Yellowlees is dismayed at the number of women
leaving careers in science.
Al - Hakim set out to explore alternatives and spent a year of his post-doctoral talking to as many people as he could, including those who had
left a career in science.
Not exact matches
Sometimes I forget why I chose a
career in science and there are days when I seriously consider
leaving.
Tooling Up Book Club: Alternative
Careers in Science: Leaving the Ivory Tower by Peter Fiske, 22 May 1998 Science Careers columnist Peter Fiske discussed a book that dashes the stereotypes that scientists who go for alternative careers have necessarily had bad research experiences, don't purposefully seek out careers that are better suited to them than academia, and do not find ways to stay close to exciting s
Careers in Science: Leaving the Ivory Tower by Peter Fiske, 22 May 1998 Science Careers columnist Peter Fiske discussed a book that dashes the stereotypes that scientists who go for alternative careers have necessarily had bad research experiences, don't purposefully seek out careers that are better suited to them than academia, and do not find ways to stay close to exciting s
Science:
Leaving the Ivory Tower by Peter Fiske, 22 May 1998
Science Careers columnist Peter Fiske discussed a book that dashes the stereotypes that scientists who go for alternative careers have necessarily had bad research experiences, don't purposefully seek out careers that are better suited to them than academia, and do not find ways to stay close to exciting s
Science Careers columnist Peter Fiske discussed a book that dashes the stereotypes that scientists who go for alternative careers have necessarily had bad research experiences, don't purposefully seek out careers that are better suited to them than academia, and do not find ways to stay close to exciting s
Careers columnist Peter Fiske discussed a book that dashes the stereotypes that scientists who go for alternative
careers have necessarily had bad research experiences, don't purposefully seek out careers that are better suited to them than academia, and do not find ways to stay close to exciting s
careers have necessarily had bad research experiences, don't purposefully seek out
careers that are better suited to them than academia, and do not find ways to stay close to exciting s
careers that are better suited to them than academia, and do not find ways to stay close to exciting
sciencescience.
It's called Alternative
Careers in Science:
Leaving the Ivory Tower.
I attended the daylong «National Convocation on Revitalizing the University - Industry - Government Partnership
in Support of Research
in Science, Engineering, and Medicine»
in hopes of learning about initiatives to help students and postdocs who are preparing to
leave academe and find
careers in those other, unfamiliar sectors.
* Wilfredo Colón is on
leave from his position as associate professor
in the Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
in Troy, New York, where he was profiled by
Science Careers in April 2007.
Some young scientists
leave research altogether for
careers in science communication, journalism, editing, and school teaching.
«So when somebody
in a
science career asks, why did you
leave bench
science, I don't believe I did.
Throughout his training and his young
career, Baumberg (pictured
left) has always sought to make connections among research disciplines, and — just as important — he has sought environments that support his openness, curiosity, and broad interest
in science.
She had started a biological and biomedical
sciences doctoral program at Harvard Medical School
in Boston — but her insecurities and the feeling that she was ill - prepared prompted her to take a
leave of absence to reevaluate her life and
career goals, not knowing whether she would return.
One such student, for example, was a Ph.D. chemist who
left the National Aeronautics and Space Administration to pursue a
career in photography and eventually entered the MIT program with the hope of resuming his
career in science.
In the Netherlands, far too many excellent female natural
science students
leave research, sometimes under the impression that it is impossible to combine a research
career with family life.
Because of Diola Bagayoko's (pictured
left) expertise
in educational theory and physics, his wife thought that he would be the perfect person to help undergraduates, especially African - Americans and other underrepresented minorities at Southern University
in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, start their
careers in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM).
Lori Ihrig (
left) explains the constraints new
science teachers face
in the first two years of their
career.
Planetary scientist Michael A'Hearn passed away on Monday, May 29,
leaving a remarkable legacy
in cometary
science — but even more importantly
in the
careers of many younger scientists who flourished with his encouragement and mentorship.
Her passion was (and is)
science, having
left a promising research
career in the United States to help Syria build its own
science community.
Once I
left the Navy, I did have a period where I gained about 15 - 20 pounds, but I quickly realized it was because I had become more stagnant as I enrolled
in university to pursue a
career in science.
This work will require different types of union contracts and compensation that pay more to teachers
in shortage areas like math and
science and disproportionally increase salaries for the early
career teachers and principals
in high need schools who are most likely to
leave the profession.
I've recently decided to
leave a lucrative
career in business consulting and network administration to pursue my passion of Computer
Science.