Sentences with phrase «graduate research careers»

These courses are geared primarily toward introducing students to the basic information and techniques required to progress through their graduate research careers.

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After graduating, he spent the first 14 years of his career working toward that goal, rising to head of research at the Bank of Canada, before leaving for a short tenure in the private sector.

Fathers Still Matter to Kids Who Have Moved Out BYU family life professor Larry Nelson's oldest daughter Jessica graduated from high school this spring, so his career researching the transition to adulthood is starting to get personal.

Liberal Democrat science spokesman Evan Harris added: «Low attainment in schools, high graduate debt, poor post-doctoral career progression - our brightest and best are not going into scientific research and you can't blame them.»

In graduate school, only industry careers were mentioned as an alternative to academic research careers.

«About 4 years into my graduate career, I realized that research was not for me,» he says.

University scientists staff their labs with graduate students and postdocs recruited «with funding and the implicit assurance of interesting research careers,» she writes.

Modelled after a program at the University of British Columbia, the research student category is aimed at recently graduated bachelor's students who are considering a career in research but haven't yet decided to pursue one.

This is especially true in terms of the status of young scientists, the internationalization of degree program structures, proactive information and advice about career and research opportunities, university marketing, and the integration of successful nonnative graduates into the country's job market.

Unlike AAS, CASCA has an active graduate student committee which is beginning to make some headway on issues surrounding research training and career development.

Other components of the program are educational and research opportunities, mentoring, a science - writing workshop, career counseling and guidance, and financial support for students accepted into a graduate - level program.

Many postgraduates in astronomy have a long - term career goal of acquiring a teaching and / or research position in an academic setting and, traditionally, the astronomy curricula and training at the graduate level has reflected that objective.

- Ruth L. Kirschstein NRSA Program for NIGMS MARC Predoctoral Fellowships (F31) Deadline: December 5, 2005 MARC Predoctoral Fellowships are individual National Research Service awards made to outstanding graduates of the MARC U * STAR Program (Minority Access to Research Careers / Undergraduate Student Training in Academic Research) to help them pursue a graduate degree in the biomedical sciences.

Over the next 6 months, as I researched career planning services for graduate students, I found the lack of guidance for fellows challenging, as I did my lack of experience in education policy.

I graduated with a degree in biology in 1995, full of enthusiasm and determined to pursue a career in research for as long as I continued to enjoy it.

Maresi Nerad, director of the Center for Innovation and Research in Graduate Education at the University of Washington, Seattle, has studied the oft - entwined issues of careers and relationships.

Through medical school in Europe, a graduate degree in medical science in Calgary, and eventually a PhD followed by an MD degree, I rolled into a combined career in medical research and clinical medicine, with little planning and a lot of luck.

Whatever the stage of graduate training, none of the proposed career paths were found to be unpopular — not even academic research careers.

Although recent graduates tend to take over his type of job, he would advise young scientists to get a few years of research experience after graduation before embarking on a career in science policy.

A recent study on the career preferences of science graduate students, published in PLoS ONE, has attracted a lot of attention for one of its conclusions: that student interest in academic research careers declines over the course of graduate school.

Here's the result that has gotten the most press: Academic research careers were less popular with the late cohorts than the early ones in all disciplines, suggesting, perhaps, that graduate students are disillusioned by exposure to the lives and careers of their faculty advisers.

During my graduate program in career counseling, I was encouraged not to ignore my roots in research science, because few individuals with scientific backgrounds choose to retool in an occupation such as counseling.

Further, the graduate education system does not typically expose students to careers other than research.

Childs, who has a Ph.D. in chemistry and 11 years of teaching experience, says that research - career insecurity is another reason that often comes up during interviews for Oxford's 1 - year Postgraduate Certificate of Education (PGCE), the teaching qualification that most UK graduates take.

Some of these include higher and more predictable federal research funding, shorter graduate and postdoc training periods, greater use of staff scientists, and better career training for students and postdocs.

She now holds the title of University Distinguished Professor of Psychology, juggling two research groups — she is also affiliated with the Psychiatric Neuroimaging Research Program and the Martinos Center for Biomedical Imaging at nearby Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH)-- and helping her graduate students and postdocs launch their own research groups — she is also affiliated with the Psychiatric Neuroimaging Research Program and the Martinos Center for Biomedical Imaging at nearby Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH)-- and helping her graduate students and postdocs launch their own Research Program and the Martinos Center for Biomedical Imaging at nearby Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH)-- and helping her graduate students and postdocs launch their own careers.

Created specifically for scientists, this assessment includes the knowledge, skills, and abilities emphasized in graduate and postdoctoral training and needed to succeed in a research career.

