Stuff We Like: Teaching treasure hunters, powered up, and gender gap examined

TEACHING TREASURE HUNTERS
“Field Museum, University of Chicago Training Iraqi Archeologists” (Chicago Tribune, May 6, 2009)
Over the next two years, scientists from the University’s Oriental Institute and Field Museum will tutor 18 Iraqi archeologists and cultural preservationists in conservation techniques, including preserving artifacts, using ground-penetrating radar, cleaning pottery shards, and analyzing sediments.

POWERED UP
“Scientists Receive Tech Transfer Award for Battery R&D” (Argonne News Office, May 8, 2009)
Three Argonne National Laboratory scientists were recognized by the Federal Laboratory Consortium for Technology Transfer for their research on a battery system expected to help reduce greenhouse gas emissions.

GENDER GAP EXAMINED
“Why the Earnings Gender Gap in Business? Women Work Less.” (New York Times, April 29, 2009)
Research by Chicago Booth’s Marianne Bertrand and Harvard economists Claudia Goldin, AM’69, PhD’72, and Lawrence F. Katz provides a statistical explanation for why women with children earn less than men.

May 8, 2009

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