The Verge (New York City, Nov. 12) – Lara Carlson reported sexual harassment from her department chair to the University of New England’s human resources department. But instead of helping, she says her university retaliated against her, sidelining her once-promising career. Carlson’s story “is the sort of thing that I’ve heard quite a bit over the years,” says Kathryn Clancy, an anthropologist at Illinois. Clancy is an author of a recent National Academies of Sciences, Engineering and Medicine report, published in June, that describes the pervasiveness of sexual and gender harassment in science in academic settings.
