They would also like to see a form of joint supervision (e.g., a professor and a more
junior faculty member working together), moving away from the traditional model of one supervisor.
Cancer Research Institute inaugurates its Investigator Award Program for
junior faculty members working in immunology and tumor immunology.
Not exact matches
Junior faculty members are hired with the expectation that they will obtain tenure, and mentoring committees
work diligently toward this end.
A prime example is a candidate who wants to
work with a talented but
junior faculty member who has but a short view of the career trajectory and not much of a track record.
To answer that question, Basson and a team of colleagues, which includes Dr. William P. Newman, chair emeritus of the SMHS Department of Internal Medicine, and Dr. Daniel Persinger, a surgical resident at the time the research was performed and currently an SMHS
junior faculty member in surgery, got to
work.
Should I avoid
working with a
junior faculty member?
A decision to
work with a more established investigator avoids some potential problems that can arise with
junior faculty members but can raise others.
Proctor adds that the administration clearly has much
work to do in clarifying issues for
junior faculty members.
Every day for 2 months, she questioned senior and
junior faculty members on the basic and clinical ends of the research spectrum — no small task for someone
working 13 - hour days, typically without a break.
For the predoctoral and
junior faculty members, of whom 10 from each group are accepted each year, they are given the opportunity to do a rotation at a local industry laboratory to see what the intramural scientists are doing, how deals are negotiated, and what sort of applied skills are needed to
work with industry.
As a postdoc and
junior faculty member, Dr. Wang collaborated with radiologists and neurologists at Washington University to develop the PET / DBSI system that he is using in his
work funded by BrightFocus.
The Study of New Scholars (an outgrowth of the Project on
Faculty Appointments) at the Harvard Graduate School of Education has received $ 1 million to study
junior faculty members» satisfaction with their institutions as a place of
work.
Each student also
works with an advisor throughout her academic career — generally,
juniors and seniors are mentored by a
faculty member in their specific field or discipline.
Although not an academic per se, (a) When doing my PhD in early 1970s, I was an instructor (i.e.,
junior faculty member), did curriculum development, grant
work, and wrote software that got used at ~ 300 colleges, not so easy pre-Internet.