Cynthia Dunbar, M.D. (ELAM '14), was elected President of the American Society of Gene and Cell Therapy for the year 2016-2017. The ASGCT's MISSION is to advance knowledge, awareness, and education leading to the discovery and clinical application of genetic and cellular therapies to alleviate human disease (www.asgct.org).

Leigh A. Neumayer, M.D., M.S. (ELAM '14), has been named head of the Department of Surgery and the Margaret E. and Fenton L. Maynard Endowed Chair in Breast Cancer Research at the University of Arizona College of Medicine - Tucson.

Wing of Zock, May 16, 2014:

Sex Cells! Addressing Sex Differences in Pre-Clinical Research

By Ann Bonham, Ph.D.

Catalyst, May 7, 2014:

Inclusive Leadership: The View From Six Countries

How much do the very definitions of inclusion vary from culture to culture? Are there gender differences in what makes employees feel included? What leadership behaviors can promote inclusion? And how much do these behaviors need to be adapted for different cultural contexts?

This study delves into the striking similarities across most countries in how employees characterize inclusion and the leadership behaviors that help to foster it.

The Chronicle of Higher Education, Academe Today, May 8, 2014:

The 5th Way to Level the Playing Field in Science  

Search committees could eliminate the "baby penalty" if they stopped rejecting female adjuncts as failed scientists

AAMC CFAS-News, May 9, 2014:

The Philadelphia Inquirer this week profiled three generations of doctors in the Young-Melin family-all women. The youngest will graduate from medical school next week. 
 

Inside Higher Ed, May 12, 2014:

The Faculty Administrator

Higher education could benefit from moving away from the dichotomy in jobs between those who teach and those who manage, writes Michael J. Cripps.

The New Yorker, May 13, 2014:

The Origins of "Privilege"

The idea of "privilege"-that some people benefit from unearned, and largely unacknowledged, advantages, even when those advantages aren't discriminatory -has a pretty long history. In the nineteen-thirties, W. E. B. Du Bois wrote about the "psychological wage" that enabled poor whites to feel superior to poor blacks; during the civil-rights era, activists talked about "white-skin privilege." But the concept really came into its own in the late eighties, when Peggy McIntosh, a women's-studies scholar at Wellesley, started writing about it.

The Chronicle of Higher Education, Academe Today, May 15, 2014:

Mentoring Is a Business. Don't Fear It.

Paying for mentorship, coaching, or editing might seem hard to stomach. But there's a lot to be said for getting professional help from someone who used to be on the inside.

The Chronicle of Higher Education, Academe Today, May 19, 2014:

Women Are Underrepresented as College Chiefs but May Get Higher Pay

Far fewer women than men hold public-college presidencies, but the ones who do sometimes earn more than their male counterparts.

The Washington Post, May 19, 2014:

Women falling off the glass cliff: When leaning in is not enough

 On June 2, 2003, I was named editor of the Philadelphia Inquirer and became - as Jill Abramson did later at the New York Times - the first female editor in a storied institution's hundred-year-plus history. In November 2006, I achieved another distinction that Abramson last week came to share: I was fired after a tenure of only about three years. The difference in the public reaction to those events tells me something both wonderful and terrible about what has changed in the world that working women inhabit.

In the last ELAM Edge, we included the article, The Confidence Gap from the April 14, 2014 edition of The Atlantic. We found this article and concept very interesting, and wanted to also share the website for the book, that includes a confidence quiz and the opportunity to nominate a confident woman.