Roli Varma
Biographic Data
| ID | 3619481 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Roli Varma |
| GIVEN NAMES | Roli |
| FAMILY NAME | Varma |
| SIGNATURE | VARMA R |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 17 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 13 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 17 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2000 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2021 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Dissecting culture at work: Conversation with Indian immigrant scientists & engineers in the US industrial sector
U.S. Science and Engineering Workforce: Underrepresentation of Women and Minorities
Increasingly, industrial leaders, governmental officials, and academic scholars have become concerned whether the United States can successfully compete in science and engineering (S&E) fields. This is when employment in S&E jobs has grown faster than employment in all occupations in the United States. It is proposed that the United States has not been able to build its S&E human capital necessary for technological innovations and economic growth…
Grass Is Greener on the Other Side: Return Migration of Indian Engineers and Scientists in Academia
Studies on skilled return migration from developed to developing countries have focused on the industrial sector. This article focuses on why academic engineers and scientists from developing countries leave developed countries to return to their countries of birth. Data for this study comes from a National Science Foundation funded study with 83 engineers and scientists who returned to India after study and work in U.S. universities. Better care…
Convergence or Divergence: Practice of Science by Migrant Faculty in India and the United States
Do immigrant faculty trained in American higher education institutions adopt the outlook and practices of native US scientists and engineers ("convergence"), or do they diverge from such practices? The modern science paradigm holds that location will not matter significantly and that immigrants in either place will converge to a common standard of scientific practice. Drawing upon 134 in-depth interviews, this paper compares the scientific practi…
Indian Women and Mathematics for Computer Science
To sum up, the case study of female students in India has shown that because they perform well in mathematics, they have high self efficacy for enrolling and remaining in CS. The new domain of CS builds on prior skills in mathematics. This suggests that CS and mathematics share skills. There is a need to carry out a comparative study of how mathematics is taught to girls and boys in the U.S. and India in order to understand issues related to gend…
India-Born in the U.S. Science and Engineering Workforce
With the intense debates over the extent to which foreign-born in the U.S. science and engineering (S&E) workplace displace U.S.-born, very few have focused on the work experience and professional activities of foreign-born in S&E. This article examines the extent to which India-born in the U.S. S&E workforce consider themselves professionally successful and/or facing institutional barriers, and their transnationalism between the United States an…
Special Issue on Science and Technology Workforce
Decoding the Female Exodus From Computing Education
This study uses primary empirical data to better understand women's reasons for leaving undergraduate computer science and computer engineering education programs. It draws on social control theory to integrate student perspectives with structural considerations, demonstrating how secondhand knowledge of comparatively infrequent negative experiences achieves substantial immediacy and veracity among women students en masse, thereby contributing to…
Importance of gender homophily in the computer science classroom
This study explores how particular communication behaviors influence women's experience of the CS classroom in the United States. In particular, it investigates the correlation between students' perceived gender similarities with others in the CS discipline or homophily, their feelings about the closeness and openness of communication between people or immediacy, the resulting presence or absence of a supportive communication classroom climate, w…
Promoting Community Gardening to Low-Income Urban Participants in the Women, Infants and Children Programme (Wic) in New Mexico
This study explores the effectiveness of methods used by nutrition educators in promoting the Women, Infants and Children (WIC) community garden project in Albuquerque, New Mexico, USA. A survey of 257 clients from five clinics found that less than 30% of clients have been exposed to the project and caseload was unrelated to the methods used to promote the project. However, clients exposed to any method of promotion were more likely to garden tha…
The Bhopal Disaster of 1984
The 20th anniversary of the Bhopal calamity fell on December 3, 2004. The world's worst industrial disaster in Bhopal, India, happened because of inadequate maintenance by Union Carbide and poor monitoring by the Indian authorities. Malfunctioning safety measures, inappropriate location of the plant, and lack of information about the identity and toxicity of the gas worsened the effects of the accident on people and livestock. The Bhopal disaster…
E.F. Schumacher: Changing the Paradigm of Bigger Is Better
In the mid-1970s, the phrase “small is beautiful” became a counterculture slogan against the industrial threat to the environment and the scarcity of resources. Arguing against excessive materialism and meaningless growth, the late Dr. Ernest Friedrich Schumacher—the author of Small Is Beautiful: Economics as if People Mattered, promoted the use of small-scale technology to benefit both humankind and the environment. As an economist trained in a …
Women in Information Technology: A Case Study of Undergraduate Students in a Minority-Serving Institution
The issue of underrepresentation of women in information technology (IT) is of national interest due to the rapid growth of IT in recent years, the impact of IT on growth and productivity, the shortage of IT workers, and the gender equity in IT. Scholarly research has pointed its finger at bias in early socialization, math anxiety, masculinity of computers, the scarcity of role models, and women’s preference for relational work. A study of studen…
Technological Fix: Sex Determination in India
