Royal Institution's director blasts scientific sexism

Office of the Scientific Director: Summary Statement

This is the first full year of operation of this office in the new reorganization of NIEHS. Much time has been devoted to: (1) recruiting leaders of new programs (Behavorial Toxicology, Pulmonary Function and Toxicology) or new leaders of existing programs (Biophysics, Pharmacokinetics); (2) developing plans for new programs and expansion of present programs between now and occupancy of the new...

Communicated by the Principal Director of Scientific Research

Scientific Teaching Targeting Faculty from Diverse Institutions

We offered four annual professional development workshops called STAR (for Scientific Teaching, Assessment, and Resources) modeled after the National Academies Summer Institute (SI) on Undergraduate Education in Biology. In contrast to the SI focus on training faculty from research universities, STAR's target was faculty from community colleges, 2-yr campuses, and public and private research un...

Scientific Research under the Auspices of the Royal Society.

THREE magnificent gifts have been made during the last few months for the furtherance of-research in this country. In May it was announced that Lord Austin had placed a quarter of a million sterling at the disposal of the University of Cambridge to be devoted to the work of the Cavendish Laboratory. More recently still Lord Nuffield has presented to the University of Oxford a million and a quar...

Social change and scientific organization. The Royal Institution 1799–1844

Morris Berman has written an important book. Instead of writing the history of an institution to show how it promoted the growth of science, he has attempted to discover what sort of science an institution enshrined and what social interests this science furthered. The Royal Institution and the turn of the eighteenth/nineteenth century were an appropriate choice, since science and society were ...