Sentences with phrase «at a research university»

They often teach more courses in a single year than faculty members at research universities teach before standing for tenure.

She expects her work to be more challenging than it would be at a research university in a country with a richer scientific tradition, but the environment suits her.

And consider this: Almost all the serious candidates for a faculty job at a research university will be emphasizing research accomplishments.

By my fifth year of graduate school, it became clear to me that I had no desire to be a research scientist at a research university for the rest of my life.

As professors at a research university close to these schools, we helped them rethink school structures and bolster the instructional techniques that made this transformation possible.

Still, it may take a culture change before dad - scientists are acknowledged as and encouraged to be equal parents, especially at research universities.

Even at research universities, teaching is valued more than many applicants realize.

You need a network of colleagues to make up for the stimulation postdocs and advanced students provide for your peers at research universities.

The profile of new faculty members hired by physics departments at primarily undergraduate institutions is very different than at research university departments.

So I did the natural thing one does at a research university: I signed up to be a guinea pig for neuroscience experiments.

The strong U.S. economy and the dynamism of many fields of biomedicine, in both academic and industrial arenas, combined with a tight market for tenure - track positions at research universities in the United States, have led to a somewhat paradoxical situation.

On the other hand, students at historically black liberal arts colleges often work at research universities during the summer, Hammonds says, so she isn't sure how large an effect small colleges have.

If you need significant knowledge transfer for advanced technology development, incubators at research universities are probably your best bet.

Scientists at research universities in several Chilean cities are reeling from last week's earthquake, which overturned microscopes, set fire to laboratories, washed years of research out to sea, and took the life of a young marine biologist.

The decade - old Freshman Research Initiative (FRI) in UT Austin's College of Natural Sciences puts first - and second - year undergraduate students in faculty - led labs, a model that is unconventional at research universities.

Those inventions were discovered at research universities or government laboratories, which were funded by «you - the taxpayer,» Rawlings said.

If you plan on winning tenure in a biomedical field at a research university, you had better plan on winning an R01 research grant from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) first; it's practically a necessary credential.

For example, the faculty handbook at a research university might read, «Probationary faculty are expected to spend 65 % to 75 % of their time on research activities and the remaining 25 % to 35 % on teaching activities.»

To be more specific, postdocs are counseled to expect a tenure - track faculty position at a research university if they do «all the right things.»

Immigration officials contacted by Next Wave at the University of Washington, Princeton, and Duke all agreed that the lifting of the quotas will be a boon to graduate education and postdoc training at the research universities.

«[T] enure - track is not an accurate description of many academic faculty appointments in the biomedical sciences at research universities,» the authors write.

But Gates warned against complacency, and noted a 2012 report by PCAST that identified opportunities for the United States to keep its edge in innovation, including boosting of R&D expenditures moderately to 3.0 % of GDP, making the R&D tax credit permanent, streamlining federal regulations that decrease productivity at research universities, and adopting «best practices» to improve undergraduate education in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics.

It might be a university professorship, but probably not, at least not at a Research I university.

Ask any scientist, particularly at a Research I university, about community college students doing research, and you will probably get a quizzical look and a response such as «Do community college students do research?»

Weisshaar tracked the careers and productivity of scholars who were assistant professors of computer science, sociology, and English at research universities between 2000 and 2004.

She says women at research universities aren't successfully negotiating for the things that would help them succeed in research, such as a lower teaching load, lab space, funding, and other resources.

The first objective should be to demonstrate a real commitment to teaching, and this is at least as important at research universities as it is at teaching - oriented colleges like the one I work at.

She has taught at Stony Brook University in the Department of Physics and Astronomy and served as the Assistant Director of the Reinvention Center, a national center focused on enhancing undergraduate education at research universities.

UC Davis Chancellor Linda P.B. Katehi praised the project as «further empowering a dynamic educational experience at this research university.»

Add research on to such a load, especially when you are competing with folk at the research universities for funding, and the workload avalanches.

In 2006, underrepresented minorities accounted for fewer than 10 % of the science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) faculty members at research universities in the United States; they make up 28.5 % of the general population.

The scientists assembled at the two meetings heard data that is incontrovertible and a take - home lesson that could hardly be clearer: There are not now, nor will there ever be, enough tenure - track jobs at research universities for all who want them.

(I am an assistant professor at a research university.)

Until recently, Keren had assumed she'd pursue a postdoctoral position, work hard, and eventually land a tenure - track position at a research university.

According to the results of the survey, 74.9 % of PhD candidates — almost all of them working at research universities or institutes — have employment contracts that include social security contributions.

In 1997, women represented 39 % (3200) of the 8300 S&E faculty members with doctorates at 2 - year colleges (where, incidentally, they are often adjuncts), but only 21 % (30,300) of the 142,800 faculty members with doctorates at 4 - year institutions; at research universities in 1995 women held only 19 % (19,200) of 101,300 faculty positions among all scientists with doctorates (NSF, 2000).

At others, professors teach just three courses per year and have research resources — and tenure requirements — comparable to those at some research universities.

Some, like Jacqueline Crisman, started out as faculty members at research universities.

The ostensible goal of that arduous and anxiety - fraught procedure — and of the even more involved process of hiring and promoting faculty members at research universities — is to identify the next generation of productive scientists.

There's a bias implicit in doctoral training, arising from the fact that almost everyone earns their graduate degree, and does at least one postdoc, at a research university.

He began his doctoral program at Tulane University in New Orleans, Louisiana, with the aim of becoming a professor at a research university, but eventually realized he didn't like the idea of devoting his whole career to research.

In playing with the numbers — see below — it quickly becomes apparent that, measured in this way, PI - ship is a much easier thing to achieve than, say, a faculty position at a research university — which only a small fraction (perhaps 20 %) of all Ph.D. scientists ever achieve.

On the academic side, if you want to be on the faculty at a Research I university, you'll most likely need a fabulous postdoc in a well respected lab for however many years, some plum publications, plenty of grant - writing practice, and contacts with the big - wigs in your field.

We would like to invite Drugco to participate in the Third Annual Science and Career Fair on April 28, 2010 at Research University, 1 Science Drive, Jobville.

One young chemist with a Ph.D. from the University of California at Berkeley is beginning to feel that he's been cheated after following his wife to a job at a research university this academic year.

Teaching and service are an important part of university work and should be taken seriously, but for faculty hired in tenure - track positions at research universities, the lion's share of effort should be dedicated to getting good papers published in good journals and getting grants funded.

It's the mid-1980s, the David Baltimore - Thereza Imanishi - Kari scandal has not happened yet, and the great majority of postdocs can still look confidently forward to landing faculty jobs at research universities.