Sentences with phrase «faculty careers at»

«Postdocs from all social backgrounds reported significant declines in interest in faculty careers at research - intensive universities and increased interest in nonresearch careers,» compared to their feelings early in grad school, write Kenneth Gibbs, Jr., of the National Cancer Institute in Bethesda, Maryland; John McGready of Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, Maryland; and Kimberly Griffin of the University of Maryland, College Park.

McNutt began her faculty career at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), where she became the Griswold Professor of Geophysics and served as director of the Joint Program in Oceanography and Applied Ocean Science and Engineering sponsored by MIT and the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution.

Not exact matches

A. N. Whitehead (1861 — 1947) retired in 1924 from an academic career in England in the fields of mathematics and education and promptly accepted an invitation to join the faculty in philosophy at Harvard University, where his work took off in a totally unexpected direction.

Over two days, ICPF visited with faculty and 92 students at their university booths where ICPF staff provided information on corrugated packaging & display careers and tutorials on using ICPF resources to apply for student internships and full time positions in corrugated packaging upon graduation.

«We owe the young scientists who are coming into the system, from the moment they start in a Ph.D. program until they finally get to the point that they're in faculty positions... a responsibility to give them clear information and good support in making effective, sound decisions that comport with their abilities and career aspirations,» Daniels said at a briefing on the report.

«A lack of diversity at the faculty level is an enormous problem in biomedical science, so I applaud HHMI's efforts to support junior scientists from underrepresented backgrounds,» writes Jessica Polka, president of the Future of Research board of directors, in an email to Science Careers.

This fall, Mavalvala will be a keynote speaker at Out to Innovate, a 2 - day career summit for lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender students, faculty, and professionals in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics.

He is finishing his degree and is in the running for a faculty job at an undergraduate college in Ohio — his first - choice career — which he ultimately secures.

Women have a hiring advantage in the scientific stratosphere 29 April 2015 A widely reported study says women are preferred in faculty hiring — but it doesn't say bias isn't a problem at other key career points.

How many of us were reminded of someone we once knew, or of a rumor we heard at a conference about a student / postdoc / faculty member with a bright career who flamed out?

Getting into one of those top departments as a graduate student is therefore vital for a real chance at a faculty career.

I asked many professors for advice, read Science and Nature career advice columns, attended sessions at conferences aimed at helping to prepare application packages, and asked recently hired women faculty for advice.

«If the authors only suggested meditation or therapy and didn't address the issues they believe to be at the root of the morale problems — funding, bureaucracy and fighting with administrators — then I think faculty would be justified in feeling a little insulted» by the implication that their problems could be solved by meditation or therapy alone, he wrote in an email to Science Careers.

Although women scientists continue to be underrepresented at the faculty level, many women have established rewarding and successful careers in science — thanks in part to having had role models and mentors whose paths they could follow.

This result suggests that people not really interested in faculty careers may be taking postdoc positions because, at the time they are finishing their Ph.D., they lack the knowledge or skills to seek opportunities outside of academe.

A widely reported study says women are preferred in faculty hiring — but it doesn't say bias isn't a problem at other key career points.

More and more PhDs, educated in a culture that has long viewed — and, in many places, still views — positions outside the academy not as valid career options for serious scientists but as «alternative employment» at best and «going over to the dark side» at worst, began accepting postdoc positions in the belief that additional publications would improve their chance to land that coveted faculty post.

Nevertheless, upon entering the biomedical academic career track, black and white faculty members are equally likely to be tenured at institutions that grant doctorates and at Research I institutions.

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.

The results provide worrying evidence of a failure to further advance research authorship by women, as Kathryn M. Rexrode, MD, MPH, associate professor of medicine and faculty director of Office for Women's Careers at Harvard Medical School, Boston, states in an editorial accompanying The BMJ article: «Authorship is necessary for career progression and is also a symptom of success; it is the culmination of career development, mentorship, funding, and support.

Fortunately for his career, at the time Higgs did his groundbreaking work he had a faculty post at the University of Edinburgh, where he is now a professor emeritus.

For those embarking on a chemistry career in Canada, the new resource at Careerchem.com helps students to identify leading scientists in emerging areas of chemistry, to locate alumni from a department or a particular advisor's group who were successful in obtaining academic positions in Canada and the United States, and to discover particular patterns of recruitment for faculty positions at chemistry departments in Canada.

He received the National Science Foundation's CAREER Award and the ECE Award for Excellence in Teaching at BU, and he is currently a junior faculty fellow in the Hariri Institute for Computing and Computational Science and Engineering at BU.

Moreover, junior faculty members at U of T receive little formal faculty mentoring or career development support from the administration or their tenured colleagues.

And for people looking for a postdoctoral position Angelini, who in September 2008 will be starting a faculty position at American University in Washington, D.C., has this advice: «Find an environment where you can talk to someone about how your career is going and the execution of science.»

