It has been suggested that private institutions may have easier access to funds and more autonomy in setting up new programs for postdoctoral education than do state universities. (sciencemag.org)
Mary Delong, director of the Office of Postdoctoral Education at Emory University in Atlanta, Georgia, says that postdocs tend to see industry as a place where they have less independence — where they can not do «their own thing.» (sciencemag.org)
AAU's approval of this report meant that our work on postdoctoral education at Berkeley, which was going on in parallel with the AAU study, also had the highly visible, official blessing from our chancellor. (sciencemag.org)