Postgraduate degrees aren't all
about academia and shimmying up the academic career ladder.
About Academia is the latest project by renowned artist Antoni Muntadas.
The Carpenter Center for Visual Arts presents Antoni Muntadas
About Academia, open through April 7, 2011.
After its premiere at the Carpenter Center for Visual Arts this Spring 2011,
About Academia will be exhibited at the Arizona State University Museum, in Tempe, AZ, and later at the American Academy in Rome.
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about academia, where talent is rewarded and protected?
If education was only
about academia, distance learning could be a more permanent fixture in schools, especially post 16.
Grad students and postdocs generally «think they know a lot
about academia, and I think to a large extent they're right,» Sauermann tells Science Careers in an interview.
But in the overly busy mode that most researchers operate in, I found I was feeling less bullish
about academia as I knew it and increasingly uncertain it was the right fit.
To help my students understand varying perspectives
about academia, I invite scientists and graduate students to talk about their experiences and goals.
You provided no source, so any person who knows anything
about academia will regard what you said at speculative assertions.
A common complaint
about academia is its lack of real - world application.
Not exact matches
This year — with some of the more influential minds within the industry, state and federal government, and
academia all gathered on his back patio — Jenkins wants to do more than just talk
about what can be done.
If you're an individual contemplating jumping to a start - up from
academia or a big corporation, the takeaway is probably simpler but scarier — you need to think really carefully
about whether you can handle the kind of environment where there is no pre-scripted path to success.
On a fundamental level, scientists in both
academia and industry must change some of our attitudes
about data.
I talk a lot
about our cluster strategy and how we want companies to work closely with government,
academia and civil society and create these super-clusters, or collaborative environments where we can work together and share ideas.
About 20 years ago when he was working at Bell Labs (now AT&T's Image Processing Research Department), he happened upon a way of thinking about teaching computers to see that wasn't really used outside of academia until about three years
About 20 years ago when he was working at Bell Labs (now AT&T's Image Processing Research Department), he happened upon a way of thinking
about teaching computers to see that wasn't really used outside of academia until about three years
about teaching computers to see that wasn't really used outside of
academia until
about three years
about three years ago.
Additionally, Buenos Aires has introduced
Academia Buenos Aires Emprende, an initiative to educate citizens
about enterprise and business building, demonstrating a desire to promote and enrich the startup ecosystem, not only for local residents but also as a symbol for Latin America and the global startup scene.
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academia or the media.
So if you're in
academia studying Babylonian cuneiform, you certainly read
about debt.
In this podcast Simon King talks to Peter
about his journey to working in Venture Capital from a background in physical sciences and
academia, via Africa.
This will include discussions between financial institutions,
academia, technology start - ups and business incubators
about challenges and opportunities the sector faces and ways to address them.
Jacoby's occasion for recycling this tired truism is David Gelernter's new book, America - Lite: How Imperial
Academia Dismantled Our Culture (and Ushered in the Obamacrats), which he thinks is short on arguments and full of shrill right - wing clichés
about tenured radicals and rootless intellectuals.
atheists / deists / evolutionists always want to cut off criticism or debate
about their senseless myth just as they continue to do so in
academia.
Don't get me wrong, I loved
academia — I was converted at Cambridge University, and then became a historian — and I loved learning
about theology.
The anti-christian sentiment permeates the media, hollywood,
academia, just
about all major spheres of influence.
I suggest that Flanders contact Shelby Steele for an opinion
about the true price of criticizing the liberal consensus in
academia.
They're good people who are bringing a lot of the conversations
about egalitarianism to the people outside of
academia.
Both agreed that traditional Protestantism was intellectually reactionary, and within only
about fifty years, they effected a remarkable revolution that eliminated most traditional Christian views from respectable
academia.
She sounds like a typical conservative critic of modern
academia, except that she's complaining
about this kind of thing in scholarly books on sexual «kink,» particularly bondage and sadomasochism.
Clubs surveyed by SI expressed support of the Americanization of the business and guarded optimism
about La
Academia.
However,
academia (in biology anyway) seems to be relatively unique among advanced degrees where we basically never talk
about work outside of work so conversation is usually pretty light.
However,
about seven years ago, when I found myself miserable in
academia and my priorities changed with baby Laurel in our lives and my dad's health plunging rapidly, my dreams had clearly shifted.
She spent a decade in
academia and was
about to become a professor when she decided to hang up her academic spurs in favor of more flexible and independent ventures.
Indeed, ideologies are a special type of political thought [full disclosure, your author writes
about ideologies too]-- ubiquitous in the political (and
academia) according to Freeden — that are characterised as collections of de-contested concepts (what is community?
He's currently writing
about the history of academic publishing and different conceptions of ownership and evaluation in
academia.
Hochul was joined at the Hillside Family of Agencies by a host of local leaders from government,
academia and area non-profit organizations to talk
about the new task force.
Although the Cuomo administration said these companies ultimately have pledged to create a few thousand jobs, Zemsky noted the program is also
about connecting
academia to the workforce.
Students from
Academia Avance in Los Angeles, California, traveled to Hoosick Falls as part of their senior project
about communities impacted by water contamination.
Moving on to some of the points you made
about getting into industry... I have found that the work assets we desire (besides money) can be found in all kinds of work environments, not just strict
academia.
Industry doesn't care
about what you did in the past in
Academia.
Perhaps you've decided not to pursue a career in
academia, but you're not sure
about jumping into an industry job, either.
Whether you are thinking
about starting a career in
academia, you have just started, or you have been at it for a long time, here are the 10 best pieces of advice that were given to me — in no specific order — to have a truly enjoyable, fulfilling, and successful academic life.
Remember that
academia is in a period of rapid change, so be sure to ask them
about how they see their careers developing.
I also gave this tip in my blog
about 10 pieces of advice for a successful and rewarding career in
academia.
Learn
about career opportunities in
academia, nonprofit, government, and the private sector at the fellows» career summit and via a fellows» career listserv.
I could not agree more with you
about frustrations with
academia, although in fairness, it has its up - sides.
And actually in
academia, you know, there are — I don't think there's one really good academic journal in China, for example, because it's so corrupt right now and so, you know, whether without a, you know, free flow of information exchange of ideas, if everyone is always being careful
about what they say, you know, in a kind of environment like that really faster innovation, real research and development, China hasn't been able to show that yet.
If you're looking for an excellent blog
about science and
academia, look no further.
Sarah Bridle is concerned
about the low number of women in
academia in physics and astronomy beyond the Ph.D. level.
Industrial postdocs often provide higher salaries and greater access to resources than in
academia, but how do you find out
about available positions and whether they are a good fit for you?