As
a member of the Scientific Careers Research and Development Group, he is interested in issues pertaining to scientific training and careers, particularly those related to improving diversity.
Not exact matches
Now that the more privileged
members of the
scientific community — those likely to chat with top administrators — have begun to fear for their own pocketbooks and
careers, more people are taking note.
Steven Rosenberg, chief
of surgery at NCI, riveted everyone's attention by recounting the varied success
of treating patients with tumor - infiltrating lymphocytes and then took a few moments to address audience
members about advancing their
scientific careers.
Attend
career panels on your campus or at conferences for your
scientific society, and, most importantly, set up one - on - one informational interviews with scientists who have transitioned into
careers you find interesting; you'll end up better informed but also with a new
member of your network.
She provides education and training for SEB
members and the wider
scientific community, edits the membership's newsletter, handles public relations and policy advocacy, and conducts
career management workshops to enhance the employability
of postgraduates and postdocs.
The consensus prevailed among the
members of the Ringberg Circle that the quality
of teaching should be evaluated in standardized terms and that the results
of this evaluation should contribute to the
career of university teachers in the same way as
scientific success in terms
of publication numbers.
In most cases, it is next to impossible for a U.S. citizen to work as a paid
member of the
scientific staff in a
career position at either an academic institution or European laboratory such as a Max Plank institute or the European synchrotron light sources.
«I believe the
career I have carved out for myself will help pave the way for future generations
of underrepresented minority scientists to thrive, and for all
members of the
scientific community to be more culturally sensitive than those who came before them,» Smith wrote in a column published in the 30 September edition
of Science disclosing his own experiences with bias.
► Also in this week's STM, Ambika Mathur and four coauthors (including Cynthia Fuhrmann, a
member of the team that created Science
Careers» myIDP), describe NIH's Broadening Experiences in
Scientific Training (BEST) program, which aims «to enhance
career preparation for graduate pre - and postdoctoral biomedical research trainees.»
Long considered the capstone
of a
scientific career in China, election to the Chinese Academy
of Sciences (CAS) confers so much prestige on those anointed that organizations often try to recruit CAS
members or reward their own with a guarantee
of lifetime employment.
Nearly 100 friends, colleagues, and family
members of the late physicist Bill Willis traveled from around the world to Brookhaven Lab on April 26 for a symposium to honor Willis»
scientific career.
In this meeting, more than 30 internationally renowned plenary and keynote speakers from Europe, Asia, Africa, Latin America, Middle East and the US will deliver state -
of - the - art lectures, while the
scientific program is enriched with a
career development and three interactive sessions, where
members of the Faculty will engage into lively discussions with the summer school participants about issues related to
career advancement and key topics related to the theme
of this meeting, respectively.
This award recognizes a deserving
member for a remarkable
career of scientific achievement and for contributions to AAI and the field
of immunology.
The chairman and another
member of the House Committee on Energy and Commerce, in an apparent effort to discredit the findings reported by three distinguished scientists from respected universities, demanded that the scientists send Congress all
of the
scientific data they have gathered in their entire
careers, even data on studies unrelated to their publications on global warming.