Academia has seen remarkable progress in gender equality over the last 50 years, but has yet to achieve parity – particularly in economics and STEM disciplines. This column documents the participation of women in European academia from the first universities to the eve of the Industrial Revolution, with unexpected results. Of the 108 women who taught at universities or
Credit: IPK Leibniz Institute/ Andreas Bähring Prof. Dr. Nils Stein will be awarded a medal from the Royal Physiographical Society in Lund for his significant and pioneering contributions to the field of cereal genomics, explains Prof. Mats Hansson, Professor of Plant Molecular Biology at Lund University and representative of the Mendelian Society and the Royal Physiographical Society.
In connection to the prize ceremony, Prof. Dr. Nils Stein will give The Royal Physiographic and Mendelian Societies in Lund Honorary Lecture in Genetics . Earlier speakers include for example Barbara McClintock, Walter Bodmer, Ed Southern, John Maynard Smith, Janet Rowley, Bruce Ponder, Sydney Brenner, Mike Stratton and Svante Päbo.