Sentences with phrase «in tenure track position»

This results in a glut of postdoctoral trainees who, even though they are aware that only 14.3 % of PhDs in the life sciences end up in tenure track position 5 years after receiving their PhDs, still strive to become academic researchers themselves (44 % of postdocs in the life sciences name faculty - research as their preferred career outcome - see below).

Another scientist named Tenure - Track Asst Prof wrote that she (or he) needs a funding decision sooner than June to remain in a tenure track position: «[T] he consequences of this decision could very well be career - ending for those of us who are in need of external funding for re-appointment.»

Not exact matches

After teaching anthropology at the University of California, Berkeley as a Visiting Assistant Professor for two years, he accepted a tenure track position (in anthropology) at Pomona College in Claremont, California, where he was awarded an Endowed Chair, and remained for twenty years.

Despite these challenges, Teachout maintains that she has more than the requisite number of signatures and that her residency in New York has been uninterrupted since she accepted a tenure - track position at Fordham University Law School in 2009.

A Vermont native, Teachout has been a visiting scholar at Harvard's Kennedy School and settled in New York in 2009, when she accepted a tenure - track position at Fordham.

But she was late, she says, in picking up on some of these messages during her first tenure - track position, at the University of Nevada, Reno.

Now that he is applying to tenure - track faculty positions, Yoder has thought carefully about how his metascience work fits in with the other aspects of his career.

Into the wild by Rachel Bernstein, 10 March 2015 After finding out that his early successes wouldn't land him the tenure - track position he desired, Ethan Perlstein felt like he was «in the wilderness» for about a year before he reinvented himself, first as an independent scientist and then as a biotech startup founder.

He declined an offer to stay longer at Harvard because if «I had stayed in the U.S. on a tenure - track position for another 5 or 6 years, then... my whole life was going to be more stabilized and then it would be much more difficult to come back to Europe.»

After a year focused on teaching general chemistry, she moved into a tenure - track position in the same department.

Only a minority of the postdocs working in university labs have opportunities to receive high - quality training from eminent senior researchers, develop their own research ideas, gain experience in lab management and grant writing, acquire contacts and a publication record and, ultimately, move into a tenure - track position at a research institution.

Upon taking a tenure - track position at the Weizmann Institute of Science in Rehovot 3 years ago, she set out to create the first structural mass spectrometry lab in Israel.

A woman applying for a tenure - track faculty position in STEM (science, technology, engineering, and mathematics) at a U.S. university is twice as likely to be hired as an equally qualified man, if both candidates are highly qualified, according to a new study.

A recent posting for a tenure - track junior faculty position in my department attracted more than 200 applications, a frightening number in and of itself.

In previous research, the authors, psychologists Wendy Williams and Stephen Ceci of Cornell University, found that men and women generally fare equally well once they are hired into tenure - track positions (although some critics have challenged those findings).

Sharon found a tenure - track position in Israel, and the family moved back there.

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.

González, who ultimately accepted a tenure - track position in civil and environmental engineering at MIT, says her experience is not unusual, especially among physicists doing network science, few of whom end up working in physics departments.

If the sponsor is a university or institution of higher education, then the employer?s letter must confirm that the scientist is being offered a tenured or tenure - track teaching position, or a research position in his or her field.

Those doing research in physiological aspects of ecology or in plant physiology often needed to take postdoctoral positions before they could find tenure - track faculty positions.

After two years, however, the reality of short - term contracts kicked in and Pullin moved to take up another post-doc position in Utah, followed by a tenure - track position at Pennsylvania State University.

See the applications more directly Emiliani thought she had finally gained some stability in her career when she returned to Italy in 2000 to accept a ricercartore — a type of tenure - track position — at LENS, which was funded by the Istituto Nazionale Fisica della Materia (INFM).

Not many scientists have the audacity to change research directions in the early stages of their independent research career, and fewer still have the courage to leave a tenure - track position for a postdoc.

Second, universities should create new tenure - track positions that «particularly emphasize and reward the development of open, cross-disciplinary scientific software tools» and attract people «interested in building and maintaining the essential software used by themselves and their colleagues.»

