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Progress magazine
New Articles on Progress
Spring2008 Vol. 5 No. 1
Main Articles
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From the Director: Spring 2008
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Director Robert Dottin highlights the winners of the Just Garcia Hill blogger competition, articles that respond to James Watson, and the PBS series Unnatural Causes.
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Health Disparities
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The Candidates Tackle Health Care |
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Health care will be a focus of this presidential election, but there is limited attention being given to eliminating health disparities.
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Lives and Works |
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Dark Matters |
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In this excerpt from his memoir, The Sky Is Not the Limit: Adventures of an Urban Astrophysicist, Neil deGrasse Tyson confronts the idea that “Blacks in America do not have the luxury of being astrophysicists.”
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Regarding Watson |
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Prominent scientists respond to James Watson. Please add your own comments below.
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Still Absent |
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In this forthright essay, Cornell University Professor Eloy Rodriguez addresses the lack of Latinos in science graduate programs and faculty positions at the top research universities in the United States, and offers recommendations to improve the situation.
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Tyrone Hayes, Professor of Integrative Biology at UC Berkeley, is an endocrinologist known for his work on atrazine, a common pesticide used on corn crops. Hayes has found that atrazine causes hermaphrodism in male frogs by causing them to synthesize estrogen, the female hormone.
