Amy created a comprehensive school counseling career curriculum for grades nine through twelve, which includes working with the tenth grade English teachers and school librarian to create a year - long
career research project.
Throughout the course there was build - up to the «big task» which turned out to be the setting up of
a career research project.
Not exact matches
Seeing a
career - defining opportunity, Breslow shelved other
projects and shifted money so he wouldn't have to ask for the $ 200,000 needed to
research and write the rules.
There is enough here for you to find a
career provided our pro tern political leaders will transform themselves into statesmen, encourage indigenous
research, inhibit consumerist hi - tech, and put your talent to developmental
projects based on appropriate technology, not multinational gluttony.
Talk about luck â $ «they provided us with a guide, their doctor wanted to have us over for lunch to talk about politics and our
careers and
research (my wife works in public health) and we saw a chiltepín nursery
project which was constructed to generate some income.
My previous
career had been based on
research, organization and
project management and when I applied those qualities to my pregnancies I felt much more at ease and prepared.
Max's
research interests focus on various questions in European politics; recent
projects have examined new parties in British politics, dissolution of legislatures in OECD countries, and the
careers and social behaviour of MPs.
Together with findings from her earlier
project «Situating Problem Gambling: The Social Context of «Gambling
Careers» is funded by the Economic and Social
Research Council.
As a second - year biology student at the Ecole Normale Supérieure (ENS) de Cachan in France, Cyrielle Barbot was planning on a
research career when she felt «the desire to have a
project among friends,» she says.
Better Recognition for Multidisciplinary
Research by Elisabeth Pain, 17 July 2014 Junior scientists who work on large collaborative
projects spanning several disciplines need to make sure they can illustrate their personal successes to support their
career advancement.
«To really develop a successful scientific
career, you need to embrace the time to think, to plan, to develop not just a
research project but a total
research program,» she says.
I'm still considering a
research career, but working in education, industry, or science communication is also a possibility, so I do these types of
projects to get experience.
As associate professor and first - author Johan Bollen writes in an e-mail to Science
Careers, they wanted their new system to «enable scientists to set their own priorities, fund scientists... not
projects, avoid proposal writing and reviewing, avoid administrative burdens, encourage all scientists to participate collectively in the definition of scientific priorities, encourage innovation, reward scientists that make significant contributions to data, software, methods, and systems, avoid funding death spirals (no funding - > no
research - > no funding) but still reward high levels of productivity, create the proper incentives for scholarly communication (publishing to communicate, not to improve bibliometrics), enable funding of daring and risky
research, and so on.»
Be aware that, just as
research careers in academia and industry are quite different, the type of Ph.D. sponsor you are working for will have a significant influence on your
project.
The Cyber Corps Program prepares students for a variety of cybersecurity
career trajectories, including
research, operations,
project management, and executive - level positions in the federal government.
There is an increasing trend toward multidisciplinary
research projects, and broadening your knowledge may give you a wider
career choice later on.
The workshop combined the presentation of
research findings from the MOBEX 2
project with a practical insight into European mobility and alternative
careers away from academic
research.
Australian microbial ecologist Jenny Skerrat writes about what it takes to do
research in Antarctica — from personal traits to
research project design — and the beneficial effect of the experience on her
career.
Many established researchers hiked the number of grants they receive and the number of scientists working in their labs, but newer investigators saw virtually no rise in funding through the
Research Project Grant Program (R01) grants considered crucial to establishing an independent scientific
career, Stephan found.
BMRC provides seed funding in the form of 3 - year
project grants for promising early -
career investigators to kick - start their
research careers, as well as more extensive program grants for established investigators to continue or expand on their existing
research.
NIH backing for
career training will have to not only inspire institutions to commit serious resources but also persuade potentially reluctant PIs to allow or even encourage postdocs to take time away from the bench for activities contributing to their own, rather than the lab's, advancement.If successful, however, this initiative could also focus PIs» attention on the fact that preparing postdocs for
careers — and not having them merely provide cheap labor for
research projects — is the most important reason for their presence in the nation's laboratories.
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.
Shiflett, who landed at KU following a 28 - year
career at DuPont working in process and product development, sees the
project as a way to engage undergraduate students on his
research team where «they can invent new products.»
At the time of his arrest, he was in what he calls a «very productive» phase of his
career, overseeing nine
research projects, including work for Temple's Energy Frontier Research Center, which is funded by the Department of
research projects, including work for Temple's Energy Frontier
Research Center, which is funded by the Department of
Research Center, which is funded by the Department of Energy.
His
career took an unexpected turn when one of his mentors noticed his that final - year
research project — a system to control heavy machinery from a distance by radio — «would be very useful during a nuclear meltdown.
A recent survey found that the larger the
research project team, the more it functions like a small factory, with implications for the training and
career prospects of young scientists
Almost 100 people in the U.K. have also benefited from the Daphne Jackson Fellowship, which provides training and
research projects to scientists returning to work after a
career break.
