Sentences with phrase «sciences postdoctoral research»

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Gary obtained a PhD, and master's in science from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and was a postdoctoral research fellow at the Technion - Israel Institute of Technology.

Liz holds a bachelor's degree in chemical and biomolecular engineering from Johns Hopkins University, a doctorate in biological sciences from the University of California, San Diego, and postdoctoral research experience from the University of Colorado Boulder.

Five female scientists will receive grants of $ 60,000 each to further their postdoctoral research through L'Oréal USA's For Women in Science fellowship program.

As administrators at 10 U.S. research institutions warned in a Science article this past December, without knowing what kinds of jobs graduates can expect after graduation, students can't «mak [e] informed choices about their pre - and postdoctoral training activities.»

Five early - career female scientists were honored Thursday evening as this year's recipients of the L'Oréal USA For Women in Science fellowship awards that grant each winner $ 60,000 to further their postdoctoral research.

Ruth Müller, a postdoctoral research fellow at the Research Policy Institute at Lund University in Sweden, who focused her Ph.D. on studying how the academic landscape influences the working practices of postdocs in the life sciences, notes that while the study acknowledges the diversity of the European system, it uses just one European country — Germany — in its quantitativeresearch fellow at the Research Policy Institute at Lund University in Sweden, who focused her Ph.D. on studying how the academic landscape influences the working practices of postdocs in the life sciences, notes that while the study acknowledges the diversity of the European system, it uses just one European country — Germany — in its quantitativeResearch Policy Institute at Lund University in Sweden, who focused her Ph.D. on studying how the academic landscape influences the working practices of postdocs in the life sciences, notes that while the study acknowledges the diversity of the European system, it uses just one European country — Germany — in its quantitative survey.

Cari F. Herrmann Abell, Ph.D., joined AAAS Project 2061 in 2005 as a postdoctoral fellow for the Center for Curriculum Materials in Science and is currently a senior research associate contributing to the development of curriculum and assessment resources aligned to K - 12 science learningScience and is currently a senior research associate contributing to the development of curriculum and assessment resources aligned to K - 12 science learningscience learning goals.

Cari F. Herrmann Abell, Ph.D., joined AAAS Project 2061 in 2005 as a postdoctoral fellow for the Center for Curriculum Materials in Science and is currently a senior research associate contributing to the development of curriculum and assessment resources aligned to K — 12 science learningScience and is currently a senior research associate contributing to the development of curriculum and assessment resources aligned to K — 12 science learningscience learning goals.

To help navigate through the options, a report released Wednesday by Science Europe, a pan-European association of research funders and institutions, offers some pointers about what to expect and look for in postdoctoral funding programs across the continent.

In a 2000 survey of postdoctoral fellows in the biological and physical sciences at the University of California (UC), Berkeley, 45 % of married women with children reported that they hadn't presented research at national conferences the previous year, compared to 24 % of all other postdocs.

Led by Young Duck Kim, a postdoctoral research scientist in James Hone's group at Columbia Engineering, a team of scientists from Columbia, Seoul National University (SNU), and Korea Research Institute of Standards and Science (KRISS) reported today that they have demonstrated — for the first time — an on - chip visible light source using graphene, an atomically thin and perfectly crystalline form of carbon, as a fresearch scientist in James Hone's group at Columbia Engineering, a team of scientists from Columbia, Seoul National University (SNU), and Korea Research Institute of Standards and Science (KRISS) reported today that they have demonstrated — for the first time — an on - chip visible light source using graphene, an atomically thin and perfectly crystalline form of carbon, as a fResearch Institute of Standards and Science (KRISS) reported today that they have demonstrated — for the first time — an on - chip visible light source using graphene, an atomically thin and perfectly crystalline form of carbon, as a filament.

In my case, funding from the Howard Hughes Medical Institute's Precollege Science Education Program Initiative for Biomedical Research Institutions and the Science Education Partnership Award from the National Center for Research Resources at the National Institutes of Health enable the Genetic Science Learning Center to provide postdoctoral training for research scientists transitioning into science education cScience Education Program Initiative for Biomedical Research Institutions and the Science Education Partnership Award from the National Center for Research Resources at the National Institutes of Health enable the Genetic Science Learning Center to provide postdoctoral training for research scientists transitioning into science education Research Institutions and the Science Education Partnership Award from the National Center for Research Resources at the National Institutes of Health enable the Genetic Science Learning Center to provide postdoctoral training for research scientists transitioning into science education cScience Education Partnership Award from the National Center for Research Resources at the National Institutes of Health enable the Genetic Science Learning Center to provide postdoctoral training for research scientists transitioning into science education Research Resources at the National Institutes of Health enable the Genetic Science Learning Center to provide postdoctoral training for research scientists transitioning into science education cScience Learning Center to provide postdoctoral training for research scientists transitioning into science education research scientists transitioning into science education cscience education careers.

