduate student conversations with leading women biologists, at the Women in Science Symposium at Cornell April 2-3. Dr. Mary Power, Professor, Department of Integrative Biology, University of California, Berkeley. Dr. Mary Power, a prominent stream ecologist from UC Berkeley, has not only written many important papers in food web and community ecology, [...]

A series of graduate student conversations with leading women biologists, at the Women in Science Symposium at Cornell April 2-3. With only eight weeks until my Ph.D. defense, I am madly scrambling to finish my dissertation. For the past six years, I’ve strained every last neuron I have in my research on bird communication; now [...]

A series of graduate student conversations with leading women biologists, at the Women in Science Symposium at Cornell April 2-3. At a recent event celebrating the achievements of women in the life sciences at Cornell University – Frontiers in Life Sciences – there was a lot of talk about how to become a successful female [...]

A series of graduate student conversations with leading women biologists, at the Women in Science Symposium at Cornell April 2-3. Insects are difficult to work with. First, they are small. While titan beetles can reach 15 cm, some parasitic wasps are smaller than a single-celled paramecium. Second, they are hard to differentiate. Even veteran entomologists [...]