TL1s are aimed at graduate students and postdocs from Ph.D. or combined - degree programs who are looking to pursue clinical and translational research careers.

Veterans thinking of graduate school leading to a Ph.D. and a research career could find a military background a career advantage, depending on the field they choose.

A new study in the Journal of Research in Science Teaching indicates that undergraduates who participate in mentored research not only graduate more often with science degrees, but also attend graduate school and pursue STEM careers at higheResearch in Science Teaching indicates that undergraduates who participate in mentored research not only graduate more often with science degrees, but also attend graduate school and pursue STEM careers at higheresearch not only graduate more often with science degrees, but also attend graduate school and pursue STEM careers at higher rates.

If you have not been directly involved in hands - on research, describe other experiences you've had that have influenced your career path, how the graduate degree will advance you toward your career goals, and why you feel you would be adept at such a career.

To make matters worse, most of the alumni from the science and engineering grandes écoles do not move on to graduate training, preferring management positions in industry to a research career.

Cathy Ann Trower, Ph.D., is the research director of Collaborative on Academic Careers in Higher Education (COACHE) at the Harvard Graduate School of Education.

Reposted on Science Careers, this Computing Research Association article looks at how mentoring can help retain minority students in graduate programs.

A personal statement (also known as graduate school essay, statement of interest, statement of goals, among other names) is a document, submitted as part of a graduate school application, that describes your abilities, attributes, and accomplishments as evidence of your aspirations for pursuing a graduate education and, beyond that, a career in research.

In service of that institutional need, academic culture has fostered the misleading narrative that graduate school and postdoc positions are solely intended to prepare young scientists for academic research careers rather than for a range of nonacademic and even nonresearch endeavors.

In each case, an expert group calls for, among other things, supporting more postdocs and graduate students on training grants and fellowships instead of on professors» research grants, employing more staff scientists in permanent posts and fewer temporary trainees to do scientific work, providing higher pay and better working conditions for postdocs, and publishing information on the career outcomes of departments» and labs» graduate students and postdocs.

GRE scores and undergraduate GPA don't predict students» future graduate school productivity, but reference letters from previous research advisers may provide clues about whether they are going to publish well, according to a story over at our Science Careers sister site about two papers published today in PLOS ONE.

In reality, «substantially more scientists and engineers graduate from U.S. universities than can find attractive career openings in the U.S. work force [and] the postdoc population, which has grown very rapidly in U.S. universities and is recruited increasingly from abroad, looks more like a pool of low - cost research lab workers with limited career prospects than a high - quality training program for soon - to - be academic researchers,» he continued.

Approach everyone and anyone who may be interested in your career fair — the graduate deans, the dean or provost of research, your institution's career services office, and, of course, your departmental directors or chairs.

Realizing that a research career wasn't for her, she founded a production company called AZIZA Productions a couple of years before graduating.

Besides learning research techniques and problem - solving skills, students can use the time to chat with graduate students, postdoctoral researchers, and faculty about science and scientific careers.

Research experiences have traditionally been seen as a way to prepare students for graduate school and a scientific career.

A 1998 report from the National Research Council recommended that the Ph.D. remain a research - intensive degree but added that «graduate programs should expand their efforts to help students learn about the diversity of career opportunities open to them, and university departments should examine possible alternatives to the research Ph.DResearch Council recommended that the Ph.D. remain a research - intensive degree but added that «graduate programs should expand their efforts to help students learn about the diversity of career opportunities open to them, and university departments should examine possible alternatives to the research Ph.Dresearch - intensive degree but added that «graduate programs should expand their efforts to help students learn about the diversity of career opportunities open to them, and university departments should examine possible alternatives to the research Ph.Dresearch Ph.D.»

D. graduates pursue a career in which most of their time is spent on research.

While success in graduate school does require some focus and diligence, an absence of ANY external stimulation, macroscopic focus, or grand vision can lead to stagnant, derivative research (not to mention a lackluster career).

Instead of only applying to the top large research institutions, Blaser recommends that graduate students and post docs interested in academic careers look for job vacancies at small to mid-sized institutions.

But today, however, few young PhDs can get started on the career for which their graduate education purportedly trained them, namely, as faculty members in academic research institutions.

In fact, according to the report from the academies» National Research Council, there's no good evidence that students are any more likely to graduate from college with a STEM (science, technology, engineering, and mathematics) degree or pursue a scientific career if they attend a specialty science and math school than a regular school.

At the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center (The Hutch) in Seattle, Washington, the Office of Scientific Career Development does a little extra in assisting postdocs and graduate students with their career planning.