Stopping Harassment and Assault

NSF’s statement on harassment and assault which includes requirements instructions on reporting misconduct.

Research team performance

A blog post about how we can improve the creativity and performance of research teams

Gender-Heterogeneous Working Groups Produce Higher Quality Science

The first empirical evidence to support the hypothesis that a gender-heterogeneous problem-solving team generally produced journal articles perceived to be higher quality by peers than a team comprised of highly-performing individuals of the same gender.

The Diversity–Innovation Paradox in Science

By analyzing data from nearly all US PhD recipients and their dissertations across three decades, this paper finds demographically underrepresented students innovate at higher rates than majority students, but their novel contributions are discounted and less likely to earn them academic positions. The discounting of minorities’ innovations may partly explain their underrepresentation in influential positions… Read more »

Minority Postdoc

A web portal on the minority postdoctoral experience featuring news, articles, resources, and events about jobs, career advice, professional development, funding, fellowships, mentoring, and diversity issues.

Typical physics Ph.D. admissions criteria limit access to underrepresented groups but fail to predict doctoral completion

Researchers are urging universities across the United States to find a new way to identify the next generation of scientists. A new study discovered that traditional admissions metrics for physics Ph.D. programs such as the Graduate Record Examination (GRE) do not predict completion and hurt the growth of diversity in physics, which is already the… Read more »