Older women scientists fight USGS over layoffs

Calling on scientists to fight budget cuts.

THE FUNDING LEVELS REQUESTED BY THE Bush Administration for 2006 (“Caught in the squeeze,” J. Mervis, News Focus, 11 Feb., p. 832) represent a decrease in science and technology funding across the board. This budget and its priorities do not bode well for American science and technology or for America’s scientists and science students. Underfunding science and technology research and education ...

Layoffs and lemons over the business cycle

This paper develops a simple model in which unemployment arises from a combination of selection and bad luck. During recessions, the proportion of workers who are laid off due to low productivity declines during recessions, diminishing the adverse signaling effect of an unemployment spell. Wage regressions estimated using the Displaced Workers Supplement support this basic prediction of the mod...

Scientists invited to join teachers in fight against scientific illiteracy.

As a tropical disease specialist, AAAS member Barbara Sina has traveled the world from Brazil to Kenya to the Netherlands. But few ofher trips have proved more satisfying than the visits she's paid closer to home-to Margaret Brent Middle School in rural St. Mary's County, Maryland. It was there that Sina got her first taste of teaching science to adolescents as a partner to 7thgrade teacher Ton...

Franklin prize for women scientists

The British government is ramping up efforts to address the career prospects of women working in science. Shortly after a woman has taken the reins at one of the country's key research councils, a new medal will award outstanding female scientists. It will be called the Franklin medal, after Rosalind Franklin who carried out key work on the structure of DNA in the 1950s. Three male scientists w...

Synapses fight over glutamate receptor 1.