Thos happen later on
in their scientific careers when they manage to run labs with big groups.
Not exact matches
Her
career comes full circle on Monday
when she becomes director of AAAS» Science & Technology Policy Fellowships Program, which, since 1973, has helped some 3,300 scientists and engineers ply their
scientific knowledge and related skills
in the policy arena, solving problems big and small facing leaders
in Congress, executive agencies and judicial offices.
Mathematician Jennifer Pearl's
scientific career was already taking shape
when the American Association for the Advancement of Science granted her a one - year fellowship that places hundreds of scientists and engineers
in policy positions spread over each of the three branches of government.
This was
when I started my
career in teaching English for Science and Technology, travelling once a week to the Nuclear Research Centre
in Karlsruhe, Germany, to teach
scientific staff there.
Choosing a
career in industry may seem risky at a time
when the pharmaceutical industry has shed many
scientific jobs as a result of the global recession and looming restructuring of the drug - development process.
A truly successful
career as a musician takes a full - time effort, and that's simply not realistic
when I spend most of my time
in the laboratory, but I've learned to be much more efficient
in my practicing and have adopted a more
scientific approach to problem - solving
in the practice room.
When You're Shy, All the World is a Stage 29 April 2005
Scientific trainees are often expected to perform
in their
career - to defend their PhD thesis, participate
in an interview for a fellowship, or present their work at a conference.
At a time
when international travel is a key component
in a
scientific career, for some nationalities obtaining travel visas is complicated and still more so
when not living
in their country of origin.
When we at Science first recognized the crying need among young people for better mentoring about
scientific careers — and about alternative
careers to research — we never dreamed that our efforts to fill the need would be viewed as equally valuable
in Canada, the United Kingdom, New Zealand, China, and now Germany.
When government funding for research depends on annual Congressional appropriations (as it always does, at least
in the U.S.), the direction of
careers can depend on decisions made by politicians that have little, if anything, to do with
scientific needs.
24 year - old Emma Craven (Bojana Novakovic) was a recent MIT grad with a promising
career doing
scientific research for a company called Northmoor
when she was shot to death
in the doorway of her dad's home.
While
scientific inquiry is extremely important for everyone from young kids to
career politicians,
when it comes time to vote
in November anyone with a bone
in the
scientific fight has a pretty clear option.
I can handle terrifying predictions (I've gotten good at turning off the emotional part of my brain
when necessary) but the smearing of scientists,
scientific organizations, and science itself, as well as the abandonment of facts
in the media that has fallen prey to repeating these smears, makes me really worry about what kind of
career I'm getting myself
in for.
Ask them why they are addressing a book of unestablished work to the general public
when in the rest of their
career they established their hypotheses (hopefully) by addressing their work to
scientific peers who could check their findings by repeated experiments and observations.