Profiles scientists Valerie Taylor, Freda Porter-Locklear and Richard Tapia. Emphasis is placed on their efforts at outreach and their positions as role models. This program is about "making it" as a professor. One of the marks of success for professors is earning tenure. Tenure means job security at a university. It also means that a professor's peers have recognized that he or she has made an important contriution to the field. The scientists in this program face the pressures of working in a university setting while continuing their own research.

A production of Blackside, Inc. and a presentation of WGBH Boston./ Closed-captioned for the hearing impaired.  Narrator: Andre Braugher.

1996 English  Visual Material  : Videorecording :  Partial animation :  VHS tape  1 videocassette (60 min.) : sd., col. ; 1/2 in. Alexandria, Va. : PBS Video

Description:       1 videocassette (60 min.) :; sd., col. ;; 1/2 in.