By Colleen Flaherty. New study says economics textbooks underrepresent women in both real-life and imagined examples -- and that fixing that could help attract more women to the field. More...

By Colleen Flaherty. Theories abound as to why women remain underrepresented in many fields. A new study says that perceived gender bias in a given discipline is the primary criterion women use for selecting a college major, not the perception that a field is science or math oriented (sorry, Larry Summers). More...

By Colleen Flaherty. In an extremely rare move that expresses ongoing internal disapproval of how the University of Rochester handled a major sexual harassment case, the institution’s Faculty Senate is considering censuring the professor at the center of it all. More...

By Colleen Flaherty. College and university administrators discuss how to thoughtfully reduce faculty duties, to help them advance their best work. More...

By Colleen Flaherty. Scott Daniel Warren, an environmental studies instructor at Arizona State University, was arrested in southern Arizona last week on a federal harboring charge. The arrest came just hours after No More Deaths, an aid group for which Warren volunteers, released footage of Border Patrol agents kicking over water bottles left for migrants, the Associated Press reported. More...

By Colleen Flaherty. Leaders of the U.S. House Science, Space and Technology Committee from both parties on Thursday asked the Government Accountability Office to report on sexual harassment by federally funded researchers -- including how many harassment cases are pending before federal agencies and how many have been investigated and resolved since 2013. More...

By Colleen Flaherty. A new study by Vanderbilt University researchers published in PLOS ONE finds two points of significant loss for underrepresented minorities in the basic biomedical research faculty pipeline: during undergraduate studies and in transition from postdoctoral fellowships to tenure-track faculty positions at medical schools. More...

By Colleen Flaherty. Professors at two more institutions have resigned amid sexual harassment allegations against them. Lehigh University said Tuesday that James Braxton Peterson, former director of Africana studies and associate professor of English, resigned during a campus investigation that eventually found “sufficient cause” of sexual misconduct on his part, The Morning Call reported. More...