Sentences with phrase «faculty positions»

Statistics on minorities in astronomy faculty positions are not currently available.

Comparison by gender of those holding postdoctoral appointments in 1992 with those holding junior faculty appointments in 1999 suggests that men and women were selected at similar rates for entrylevel faculty positions.

The establishment of the NIH Pathways to Independence award to help postdocs successfully transition to tenure - track faculty positions.

There should be alternative routes that create niches for experimentalists and the increasing numbers of devoted scientists who either do not want to open their own labs or are not able to obtain one of the rare tenure - track faculty positions.

She held faculty positions at the University of Massachusetts Medical Center, Children's Hospital, Boston, and Harvard Medical School.

Guest post by Rory Flinn, PhD There are many career paths for PhDs that don't require a postdoc, including some faculty positions in certain disciplines.

He continued with a creative molecular biology approach to neuroscience with faculty positions at Stanford University from 1982 onward in the Departments of Biological Sciences and Molecular and Cellular Physiology, and at the Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Stanford University Medical Center.

To continue to ensure a pipeline of research talent, future initiatives include professional development to support pilot projects, sabbaticals so senior faculty can remain at the cutting edge of gerontological research and postdoctoral training and junior faculty positions.

He holds adjunct faculty positions at Harvard Medical School, Massachusetts General Hospital, and the Veterans Administration Medical Center in Bedford, Massachusetts.

As I wrote in my first Next Wave article, I was deciding between continuing along the academic path — doing a postdoc and applying for faculty positions — and moving over into industry and accepting a research or management position there.

And it's true that although women hold roughly 34 % of all faculty positions now (up from 23 % in 1975), they have managed to capture only 19 % of the full professorships (up from 10 %).

«After all the federal funding that has been put into increasing the number of URMs in faculty positions, the truth is that 30 years later, we have very little to show for it,» he says.»

We believe it is important for academic institutions to acknowledge the growing number of academic couples vying for faculty positions.

«Luis Echegoyen, a professor of chemistry at the University of Texas, El Paso, notes the percentage of underrepresented minorities (URMs) in chemistry faculty positions hasn't improved much since he was a program officer in the Chemical Dynamics Program at NSF [the National Science Foundation] in the early 1980s.

The number of senior faculty positions in the Arts and Sciences college at Yale has remained fairly constant since 1992, the number of junior faculty members has decreased by over 20 %, and the number of postdocs has increased by over 200 %.

Between 1987 and 1999, there has been a large increase in the ratio of postdocs to faculty positions as well — a change primarily affecting the life sciences.

Although the BLS report cautions that applicants for full - time college faculty positions will still face «keen competition,» job prospects should improve, especially in fields such as computer science and engineering, in which attractive nonacademic job opportunities are available.

Overall, numbers from NSF's Survey of Earned Doctorates, which follows a cohort of Ph.D. s for 10 years, show that in 1973, 74 % of natural science and social science doctorates were in faculty positions 1 to 3 years post-Ph.

In particular, they allege that news of the investigations, which came to light this past April, cost them millions of dollars by derailing a deal to sell their stem cell company, Autologous / Progenital, and took them out of the running for lucrative faculty positions.

Meanwhile the agreement also allows the university to retain flexibility over assigning faculty positions on the basis of greatest need, as defined by student enrollment.

By creating enticing faculty positions for both domestic and international scientific talent, the nation's 64 universities have the opportunity to achieve the highest levels of excellence and become world - class research centers.

Out of the top 20 physics departments, there are only two African Americans in tenure - track faculty positions.

Apply for those top faculty positions regardless of the odds, but do not count on getting one of them.

The authors noted that broadening scientific workforce diversity has been an official policy of the National Institutes of Health (NIH) for decades, yet the percentage of URM scientists who hold faculty positions today is still well below their representation in the general U.S. population.

Submit it as supplemental material when you apply for faculty positions.

In the last 2 years a dozen faculty positions have been filled, and more openings are expected in the coming years.

Graff Zivin holds dual faculty positions at the School of Global Policy and Strategy and UC San Diego's Department of Economics.

«In the traditional science track, you learn to do one thing very well, but there's no real opportunity to develop teaching skills,» explains Bockholt, who «turned down faculty positions and took the job at CELL to really broaden my skills... skills that I couldn't get in a research position.»

According to Michael B. Amey, Johns Hopkins University's assistant dean for research administration, even though some JHU postdocs are classified as employees, «the only postdocs who would be allowed to submit an independent research grant proposal (as opposed to a fellowship grant) would be those who had been offered faculty positions that would begin no later than the proposed start date of the grant proposal.»

The report, Unlimited Potential, Vanishing Opportunity, is the result of a survey of approximately 3700 scientists, the majority of them academic biologists and biomedical researchers who hold faculty positions.

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.

But according to the tenets of interest - based bargaining, focusing too much on objective criteria such as price, or salary in the case of faculty positions, can produce a tenuous agreement in which basic human needs — security, economic well - being, a sense of belonging, recognition, control over one's life — are not met.

Since then, I have held tenure - track faculty positions at both Rose - Hulman Institute of Technology in Indiana and Rowan University in New Jersey.

He is also a nonresident scholar at the American Association for the Advancement of Science and holds adjunct faculty positions at both George Washington University and...

Once the women landed faculty positions, they expressed high levels of confidence in their abilities, value and contributions — especially in educating the next generation of scientists and engineers.

They were determined to stay together, seeking faculty positions in the same city, even the same institution, and they started a family just as they began searching for jobs.

«Academic faculty candidates negotiate increasingly nuanced and complex contracts that may not include tenure... and may not involve significant institutional commitment to salary,» the authors write, noting that 79 % of the former UCSF postdocs who now hold faculty positions are nontenure track.

The engineering department profile has been transformed: Women now occupy four of the 18 faculty positions in the department.

they began looking for faculty positions together, Ethan was born to Palmer on 29 November 2004 — the middle of the interviewing season.

He is also a nonresident scholar at the American Association for the Advancement of Science and holds adjunct faculty positions at both George Washington University and Georgetown University.

For Ph.D. - trained scientists who do not end up with faculty positions, there are research opportunities in private or government institutions and industry.

To remedy this, Wiest started a pilot grant - writing project: a 3 - month - long weekly seminar series with the end goal of producing for submission a K22 Career Development Award, a grant to facilitate the transition of fellows into independent faculty positions.

MANCHESTER, U.K. — Old age may not be something European scientists think about as they hop around the continent in search of exciting Ph.D. opportunities, broader postdoctoral experience, or attractive faculty positions.

The dearth of faculty positions in the life sciences is no secret and many postdoctoral trainees are aware of the odds against them when they search for traditional university jobs, the Science article said.

Such positions are not that rare: Currently, five out of the 30 or so faculty positions in his department are teaching - only positions, Moctezuma says.

Competition for science faculty positions is still keen, but the situation has improved somewhat for young scientists, with the number of applications for science jobs typically numbering in the low hundreds or less.

The institutions formed the Coalition for Next Generation Life Science in response to the focus of many new Ph.D. s. solely on a limited number of traditional faculty positions and to the lack of good marketplace information on training and career options for talented life scientists.

Although Moser feels it was a pity they had to cut short their postdoc time abroad, this career opportunity was so extraordinary that there was no question but that they would return to Norway to take up their faculty positions.

«I preferred to be very good at one thing,» he says, instead of being split between teaching and research as in traditional faculty positions.

He had left the lab after a second postdoc not because he felt done with research, but because he didn't think he would be competitive for the tenure - track faculty positions he really wanted.