«Such an experience certainly wouldn't be negative when considering an academic
career, which nowadays and in our fields commonly involves strong collaborations with industry on
research projects.»
Center for Science, Technology and Innovation Indicators and Human Sciences
Research Council, March 2014 (South Africa workforce); Women in Science, UNESCO Institute for Statistics (gender); Leading the Way: Increasing the Diversity of the Science Workforce:
Project Two: Exploring the Impact of Socio - Economic Background on
Careers in Science, by TBR.
Type 2
projects, involve educational
research that closely examines factors that prompt undergraduates to drop out of the sciences, as well as factors that help them stay on to attain associate and bachelor's degrees in these disciplines, or otherwise to acquire more access to science and related
careers.
These schools included «early college» high schools with a STEM focus (that offered both college and high school credits to students); tech - savvy schools that relied entirely on
project - based learning (an instructional practice emphasizing student production of knowledge via
projects and
research); and
career / technical education high schools that prepared students for
careers such as agriculture or medicine through early experiences in those fields.
Yes, the
research bug bit me back then and that first «hands - on»
project helped define my
career trajectory for the next 13 years.
INSERM is hoping that a number of young scientists will decide to try their luck in France and seize the opportunity to develop an original
project, with a good deal of freedom at an early stage of their
research careers.
Another question asked participants to consider how their supervisor stacked up in that «advancement» category, including whether the supervisors discuss future
career options and allow postdocs to continue
research projects in their next post.
Brianna Blaser, outreach
project director at Science
Careers, said no matter the economy — but especially in the current tough environment — successful job - seekers know how to do two things well: stand out among the other applicants and explore
career options beyond the large
research universities.
Woolley says that «during that time, they are doing a substantial
research project, normally in the area they were in before their
career break.
Science
Careers Blog notes the latest twist in the April death of Michele Dufault, a physics and astronomy major at Yale University who was active in undergraduate
research projects.
Albright has had a long
career in defense policy and
research, including stints at the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) and the White House Office of Science and Technology
research, including stints at the Defense Advanced
Research Projects Agency (DARPA) and the White House Office of Science and Technology
Research Projects Agency (DARPA) and the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy.
Participating in industry - relevant
projects, which may be more advantageous from a
career advancement point of view than purely theoretical
research
Furthermore, the extremely competitive nature of the job, and of
research funding once they have the job, may be forcing early
career scientists to play it safe, choosing
research projects with a surer, shorter - term payoff instead of daring
projects that may not pay off big in the longer term.
In the structured Ph.D. program,
career - oriented skills training unrelated to the
research project, combined with serious attention to planning for the student's
career, should strengthen the focus on the student's prospects and progress.
For the majority of scientists who won't get tenure - track positions — and may not want them —
Research Universities states that the great need is to «better position new PhDs for the
careers they will have by providing more information about
career options and by providing opportunities to acquire, in addition to the knowledge of one's field, skills that are useful for academic positions (teaching, grant writing, publishing, presentations) and positions in government, business and non-profits (oral and written communication,
project management, regulatory compliance, business ethics and innovation.)»
The professional development sessions aimed at providing recipients with key information for advancing their
careers and implementing successful
research projects in the chemical sciences.
Being able to hold your own in a conversation on Wayne Rooney's or David Beckham's latest
career move may not seem an obvious prerequisite for a
career in clinical
research, but it is a skill that Emma Harding - Esch found invaluable in her work as
project coordinator for a trial in Gambia, west Africa.
Early -
career academic scientists are most likely to be interested in
research project grants, fellowships, and
career - development awards.
Early -
career academic scientists are most likely to be interested in
research project grants, fellowships, and
career development awards.
A: Whenever trainees take time off from their
research to pursue other
career avenues, or for personal reasons, they have to be aware that while I can guarantee that their job will be there when they come back, I can't also guarantee that the
project they were working on will still be there.
SAN JOSE, CALIFORNIA — 87 % of scientists believe they and their peers should take an active role in public policy debates, according to a Pew
Research Center report presented by Lee Rainie of the Pew Internet and American Life
Project during «Scientists Engaging with Reporters, the Public, and Social Media: Survey Findings,» a session yesterday at the annual meeting of AAAS, which publishes Science
Careers.
The policies governing NIH grants, contained in a document called Office of Management and Budget Circular A-21, do not include a broader impacts criterion, although PIs and postdocs each have a «dual role» as persons who are simultaneously both working on a specific
research project and giving or receiving training, says Walter Schaffer, NIH senior scientific adviser for extramural
research, in an interview with Science
Careers.
Research Fellowships are intended to help early career researchers to conduct a defined project at a location of their choice in a country other than Germany and to use it as an opportunity to familiarise themselves with new research methods or to bring a large project to a con
Research Fellowships are intended to help early
career researchers to conduct a defined
project at a location of their choice in a country other than Germany and to use it as an opportunity to familiarise themselves with new
research methods or to bring a large project to a con
research methods or to bring a large
project to a conclusion.