Prenatal diagnostic technologies have been used for the purpose of detecting sex—leading to abortion of female fetuses—and have posed new challenges to the already difficult question of social justice for women in India. This article reports findings from a case study conducted with 25 women who had used prenatal diagnostic technologies for sex determination.Against the common belief that Indian society is “improving” because of 21st-century medi…
Permanent Tenure and Academic Freedom in Engineering
The tenure system exists in most public and private universities and 4-year public colleges in the United States. The American Association of University Professors has argued that tenure provides the most reliable means of assuring academic freedom, faculty quality, and educational excellence. However, budgetary constraints and the end of mandatory retirement in the ’90s have resulted in questioning the merits of the tenure system. It is argued t…
Technology and Ethics for Engineering Students
Many engineering schools still do not allocate enough resources to the process of understanding the social and ethical dimensions of scientific and technological activities. This article argues that engineering curriculum in the United States should include courses that use theories and concepts from humanities and social sciences to study issues confronting the engineering profession. On the theoretical front, engineering students need to unders…
Changing Research Cultures in U.S. Industry
Changes brought by the rise of the global economy and the end of the Cold War era have resulted in industry, government, and university rethinking their roles vis-à-vis research and development (R&D), basic versus applied research, and the role of corporate research. Since the mid-1980s, industrial research in the United States has been going through restructuring. Interviews with seventy-two scientists and eighteen managers working in six centra…
India-Born in the U.S. Science and Engineering Workforce
With the intense debates over the extent to which foreign-born in the U.S. science and engineering (S&E) workplace displace U.S.-born, very few have focused on the work experience and professional activities of foreign-born in S&E. This article examines the extent to which India-born in the U.S. S&E workforce consider themselves professionally successful and/or facing institutional barriers, and their transnationalism between the United States an…
U.S. Science and Engineering Workforce: Underrepresentation of Women and Minorities
Increasingly, industrial leaders, governmental officials, and academic scholars have become concerned whether the United States can successfully compete in science and engineering (S&E) fields. This is when employment in S&E jobs has grown faster than employment in all occupations in the United States. It is proposed that the United States has not been able to build its S&E human capital necessary for technological innovations and economic growth…
Convergence or Divergence: Practice of Science by Migrant Faculty in India and the United States
Do immigrant faculty trained in American higher education institutions adopt the outlook and practices of native US scientists and engineers ("convergence"), or do they diverge from such practices? The modern science paradigm holds that location will not matter significantly and that immigrants in either place will converge to a common standard of scientific practice. Drawing upon 134 in-depth interviews, this paper compares the scientific practi…
Promoting Community Gardening to Low-Income Urban Participants in the Women, Infants and Children Programme (Wic) in New Mexico
This study explores the effectiveness of methods used by nutrition educators in promoting the Women, Infants and Children (WIC) community garden project in Albuquerque, New Mexico, USA. A survey of 257 clients from five clinics found that less than 30% of clients have been exposed to the project and caseload was unrelated to the methods used to promote the project. However, clients exposed to any method of promotion were more likely to garden tha…
Changing Research Cultures in U.S. Industry
Changes brought by the rise of the global economy and the end of the Cold War era have resulted in industry, government, and university rethinking their roles vis-à-vis research and development (R&D), basic versus applied research, and the role of corporate research. Since the mid-1980s, industrial research in the United States has been going through restructuring. Interviews with seventy-two scientists and eighteen managers working in six centra…
Dissecting culture at work: Conversation with Indian immigrant scientists & engineers in the US industrial sector
Special Issue on Science and Technology Workforce
Technology and Ethics for Engineering Students
Many engineering schools still do not allocate enough resources to the process of understanding the social and ethical dimensions of scientific and technological activities. This article argues that engineering curriculum in the United States should include courses that use theories and concepts from humanities and social sciences to study issues confronting the engineering profession. On the theoretical front, engineering students need to unders…
Changing Research Cultures in U.S. Industry
Changes brought by the rise of the global economy and the end of the Cold War era have resulted in industry, government, and university rethinking their roles vis-à-vis research and development (R&D), basic versus applied research, and the role of corporate research. Since the mid-1980s, industrial research in the United States has been going through restructuring. Interviews with seventy-two scientists and eighteen managers working in six centra…
Permanent Tenure and Academic Freedom in Engineering
The tenure system exists in most public and private universities and 4-year public colleges in the United States. The American Association of University Professors has argued that tenure provides the most reliable means of assuring academic freedom, faculty quality, and educational excellence. However, budgetary constraints and the end of mandatory retirement in the ’90s have resulted in questioning the merits of the tenure system. It is argued t…
Women in Information Technology: A Case Study of Undergraduate Students in a Minority-Serving Institution