Other science outlays included $ 46 million over 4 years to create 1500 industrial internships for graduate students and postdoctoral fellows within Canadian business, $ 49 million toward the transformation of the National Research Council into what officials call a «toolbox» for industry, and a commitment to extend Canadian participation in the International Space Station mission to 2024.

According to a 2013 study of California farmers, factors like exposure to extreme weather events and perceived changes in water availability made farmers more likely to believe in climate change, while negative experiences with environmental policies can make farmers less likely to believe that climate change is occurring, said Meredith Niles, a postdoctoral research fellow at Harvard's Sustainability Science Program and lead author of the study.

He then did postdoctoral research at Harvard University, and back in Zürich, before being awarded a Swiss National Science Foundation START fellowship in 1998.

The paper, published online yesterday in the journal Science, was co-authored by Jessie Creamean, a postdoctoral associate at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's Earth System Research Laboratory in Boulder, Colo., and Kaitlyn Suski, a graduate student at the University of California, San Diego.

After a postdoctoral research fellowship in France and a brief period as a university lecturer in the United Kingdom, I was looking around for something that combined my interest in research with my wider interests in science.

The bill specifically requires NIH director Francis Collins to spend 90 % of the agency's budget on extramural activities, 10 % on intramural activities and at least 55 % on basic science, and instructs the agency to maintain at least 16,670 training research awards (a category intended for doctoral students and postdoctoral fellows).

A research group led by Chengsi Pan, Postdoctoral Researcher, and Tsuyoshi Takata, NIMS Special Researcher, at the Global Research Center for Environment and Energy Based on Nanomaterials Science (GREEN; Director - General: Kohei Uosaki) of the National Institute for Materials Science (NIMS; President: Sukekatsu Ushioda), and Kazunari Domen, a professor of the Department of Chemical System Engineering, School of Engineering, The University of Tokyo (President: Junichi Hamada) newly developed a water - splitting photocatalyst that is operable over a wider range of the visible light spectrum thanresearch group led by Chengsi Pan, Postdoctoral Researcher, and Tsuyoshi Takata, NIMS Special Researcher, at the Global Research Center for Environment and Energy Based on Nanomaterials Science (GREEN; Director - General: Kohei Uosaki) of the National Institute for Materials Science (NIMS; President: Sukekatsu Ushioda), and Kazunari Domen, a professor of the Department of Chemical System Engineering, School of Engineering, The University of Tokyo (President: Junichi Hamada) newly developed a water - splitting photocatalyst that is operable over a wider range of the visible light spectrum thanResearch Center for Environment and Energy Based on Nanomaterials Science (GREEN; Director - General: Kohei Uosaki) of the National Institute for Materials Science (NIMS; President: Sukekatsu Ushioda), and Kazunari Domen, a professor of the Department of Chemical System Engineering, School of Engineering, The University of Tokyo (President: Junichi Hamada) newly developed a water - splitting photocatalyst that is operable over a wider range of the visible light spectrum than before.

While pursuing her project on how environmental contaminants and oxidative stress cause lung cancer, Gelhaus complemented her postdoctoral training by spending some time with other PIs at Penn. «She has worked hard to develop skills that are independent of those available in my own laboratory while working on a project that is central to my research program,» Blair writes in an e-mail to Science Careers.

- The Wellcome Trust - Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) Postdoctoral Fellowships to support research at the interfaces between biology, medicine, mathematics, engineering, computer, and physical or chemical sciences and other biomedical science grants

«Both the mosquitos that transmit Zika and the virus itself are climate - sensitive,» said co-author Ángel Muñoz, a postdoctoral research associate in atmospheric and oceanic science at Princeton University, in an email.

To get a sense of what the changing job market looks like from the ground, Science Careers surveyed dozens of scientists who did their Ph.D. or postdoctoral research in Barrett's lab.

