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Choices — not discrimination — determine success for women scientists, Cornell researchers say

ITHACA, N.Y. — It’s an incendiary topic in academia — the pervasive belief that women are underrepresented in science, math and engineering fields because they face sex discrimination in the interviewing, hiring, and grant and manuscript review …

A toast to history: 500 years of wine-drinking cups mark social shifts in ancient Greece

How commonly used items — like wine drinking cups — change through time can tell us a lot about those times, according to University of Cincinnati research to be presented Jan. 7 by Kathleen Lynch, UC associate professor of classics, at the an…