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Spring 2019 Magazine

Funny You Should Ask: It’s Not the Heat, It’s the Humidity

Yes, it's time for another edition of “Funny You Should Ask,” the feature that encourages researchers and scholars to set scientific method on the shelf for a moment and take a more light-hearted approach. We present four University of Houston professors with a commonplace observation – last time, we wondered if breakfast is really the most important meal of the day – and … [Read more...] about Funny You Should Ask: It’s Not the Heat, It’s the Humidity

Industry Funding: Closing the Gap for Women Researchers

The researchers had a hypothesis. Women faculty, they predicted, would be more successful than their male counterparts at earning private funding – from industry, from nonprofit groups, from charitable endowments. That was about relationships, after all, an area where the popular literaturesuggests women excel. The numbers told a different story. A review of faculty research … [Read more...] about Industry Funding: Closing the Gap for Women Researchers