Andrea Widener

Washington, D.C.

Writer and editor at @BEA_News. Formerly @cenmag, @hhminews, JNCI, Contra Costa Times, Boca Raton News. Opinions my own.

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How Shyamala Rajender fought back against discrimination

Mar 7, 2023 | cen.acs.org | Andrea Widener
How Shyamala Rajender fought back against discrimination

Mar 7, 2023 | cen.acs.org | Andrea Widener

When male faculty and administrators started attacking Shyamala Rajender's character, she relied on one of chemists' great weapons to prove them wrong: her detailed lab notebooks.
NIST's deteriorating facilities damage scientific mission, report finds

Feb 10, 2023 | cen.acs.org | Andrea Widener
NIST's deteriorating facilities damage scientific mission, report finds

Feb 10, 2023 | cen.acs.org | Andrea Widener

Lack of repairs and upgrades to deteriorating facilities built in the 1950s and '60s is hurting the ability of the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) to fulfill its mission, according to a new report from the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine. Without upgrades, the facilites may not be able to advance measurement science and meet the needs of companies and agencies that rely on NIST's specialized services.
OSTP deputy director Alondra Nelson steps down

Feb 10, 2023 | cen.acs.org | Andrea Widener

By Alondra Nelson, deputy director of the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP), has stepped down from her post effective Feb. 10. A sociologist known for her research at the intersection of science, technnology, social inequality, and race, Nelson was the first deputy director for science and society, a role created in President Joe Biden's administration.
OSTP deputy director Alondra Nelson steps down

Feb 10, 2023 | cen.acs.org | Andrea Widener
Women and underrepresented people of color make small gains in science employment, new diversity report shows

Feb 2, 2023 | cen.acs.org | Andrea Widener
Women and underrepresented people of color make small gains in science employment, new diversity report shows

Feb 2, 2023 | cen.acs.org | Andrea Widener

From 2011 to 2021, women and Hispanic or Latino scientists achieved the largest increases in employment among underrepresented groups in the science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) workforce. Still, their share of the workforce remains low compared with their proportion of the US population, the newest National Science Foundation report on diversity in STEM shows.
C&EN scenery and teaching with chemistry puns

Jan 21, 2023 | cen.acs.org | Andrea Widener

C&EN's big-screen debut Newscripts was shocked-shocked!-when we learned that C&EN appeared in the 1990 Tim Burton sensation Edward Scissorhands. The eagle-eyed partner of former C&EN staffer Alexandra Taylor spotted it while watching the classic recently. The movie tells the tragic tale of Edward Scissorhands, played by a young Johnny Depp. Edward was a creation of The Inventor, who built the human-robot from parts in his eccentric workshop-cookie-making factory.
C&EN scenery and teaching with chemistry puns

Jan 21, 2023 | cen.acs.org | Andrea Widener