Raised in San Francisco, Jessica Peixotto overcame multiple hurdles to become Cal’s first full-time female prof and to found a new school.

The Nobel laureate talks about why she became an economist, how she and her colleagues popularized the use of randomized ...

MARY K. GAILLARD, a pioneering theoretical physicist whose mathematical predictions helped shape the Standard Model of particle physics and who defied gender barriers in a male-dominated field, died ...

Most academics don’t become global celebrities. But in 2010, Brené Brown, a longtime professor of social work at the University of Houston, gave a TEDx Talk about her research on shame, empathy and ...