Jo Handelsman
Jo Handelsman
Jo Emily Handelsmanis the Associate Director for Science at the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy, appointed by President Obama and confirmed by the Senate in June, 2014. She is currently on leave as a Howard Hughes Medical Institute professor of molecular, cellular and developmental biology at Yale University. She has been editor-in-chief of the academic journal DNA and Cell Biology and author of books on scientific education, most notably Scientific Teaching...
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barriers roadblocks target
We've been able to target real barriers and roadblocks to women's careers, and we've launched interventions to see which ones make a difference.
bringing exclude finding focus major minorities science teach ways women
A major focus of it for me has been bringing women and minorities into science and finding ways to teach that don't exclude them.
lives soil
We actually don't know much about soil microbes and the lives they live.