Helleday's diligence has been a big part of his success, but he also advises new managers not to try to be an overcommitted «superpostdoc» by trying too hard to
do lab science and science management.
Not exact matches
It is no coincidence that the school system in Finland, the darling of the international educational community for its superior test scores, is built on an experience - based model, where
science and math are taught through
doing, and
labs take precedence over textbooks.
«A lot of academia and national
labs are great at fundamental
science but don't know how to turn it into a product,» she says.
«It's really cool to have banks so forward - thinking,» says Josh Hill, a computer
science student
doing a co-op term at TD's
lab.
It was expected to be an academic presentation to show if Theranos Inc.'s controversial blood - testing technology worked, and perhaps explain the
science behind the claims that the startup could
do lab tests with a fraction of the blood and cost of traditional machines.
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I
do find a conflict between Intelligent Design and
Science, you can't have both in the
lab as you are looking for facts and not myths.
If you want to believe some ancient religious books that say otherwise, go ahead, but don't bring it to the
lab where
science is taking place.
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Do you also not think that plate tectonics is valid
science since you can't mash up South America and Africa in a
lab?
«We found that children in the first, second and third grades who sing these songs demonstrate skills absent in children who don't take part in similar activities,» explains Dr. Idit Sulkin a member of BGU's Music
Science Lab in the Department of the Arts.
For instance, some of the students in the computer
science lab did the brick for the building by printing sheets of brick design that was glued to the boards for the walls.
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I was advised to go to a mouse
lab and
do more hardcore
science.
«Because of the changing nature of the relationship between
science and society, there are increasing calls for scientists to become more engaged and to realize responsibilities beyond what they
do in the
lab,» Frankel said.
Trained to
do chemistry and atmospheric
sciences research, Knighton weathered the 1999 recession by branching out from his
lab to work part - time on a MSU program called «BOREALIS,» funded by NASA to promote
science education.
My
lab (s) at NIH
did science outreach during the summer and I was always amazed at the quality of the students.
«It is a unique environment to
do science in,» says Sean Paling, head of the
lab.
She wasn't forming policy, but «it was a way of promoting
science, more than I could
do with my own
lab.»
When it comes to choosing a postdoc
lab, «we should not restrict our view to the
science that is being
done in the States,» suggests Francesc Posas.
Do I regret leaving
lab - based
science for an office job?
M.I.T.'s Laboratory for Computer
Science is developing a new infrastructure for information technologies — the Oxygen system — that promises to realize a vision long held by the
lab's director: helping people
do more by
doing less
I had washed enough sequencing plates and poured enough gels to last me a lifetime; it wasn't
science that I was tired of but the actual practical
lab work, and this was not an easy thing to explain to people who didn't have firsthand experience of it.
What we are trying to
do with the SuperSTEM project is to get beyond research
done with «my instrument in my
lab» to a more collaborative «big
science» approach that shares information and resources.
In addition, there's the
lab member who «strongly believes that women
do not belong in
science because [they] lack the balls to actually
do science.»
«From people at UT - D, Big Bend National Park, Bell Helicopter, the Smithsonian Institution, the Vertebrate Paleontology
Lab at UT - Austin, the dedicated staff and volunteers at the Perot Museum, and other paleontologists who offered advice and insight about these animals, so many people contributed to getting the
science done and the information out there for the world to see.»
Skop's parents didn't know much about
science, she says, but adds: «They knew that if I got a work study in a
science lab, it would lead to something.»
The fundamental unity of
science training and
science scholarship
does not relieve research scientists — their
labs teeming with graduate students and postdocs supported by stipends paid from research grants — or their host institutions, or the funding organizations, of the responsibility to take training the next generation of scientists very, very seriously.
You don't need beakers, a
lab coat, or funny glasses to
do science.
«If you're in a
lab with a lot of successful people, see how the
science is
done at a more advanced level.
To get a sense of what the changing job market looks like from the ground,
Science Careers surveyed dozens of scientists who
did their Ph.D. or postdoctoral research in Barrett's
lab.
I don't want to stay at the
lab bench, but I love my
science education and would never want to lose touch completely.
• In News Focus, Robert Service writes about a relatively new scientific discipline (or, if you prefer, a new
science career path): lone investigators, like Stanford University's Atul Butte, who
do «dry
lab» biology working on big - data problems with publically available data.
Some of those jobs involve
doing serious
science in research
labs and other facilities, where technicians often play important roles.
Regardless of location, funds, resources, personality, and all the other variables that go into making up a
lab culture, however, «In
science, if you don't work hard, it is unlikely you are going to be successful,» Doetsch says.
«Having worked in a
lab really
did help me because I was comfortable with the
science,» Ufnar says, referring to her Ph.D. research in environmental toxicology at the University of Southern Mississippi in Hattiesburg.
The quality of
science in biotech and pharma is world class and much is
done in collaboration with academic
labs.
These same firms have also discovered that buying and integrating new technologies from university - based
labs and smaller companies can be more efficient than
doing the
science in their own
labs.
In France, all Ph.D. candidates with a doctoral contract are entitled to take up to 32 days a year away from the
lab to
do paid work in teaching,
science communication, technology transfer, or consulting — an option which Rym Boudjemaa took advantage of.
Our
labs are
science - based mini-societies — so why
do we run them in the same arbitrary and bureaucratic way as the rest of the world?
Although it's most important to train in a
lab doing good
science, she recommends that trainees also «look for a networked approach that will enable them to see their
science through to some kind of impact.»
For example, if you know that you want to
do basic research and run a
lab in the biological
sciences, the appropriate graduate degree is a Ph.D..
The best way to prepare, he says, is to spend time in the
lab learning how
science works, what works and what doesn't, and how to troubleshoot when things go wrong.
«This material could be used to help stabilize temperature,» said study co-lead author Fan Yang, a postdoctoral researcher at Berkeley
Lab's Molecular Foundry, a DOE Office of
Science User Facility where some of the research was
done.
Instead of the standard introductory class in biology, Pray benefited from an initiative funded by the Howard Hughes Medical Institute (HHMI) that gives students a chance to
do genuine
lab science.
When his internship came to an end, Olsson invited Franco to apply for a grant from the Portuguese ministry's Foundation for
Science and Technology to
do a Ph.D. in her
lab.
Last week the committee released a survey
done by a private advocacy group that found that many of the country's leading research
labs do not follow voluntary guidelines for the humane treatment of animals issued in 1992 by the Indian National
Science Academy.»
Actually Michal [Sharon], who you e-mailed me about previously [for another
Science Careers article], she would be very organized in the
lab and would come in and have a list of things that she was going to
do that day, and she wouldn't become distracted by the news Web site or other activities or go to coffee, particularly for long periods of time, because her time was very precious in the
lab.
Jackson took advantage of summers jobs — at Argonne National Laboratory, Bell
Labs, and as a tutor for MIT's Interphase program for undergraduates — and recommends that students try different kinds of
science jobs to get an idea of what to
do later on.
As
science progresses, so
does the roll call of new voices serving as bridges between
lab and layman.
If you start the habits of good chemical and biological hygiene in your
lab, you will find that cleaning up the
lab goes much smoother when health and safety officers arrive for inspection, giving you more time to devote to
doing science rather than cleaning it up!