An interesting personal story. The linked report has useful info too. But I had a tough time deciding what was really the point of this story.

the article uses one person's story to illustrate its point that minorities, of either gender or race, both represented by this individual, are very much underrepresented in science and engineering in universities--both in classes and in professional positions. it would have been better to include more info, statistics, the relative difficulty getting hired in the private sector, and whether other minorities have the same problems, for example. the issue of the difficulty of ... More »

The story tells of a bright motivated black woman working in high technology. Other than brief statistics, the story is mostly personal and technical. The personal stories of the minority students in the queue is left untold.

A fairly enlightening article that covers two points: the benefical experiences of a researcher having gone both through the industry and academia and how she found her way to her calling (engineering as a means to apply technology, rather than simply discover it), and the barrier faced by minorities and women in many science and engineering fields. Regarding the latter point, the article would have been benefitted from exploring this issue further (although it links to a survey on ... More »

This story is not particularly interesting and has no point. It confuses minorities with under represented minorities. Certain minorities, e.g. Jews, Chinese, are vastly over represented in science. But who cares? Nobody is discriminating against the under represented minorities - just the opposite.