Aligning their plans and ambitions helped a dual - career couple find two faculty jobs at the same institution.

But at Rutgers, the faculty's own union «pledge [d] total support» to the organizing effort, according to its then - president, Lisa Klein, a professor of materials science and engineering and herself a principal investigator (PI) who has supervised a dozen postdocs over her 30 - year career.

Our findings were somewhat at odds with those of others who have concluded that dual - career policies do, indeed, help recruit minority faculty members (Loeb, 1997; Smith et al., 1996).

For most, joining the faculty at Johns Hopkins is only the beginning of your career in academic research and medical career.

The PennPORT program is intended to enhance research - oriented teaching at partner institutions, foster collaboration in research and teaching between the faculty at the University of Pennsylvania and that of partner minority - serving institutions, and encourage undergraduates to enter a career in biomedical research.

The Kuggie Vallee Distinguished Lecturer will give a public lecture about her own science and, over a period of several days, will meet more informally or in workshops with other faculty at the host institute to talk about women in science and career building.

In 2015, the Institute partnered with the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation and the Simons Foundation to launch the Faculty Scholars program, which provides five - year awards to faculty at an early career stage.

A Research Dilemma It was around this same time that Horwich was launching his academic career as a junior faculty member in genetics at Yale.

In a session on Strategically Building Your CV at Every Career Stage, speakers from academia and industry will present strategies that students, trainees, faculty and industrial scientists can use to ensure that their experiences are leading to their desired career path and they are marketing themselves to achieve their career goals.

The student unions and faculties at Lund University organise job fairs where you can meet with companies and talk about your future career options.

The Greenwall Faculty Scholars Program in Bioethics is a career development award to enable outstanding junior faculty members to carry out original research that will help resolve important policy and clinical dilemmas at the intersection of ethics and the life sciences.

He is a faculty member at UCSF and part of the California Institute for Quantitative Biosciences (QB3) and a recent winner of the NSF CAREER and NIH New Innovator Awards.

Alfred L. Goldberg, PhD is Professor of Cell Biology at Harvard Medical School (HMS) and has been on the faculty of HMS for nearly his entire academic career.

The sessions — one for graduate students and recent PhDs, and two for undergraduate students — aimed to invigorate the research careers of minority mathematicians and mathematics faculty at minority - serving institutions.

There will be two rooms reserved for these sessions, with two tables per room for each career area and one faculty member at each table leading the discussion.

This includes a pilot program called the Postdoc Job Search Boot Camp Program which was aimed at 1) helping postdocs becoming independent, self - directed job - seekers and not need to rely solely on their faculty / PI for their professional development needs; 2) build an individual's capacity for seeking out resources for expanding and supporting their own career development; and 3) building a community of support for job seekers.

Professor Murray has been on the faculty of several universities: the University of Durham, Harvard, University College London, Michigan, New York University, University of Washington and was for most of his career at the University of Oxford.

PULLMAN, Wash. — Representatives from three aerospace companies will promote career opportunities and faculty collaboration Monday - Wednesday, Oct. 24 - 26, at free, public events at Washington State University.

AMHERST, Mass. — Cognitive neuroscience researcher Joonkoo Park at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, who recently received a five - year, $ 751,000 faculty early career development (CAREER) grant from the National Science Foundation (NSF) to address basic research questions about how our brains process number and magnitude and how such processes give rise to more complex mathematical thinking, has co-authored a paper that reports this week where in the brain numerical quantity evaluation is proccareer development (CAREER) grant from the National Science Foundation (NSF) to address basic research questions about how our brains process number and magnitude and how such processes give rise to more complex mathematical thinking, has co-authored a paper that reports this week where in the brain numerical quantity evaluation is procCAREER) grant from the National Science Foundation (NSF) to address basic research questions about how our brains process number and magnitude and how such processes give rise to more complex mathematical thinking, has co-authored a paper that reports this week where in the brain numerical quantity evaluation is processed.

Dr Zeff has had a dual career in academics and private practice, serving as both faculty and chair at both NCNM and the Emperor's College of Traditional Oriental Medicine.

Golden Globe and Academy - Award ® - nominated actor Juliette Lewis joined students and faculty for a look back at her diverse career and entry into the music industry.

Within the landscape of higher education, the practice of mentoring is also a critical part of a pre-tenure faculty member's success and campus assimilation, according to a white paper issued by the Collaborative on Academic Careers in Higher Education (COACHE) at the Harvard Graduate School of Education.

At his faculty presentation, Nakkula spoke about the importance of mentors in his own career.

«I have loved my public service in creating the Commonwealth's new education secretariat, but I am thrilled at the prospect of rejoining such a distinguished faculty and embarking on an exciting new chapter in my career.»

And the unfortunate truth is that feelings of professional discontent arise just at the stage in an academic career when university resources for faculty development are ebbing, directed more prominently toward pre-tenure faculty.