You need to speak in public, but your knees buckle even before you reach the podium. You want to expand your network, but you’d rather swallow nails than make small talk with strangers. Speaking up in meetings would further your reputation at work, but you’re afraid of saying the wrong thing. Situations like these […]
Archives for February 2017
Mostafa Zamanian, PhD
Assistant Professor, Department of Pathobiological Sciences
205 Hanson Biomedical Sciences Laboratory
(608) 262-0311
mzamanian@wisc.edu
Women miss out on authorship opportunities early on
Female first-year Ph.D. students in “bench” biology disciplines—such as molecular biology, cellular biology, and genetics—spend significantly more hours in lab than their male classmates do. Yet, for every 100 hours spent at work, these female students are 15% less likely to publish a paper during that first year than their male counterparts are, a […]
Combating ‘Science Anxiety’ in the Classroom
Priscilla Auchincloss (The Back Page, APS News, May 1998) points out that much needs to be done and can be done to attract and retain more women in physics. I would like to add some comments regarding that great majority of women who are, and will remain, non-scientists. There is much that physicists can do […]
Coping with class in science
I grew up in rural North Carolina, in a single-parent, poor, working-class family living in a singlewide mobile home. Writing that sentence takes courage after 30 years of denial, guilt, and feeling like an outsider in academia. As a first-generation college student, I struggled with financial challenges. But just as problematic were the social and […]
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