Sentences with phrase «more staff scientist»

Creating more staff scientist positions will be an ongoing challenge because long - held traditions create cultural barriers to change, and limited funding reinforces the use of more affordable postdocs.

As we've reported what seems like countless times, numerous reports and studies on postdocs» plight have called for raising their pay to the neighborhood of $ 50,000 and reducing their numbers (while creating more staff scientist positions).

In each case, an expert group calls for, among other things, supporting more postdocs and graduate students on training grants and fellowships instead of on professors» research grants, employing more staff scientists in permanent posts and fewer temporary trainees to do scientific work, providing higher pay and better working conditions for postdocs, and publishing information on the career outcomes of departments» and labs» graduate students and postdocs.

Tilghman, however, thinks the changes proposed in the article — they also proposed utilizing more staff scientists in academic labs — might even have the opposite effect.

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More than 4,000 scientists, researchers, engineers, students, faculty and staff currently work at the complex.

He currently has two Ph.D. - level scientists on his staff and open positions for three more.

NIH should limit support for graduate students to 5 years (and another 5 years for postdocs), the report says, and NIH and institutions should use fewer trainees and rely more on permanent staff scientists.

«Managers of forensic science labs should consider ways to minimize the overtime that scientists work, though this may be difficult if scientists must work more than 40 hours a week to clear backlogs or because of state mandates and a lack of trained staff to more evenly distribute hours,» Holt said.

«Each mission became more scientifically productive as the program went on,» says Paul Spudis, senior staff scientist at the Lunar and Planetary Institute in Houston.

Some of these include higher and more predictable federal research funding, shorter graduate and postdoc training periods, greater use of staff scientists, and better career training for students and postdocs.

Participants also noted that staff scientists are much more common at research institutes in other countries, such as Germany's Max Planck Institutes, where grants to institutions rather than to individual investigators are a common funding mechanism.

Staff scientists can climb a clear career ladder, with the responsibilities becoming more similar to those of a PI at each step.

Science & the Public Science News Staff March for Science will take scientists» activism to a new level Historians called it an «unprecedented» event (SN Online: 4/19/17): More than 1 million people marched in support of science on April 22.

The new IRI director, Brazilian meteorologist Antonio Divino Moura, and his 15 to 20 staff scientists will use supercomputers to develop global projections of several months or more of precipitation, temperature, and other climate variables, says Scripps climate scientist Nicholas Graham.

At the U.K.'s Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh, more than 60 staff scientists, postdocs, and Ph.D. students carry out research on the classification of plants.

More than twenty years ago, AAAS created and has since administered the Congressional Science and Engineering Fellowship Program, which has sponsored more than 500 scientists and engineers who have worked on the staffs of more than 200 personal and committee offices in the House and SenMore than twenty years ago, AAAS created and has since administered the Congressional Science and Engineering Fellowship Program, which has sponsored more than 500 scientists and engineers who have worked on the staffs of more than 200 personal and committee offices in the House and Senmore than 500 scientists and engineers who have worked on the staffs of more than 200 personal and committee offices in the House and Senmore than 200 personal and committee offices in the House and Senate.

Gerbi, Stephan and others believe that the U.S. needs to establish «non-replicating» research organizations with many fewer temporary student and trainee lab workers and many more permanent career staff scientists.

Some research leaders have suggested that labs should rely more on staff scientists and less on the cheap labor of graduate students and postdocs.

The study — the largest ever conducted on the African forest elephant — includes the work of more than 60 scientists between 2002 and 2011, and an immense effort by national conservation staff who spent a combined 91,600 days surveying elephants in 5 countries (Cameroon, Central African Republic, the Democratic Republic of Congo, Gabon and the Republic of Congo), walking over 13,000 kilometers (more than 8,000 miles) and recording over 11,000 elephant dung piles for the analysis.

