Earlier this summer, for instance, we hosted a course
for early career scientists in which leading scientists in aging biology shared knowledge and taught techniques to study aging in diverse animal models.
In addition to the
trials early career scientists must overcome, female researchers experience additional hurdles in the workplace, such as limited opportunities for equal pay and promotions, and insufficient maternity leave.
I want to use the things I have learned from jumping out of my comfort zone in my personal life and in science to mentor
other early career scientists.
From an early stage, the Association of Polar Early Career Scientists (APECS) has been a key ECR partner of WCRP, particularly of its Core - Project on Climate and Cryosphere (CliC), connecting active groups
of early career scientists with WCRP.
Rather, crowdfunding can be a complementary source «that can fill gaps or expands access» to funding for researchers — such
as early career scientists or those working in meagerly funded fields — who «traditionally wouldn't have had those grant opportunities.»
Expand Your Professional - Skills Training by Elisabeth Pain, 1 October 2010 Voluntary activities, such as helping to organize conferences,
offer early career scientists opportunities to gain new skills and also broaden their horizons.
This summer school is aimed at postgraduate students and
early career scientists who would like to obtain a solid grounding in polar climate system science, with a particular focus on the atmosphere, ocean and sea ice and their interactions.
According to Next Wave's Andrew Fazekas, the field of sports science is getting lots of ice time with
early career scientists in Canada.
«Lung cancer, even when it's discovered early, is often able to metastasize almost immediately and take hold throughout the body,» says Reuben J. Shaw, Salk professor of molecular and cell biology and a Howard Hughes Medical
Institute early career scientist.
98, Ed.D.» 05, was awarded the 2015 American Educational Research Association (AERA) Award, a FABBS Early Career Impact Award, which
recognizes early career scientists of FABBS member societies who have made major contributions to the sciences of mind, brain and behavior.
An update on the pilot GENETICS Peer Review Training Program, which
provides early career scientists with a mentored peer review experience in which they participate...
In addition to trying new approaches to her research, she shows an extraordinary knack for collaboration, blending lab work, fieldwork, and modeling that spans multiple domains that
most early career scientists can only partly master.
In addition to helping them choose ideas that are potentially transformative, this will
give early career scientists «a better chance of anticipating what the effects are of their science, positive and negative» and to prepare for the challenges ahead, he says.
He is mindful to include both experienced professionals and
early career scientists on his teams, because the knowledge that older workers possess is fortified by the inspiration of younger employees, and vice versa.
Through the Avenir initiative — a program started in 2001 but the effects of which are only now being felt — INSERM awards 20 grants to
tenured early career scientists and 20 to nontenured ones.
Early career scientists considering a multi-investigator project should weigh the experience, networking opportunities, and prestige of a high - profile national or international collaboration against the disadvantages.
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.
Based on the first two meetings held in October 2010 and March 2011, participants emphasized the need to
educate early career scientists (i.e., graduate students, scientists working at a post-doctoral level or equivalent, and junior faculty) about initiating and maintaining international scientific collaboration.
One way to improve this current situation is to offer capacity building programs such as mentoring for continuous career development of
BMENA early career scientist, especially because many BMENA countries do not offer Ph.D. or postdoc programs.
The technique relies on optogenetics, a method of controlling brain cells through bursts of light developed by
HHMI early career scientist Karl Deisseroth at Stanford University.
Keck Observatory saw an opportunity to help
early career scientists gain some of the basic knowledge behind the collection of data through direct observing.
The award recognizes postdocs and faculty -
level early career scientists, whether or not members of the Society, in academic, government, and corporate research institutions, who have made excellent contributions in the area of bioenergy research.
Established in 2009, HHMI's
early career scientist program provided support for 50 of the nation's most promising researchers at a critical stage of their careers.
Five new NYSCF — Robertson Investigators join the prestigious community of
early career scientists making the transition from post-doctoral research to their own labs.
Distinguished early career scientists recruited from all over the world are jointly working on novel pre-clinical research projects in the fields of biomedicine, molecular biology, cell biology, diagnostics, bioinformatics, neuroscience, and consumer health care.
Both Schenter and Xantheas reminisce about the time when they —
as early career scientists — were provided with similar opportunities by Thom Dunning and Bruce Garrett, who were their group leaders at that time.
The Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC) is
offering early career scientists and engineers postdoc fellowships to work with research groups and leaders in Canadian government laboratories and research institutions.
Fifty industry leaders, policymakers, and young scientists met to discuss the obstacles that prevent too many
talented early career scientists from building successful careers in Europe.
LA JOLLA — Reuben Shaw, a member of the Salk Institute's Molecular and Cell Biology Laboratory and a Howard Hughes Medical
Institute early career scientist, has been promoted from associate professor to full professor.