Return Migration to India: Decision‐Making among Academic Engineers and Scientists

Scientists and Engineers

Collaboration and Gender Equity among Academic Scientists

Universities were established as hierarchical bureaucracies that reward individual attainment in evaluating success. Yet collaboration is crucial both to 21st century science and, we argue, to advancing equity for women academic scientists. We draw from research on gender equity and on collaboration in higher education, and report on data collected on one campus. Sixteen focus group meetings we...

Intra-household conflicts in migration decisionmaking: return and pendulum migration in Morocco.

By analyzing the migration behavior and transnational residential strategies of first-generation, aging migrants from a particular Moroccan sending region, this study contributes to a conceptual critique of migration theories that identify the household as the most relevant decisionmaking unit. It highlights the role of intra-household power inequalities and conflicts in migration decisionmakin...

Engineers or Scientists?

Python for Scientists and Engineers

D uring the past decade, Python (an interpreted, high-level programming language) has arguably become the de facto standard for exploratory, interactive, and computation-driven scientific research. This issue discusses Python’s advantages for scientific research and presents several of the core Python libraries and tools used in this domain. Although the issue’s articles are selfcontained, they...