Sentences with phrase «for junior faculty»

«Navigating the pathway to tenure has always been vexing for junior faculty, and we don't expect that problem will ever go away entirely, but it is troublesome that gender differences in perceptions of clarity still exist,» Trower said.

«If they can sustain an earned reputation as a great place for junior faculty to work, they will enjoy a competitive edge in recruiting and retaining the next generation of faculty.»

This year, we have three searches underway for junior faculty in the areas of international education, language and literacy, and learning and instructions.

The survey of 4,500 tenure - track faculty at 51 colleges and universities discovered that there are key climate variables for junior faculty, such as: interest senior faculty take in their work,...

«The CTR - IN is providing unique opportunities for junior faculty at our partner institutions to develop their clinical and translational research programs to the level of national competitiveness,» said Carl Reiber, UNLV senior vice provost, who was instrumental in the development of the program.

Dr. Rothman's mentoring experience includes service as Program Director for an Institutional Training Grant (2005 - 2011) and direct mentoring for junior faculty, MD and PhD post-doctoral fellows, masters degree and undergraduate students.

They will perform preliminary studies to prepare for large - scale testing, conduct related studies to support specific trials, provide mentoring for junior faculty, and help recruit appropriate patients to Network trials, especially those expected to have a significant positive impact on cancer treatment.

Cancer Research Institute inaugurates its Investigator Award Program for junior faculty members working in immunology and tumor immunology.

Such collaborations can make all the difference for junior faculty.

(If promotion to the tenured ranks must occur within the first 7 years, then this issue may be moot, because the outcomes for a junior faculty member's trainees may not be known by that time.)

For the junior faculty member, the answer is» Teach.

«Current publication lags in many fields make the current 5 - year period impractical and highly risky for junior faculty,» one assistant professor tells Next Wave Canada.

Proctor adds that the administration clearly has much work to do in clarifying issues for junior faculty members.

His advice for junior faculty: «I think your grants need to be very focused, and they need to be very well written, and you should not be afraid to have multiple faculty members read those grants.»

For junior faculty members who find it difficult to deal with a variety of commitments, the solution is simple.

For junior faculty members, tenure was a formidable hurdle, and only a few won it.

Guthrie figures he would have had to cut research funds for faculty, summer salaries for junior faculty, and other expenses.

Not exact matches

Before her stint in Washington, Canales served as the executive director of the Maverick County Development Corporation in Texas and was an adjunct faculty member for Southwest Texas Junior College for seven years.

We also noticed that some junior faculty had been carefully chosen for their potential to fit the school's culture; these usually got a lot of attention from powerful senior faculty after they arrived.

It is risky even for postdocs and junior faculty members aiming to secure a position or promotion, since ultimately you have to show productivity, John says.

A recent posting for a tenure - track junior faculty position in my department attracted more than 200 applications, a frightening number in and of itself.

He accepted a post as assistant department chair for neurobiology and sociology at Northwestern University, a nontenure - track junior faculty post.

The Chicago Guide to Your Academic Career: A Portable Mentor for Scholars From Graduate School Through Tenure, by John Goldsmith, John Komlos, and Penny Schine Gold (University of Chicago Press, 2001), aspires to give graduate students and junior faculty a candid introduction to an academic career

«For junior women faculty, at least at the institutions I know well, the cohorts are not very large and so it's difficult for the women to come together and learn the culture and the unwritten rules on their own.&raqFor junior women faculty, at least at the institutions I know well, the cohorts are not very large and so it's difficult for the women to come together and learn the culture and the unwritten rules on their own.&raqfor the women to come together and learn the culture and the unwritten rules on their own.»

It was probably a very dangerous thing to do if you were a junior faculty who might be looking for tenure, let's say.

By most accounts, the limited funds for the hiring of postdocs and junior faculty make such positions competitive, and this holds true for the neurosciences.

