Sentences with phrase «at research universities»

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

This is reflected as well by the recent finding by Courant and Turner that faculty salaries at research universities are determined primarily by research performance and the reputation that comes with it.

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 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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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.

In only a small number of exceptional cases, it appears, do Ph.D. researchers without elite academic pedigrees end up in full - fledged faculty jobs at research universities.

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

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.

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.»

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.

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?»

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

These partnerships provide an example of reciprocal mentoring, in which graduate students learn the complexities involved in being a successful faculty member at a Research I university.

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

Not exact matches

Not - for - profit organisations are at risk of failure as they struggle to upskill staff, according to research from the University of Western Australia.

Richard J. Reddick is an associate professor of educational leadership and policy at the University of Texas at Austin, where he also holds courtesy appointments in the Department of African and African Diaspora Studies, the Institute for Urban Policy Research and Analysis, and the Warfield Center for African and African American Studies.

«We hope that when we're talking to this disembodied assistant that we have the same amount of privacy as we would if we were hiring our own personal assistant,» says Christopher Parsons, research associate at the University of Toronto's Citizen Lab.

Yet, while Shelley Hwang, chief of breast surgery at Duke Cancer Institute and vice chair of research at Duke University's Department of Surgery, agrees in principle, she also has concerns about all the new diagnostic potential that will come with precision medicine.

While practicing medicine at Stanford University, he won the American Academy of Neurological Surgery's highest award for research.

Pollack is a research associate at the Center for Hyperbaric Medicine and Environmental Physiology at Duke University Medical Center, and the research director for the Divers Alert Network, a nonprofit organization that helps divers in medical emergencies and promotes dive safety.

«We're in a serious jam,» says Gerry Wright, director of the Michael DeGroote Institute for Infectious Disease Research at McMaster University.

Recent research from the Department of Biological and Clinical Psychology at Friedrich Schiller University in Germany found that exposure to stimuli that cause strong negative emotions - the same kind of exposure you get when dealing with toxic people - caused subjects» brains to have a massive stress response.

The company dished out another $ 7 million this year for cancer research at the University of Toronto Mississauga campus.

«The approach they're taking is ingenious,» says neuroengineer Jacob Robinson at Rice University, who did not take part in this research.

Recent research from the Department of Biological and Clinical Psychology at Friedrich Schiller University in Germany found that exposure to stimuli that cause strong negative emotions — the same kind of exposure you get when dealing with difficult people — caused subjects» brains to have a massive stress response.

«Ontario's No. 1 industry is the manufacturing of cars and car parts,» says Peter Purslow, the associate dean of research and innovation at the University of Guelph's Agricultural College, one of the institutions involved with the project.

It could be something as simple as saying «I'm going to respond to the email at the middle of my inbox to start with,» or if you're a teacher, «I'm choosing to grade these papers because grading these papers would help my university earn money, and that money helps me do cancer research.»

In 1978, 14 - year - old Ayyadurai built an electronic messaging platform that he based off the internal communication system at the University of Medicine and Dentistry in Newark, N.J., where he was a research fellow.

Karl Moore, a management professor at McGill University who has conducted research on CEOs and introversion, has written that introverts tend to be better listeners.

The research — conducted by the University of Luxembourg, the University of Illinois at Urbana - Champaign and The Free University of Berlin — analyzed data from 745 children in Luxembourg from 1968 to 2008.

Research conducted at Sam Houston State University in Huntsville, Texas, found that study participants asked to complete a survey were significantly more likely to do so if the survey included a Post-it note with a handwritten message asking for their help, akin to a favor.

«The location provides resources for you as an entrepreneur,» says Zeke Hernandez, an assistant professor of management at the University of Pennsylvania's Wharton school, where his research centers on entering global markets.

The study was presented recently at the 2014 Babson College Entrepreneurship Research Conference at Western University's Ivey Business School in London, Ont., which set out to uncover the factors that «influence variance in entrepreneurial orientation» — risk - taking, innovativeness, pro-activeness — among family firms.

While proponents often suggest simply concentrating on your breathing as a good way to do it, research conducted at the University of Wisconsin - Madison has found that actually counting your breaths is a good way to measure mindfulness.