Sentences with phrase «young scientists need»

The workshops aim to give young scientists the skills they need to run labs efficiently, manage research projects, and turn scientific discoveries into financial profit — in short, skills young scientists need to survive in a science world in which business and management skills become more important with each passing year.

Summarizing these sessions, Campbell Warden of the European Association of Research Managers and Administrators said that young scientists need to hone «portable skills» such as financial literacy and communication skills that will serve them in any field.

But although most people acknowledge that young scientists need to learn more during their training than the highly specific expertise acquired during their PhD studies, there is a widespread uncertainty about what those additional skills should be — and, more importantly, how young scientists might acquire them.

«To compete in the current academic system, young scientists need to be strategic in where they send their work, so as long as Registered Reports are offered only within specialist journals it places a ceiling on their desirability,» Chambers writes in his email.

In other words, those damn young scientists need to get off their lawn, and no, they're not getting their Frisbee back.

From the outset, we wanted to cover all the important nonscience skills that young scientists need to acquire to be productive and successful.

To avoid the postdoc trap, young scientists need to be aware of the state of their career progression in academia, and they need to keep an open mind to the myriad of other sectors where they can also apply their skills and find highly rewarding careers.

Interested young scientists need to be skilled at working with numbers for big population surveys, as well as to have strong writing and communication skills, the latter «because [nutrition] is so publicly popular,» Lennox says.

Not exact matches

At first glance, Intelligent Design seems to offer hope: While eschewing the Young Earth theory of creationism, it acknowledges the need, deeply embedded in scientists and theologians alike, to recognize final cause, or telos, in the created universe.

«We need our young people today to embrace science enthusiastically, to realise that challenges like climate change can only be beaten by motivated and dedicated scientists,» he told the Royal Society in Oxford this morning.

New funding approaches allowing greater attention to young scientists» career needs are clearly a pressing need — and collaborations among academia, government, and industry offer appealing potential for exploring novel mutually beneficial options.

Should the old bait - and - switch or any intrinsic allure that graduate and postdoc research may hold no longer work, universities will still need to lure able young scientists to labor in their labs.

«Most young scientists are more cautious than that, which explains why we needed someone like Nenad to get the project under way.»

«There is a need for aligning young scientists» skills with the responsibilities and diversified tasks on the next level and helping them to acquire knowledge, techniques and procedures that help them to be globally competitive.»

Often enterprises only place advertisements when they are searching for people with a very particular set of skills, so young scientists just need the courage to send in a CV.

Basic conditions at universities, such as the mentoring of students and young scientists, have to support this effort and need to be improved for both Germans and non-Germans.

The discussion of national S&T workforce policy needs to include the voices of young scientists.

Young scientists also are much more familiar with the idea that their work needs protection, especially with all the collaborations going on between academics and industry.

Brenner recognizes the imperative to address the career needs of today's young scientists.

Because I have always enjoyed giving advice to younger scientists about the skills they need to develop to become successful, I can honestly say that Science's Next Wave and AAAS have given me my dream job.

From its inception, the Career Development Center for Postdocs and Junior Faculty (CDC) has aimed to fill this deficit by educating young researchers in the large body of nonscience knowledge that young academic scientists need to advance their careers and the research infrastructure of the United States.

Lemaire partly attributes this to young scientists falling into the trap of always feeling they need more experience to compete.

Young scientists, says Copes, need to have an open mind about their futures.

It is not clear why infection in some birds can affect others, but scientists suggest it may affect adults» ability to nurture their young, or that infected chicks may need more care.

To draw the best young minds to research and then keep them here, we need to change how we train scientists and how academic science gets done.

We need to adopt new ideas and system reforms to cater to the demands of this evolving world, especially in a country like Japan where we experience many dynamic changes and challenges,» states Igarashi, who emphasizes the importance of maintaining R&D and science education funding to make research careers attractive to young clinicians and scientists in Japan and around the world.

As we train young scientists to think about the future applications of their work, we also need to train them in knowledge and technology transfer that is smart, deliberate, and effective.

Such training best prepares young scientists to fill specialist positions, such as technician, permanent postdoc, and staff scientist — not necessarily to perform all the tasks needed to conduct studies of their own and eventually become a PI.

«There are many young scientists who don't have a burning ambition or an inherent need to lead.

So, at long last it appears that at least some young scientists are listening not to the traditional blandishments of an academic system in need of their cheap labor, but rather to an unmistakable economic signal urging them to improve their personal situations by seeking careers outside of academe.

Then, it is important for all young scientists to develop a feel for what resources are needed for their research.

«Young scientists who wish to become independent need to be able to see the rewards down the line, set their minds on it, and go for it,» says Hochella.

In recent years, however, as the true nature of students» and postdocs» future opportunities has become too obvious to ignore, the disparity between what young scientists learn on campus and what they need to know in order to build their own professional futures has also become obvious enough to cause «widespread criticism and calls for reform,» the report says.

In service of that institutional need, academic culture has fostered the misleading narrative that graduate school and postdoc positions are solely intended to prepare young scientists for academic research careers rather than for a range of nonacademic and even nonresearch endeavors.

This leads to grants that may well meet the needs of young scientists within the country, but that hardly ever covers the actual costs for parents living abroad.

Some barriers still remain that will require political action — there is no equivalent to the American tenure system in Germany, which is a harsh limitation for the independence of young scientists, and the need for a further round of scientific qualification after the Ph.D., the so called habilitation, does not really stimulate didactic enthusiasm.

At the eve of the 21st century, discussions on the future of science and scientists show that there is a need for an interdisciplinary approach to problem solving, increased international cooperation, new forms of scientific training and career structures for young scientists, and increased participation of scientists in public affairs and public awareness of science.

Rather than further increasing the supply of scientists, they suggest, «we need to begin the transition to a laboratory staffing model that is capable of attracting and retaining our brightest young scientists.

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Given the current competitive climate for hiring and advancement, the panel agreed that young scientists who are not deeply passionate about their research need to reconsider their career choices.

Courses like these can help young scientists gain the basic toolset they need to start thinking about engineering biology in useful ways.

While the problem needs to be solved at the systemic level, there are things that young scientists can do, too.

The take - home message for young scientists is that they need to «[b] e prepared for intense levels of competition for posts in academia,» Phillips says.

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Over the next couple of weeks we will be inviting policy - makers, administrators, and representatives of young German scientists to share with you their opinions on what needs to be done to make the higher education system fit for the 21st century.

Global: The Future of Genetics — Career Opportunities for Young Scientists Southern - European Editor Elisabeth Pain peeks into the new career avenues the sequencing of the human genome has opened, in academia and industry, and finds out what skills are needed to work in this field.

«Our findings underscore the need for increased awareness and education about prevention and early detection and treatment of CVD in African American women and younger adults of low socioeconomic status,» said Samson Y. Gebreab, Ph.D., M.Sc., lead study author and research scientist at the National Human Genome Research Institute, Bethesda, Maryland.

And the participants advocated the need to prepare young scientists to be leaders in industry, in setting public policy, and in outreach to the public.

Savvy young scientists therefore need to know how to safeguard their consciences, their research, and their reputations.

Young R&D scientists need to have presentation skills, according to Wakefield, of Oxonica.