Sentences with phrase «in academic research careers»

Deeply committed scientists like Voglmaier are proving hard to find as attrition exacerbates a shortage of clinicians interested in academic research careers.

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.

Not exact matches

After finishing three degrees at the University of Toronto, she co-founded Insight Data Science, a Silicon Valley education startup that helped PhDs transition from academic research to careers in industry.

The PhD program at the Rotman School is designed to prepare individuals for academic and research careers by providing in - depth education in current and emerging theory.

Those who tended to follow a more academic or research track in their careers were generally less well off than those with financial industry experience.

For example, we know from existing research that social and emotional skills are critical to young people's academic success (Farrington et al., 2012), and that children must have the opportunity to practice and develop SEL skills such as empathy, perseverance, and collaboration, in order to thrive in careers, in family, and in community as adults (CASEL, 2015; Farrington et al., 2012; Pellegrino & Hilton, 2012).

Professor Whysall has a long established academic career in retail marketing and is a prominent member of many key retail academic networks including European Association for Education and Research in Commercial Distribution and European Institute of Retailing and Services Studies.

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

Having worked on yeast genetics during his academic career, when Mark West decided that he just wasn't happy in research any more, he realised that perhaps he could apply his skills in California's wine industry — an industry that is part art, part science.

You can still plan a career transition during this second postdoc if it confirms your suspicions about not wanting a career in academic research.

She had spent the past 30 - plus years in Germany — her entire postgraduate and academic career — successfully conducting nuclear - related research.

2011 Daniel Colón - Ramos is passionate about contributing to the development of future scientists and has spoken broadly about his experience on the academic path to a research career, the importance of mentoring and role models in science education, and the need for an open dialogue between scientists and the general public.

My training and my advisers had always prepared and directed me toward a career in academic or laboratory - based research.

These attention - getting stories about cancer immunotherapy underline the vast career opportunities in academic, clinical, and industry research for those entering this field.

In the brief space available I've only been able to touch on a very few of the career areas most closely related to academic research.

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.

With a flourishing research and academic career and experience on hiring committees under his belt, Crowdy is now in a position to advise early career mathematicians.

- 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.

Certainly, the days in which a bench biologist with basic scripting skills could land a programming job in industry are probably gone, but I think opportunities still abound for biologists seeking an academic research career.

In this way, the postdoctoral experience would be more than certification of research readiness for the first academic job; it would also be a site for exploring career options and acquiring the resources needed to be successful, resilient, well - employed professionals.

Like many undergrads in science fields, Cindy Wu was intrigued by an academic career in research.

Ian completed his postdoctoral research in Biochemistry at Cornell University and the State University of New York in Albany before an academic career at the University of Southampton.

Of course, not everyone who is considering a career in mathematical biology has academic research in mind.

After using dozens of PCR primers synthesized by service companies in her academic research, Singapore's Wei Min Hon decided to find out for herself what a career in such a company might look like.

Coss, who taught drawing classes early in his academic career and whose previous research focused on art and human evolution, used photos and film to study the strokes of charcoal drawings and engravings of animals made by human artists 28,000 to 32,000 years ago in the Chauvet - Pont - d'Arc Cave in southern France.

From its inception, the Career Development Center for Postdocs and Junior Faculty (CDC) has aimed to fill this deficit by educating young researchers in the large body of nonscience knowledge that young academic scientists need to advance their careers and the research infrastructure of the United States.

Whereas academic research careers often involve steps orchestrated years in advance, many other tracks require changing focus and positions quickly.

I am not very interested in academic research, so a Master's degree is enough for me to begin my career in industry.»

Pursuing an academic career is very much like doing research itself: never quite clear in advance where it is going to lead, but always surprising during its evolution.

05 March 2015 Research shows that many members of groups underrepresented in academic science seek careers that express values beyond pure rResearch shows that many members of groups underrepresented in academic science seek careers that express values beyond pure researchresearch.

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.

The Accelerated Research Pathway is designed for candidates who are committed to an academic career in a pediatric subspecialty.

Still, an academic career will involve interacting with people, particularly if you progress into holding a lectureship — in which you'd be involved in teaching and departmental administration — or into running your own research group — where you would direct the work of students and postdoctoral researchers.

But unlike other professions where work is often restricted to business hours, «lab sciences can be 24/7,» says Cathy Trower, research director of Harvard University's Collaborative on Academic Careers in Higher Education.

► In this week's issue of STM, Arthur Levine, senior vice chancellor for the health sciences and dean of the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine in Pennsylvania, and 18 other U.S. academic medical center leaders wrote that «[u] nstable funding for biomedical research has created a hostile working environment that erodes the time available for investigators to conduct their research, discourages innovative high - risk science, threatens to drive established investigators out of U.S. academic biomedical research, and creates uncertainty for trainees and early - career investigatorIn this week's issue of STM, Arthur Levine, senior vice chancellor for the health sciences and dean of the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine in Pennsylvania, and 18 other U.S. academic medical center leaders wrote that «[u] nstable funding for biomedical research has created a hostile working environment that erodes the time available for investigators to conduct their research, discourages innovative high - risk science, threatens to drive established investigators out of U.S. academic biomedical research, and creates uncertainty for trainees and early - career investigatorin Pennsylvania, and 18 other U.S. academic medical center leaders wrote that «[u] nstable funding for biomedical research has created a hostile working environment that erodes the time available for investigators to conduct their research, discourages innovative high - risk science, threatens to drive established investigators out of U.S. academic biomedical research, and creates uncertainty for trainees and early - career investigators.

Early in my scientific career, I pursued research while remaining blissfully unaware of the difficulty of securing a permanent academic position, especially for women and mothers.

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.

This track would offer decently paid, long - term careers in academic research that did not entail faculty status.

Greater emphasis is also being put on transferable skills that serve not only academic scholars but also professionals who «may have research careers in other parts of society,» says David Crosier, education system analyst at Eurydice, the E.U. organization that provides information on European education systems and policies.

«Here the Master's degree is a really valuable one in a student's career path in academic or industrial research.

Bozon, an applied mathematician at the Agricultural and Environmental Engineering Research Institute (Cemagref) in Montpellier, France, is part of a new initiative launched by the French government in the summer of 2007 to broaden career avenues for academic researchers.

«Despite the terrible job market for academic scientists, many mentors of undergraduate STEM [science, technology, engineering, and mathematics] students still express disapproval if one mentions a desire to teach in the public schools after graduation instead of pursuing a research career.

Whether you leave research or stay in, internships can give postdocs a chance to look at their academic work with outsiders» eyes and position themselves better to move forward in their careers.

Devi recommended developing an individual career plan early on in your career and consulting with mentors who can tell you whether you're likely to achieve your academic goals or whether you would be better off pursuing a different line of research or a career outside of academia.

«Such an experience certainly wouldn't be negative when considering an academic career, which nowadays and in our fields commonly involves strong collaborations with industry on research projects.»

If research isn't as high on your list as practicing medicine, go for the M.D., get lots of research experience, and you can still have a very satisfying career in academic medicine.

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.

It is difficult to say whether it is easier to find a permanent job in a typical academic career at a university or in a research lab such as CERN.

Given that many PhD students are disillusioned by the prospect of following an academic career, according to earlier surveys, it is perhaps reassuring that only 6 % of the supervisors questioned are unreconstructed enough to believe that the purpose of a PhD is training solely for a career in academic research.

During this difficult year, Science Careers documented the lousy academic job market and kept track of the issues affecting employment opportunities in research and related fields, from government efforts to stimulate the economy to immigration.