'We Didn't Know We Had a Problem'

May 24, 2010

At his NeuroDojo blog, Zen Faulkes calls the Canada Excellence Research Chairs programs' "rigorous peer review" and selection of 19 chairholders — none of which are women — "a scandal.

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