The Colchester students, along with others from a range of schools including academies and comprehensives, were taking part in the 2008 UK-Japan Young Scientists Workshop, an annual event held this summer at the University of Surrey with a return visit planned to Kyoto next year.
But before we accept Congress's proclamation of bias, before we start re-educating scientists at workshops, it's worth taking a hard look at the evidence of bias against female scientists.
Once that idea took hold, the scientists held workshops and impromptu discussion sessions, some stretching late into the night, to swap ideas about how to develop such experimental organisms using what Sidney Brenner colorfully described as "steam-age genetic engineering".
And it was really inspiring to see NASA scientists holding workshops at Comic-Con in the San Diego Convention Center.
This annual meeting is an opportunity to listen to scientific talks of great value from other Chilean scientists and workshops aimed at facilitating professional careers, as well as a tool to discuss scientific polices with relevant players of main funding agencies in Chile.
Carrier also aims to increase the international savvy of their scientists by presenting workshops on everything from putting together a simple budget to understanding the countless reporting systems encountered around the world.
A one-way communication of information (sometimes with prior multi-directional input) is provided before, during, and after volcanic crises through presentations by scientists during conferences, workshops, and public lectures; on websites; in scientific and non-scientific publications; and via the media.
Scientists at a workshop held recently by the Human Genome Project, for instance, discussed the prospects of achieving the "thousand-dollar genome".
Jorgensen, a trained scientist, runs regular workshops in the evenings on how to modify genes and use the basic equipment.
The negotiations expert recently related her insights to National Institutes of Health (NIH) students, staff, and scientists at a workshop-- Negotiating a Job Offer"--held at NIH's Bethesda, Maryland, campus last month.
Some 50 scientists at a workshop at Louisiana State University predicted these benefits from the dispersants in May, signaling their support for the decision the government had made; some dissenters led by Sylvia Earle have said it was too soon to declare it a success.
