Dr. Anne MacLachlan Specialist, Academic Research Programs Center for Studies in Higher Education University of California at Berkeley Anne J. MacLachlan, Ph.D. has been focusing on women and minorities in graduate school and professional life for the last 13 years as a researcher, advisor and program developer. Her most recent research project is on the graduate school success of University of California minority and women Ph.D. recipients in science and engineering earned between 1980 and 1990, and an analysis of their subsequent careers. This semester she is examining the impact of unusual private funding arrangements in a science department at UC Berkeley on the work and perspective of all the graduate students in that department. Recent papers include "The Lives and Careers of Minority Women Scientists," "Rethinking Graduate Education in the Life Sciences," "The Impact of Changes in American Higher Education on Careers in Engineering," "Women in the American Academy: A Work in Progress." These and others have been given at the NAWE Conference, Stanford, UCLA, UCSF, University of Oslo, University of Hamburg, Kassel and Muenster, at AAAS among other locations.