Sentences with phrase «lab time for work»

Many postdocs do not feel that they can afford to lose valuable lab time for work on external projects and many have lives outside of their work that demand attention.

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In the winter of 1975, Steven Sasson, a young engineer working in the Applied Research Lab at Kodak, tested out a new device for the first time.
Booth's full - time MBA program focuses on training students for real - world business scenarios through experiential learning and lab courses where students work with actual early - stage startups.
If your attitude was really that the time of professors in your former lab «was [yours]» after you left the program ABD, then I do not blame your former advisors at all for their delay in providing comments on your work.
Drawn toward biotech by the success of interferon, which made the cover of Time magazine in 1980, she researched companies in the Cambridge, Massachusetts, area and ended up at Biogen, for which she worked briefly as what she calls a «lab rat.»
If you thought it was ok to take off for two months, perhaps your professors didn't feel so bad about using their time on their own research, students who prioritized their work enough to stick around the lab, or — heaven forbid — on their own free time, just like you were doing.
She left work earlier than she did before she had children, but she made up for the lost time by reading papers and writing e-mails after the children were asleep, by staying longer some days, and by coming into the lab on weekends.
Genes keep working for a while after a person dies, and scientists have used that activity in the lab to pinpoint time of death to within about nine minutes.
Working in the lab after leaving the hospital meant less time to prepare for medical rounds and shelf exams, yet preparing more for rounds meant not completing the experiments I needed to earn my Ph.D. — not to mention finding time to relax, sleep, and catch up with family and friends.
«I came to Berkeley Lab 21 years ago to work on supernova radiative - transfer modeling and now for the first time we've used these theoretical models to prove that we can do cosmology better,» says Nugent.
Under such a contract a Ph.D. student is paid half the salary that would be paid to a researcher with a Ph.D., and the student should also work only half - time, for example by leading seminars, tutoring student groups, or working for the research lab of his or her professor.
It was also a pleasant surprise that all scientists at Lilly spend time working in the lab regardless of seniority, and that the company allows their employees time for academic pursuits such as writing chapters of books.
After 3 years of hard work in the lab, the time came for Jasperse to write up his PhD, but financial hardship meant he also had to find a day job.
At times White has done the work for the U.S. team for no charge, but he keeps his lab going with funding from other projects, such as a study he did for an elliptical bike maker to examine whether the product maintained fitness in high - level athletes, working with collegiate teams, and donations from former rowers.
By the time patients show up and get blood work done, the virus is often no longer detectable and the antibodies that could be picked up by a CDC lab may look like those for the more common dengue.
He stayed in the Baulcombe lab for about a year, the time it took to obtain a permanent position from the French National Center for Scientific Research (CNRS) to work at the Institut de Biologie Molculaire des Plantes in Strasbourg and a CNRS ATIP grant so he could start an independent lab rather than join an existing one.
After interviewing for a position as a Ph.D. candidate at one of the top ancient DNA labs, she was offered a spot — but in the meantime she had also received an invitation from Thomas Gilbert, who was just starting out at the time and has since become a leader in the field, to work with him at the University of Copenhagen.
Knowing that my time was limited helped give me a «get on your horse» attitude for lab work.
Private industry is coming to academia, and it would not be unusual for a student to work in the lab of a faculty member who also is associated with a start - up company, or to see someone leave their faculty position to work in industry full - time.
I set deadlines for drafts of each thesis section, and I make it clear that I expect students to read and write outside the lab: Lab time is for lab wolab: Lab time is for lab woLab time is for lab wolab work.
He has dozens of engineers from top industry and government labs in France working on his project for free in their spare time.
Those hoping for quick clinical success should remember it takes time for revolutionary treatments to go from lab bench to bedside, says Andras Nagy, a stem cell researcher at Mount Sinai Hospital's Lunenfeld — Tanenbaum Research Institute in Toronto, who has not been directly involved in Yamanaka's work.
The force coefficients generated by the wing are «about two to three times greater than a static airfoil wing used for large airplanes,» said Kamal Viswanath, a co-author who was a graduate research assistant working with Tafti when the work was performed and is now a research engineer at the U.S. Naval Research Lab's Laboratories for Computational Physics and Fluid Dynamics.
NREL Scientist Chunmei Ban spends a lot of time in the electrochemical storage lab for her work improving lithium - ion batteries through the use of nanomaterials.
During the second year of my PhD work, it was time to think about a lab for my postdoc.
«Actually, 30 percent of my time in Tokyo was spent working on stuff for my lab in Seattle.
