Sightings
On the Eve of Women's History Month: Women of Protest, of the Land and Sea
It's difficult in this age to imagine the courage needed to pursue a path to women voting. But the Library of Congress and the Smithsonian Institute are highlighting a number of those paths: Suffragists, Farmerettes and Naval Officers more »
Pew Reports: The Tea Party, Religion and Social Issues
A poll by the Pew Research Center and Forum on Religion & Public Life found that nearly half of Tea Party supporters (46%) had not heard of or did not have an opinion about "the conservative Christian movement sometimes known as the religious right" more »
Introduce a Girl to Engineering Day; Are 70% of Graduate Engineers Foreign?
Another way of looking at what a civil engineer does is to see it as a role of reducing complex ideas initiated by policymakers, chief executives, and other such people into concrete reality. And WEPAN works to transform culture in engineering education to attract, retain, and graduate women more »
Secrets of the Silk Road
With graceful eyelashes, long flaxen hair and serene expression, the "Beauty of Xiaohe" seems to have just softly fallen to sleep — yet she last closed her eyes nearly 4,000 years ago. She was found in 2003, one of hundreds of spectacularly preserved mummies buried in China's vast Tarim Basin more »