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Does affirmative action really work? Has the situation for minority students changed since then? This article will briefly address the situation and the future of affirmative action.

"The American Sports Medicine Institute located in Birmingham, Alabama, is unique in that it offers training to both those interested in a career in sports medicine research and in clinical practice."

Now, as a faculty member and dean of health sciences at The Community and Technical College of Shepherd in Martinsburg, West Virginia, Plautz looks back at the hats she has worn and the events that have defined her professionally.

What if each research institution in the U.S. issued a directive to its departments to make a serious effort to fill one faculty position with an outstanding scientist of color?

"Potential employers may check credit records, and they don't want to see a lot of consumer debt." --Brent Neiser

His work has involved man-made disasters like the genocide in Rwanda and the collapse of the World Trade Center, and natural disasters like the earthquake and subsequent tsunami in Southeast Asia.

Whitney B. Hill, who joined MVA in October as a research scientist, prepares and analyzes environmental samples for identification and characterization using Transmission Electron Microscopy (TEM).

Wind energy is clean, environmentally inert, and inexhaustible.

Finnerty and other female engineers have proven that gender is irrelevant. All that matters is whether a person possesses the skills to do the job.

Program directors, former program participants, and science editors who have worked with their graduates agree that graduate-level training in science writing is a great way to get started in the business.

While several colleges and universities participate in AGEP, four Atlanta-area schools have been successful in meeting the goals of the program.

Woodrow Whitlow was named deputy director of Kennedy Space Center in September 2003; he gives MiSciNet the inside scoop on his life and work at NASA.

This ScienceCareers.org feature highlights the sites, sounds, tastes, and ambience of some of our readers' and writers' favorite conference locations, from quaint towns to cosmopolitan cities.

"The purpose of the national SACNAS meeting was to connect students and professionals and promote diversity within the scientific community."

[L]inguistics has recently become a field that has funds to recruit linguists of color.

"Dr. Harewood has been involved in many scientific discoveries that have benefited mankind, but perhaps his most important achievement is helping to prepare future scientists for biomedical research."

Although the information presented is based on hard data, his personal "spin" on the current and future status of Mexican immigrants in the U.S. is terribly divisive and attacks one of our society's greatest strengths--our diversity.

"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