Expand Your Professional - Skills Training by Elisabeth Pain, 1 October 2010 Voluntary activities, such as helping to organize conferences, offer
early career scientists opportunities to gain new skills and also broaden their horizons.
Early career scientists may particularly benefit from experiences outside the lab.
2010 Lynford L. Goddard is honored as the first recipient of the AAAS Early Career Award for Public Engagement with Science for exemplifying
an early career scientist eager to share his excitement about science and demonstrating excellence in reaching high school students with activities in electrical engineering, while simultaneously pursuing a competitive research career.
In addition to helping them choose ideas that are potentially transformative, this will give
early career scientists «a better chance of anticipating what the effects are of their science, positive and negative» and to prepare for the challenges ahead, he says.
Early career scientists have opportunities in basic and clinical research and in both small and large industries, Zenklusen says.
There are three different levels of workshops that might appeal to you: introductory (101), advanced (202), and
early career scientist (ECS).
Early career scientists can get industry experience through the NIBR postdoctoral program.
Next year, the ERC will launch its own young investigator award scheme, which will dwarf the ESF effort and almost every other award for
early career scientists.
New opportunities for
early career scientists to work at the interface of computer science and other scientific disciplines are expected to open up in Europe in the coming years as Microsoft plans to invest big money in European science.
Can today's
early career scientists and science trainees look forward to a bright and lucrative future?
For talented
early career scientists, this means better, if also more competitive, opportunities.
It's also worth acknowledging that the rescue will do little to help many
early career scientists.
He is mindful to include both experienced professionals and
early career scientists on his teams, because the knowledge that older workers possess is fortified by the inspiration of younger employees, and vice versa.
Through the Avenir initiative — a program started in 2001 but the effects of which are only now being felt — INSERM awards 20 grants to tenured
early career scientists and 20 to nontenured ones.
A prevailing concern in France is the difficulty that
early career scientists have in achieving independence in a hierarchical system dominated by experienced heads of labs and departments, particularly in the universities.
Early career scientists considering a multi-investigator project should weigh the experience, networking opportunities, and prestige of a high - profile national or international collaboration against the disadvantages.
By encouraging universities, predoctoral students, postdocs, and
early career scientists to apply for NRSAs, the committee hopes to foster a workforce that is more capable of bridging multiple disciplines.
Aifantis, the chair of the Department of Pathology at NYU Langone and a member of its Perlmutter Cancer Center, and
an early career scientist at the Howard Hughes Medical Institute, says experiments in his laboratory had shown that leukemia - initiating cells concentrate in the bone marrow near CXCL12 - producing blood vessels.
Of course we at Next Wave, a publication whose entire raison d'être is to support the career development of
early career scientists, will do what we can to implement the meeting's suggestions.
Check out Money Matters, our new series on financial planning for
early career scientists.
And it is the indirect gains that
early career scientists should carefully consider as they pursue review opportunities.
The structure resembles a training grant for
early career scientists, especially — but not exclusively — for clinicians.
Furthermore, the extremely competitive nature of the job, and of research funding once they have the job, may be forcing
early career scientists to play it safe, choosing research projects with a surer, shorter - term payoff instead of daring projects that may not pay off big in the longer term.
Based on the first two meetings held in October 2010 and March 2011, participants emphasized the need to educate
early career scientists (i.e., graduate students, scientists working at a post-doctoral level or equivalent, and junior faculty) about initiating and maintaining international scientific collaboration.
Taken together, these facts paint an ominous picture for prospective and
early career scientists.
The AAAS Early Career Award for Public Engagement with Science recognizes
early career scientists and engineers who demonstrate excellence not only in their research careers but also in promoting meaningful dialogue between science and society.
Based on her experience and their interest, she recommends that universities offer business training to
early career scientists.
Rather, crowdfunding can be a complementary source «that can fill gaps or expands access» to funding for researchers — such as
early career scientists or those working in meagerly funded fields — who «traditionally wouldn't have had those grant opportunities.»
They built relationships and communicated a specific message about how the module could help
early career scientists.
According to Next Wave's Andrew Fazekas, the field of sports science is getting lots of ice time with
early career scientists in Canada.
Yet some of
the early career scientists who worked on the project know exactly where they are and where they're headed.
... Someone who understands the outsize influence advisers have on the career of
early career scientists.»
One way to improve this current situation is to offer capacity building programs such as mentoring for continuous career development of BMENA
early career scientist, especially because many BMENA countries do not offer Ph.D. or postdoc programs.
UNOLS is seeking applications from
early career scientists at U.S. universities who are interested in participating in an oceanographic research cruise that will continue an investigation of a chain of seamounts west of the East Pacific Rise at 8 ° 20» N followed by a detailed survey the East Pacific Rise ~ 9 ° 50» N that last erupted in 2005 - 2006.
During his tenure, Josh was a leader in elevating the participation of students and
early career scientists in AAS's annual Congressional Visits Day and organized the Society's first congressional briefings on the astronomical sciences in over a decade.
The technique relies on optogenetics, a method of controlling brain cells through bursts of light developed by HHMI
early career scientist Karl Deisseroth at Stanford University.
Postdoctoral fellowships enable the most talented
early career scientists, trained in the life sciences or in the physical sciences, to extend their scientific repertoire in laboratories abroad.
Consequently,
the early career scientists were able to learn about the following questions from the existing literature:
Each Laureate will receive $ 250,000 - the largest unrestricted award of its kind for
early career scientists and engineers.
In our Keck Visiting Scholars Program, funds are provided for
early career scientists (graduate students and postdoctoral students) to reside at W. M. Keck Observatory, working with our resident astronomers and instrumentalists for periods of one to three months.
HFSP postdoctoral fellowships encourage
early career scientists to broaden their research skills by moving into new areas of study while working in a new country.
Early career scientists will be better prepared in their profession by developing their intuition about telescope and instrument operations, data collection, real - time problem solving, and the observational astronomy experience.
The ECETOC Best Platform Award honours
the early career scientist with the best platform presentation at the SETAC Europe 25th Annual Meeting.
We spoke to Daniel Bolnick at the University of Texas at Austin (and
an early career scientist at the Howard Hughes Medical Institute) about what went wrong with his paper «Diet similarity declines with morphological distance between conspecific individuals,» and why he chose to be so forthright about it.
The award recognizes postdocs and faculty - level
early career scientists, whether or not members of the Society, in academic, government, and corporate research institutions, who have made excellent contributions in the area of bioenergy research.
In addition to the trials
early career scientists must overcome, female researchers experience additional hurdles in the workplace, such as limited opportunities for equal pay and promotions, and insufficient maternity leave.
Early career scientists will provide a talk to Keck Observatory staff about what they learned from their visit and a final report which in the best case scenario would be a submission to an astronomical or technical journal.
As such, we have created an innovative, multi-year program through which we can provide observing opportunities of benefit to
both early career scientists and their Keck Observatory mentors.
The KVSP provides the opportunity for
early career scientists, post ‐ doctoral and graduate students, to be resident at Keck Observatory while working hands ‐ on with our telescopes and instrumentation.
1For the purposes of the CCAMLR Scholarship Scheme
an early career scientist is defined as a scientist who is actively engaged in relevant PhD research, or has received their PhD in the last 5 years.