For her debut article for Science Careers, Laura S. Malisheski talked to 11 scientists who work part - time or have otherwise made adjustments to their schedules to be in the lab less and at home moFor her debut article for Science Careers, Laura S. Malisheski talked to 11 scientists who work part - time or have otherwise made adjustments to their schedules to be in the lab less and at home mofor Science Careers, Laura S. Malisheski talked to 11 scientists who work part - time or have otherwise made adjustments to their schedules to be in the lab less and at home more.
I chose to work in the lab part of the time, and I hope it's not for the worse.
At Kumho Life and Environmental Science Lab in Kwangju, for example, 10 of its 55 workers are paid by the program and work alongside full - time employees to crystallize proteins, breed transgenic plants, and conduct studies on environmental stress signals.
A relatively low - risk strategy for testing the waters of overseas working could be to spend some time in another lab during your PhD.
«Plants have, for a long time, provided us with valuable products like food, biofuels, construction materials and the oxygen we breathe,» notes plant biologist turned chemical engineer Juan Pablo Giraldo, a postdoctoral fellow in the research lab at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology who did the work.
«This line of work is starting to change our thinking about who and when — the timing and patient selection for anti-androgen receptor therapy in triple - negative breast cancer,» says Valerie Barton, the study's first author and PhD candidate in the lab of CU Cancer Center investigator Jennifer Richer, PhD.
«If we can show that quantum effects survive for a long time in biological molecules and work out how that happens, then we can use that information to design better quantum computers in the lab,» he says.
Amanda Curtis drew up a life plan in college that included studying biology in preparation for «spending time in the lab, working on a cure for cancer.»
Koziol alleges that he criticized her work and character, didn't help her make up for the lost time, gave her «angry looks when passing in the lab,» didn't list her as a contributor to a Nature article, and threatened to fire and «destroy» her,» Enserink wrote.
«The notifications will not be fast initially — not fast enough for early warning — but it puts into place the technology to deliver the alerts and we can then work toward making them faster and faster as we improve our real - time detection system within MyShake,» said project leader Richard Allen, a UC Berkeley professor of earth and planetary sciences and director of the seismology lab.
His being in Bangalore full time makes it possible for us to carry out our work in our lab at Stanford as well as our lab in India.»
I spend «down» time reading papers, chatting science with my lab mates or advisor, or getting other work done (at the beginning of my graduate career, this was class assignments or grading for my teaching assignments... lately, it's writing!).
To bring this technology to the UK for the first time, we'll be funding Professor Dive's team to work with Professor Kuhn and his colleagues to set up identical labs in Manchester and USC, with real - time sharing of research data and experimental procedures — principles that we know are central to the Moonshot's success.
When you work in the lab, [it's like] you bang your head against the wall for weeks at a time, working on a state - of - the - art circuit, for example,» Mavalvala told MIT's site in 2014.
Towards the end of my PhD, I was given the opportunity to move away from the UK for the first time, and did so, since I was mostly attracted by the exciting work that was being published by the Ettema - Lab (but also to escape the impending doom of Brexit!)
For some high school students, this is their first time working in a lab, let alone on a neural engineering project.
Many doctors will be willing to follow you with lab work and diagnostics for a defined period of time while you try alternative methods, but since they're bound by a defined standard of care (and can be sued if they don't follow it and something bad happens) they may only feel comfortable doing this for a short period of time, or only if your symptoms are mild.
I had been on a health journey for a long time, researching, upgrading and seeing practitioners but the functional lab work was the missing piece for me.
The conference just ended yesterday and I'm spending today getting organized for the next portion of my time here, which is to pay a visit to my old PhD stomping ground — Leigh Marine Lab — where I'm giving a lecture and working on a consultancy project for their Visitors Centre.
I took a few part - time jobs as a production assistant there and also started working part - time in an anatomy and physiology lab in order to support myself, before realizing that if I wanted to work for National Geographic, I needed to get myself to Washington, DC, the headquarters.
Our matching labs are always working overtime to ensure we find the most compatible matches for you and with that your chances of finding that perfect «other half» increases each time.
The teenage Reed (Miles Teller) soon gets poached by a top - secret nerd lab run by Dr. Franklin Storm (Reg E. Cathey), where he's put to work developing the big - time interdimensional version of his toy, for a project instigated by the moody Victor Von Doom (Toby Kebbell).
We've dedicated Friday afternoons as open lab time for students to work on self - directed projects.
Mission Lab helps to break down these barriers and create time and space for teachers to work together.
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