Tag: National Science Foundation

Ranking the States by the Percentage of Women Among Their Doctoral Degree Recipients

Nationwide men earned nearly 4,000 more doctoral degrees than women in 2013. But there were several states where women earned more doctorates than men. The states with the highest percentage of women among their doctoral degree awardees were Vermont, Maine, and Mississippi.

Academic Disciplines With Huge Gender Gaps in Doctoral Degree Awards

In 2013, women earned 46.2 percent of all doctorates awarded by American universities. But there are many specific academic disciplines in which the gender gap in doctoral degrees is substantial.

Davidson College Dean to Lead National Science Foundation Committee on Women in STEM

Dr. Wendy Raymond came to Davidson College in 2013 after teaching biology at Williams College in Massachusetts for 19 years. She was also associate dean for institutional diversity at Williams.

Northwestern University Scholar to Lead a Key Directorate at the National Science Foundation

Fay Lomax Cook is a professor of human development and social policy in the School of Education at Northwestern University. From 1996 to 2012 she was the director of the Institute for Policy Research at the university.

Gender Differences in Educational Debt Levels for Doctoral Students

On average, women who earned doctorates in 2012 had accumualted significantly more debt than men. And men were more likely than women to be debt free.

Gender Differences in Time Span to Earn a Doctoral Degree

For women who earned doctoral degrees in 2012, the average number of years that they spent from the time they graduated from college to the time they earned their doctorate was 9.4 years. For men the figure is 8.7 years.

The Wide Gender Gap in Doctoral Degree Awards in Specific Disciplines

Women earned 70.2 percent of all doctorates in the health sciences and 68.7 percent of all doctorates in education but only 28.5 percent of all doctorates in the physical sciences and 22.5 percent of all doctorates in engineering.

Doctoral Degrees to Women Reached an All-Time High in 2012

Women have made impressive gains over the past decade in doctoral degree attainments in STEM fields such as computer and information science (up 127.5%), physics and astronomy (up 120.7%), engineering (up 110.6%), and mathematics (up 81.5%).

Virginia Tech Dean Takes Two-Year Post at the National Science Foundation

Bevlee Watford, associate dean for academic affairs at the College of Engineering at Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, will be the program manager for broadening participation in the engineering education and centers division of the NSF.

France Córdova Named Director of the National Science Foundation

After serving as the president of Purdue University from 2007 to 2012, Dr. Córdova has been the chair of the board of regents of the Smithsonian Institution.

A Successful Program to Add Women Faculty in the Sciences

In the four years after the program began at the University of Rhode Island, 54 percent of new faculty hires in science programs were women, compared to 24 percent in the three years prior to the initiation of the program.

University of Wisconsin Physicist Wins Photography Award from the National Science Foundation

Pupa Gilbert, a professor of physics at the University of Wisconsin. received top honors in the 2012 International Science & Engineering Visualization Challenge for her photograph from an electron microscope of the forming end of a sea urchin's tooth.