The issue of underrepresentation of women in information technology (IT) is of national interest due to the rapid growth of IT in recent years, the impact of IT on growth and productivity, the shortage of IT workers, and the gender equity in IT. Scholarly research has pointed its finger at bias in early socialization, math anxiety, masculinity of computers, the scarcity of role models, and women’s preference for relational work. A study of studen…
Technological Fix: Sex Determination in India
Prenatal diagnostic technologies have been used for the purpose of detecting sex—leading to abortion of female fetuses—and have posed new challenges to the already difficult question of social justice for women in India. This article reports findings from a case study conducted with 25 women who had used prenatal diagnostic technologies for sex determination.Against the common belief that Indian society is “improving” because of 21st-century medi…
E.F. Schumacher: Changing the Paradigm of Bigger Is Better
In the mid-1970s, the phrase “small is beautiful” became a counterculture slogan against the industrial threat to the environment and the scarcity of resources. Arguing against excessive materialism and meaningless growth, the late Dr. Ernest Friedrich Schumacher—the author of Small Is Beautiful: Economics as if People Mattered, promoted the use of small-scale technology to benefit both humankind and the environment. As an economist trained in a …
The Bhopal Disaster of 1984
The 20th anniversary of the Bhopal calamity fell on December 3, 2004. The world's worst industrial disaster in Bhopal, India, happened because of inadequate maintenance by Union Carbide and poor monitoring by the Indian authorities. Malfunctioning safety measures, inappropriate location of the plant, and lack of information about the identity and toxicity of the gas worsened the effects of the accident on people and livestock. The Bhopal disaster…
Promoting Community Gardening to Low-Income Urban Participants in the Women, Infants and Children Programme (Wic) in New Mexico
This study explores the effectiveness of methods used by nutrition educators in promoting the Women, Infants and Children (WIC) community garden project in Albuquerque, New Mexico, USA. A survey of 257 clients from five clinics found that less than 30% of clients have been exposed to the project and caseload was unrelated to the methods used to promote the project. However, clients exposed to any method of promotion were more likely to garden tha…
Decoding the Female Exodus From Computing Education
This study uses primary empirical data to better understand women's reasons for leaving undergraduate computer science and computer engineering education programs. It draws on social control theory to integrate student perspectives with structural considerations, demonstrating how secondhand knowledge of comparatively infrequent negative experiences achieves substantial immediacy and veracity among women students en masse, thereby contributing to…
Importance of gender homophily in the computer science classroom
This study explores how particular communication behaviors influence women's experience of the CS classroom in the United States. In particular, it investigates the correlation between students' perceived gender similarities with others in the CS discipline or homophily, their feelings about the closeness and openness of communication between people or immediacy, the resulting presence or absence of a supportive communication classroom climate, w…
India-Born in the U.S. Science and Engineering Workforce
With the intense debates over the extent to which foreign-born in the U.S. science and engineering (S&E) workplace displace U.S.-born, very few have focused on the work experience and professional activities of foreign-born in S&E. This article examines the extent to which India-born in the U.S. S&E workforce consider themselves professionally successful and/or facing institutional barriers, and their transnationalism between the United States an…
Special Issue on Science and Technology Workforce
Indian Women and Mathematics for Computer Science
To sum up, the case study of female students in India has shown that because they perform well in mathematics, they have high self efficacy for enrolling and remaining in CS. The new domain of CS builds on prior skills in mathematics. This suggests that CS and mathematics share skills. There is a need to carry out a comparative study of how mathematics is taught to girls and boys in the U.S. and India in order to understand issues related to gend…
Grass Is Greener on the Other Side: Return Migration of Indian Engineers and Scientists in Academia
Studies on skilled return migration from developed to developing countries have focused on the industrial sector. This article focuses on why academic engineers and scientists from developing countries leave developed countries to return to their countries of birth. Data for this study comes from a National Science Foundation funded study with 83 engineers and scientists who returned to India after study and work in U.S. universities. Better care…
Convergence or Divergence: Practice of Science by Migrant Faculty in India and the United States
Do immigrant faculty trained in American higher education institutions adopt the outlook and practices of native US scientists and engineers ("convergence"), or do they diverge from such practices? The modern science paradigm holds that location will not matter significantly and that immigrants in either place will converge to a common standard of scientific practice. Drawing upon 134 in-depth interviews, this paper compares the scientific practi…
U.S. Science and Engineering Workforce: Underrepresentation of Women and Minorities
Increasingly, industrial leaders, governmental officials, and academic scholars have become concerned whether the United States can successfully compete in science and engineering (S&E) fields. This is when employment in S&E jobs has grown faster than employment in all occupations in the United States. It is proposed that the United States has not been able to build its S&E human capital necessary for technological innovations and economic growth…
Dissecting culture at work: Conversation with Indian immigrant scientists & engineers in the US industrial sector
Political science (12 works) · Law (10 works) · Economics (9 works) · Engineering (9 works) · Sociology (9 works) · Economic growth (6 works) · Computer Science (5 works) · Geography (4 works) · Immigration (4 works) · Engineering ethics (3 works)