Co-authors of the paper are Rice graduate students Huilong Fei and Gonglan Ye, postdoctoral researcher Nam Dong Kim, alumni Errol Samuel and Zhiwei Peng, and Pulickel Ajayan, chair of the Department of Materials Science and NanoEngineering, the Benjamin M. and Mary Greenwood Anderson Professor in Engineering and a professor of chemistry at Rice; Juncai Dong and Dongliang Chen of the Beijing Synchrotron Radiation Facility at the Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing; research associate M. Josefina Arellano - Jiménez and José Yacamán, chairman of the Department of Physics, at the University of Texas at San Antonio; and graduate students Zhuan Zhu and Fan Qin and Jiming Bao, an associate professor of electrical and computer engineering, at the University of Houston.

In addition to Vogel and Aizenberg, the research team included: Rebecca A. Belisle, a former Wyss research assistant who is now a graduate student in Materials Science and Engineering at Stanford University; Benjamin Hatton, Ph.D., formerly a Technology Development fellow at the the Wyss Institute and a research appointee at SEAS who is now an assistant professor of materials science and engineering at the University of Toronto; and Tak - Sing Wong, Ph.D., a former postdoctoral research fellow at the Wyss Institute who is now an Assistant Professor of Mechanical and Nuclear Engineering at Penn State UnivScience and Engineering at Stanford University; Benjamin Hatton, Ph.D., formerly a Technology Development fellow at the the Wyss Institute and a research appointee at SEAS who is now an assistant professor of materials science and engineering at the University of Toronto; and Tak - Sing Wong, Ph.D., a former postdoctoral research fellow at the Wyss Institute who is now an Assistant Professor of Mechanical and Nuclear Engineering at Penn State Univscience and engineering at the University of Toronto; and Tak - Sing Wong, Ph.D., a former postdoctoral research fellow at the Wyss Institute who is now an Assistant Professor of Mechanical and Nuclear Engineering at Penn State University.

«When we look for manuscript editors we like to appoint people who have a Ph.D. in an appropriate subject, plus postdoctoral experience and a good publications record, and a wide interest in scientific areas beyond their immediate research,» writes Science International Managing Editor Andrew Sugden in an e-mail.

The postdoc appointment is one such illustration: «Although the concept of postdoctoral researchers is well understood, there is considerable variability in job titles and in the practical organization of this stage in Europe,» according to the 2010 European Science Foundation (ESF) Report, «Research Careers in Europe: Landscape and Horizons» (http://scim.ag/qrFZHZ).

The first author of the Science paper is Laura Gaydos, a graduate student in Strome's lab at UC Santa Cruz who led the study for her Ph.D. thesis and is now a postdoctoral researcher at Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center in Seattle.

«This material could be used to help stabilize temperature,» said study co-lead author Fan Yang, a postdoctoral researcher at Berkeley Lab's Molecular Foundry, a DOE Office of Science User Facility where some of the research was done.

«Given that 50 percent of the world's population currently lives in cities, and that percentage is projected to increase to 70 percent by year 2050, there is a pressing need to understand how cities and landscapes are affected by heat waves,» said Lei Zhao, a postdoctoral research associate at Princeton's Program in Science, Technology, and Environmental Policy (STEP), which is based at the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs.

Overall, the report found that anywhere from 15 % to 33 % of science Ph.D. s ended up in traditional postdoctoral research positions, depending on the discipline.

Neunuebel earned his doctorate in neuroscience at the University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston and a postdoctoral fellowship at Howard Hughes Medical Institute at Janelia Research Campus.

It was funded by the National Science Foundation Postdoctoral Research Fellowship in Biological Informatics.

Support for the work came from a NASA Jack Eddy postdoctoral fellowship for Dong through the Princeton Center for Heliophysics, led by Prof. Amitava Bhattacharjee, head of the PPPL Theory Department who serves as Dong's postdoctoral advisor, and the Max Planck - Princeton Research Center for Plasma Physics, jointly financed by the DOE Office of Science and the National Science Foundation.

Description: Supports graduate students and postdoctoral fellows conducting research in the natural sciences at a German university or research institute.

Support for the seminar series, including refreshments and travel, lodging, and honorarium gifts for the speakers, is provided by the Alabama National Science Foundation Experimental Program to Stimulate Competitive Research (EPSCoR) and Oak Ridge Associated Universities Visiting Industrial Scholars ProgramThe UAB Graduate Student Association, the UAB Graduate School, and the UAB Office of Postdoctoral Studies currently support special activities such as Career Day.

Other than the need to improve the postdoctoral experience of many of the 52,000 postdocs across the U.S., Maxine Singer, chair of the Committee on Science, Engineering, and Public Policy (COSEPUP), which wrote the report, believes if the U.S. is to develop «a healthy research enterprise» then postdoctoral employment conditions must be «significantly improved.»

