Jo Handelsman
Jo Handelsman
Jo Emily Handelsmanis the Associate Director for Science at the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy, appointed by President Obama and confirmed by the Senate in June, 2014. She is currently on leave as a Howard Hughes Medical Institute professor of molecular, cellular and developmental biology at Yale University. She has been editor-in-chief of the academic journal DNA and Cell Biology and author of books on scientific education, most notably Scientific Teaching...
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There is still a lot of covert and overt hostility toward women
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cultural issues that manifest in the behavior of individuals and the policies of institutions because these factors make a difference and can be changed.
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Some of it is outright illegal behavior, but most of it is subtle. It makes women feel undervalued and not respected.
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More drugs come from soil organisms than from any other habitat on Earth. Soil will be the richest environment but, technically, it is also the hardest. If we can do this with soil, we think we can do it with material from any environment.
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We've been able to target real barriers and roadblocks to women's careers, and we've launched interventions to see which ones make a difference.
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We actually don't know much about soil microbes and the lives they live.
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The fact that the National Academies is recognizing the efforts of teachers and mentors is indicative of how much importance they are placing on national higher education.
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A major focus of it for me has been bringing women and minorities into science and finding ways to teach that don't exclude them.
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If there are all these different kinds of bacteria, there must be all kinds of chemicals that they're making.