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New GSA program offers up to $2,000 microgrants year round
GSA announces a new funding opportunity for members. In the ever-evolving landscape of scientific research, access to funding is often a significant hurdle for scientists and researchers. Recognizing our membership’s potential to create change and the need for funding, GSA has developed a new initiative: the Starter Culture Microgrant Program. Use funds to design your…
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Policy & Advocacy
Accessibility: A journey of learning and change
People with disabilities pursuing STEM careers frequently face hardships, discrimination, stereotypes, and ableism that hamper their growth and well-being. Inability to comply with ADA guidelines has created barriers to accessibility, which worsened with the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic as the world transitioned to a virtual way of living. In 2020, many organizations, such as…
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An introduction to science advocacy and policy: a short course from FASEB
Developing humankind’s scientific understanding of our modern world is contingent on the policies and facilitators that are funding our prospective research. Over the past several decades, government policies and initiatives have been enacted to promote groundbreaking research across the disciplines of science, technology, engineering, and mathematics. Breakthrough discoveries are occurring almost every day, yet the…
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GENETICS welcomes new associate editor
Michael McMurray is an Associate Professor of Cell and Developmental Biology at the University of Colorado, Anschutz Medical Campus. He first began using the power of yeast genetics during his PhD studies with Dan Gottschling at the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center and University of Washington. After investigating the replicative aging process, he became interested in how individual…