«Some institutions [in the United States] are no longer recruiting junior - level faculty who don't have their own grant support,» says Michael Lehman, chair of the Department of Anatomy and Cell Biology at the University of Western Ontario and president - elect of the Association for Neuroscience Departments and Programs (ANDP).

So when a junior faculty member with a 1 - year - old daughter is invited to speak at a prestigious international conference and her partner isn't available for childcare, what should she do?

The situation is equally difficult for postdocs trying to make the jump to a junior faculty position or a permanent job at a national lab.

The postdoctoral and junior - faculty years correspond with the prime childbearing years, and most of the part - time researchers interviewed for this article adapted their work schedules so that they could pursue a scientific career and raise a family

A U.S. Appeals Court ruling in a University of Chicago case has lowered the barrier for court review of claims by postdoctoral students and junior faculty that they have been denied financial rewards from discoveries in which they have participated.

Although the original specification of the funding was to enhance graduate student education, Stewart says it is clear that «we do need to provide these opportunities for postdocs and to mentor junior faculty.»

To counter similar problems in his own institution, Jack Child, director of the Center for Teaching Excellence at American University in Washington, D.C., pairs new junior faculty members with established faculty members in departments other than their own.

That certainly was the case for Ann Kinzig, a junior faculty member in urban ecology at Arizona State University (ASU), who spent the 1998 - 99 academic year in Washington, D.C., as a Roger Revelle Fellow in Global Stewardship.

One spring day some decades ago, while I was serving as a very junior faculty member at what was then called a predominantly Negro college, a student asked me for advice.

«Usually at the junior faculty level,» she says, «the couple themselves have decided that one of them is going to look for the best job they can, and the other is going to be willing to take a research faculty position or a lectureship.»

Ask junior faculty members how soon they will be up for tenure and whether they think they will get it.

But students and postdocs had higher success rates than tenured faculty members, even after controlling for the fact that the junior people tended to ask for less money.

So, as one junior faculty member argued in a comment posted on the UTFA Web site, these areas are ripe for discussion even before holding a larger conversation about lengthening the process.

He received the National Science Foundation's CAREER Award and the ECE Award for Excellence in Teaching at BU, and he is currently a junior faculty fellow in the Hariri Institute for Computing and Computational Science and Engineering at BU.

Having 3 years of funding also allows new junior faculty members to focus on a long - term research agenda instead of scrambling for immediate funding.

The paper was not important for either of the two faculty members, but it was crucial for the career of a junior colleague who had contributed to the research.

Every day for 2 months, she questioned senior and junior faculty members on the basic and clinical ends of the research spectrum — no small task for someone working 13 - hour days, typically without a break.

And I know that for someone who is a junior faculty member without tenure it may seem risky.

For many postdoctoral scientists and junior faculty, applying for grants and awards is their first exposure to the administrative and financial worlds of scientific bureaucraFor many postdoctoral scientists and junior faculty, applying for grants and awards is their first exposure to the administrative and financial worlds of scientific bureaucrafor grants and awards is their first exposure to the administrative and financial worlds of scientific bureaucracy.

For the predoctoral and junior faculty members, of whom 10 from each group are accepted each year, they are given the opportunity to do a rotation at a local industry laboratory to see what the intramural scientists are doing, how deals are negotiated, and what sort of applied skills are needed to work with industry.

«This has been a gnawing problem for too long, and something should be done,» particularly about the stagnant numbers of junior women faculty members.

In one department, for example, they discovered that although both male and female junior faculty members had roughly 185 square meters of lab space, senior male faculty members had about 280 square meters, whereas their female counterparts had the same amount as their juniors, according to unpublished charts assembled by the committee.

RICHLAND, Wash. — Washington State University professor Xiao Zhang has received a prestigious National Science Foundation award to junior faculty for his work in converting tough plant material to liquid fuels.

As a member of the CSI you will be eligible to apply for student, postdoctoral and junior faculty travel awards to the annual Canadian Society for Immunology meeting as well as travel awards given out every third year to attend the International Congress of Immunology's annual meeting.