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Asian scientists are a major presence in U.S. biomedical research labs. So why do so few hold leadership positions?

Transfer students thrived when we brought them together with successful peers and program alumni to form formal and informal peer networks.

Gregory is now nearing completion of his Ph.D. at UCLA so now he has to figure out the next step on his career path.

Thanks to the support she received and her active approach to meeting her needs, Powell obtained her Ph.D. in genetics in 2001.

Editor's note: MiSciNet's "Dear MentorDoctor" will appear every other month and is designed to help mentors and students with situations that commonly arise in academia. Do you have questions for MiSciNet's MentorDoctor team? Please send inquiries to rarnette@aaas.org.

His circuitous route took him through numerous low-paying jobs to community college, a bachelor's degree at the University of Washington, and--eventually--to graduate school at Harvard.

"When I came to MSM, I wanted to build something that would incorporate my background in cardiovascular [research] and neuroscience, and stroke was the perfect venue for that."--Byron Ford

As "principal investigator" of your own piece of lab, you have to think about and do things to keep the lab up and running.

A protégé pays tribute to the humanity and resilience of immunologist Alan Houghton.

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Experts discussed how mentoring differs for minorities and how it can be tweaked to ensure that scientists don't hit a "mentoring glass ceiling."

A recent NSF report finds that efforts to improve the representation of women, minorities, and people with disabilities in science and engineering are slow going.

Investigations by The Guardian newspaper uncover disparities in the rates at which whites and minorities are admitted to competitive programs at Cambridge and Oxford universities.
 

After the blush of first love is gone, Rachel Ruhlen digs deep to find passion for her work.