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 ...

Exobiology: An interview with Dr. Stanley L. Miller part of Web Resource Collection

This page contains the transcript of an interview with Dr. Stanley Miller about his research on the origins of life. Topics touched on include the nature of early Earth's reducing atmosphere, ...

Charles Robert Darwin Collection at Bartleby.com part of Web Resource Collection

Bartleby.com online publishers offer several books by Charles Darwin on this website. Users can access The Origin of Species, The Voyage of the Beagle and quotations by Darwin. Also available are ...

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 ...

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 ...

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, ...

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 ...

Superplume Formation Beneath An Ancient Slab part of Web Resource Collection

Graduate student Eh Tan, working with Michael Gurnis at the California Institute of Technology, has recently discovered a plausible mechanism of generating superplumes at the core mantle boundary. ...

A Life Revealed part of Web Resource Collection

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 ...