Some critics argue that no real harm is done if women choose not to go into science.
There aren't any strong female role models in science on TV, so not very many girls go into science.
Tyson's older brother, Stephen, who is an artist, recalls, "The teacher asked, 'Why do you want to go into science?
Neuroscience A Map of the Brain It's always exciting when new federal dollars go into science research, but reaction to the Obama administration's announcement of a new initiative, Brain Research Through Advancing Innovative Neurotechnologies (or Brain, for short), was decidedly mixed.
Higher education assistance should encourage students to go into science, technology, engineering and mathematics fields by prompting universities to disclose unemployment rates and earning potentials for all areas of study.
And if one result of the downsizing of Wall Street is that more of America's best and brightest math and physics students decide to go into science and real engineering rather than financial engineering, the country will be a whole lot better off.
But the deep appreciation and respect that welled up for a woman who was not only brave enough to blast off on a rocket but devoted her life afterward to encouraging girls to go into science and math was tinged, in some quarters, by muffled disappointment — not about her identity, but about that very quiet.
When college graduates are being offered high starting salaries in the financial world, along with the anticipation of becoming millionaires, who would go into science, with a decade or more of training and intensive study for minimal salary, with the anticipation of being unemployed or underemployed at the end?
