Sentences with phrase «junior faculty members»

For junior faculty members who find it difficult to deal with a variety of commitments, the solution is simple.

As junior faculty members, we believe that tenure will bring peace.

In addition to bringing together established leaders in the field, the network will make a special effort to include innovative new perspectives from junior faculty members and underrepresented groups.

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.

Having 3 years of funding also allows new junior faculty members to focus on a long - term research agenda instead of scrambling for immediate funding.

But junior faculty members also have much to offer to graduate students.

When I started, there was only one other junior faculty member.

She has guided junior faculty members and department chairs.

Ask junior faculty members how soon they will be up for tenure and whether they think they will get it.

Importantly, most junior faculty members are quite satisfied.

For junior faculty members, tenure was a formidable hurdle, and only a few won it.

«In a 4 - year period, female full professors co-authored only 14 papers with female junior faculty members in their departments, half as many as expected,» the team reports online... in Current Biology.

To counter similar problems in his own institution, Jack Child, director of the Center for Teaching Excellence at American University in Washington, D.C., pairs new junior faculty members with established faculty members in departments other than their own.

One spring day some decades ago, while I was serving as a very junior faculty member at what was then called a predominantly Negro college, a student asked me for advice.

Although the percentages of female junior faculty members in all of these categories are roughly double those of full professors — a promising trend — women remain a small minority on science and engineering faculties.

The length of the probation period isn't the only concern of junior faculty members; many have made it clear to UTFA that they aren't satisfied with the level of support they currently receive from the administration.

In Ball's grad school days, a very junior faculty member fresh from the job market ran weekly sessions to critique CVs, cover letters, and such, to the great benefit of the students.

A confluence of factors, including heavily tenured - in departments, fewer tenure - track positions, demographic trends, and a glut of Ph.D. s looking for employment, have placed tremendous strain on junior faculty members, making the tenure barrier increasingly difficult to surmount.

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.

«Teaching a module now as a doctoral student has allowed me to get feedback on my teaching from colleagues and professors in order to develop my practice further in a way that might not be quite as available to me as a full - time junior faculty member,» she says.

It is risky even for postdocs and junior faculty members aiming to secure a position or promotion, since ultimately you have to show productivity, John says.

«As an untenured junior faculty member, there's a lot of pressure,» Motyl says.

After earning bachelor's degrees in chemistry, they became junior faculty members at Johnson C. Smith and Howard universities (Bill) and Morehouse College (Larry).

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.

So, as one junior faculty member argued in a comment posted on the UTFA Web site, these areas are ripe for discussion even before holding a larger conversation about lengthening the process.

After years of slogging it in the lab as postdoctoral fellows — to say nothing of the time invested in attaining a higher degree — junior faculty members want what they have been striving for all that time: academe's golden egg.

Proctor tells Next Wave Canada that she hears many complaints from junior faculty members about the heavy teaching load (the university requires assistant professors to teach 5 courses per academic year), large class sizes, and extensive administrative duties early in their careers.

The Greenwall Faculty Scholars Program in Bioethics is a career development award to enable outstanding junior faculty members to carry out original research that will help resolve important policy and clinical dilemmas at the intersection of ethics and the life sciences.

These funds provide seed money to support junior faculty members with an interest in cancer research who do not have national grant support of their own or who have not received prior support from the IRG.

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.

In addition to adding 2 years to the tenure cycle, the administration's proposal also includes extra faculty support, such as a 6 - month teaching release in the 4th year — following a midterm probationary review — to allow junior faculty members to focus on their scholarship.

«This suggests that these medical - education companies understand that junior faculty members at academic institutions need to demonstrate academic productivity, and one of the ways of doing it is to have first - author publications in high - quality journals.»

As one junior faculty member with whom we spoke said, «Some people are worried about appearing stupid if they ask questions, but I think it would be more stupid to not ask and not get tenure!»

The intention of the translational awards, says Bond, is to buy time for junior faculty members «to keep them in research and keep them training younger investigators.»

A sponsor, according to the task force, is a person in a leadership position who actively supports the career advancement of a more junior faculty member or trainee in whom they see career and leadership potential.

But most importantly, I've developed a cohort of people I can lean on for advice, which has been incredibly helpful for my career development,» writes proflikesubstance, who is a pseudonymous blogger and self - described «junior faculty member working in a field of evolution» in the United States, in an e-mail to Science Careers.

In a 4 - year period, female full professors co-authored only 14 papers with female junior faculty members in their departments, half as many as expected, the team reports online today in Current Biology.

Underrepresented minority undergraduate students, graduate students, postdoctoral fellows, and junior faculty members who are ASCB members and who are first author on a submitted abstract are eligible to apply.

The number of senior faculty positions in the Arts and Sciences college at Yale has remained fairly constant since 1992, the number of junior faculty members has decreased by over 20 %, and the number of postdocs has increased by over 200 %.

The question of why women continue to be underrepresented in the top ranks of academic science — despite their rapidly growing numbers among both recipients of advanced degrees and junior faculty members in scientific subjects — has attracted intense attention.

Ansari found refuge with some junior faculty members and postdocs in Dartmouth's Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences.

The motivations most frequently cited by investigators who withheld data were that sharing required too much effort (80 %) and that scientists needed to protect the ability of a graduate student, postdoctoral fellow, or junior faculty member to publish (64 %).

If they make the commitment to land top students — if they attend every «meet the faculty» session, shake a lot of hands, and talk enthusiastically about their own research — junior faculty members can compete for students with anyone, Mr. Meyer says.

Junior faculty members are hired with the expectation that they will obtain tenure, and mentoring committees work diligently toward this end.

So when a junior faculty member with a 1 - year - old daughter is invited to speak at a prestigious international conference and her partner isn't available for childcare, what should she do?

Young and junior faculty members should obtain» Adviser, Teacher, Role Model, Friend: On Being a Mentor to Students in Science and Engineering», National Academy Press, 1995.

Although the PFF program was initially targeted at graduate education, Weibl sees the whole process as a «continuum» from graduate students to junior faculty members.

To help you get started you might want to get a copy of a lab set - up list from another junior faculty member in your area of research who has recently set up his or her own lab.

That certainly was the case for Ann Kinzig, a junior faculty member in urban ecology at Arizona State University (ASU), who spent the 1998 - 99 academic year in Washington, D.C., as a Roger Revelle Fellow in Global Stewardship.