WOMEN IN SCIENCE: Elisama Vieira
On this day, 8 March 2023, as we celebrate the International Women’s Day, let’s focus on a womand scientist profile
Mansurah Abdulazeez: “Why young Africans should embrace basic sciences”
In this interview during the opening ceremony of IYBSSD, a Nigerian university scholar explains why the younger generation of Africans should study basic sciences’ courses.
New biological formulation to fight bacterial infections in chickens
Satinder Kaur Brar, a research professor at the University of York, has produced a biological formulation to help broilers grow fastly, while also preventing infections in poultry houses.
We’ll reduce carbon footprint, support cryospheric sciences–IACS
In her new role as President, International Association of Cryospheric Sciences (IACS), Liss Marie Andreassen, hopes to work with IUGG to reduce our carbon footprint and advance cryospheric sciences.
‘With mentors, many girls will pursue careers in science’
In an interview with SciDev.Net, Priver Namanya Bwesigye, head of Uganda’s banana research programme, said girls need mentors who will support them to pursue science careers.
285 female researchers profiled in newly-launched ‘STEM Women Asia’ directory
Though recently-launched, the STEM Women Asia will provide an online directory of women in Asia and Oceania working in science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM).
Women under-represented in over 120 global science organisations–report
Mainstreaming gender balance in science still remains a mirage after a recent study confirmed that women are under-represented in over 120 science organizations, worldwide.
SCGES organizes activities to boost gender equality, women in science
Members of the ‘Standing Committee for Gender Equality in Science’, SCGES, have highlighted in their Committee’s ‘1st Annual Report’, how they individually organized activities to promote gender equality and women in science.
Both rich, poor countries of the world have fewer women in science–Shobhana Narasimhan
In a chat with ICTP, Shobhana Narasimhan, a condensed matter theorist at the Jawaharlal Nehru Centre for Advanced Scientific Research, Bangalore, India, explained why the poorest and richest countries of the world have very few women in science.
