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Underrepresented minorities increase their share of faculty posts at 2-year colleges, while Asians rise at 4-year institutions and in industry.

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.

In response to the sequester, the National Science Foundation plans to award approximately 1000 fewer grants.

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

At a session at the AAAS Annual Meeting, featured members of the ACS presidential committee on fixing graduate chemistry education, expounded on the report's recommendations.

NSF empowers graduate students with small awards to help them improve their graduate programs.

A panel of workforce experts at the 2013 AAAS Annual Meeting urged NIH to be more aggressive in fixing biomedical workforce training.

The House Judiciary Committee invited experts to discuss the effects of high-skill immigration on the U.S. workforce, but there was little talk about what employers actually need.

A report from the Australian government finds Aussie graduate students and postdocs, like their U.S. counterparts, frustrated by the job market.

The ACS report on graduate and postdoc training goes where NIH's workforce working group didn't, recommending limiting Ph.D. production among other bold measures.

The agency has updated its grant proposal guide, but its new use of "products" in the biosketch, in place of publications, is ambiguous.

In implementing the recommendations of its Biomedical Research Workforce Working Group, NIH decides to play it safe.

Psychologists share tips for figuring out what's sapping your enthusiasm—and how to get it back.

As biomedical applications emerge, materials scientists find new research opportunities but less funding.

Forgoing alarmist pronouncements, a National Academies committee makes sensible suggestions about how to address the workforce needs of the Department of Defense.

An NIH program readies teaching-focused postdocs—especially minorities—for lab-and-classroom jobs.

Graduate students' pressures make them especially prone to depression, but small changes can help.

After years of layoffs, drug companies are turning to the youngest Ph.D. scientists for fresh ideas.

Filmmaker and physicist Aziza Baccouche, who is blind, showcases the challenges and successes of diverse scientists in a new documentary series.

Winners of NIH's Director’s Early Independence Awards share the trials and successes of starting their own labs immediately after graduating.