May 5, 2006
A Hothouse for Female Scientists
Small colleges, big results
Research universities have top-of-the-line laboratories, the most-accomplished researchers, and giant federal grants. But they don't hold a monopoly on preparing future scientists.
In fact, some of the nation's small liberal-arts colleges send on more women, proportionally, for Ph.D.'s in the sciences than do elite research universities. Higher-education leaders have been trying for years to get more women interested in careers in mathematics and
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