Sentences with phrase «few academic positions»

A quick look at the numbers reveals the source of the problem: too many Ph.D. s fighting for too few academic positions.

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Report after report in recent years has decried the surfeit of young biomedical scientists stuck in seemingly endless years of training and chasing too few academic research positions.

The results, though not surprising, offer a reminder that, with so many people vying for so few tenure - track faculty positions, «trainees need to do more self - analysis of where they are and what the realities are for them to potentially become a faculty member,» says study author Nathan Vanderford, an assistant professor of toxicology and cancer biology and assistant dean for academic development at the University of Kentucky in Lexington.

Very few women make it into top academic positions, and the number of women Fellows of the Royal Society has increased painfully slowly.

Although GWSH presents reduced workload (or «job sharing» for academic positions) as a potential solution, job sharing and other part - time arrangements are unrealistic for many academic women and are associated with low wages, reduced benefits, few actual reductions in workload, and few opportunities for advancement.

A decade of flat funding by federal agencies, declines in in - house research programs in industry, and an academic research culture that relies upon an ever - increasing number of trainees to execute research have flooded the market with highly trained scientists competing for few permanent positions that would utilize their skills.

Through decisions made haphazardly 60 years ago, «we chose as a country to staff our labs primarily with graduate students and postdocs and a few non-tenured staff people, while other countries have permanent ways of staffing their labs,» often with PhD staff scientists in career positions, says Georgia State University economist Paula Stephan, an authority on the academic labor force.

Delayed retirements ripple down the academic chain, said Weibl, forcing postdocs to remain in their secure positions, leading to fewer postdocs positions open for newly minted PhDs.

The reality, Shamp says, is that fewer than 40 % of the postdocs working in biotechnology in North Carolina will wind up in a tenure - track academic position.

Postdocs argue that they usually have the skills required for an academic career, but there are just far too few positions available.

And, although he does not anticipate «a gush» of new positions, Goldin says academic job prospects for physicists are «looking better» than they have in recent lean years — not only because of faculty retirement but also because fewer physicists are choosing to remain in the ivory tower, meaning less competition for openings.

1) Agricultural Biotechnology with guests Samuel Gattis, Ph.D., and Barbara Wedel, Ph.D. 2) Tenure - Track Academic Positions with guests Jennifer Ingram, Ph.D., & Rebecca Fry, Ph.D.: On the third Thursday of each month, the Brown Bag Lunch highlights a different set of Ph.D. careers to provide fellows the opportunity to meet with a few individuals with firsthand experience.

This was also the month that I had a few nail - biting Skype interviews and was moving up a notch or two on the list for various academic positions.

She told board members she's worried the panel reviewing the state's academic standards has too many professors of math education and too few professors of mathematics, who she says are in a better position to say what skills students need to be ready for college - level coursework.

There appear to be fewer PhD candidates, and among the contributors who did not work in the private sector, most had academic positions.

While most positions don't require a formal, lengthy C.V. (these are mostly used in academic or scientific fields, and include a list of publications and research projects), they do require a bit more explanation of your background than just a few bullet points.

Symptoms are often evident as early as 1 to 3 years of age1, 2 and typically continue into later childhood and adolescence,3 - 5 resulting in academic underachievement, reduced social competence, and mental health disorders.6 - 8Quiz Ref IDHowever, fewer than 25 % of young children identified with behavioral problems receive treatment.9, 10 Because of the frequency and nature of their contact with families of young children, primary care physicians are in a unique position to affect the course of early - onset disruptive behavior.11