Research shows that in many disciplines, only a relative handful of programs in each field produce a large proportion of the Ph.D. recipients eventually hired for tenure - track positions.

«Tenure - track positions have always been viewed as the holy grail in academia,» he says.

As the ratio of Ph.D. recipients to tenure - track jobs in psychology departments has ratcheted higher, postdoctoral research positions have become a buffer.

With the small number of tenure - track faculty positions available and the large number of Ph.D. holders in career limbo, many are advocating for increased numbers of staff scientist positions.

After an intense, 18 - month - long search, they found two tenure - track positions at the Medical College of Georgia in Augusta in 1995.

Formal or informal, universities help in one of five ways: assisting the partner to find work outside the university, offering an adjunct or part - time position in the university (see Next Wave's recent repost of a Science magazine news story on this topic), splitting the original job into a shared position, finding administrative work in the university, or offering a tenure - track position.

In 2004, upon finishing my postdoc, I returned to my native Spain and took a Ramon y Cajal Fellowship (the Spanish equivalent of a tenure - track position) at the University of Alicante.

There simply aren't enough tenure - track positions to go around, so postdocs should have an alternate plan in place from the start, Clifford says.

Sometimes, in fact, departments that fail to land their top choice leave tenure - track positions unfilled rather than hire from a slightly lower echelon.»

In Germany, where she completed her Ph.D., «I could maybe have gotten a five year contract as a junior professor, but there are few possibilities of getting a tenure - track position,» she says.

Edward O'Brien's experience in England afforded him opportunities he would not have had otherwise, and it helped him land a tenure - track position in the United States.

A seminal report from the National Research Council (NRC) published in 2005, called Bridges to Independence: Fostering the Independence of New Investigators in Biomedical Research, suggests that the traditional definition of an independent researcher — as an individual, usually in a tenure - track position, who has received his or her first RO1 research project grant (or equivalent) as a principal investigator — is too narrow.

GMU's contingent teachers are «career - oriented,» with nearly 40 % aspiring to a tenure - track position or accumulating teaching experience in hopes of advancing their careers.

Public funding for academic research was in decline; more importantly, the number of tenure - track faculty positions was also declining.

She received her Ph.D. in biotechnology at KTH and initiated her research group at the Karolinska Institutet before moving to a tenure - track assistant professor position at the University of Houston, Texas.

You know, the one where you leave Plan A behind (you, in a prestigious tenure - track faculty position) in favor of some last - minute, rush - rush «Plan B.» «Transition» is the word most often chosen to describe such a change of direction, but it's hardly an adequate choice; one doesn't «transition» out of a burning building.

We're not going to have as many tenure - track positions and we're not going to have as many tenured artists in opera companies or symphonies, so we're going to get a lot more of this cross-pollination, I think.

JiJi began a tenure - track faculty position in the MU chemistry department in 2005; Cooley followed suit a year and a half later.

And those female Ph.D. scientists with small children — the scientists least likely to get tenure - track positions — «are disproportionately likely to be employed in contingent professorships and are less likely to be working in nonacademic jobs.»

Hannum feels that her experience has given her a «much broader experience than a laboratory postdoc would have,» and it made her much more competitive in the job market — she'll be starting a tenure - track position at Colby in the fall.

They've adopted rules that provide time off from tenure - track positions, created part - time tenure slots, and spread the gospel about the need to make room for family choices in the climb up the academic ladder.

The strong U.S. economy and the dynamism of many fields of biomedicine, in both academic and industrial arenas, combined with a tight market for tenure - track positions at research universities in the United States, have led to a somewhat paradoxical situation.

For Campos, as for many of the thousands of early - career scientists currently aiming for tenure - track positions, the depressed job market prompted a change in course.

It's your first year in a tenure - track faculty position, and the first course the department head has asked you to teach is the same one you taught — in a special mentored program — as a graduate student.

As pointed out in a February article in Communications of the ACM [Association for Computing Machinery], in 2003, more than twice as many recent Ph.D. s took tenure - track faculty positions as took postdocs.

Girdler plans to apply the same real - world pedagogical approach in her teaching at Kalamazoo College in Michigan, where she'll be starting a tenure - track position in the biology department next fall.