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Burkholderia xenovorans LB400 part of Web Resource Collection
This web page describes the microbe Burkholderia xenovorans strain LB400. Burkholderia xenovorans LB400 is a know aerobic degrader of PCBs, as well as degrading benzoate. The page gives some genomic ...Resource Type: Audio/Visual:Images/Illustrations, Biographical Resources, Scientific Resources:Overview/Reference Work
To Be Continued part of Web Resource Collection
This article in the Chronicle of Higher Education summarizes lessons learned from the first year of a dual career couple's job search. She is a geoscientist, he is an engineer; having decided that ...
Memories Come To Us In the Rain and the Wind part of Print Resource Collection
This book contains 25 oral histories from Navajo uranium miners and their families. Their hope was to gain compensation for the great loss in death and illness brought about by mining uranium, with ...
Resource Type: Policy Resources:Opinion, Biographical Resources
The Life of Sergei Winogradsky part of Print Resource Collection
This journal article describes the life history of Sergei Winogradsky, the "Father of Soil Microbiology." It discusses the two phases of his scientific career and highlights his major ...
Resource Type: Activities:Classroom Activity:Jigsaw, Biographical Resources, Pedagogic Resources:Overview/Summary
Two-Hundred Years of Hydrogeology in the United States part of Print Resource Collection
This is a great reference book for anyone interested in the historical figures and concepts in hydrogeology. The report contains biographic information, old photographs, and describes the scientific ...
Resource Type: Biographical Resources, Activities:Lab Activity, Project, Scientific Resources:Overview/Reference Work, Activities:Classroom Activity
Motherhood, the Elephant in the Laboratory: Women Scientists Speak Out part of Print Resource Collection
About half of the undergraduate and roughly 40 percent of graduate degree recipients in science and engineering are women. As increasing numbers of these women pursue research careers in science, ...
Mothers on the Fast Track: How a New Generation Can Balance Family and Careers part of Print Resource Collection
In the past few decades the number of women entering graduate and professional schools has been going up and up, while the number of women reaching the top rung of the corporate and academic worlds ...
Resource Type: Biographical Resources
Gone for Good: Tales of University Life after the Golden Age part of Print Resource Collection
During the 'golden age,' research money flowed freely. But the end of the cold war reduced competition within the international research community and government dollars diminished correspondingly, ...
A Life Revealed part of Web Resource Collection
World Foundation for Environment and Development part of Web Resource Collection
This site is the home page for the World Foundation for Environment and Development (WFED), an independent non-governmental organization working to sustain economic development and conservation of ...Resource Type: Audio/Visual:Animations/Video, Biographical Resources, Scientific Resources:Collection, Overview/Reference Work