Besides learning research techniques and problem - solving skills, students can use the time to chat with graduate students, postdoctoral researchers, and faculty about science and scientific careers.

The National Science Board — one of the pillars of the academic research establishment — has just released a report entitled» The Federal Role in Science and Engineering Graduate and Postdoctoral Education.»

NC Biotech itself runs a summer research program for undergraduates, a two - year postdoctoral program for Ph.D.'s considering a career in industry, and even a series of workshops on biotech - related science for junior high and high school teachers.

For doctoral students studying science, technology, engineering and mathematics, landing a job as a research - oriented college or university faculty member typically requires having spent time as a postdoctoral researcher.

Additional coauthors are Evelyn J. Park» 13, a SEAS research fellow in materials science and engineering, and Panagiotis Polygerinos, a postdoctoral fellow in the Harvard Biodesign Lab at SEAS and the Wyss Institute.

Co-authors are former Rice postdoctoral researcher Tharangattu Narayanan, now at the CSIR - Central Electrochemical Research Institute, Karaikundi, India; Chandra Sekhar Tiwary, who has a research appointment at Rice and is a scientist at the Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, India; and Rice alumna Karen Lozano, a professor of mechanical engineering, and Mircea Chipara, an assistant professor of physics and geology, both of the University of Texas Pan American, EdinburgResearch Institute, Karaikundi, India; Chandra Sekhar Tiwary, who has a research appointment at Rice and is a scientist at the Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, India; and Rice alumna Karen Lozano, a professor of mechanical engineering, and Mircea Chipara, an assistant professor of physics and geology, both of the University of Texas Pan American, Edinburgresearch appointment at Rice and is a scientist at the Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, India; and Rice alumna Karen Lozano, a professor of mechanical engineering, and Mircea Chipara, an assistant professor of physics and geology, both of the University of Texas Pan American, Edinburg, Texas.

Other Stanford authors of the study are research assistants Charles Lynch, Katherine Cheng, Paola Odriozola and Maria Barth; Jennifer Phillips, PhD, clinical associate professor of psychiatry and behavioral sciences and co-director of the Autism and Developmental Disabilities Clinic at Lucile Packard Children's Hospital Stanford; Carl Feinstein, MD, professor emeritus of psychiatry and behavioral sciences; and Daniel Abrams, PhD, postdoctoral scholar.

In the United States, scientists and engineers at the undergraduate, graduate, and postdoctoral levels are offered a range of educational opportunities at the University of California campuses in Berkeley and San Francisco, Stanford University, Harvard University, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and the California Institute for Quantitative Biosciences; all these institutions have partnered with the National Science Foundation to create the Synthetic Biology Engineering Research Center.

That the Parliament recognises that contract research staff in Scotland's universities and research institutes are one of the most significant assets in Scotland's knowledge economy; notes that more than 90 % of such staff are employed on insecure fixed term contracts, resulting in a systematic failure to properly exploit our science and social science base to the benefit of the Scottish economy and society; further notes that this highly educated human resource, comprising graduate, postgraduate and postdoctoral level workers, is subject to constant wastage, to the detriment of Scotland's universities and economic potential; and believes that the Scottish Executive should act with clarity, urgency and determination to secure a complete overhaul of the management of the contract research workforce with a view to eliminating the current insecurity and wastage and establishing a radical new approach in partnership with higher education employers and representatives of the research staff.

U.S. science and engineering research depends increasingly on the efforts of postdoctoral scholars.

Lead author William Taylor, a postdoctoral research fellow at the Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History, says that this model «enables us for the first time to link horse use with other important cultural developments in ancient Mongolia and eastern Eurasia, and evaluate the role of climate and environmental change in the local origins of horse riding.»

Dr. Michael Kilgard, associate director of the Texas Biomedical Device Center (TxBDC) and Margaret Forde Jonsson Professor of Neuroscience in the School of Behavioral and Brain Sciences, led the research team with Dr. Seth Hays, the TxBDC director of preclinical research and assistant professor of bioengineering in the Erik Jonsson School of Engineering and Computer Science, and postdoctoral researcher Eric Meyers PhD» 17.

Following release of a report by the National Academies of Science Committee on Science, Engineering, and Public Policy (COSEPUP) entitled «Enhancing the Postdoctoral Experience for Scientists and Engineers», Vice Provost for Graduate Studies and Research Linda Dykstra created a Postdoctoral Committee chaired by Sharon Milgram, an associate professor in the department of cell and molecular physiology.