If you follow astronomy news, you’re aware of the vastly more powerful telescopes now peering into space both from earth and high above our planet. As we look through them, we’re seeing so much more deeply into the very heart of the universe—into the very nature of us—even though humans have been gazing at these…
Navigating the demands placed on women by both workplace and family has never been easy. Now, award-winning research is showing how generations of women have tried to balance these expectations in differing ways yet with an enduring result that’s impacted career trajectories and pay. Dr. Claudia Goldin—Henry Lee Professor of Economics at Harvard University—is now…
The Giant Magellan Telescope Could Rewrite Our Understanding of Space—and Earth. There’s a desert mountaintop in Chile—poised between the peaks of the Andes and the Pacific Ocean—that I visited recently. There, scientists are building the Giant Magellan Telescope, or GMT, which will be the most powerful ground-based telescope ever engineered. Its job will be to…
As a fresh year opens, it feels like time to hope once more. In December, I attended a two-day summit and special exhibit hosted by Hillary and Chelsea Clinton at the Clinton Presidential Center in Little Rock, Arkansas. Both the summit and the exhibit focused on what Hillary called “the unfinished business of the 21st…
A recent panel discussion about leadership with women who’ve been pioneers in three different fields underscored the importance of being both genuine and flexible in moving forward through uncertain times. The panel was part of a January 2021 weekly leadership update hosted by ABM’s Aviation Group for leaders and managers. ABM’s Aviation Group provides an…
I remember my grandmother taking me to see On the Basis of Sex when I was 11. Leaving the movie, I told her, “Maybe I want to be a lawyer, too.” I hadn’t even thought of that before seeing the movie. Now I’m 14, but I still might be a lawyer one day. Ruth Bader…