Draft post cleanup #16: Science and Title IX

Yet another post in my “draft blog post cleanup” series.  Here is #16 from July 2008.

I had seen an article that surprised me: Findings – John Tierney – Science Has Become the New Frontier for Title Nine – NYTimes.com

In the article Tierney discussed how the Title IX statute which forbids discrimination based on gender in education and has been applied extensively to athletic endeavors was beginning to be applied to science.  Not sure what has become of this over the last 3+ years — if anyone knows more please post …

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Author: Jonathan Eisen

I am an evolutionary biologist and a Professor at U. C. Davis. (see my lab site here). My research focuses on the origin of novelty (how new processes and functions originate). To study this I focus on sequencing and analyzing genomes of organisms, especially microbes and using phylogenomic analysis

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