What happened in the 2 weeks between the end of graduate school and my first
days as a postdoc?
Not exact matches
That can cause mix - ups, such
as the
day at Berkeley when «you have the fire drill in the building, and the
postdoc breaks his ankle.
Her concern «was compounded by my leaving the country,
as once your examiners report comes in you only have a limited time... to make the changes, otherwise your thesis has to be re-examined,» continues Hansen, who received a passing notification with minor revisions the
day after she arrived in the United Kingdom to begin her
postdoc.
As happened during the glory
days of those other famed institutions, Rubin foresees lab chiefs joining
postdocs, grad students, and staff scientists at the bench, unhampered by the need to teach, see to administrative tasks, or write proposals.
In late 1992,
as the end of my graduate
days was looming, I considered doing a short spell in journalism before going abroad for a
postdoc fellowship.
Rather than accruing leave
days for each pay period,
postdocs receive each year's leave
as a lump sum on 1 January and may use it, subject to their PI's approval, during the next 12 months.
Their average age is 34.6 years, and on average they spent just 5 years
as postdocs — interesting statistics for anyone who believes that finding an independent position is impossible these
days.
But the notion of forward - looking career planning and intentional information gathering is foreign to many
postdocs, who,
as one audience member put it, will spend weeks designing an experiment and
days tracking down a particular article, but no time at all mapping out a strategy for their own futures.
Grant funding has allowed Long to hire Porter
as a
postdoc and Nick Livingston, a master's degree level engineer (and Ken's son) to run the
day - to -
day operations of the Fish Fellows program and the robotics laboratory.
Quality of life
as a whole was really important to him, so much so that he declined an offer from a renowned professor who was expecting his
postdocs to work 7 -
day weeks.
«One
day» for Yanqi Ye could mean continuing her research
as a
postdoc or in an industrial lab to translate the technology for human medicine.
It was a full
day of events, attended by 165 participants including faculty, lab members,
postdocs, current and incoming graduate students,
as well
as administrative staff from the Division and the Center.
We posted an update
as of Nov 10, and in the intervening 10
days, with 10
days to go, we further summarize information gathered for the FLSA and
postdocs resource in this blogpost up to November 20th.