{"id":20918,"date":"2019-08-25T12:06:00","date_gmt":"2019-08-25T12:06:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/associatednews.us\/content\/2019\/08\/25\/academic-science-rethinks-all-too-white-dude-walls-of-honor\/"},"modified":"2019-08-25T12:06:00","modified_gmt":"2019-08-25T12:06:00","slug":"academic-science-rethinks-all-too-white-dude-walls-of-honor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/associatednews.us\/content\/academic-science-rethinks-all-too-white-dude-walls-of-honor\/","title":{"rendered":"Academic Science Rethinks All-Too-White ‘Dude Walls’ Of Honor"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\n All the portraits hanging on the wall inside the Louis Bornstein Family Amphitheater at Brigham and Women’s Hospital in Boston on June 12, 2018 were of men, nearly all white. The portraits have since been removed.<\/p>\n

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A few years ago, TV celebrity Rachel Maddow was at Rockefeller University to hand out a prize<\/a> that’s given each year to a prominent female scientist. As Maddow entered the auditorium, someone overheard her say, “What is up with the dude wall?”<\/p>\n

She was referring to a wall covered with portraits of scientists from the university who have won either a Nobel Prize or the Lasker Award, a major medical prize.<\/p>\n

“One hundred percent of them are men. It’s probably 30 headshots of 30 men. So it’s imposing,” says Leslie Vosshall<\/a>, a neurobiologist with the university and the Howard Hughes Medical Institute.<\/p>\n

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