Salaries vary widely, but don't undervalue yourself — postdocs in industry earn far more than their academic counterparts, and staff scientist salaries are typically higher than those of junior academic faculty.

Tilghman, Rockey, and the others in the working group laid out several recommendations aimed at shortening and diversifying doctoral programs and postdoc positions, increasing the proportion of trainees supported by training grants and fellowships instead of research grants, collecting more data on career outcomes, improving postdoc salaries, and promoting the staff scientist career path.

«When I think about the tradeoff of a graduate student for a staff scientist who is already extremely well trained, who can work without constant supervision, who can really help train the younger people in the laboratory,... I actually think we'll be more productive,» she said.

An international team of scientists, including Uwe Strähle, Head of the Institute of Toxicology and Genetics (ITG) of KIT, and his staff members Dr. Olivier Amant and Dr. Marco Ferg, studied the processes associated with the start of transcription in zebrafish in more detail.

Andrew Howell, a staff scientist with the Las Cumbres Observatory Global Telescope Network in Santa Barbara, Calif., says that alternative origins for type Ia supernovae are becoming more compelling.

As a result, one leading national laboratory began to impose mandatory 2 - day - per - month «unpaid holidays» on its science staff, several laboratories began laying off researchers, the U.S. portion of the international program to develop plentiful energy through nuclear fusion was reduced to «survival mode,» America's firms continued to spend three times more on litigation than research, and many young would - be scientists presumably began reconsidering their careers.

At its height between 1960 and 1980, Polyarka was staffed by more than fifty working scientists, engineers, and technicians focused on measurements of surface weather, snow depth, sea ice, and conditions in the upper atmosphere.

As IRAM Director, he is responsible for a staff of more than 120 scientists, engineers, technicians and administrative personnel.

In all, an international team of more than 200 scientists, graduate students, and infrastructure staff took part in the field campaign.

One idea is to reduce the number of young scientists being trained for careers that don't exist, and to instead hire staff scientists to carry out more of the day - to - day lab work that the apprentices now perform.

Curious about these numbers, I looked more into the past decade of temperature records, and also spoke with Climate Central's staff scientists.

Dr. Brenner has oversight of more than 1300 faculty physicians, pharmacists and scientists; 7,500 staff; more than 750 medical and pharmacy students, and a health system that cares for approximately 125,000 patients annually.

Unfortunately, these low wages also make it so it is more cost - effective for PI's to pay postdocs as opposed to staff scientists.

Robarts has a long history of fostering an interdisciplinary approach to research enabled by state - of - the - art facilities, technologically advanced core laboratories, and more than 600 committed scientists, staff and research trainees.

Faculty members and institutions, for their part, should realize that the position of staff scientist does not imply a lack of scientific drive or disinterest in professional advancement and should strive to promote and nurture more of these positions.

Lab staff are qualified scientists, many with a decade or more of DNA testing experience

JCVI is a premier, not - for - profit genomics research institute with more than 200 scientists and staff in Rockville, Maryland and San Diego, California.

These institutions were representing CGIAR, which includes a global network of 15 international agricultural research centres and has more than 8,000 world - class scientists and staff operating in over 100 countries.

The GSF secretariat consists of a mere three full - time OECD staff persons, who are able to manage a half - dozen (or more) simultaneous activities in which the substantive work is done by designated government officials and invited scientists.

He is Founder, Chairman and President of the J. Craig Venter Institute (JCVI), a not - for - profit, research organization with more than 400 scientist and staff dedicated to human, microbial, plant, synthetic and environmental genomic research, as well as the exploration of social and ethical issues in genomics.

«More research should be done, but there is a growing body of evidence which suggests that women previously diagnosed with breast cancer should speak with their doctor about possibly limiting their consumption of alcohol,» says the lead researcher on the study, Marilyn L. Kwan, PhD, a staff scientist at Kaiser Permanente in Oakland.

A staff of more than 25 scientists and technicians work on behalf of ALS patients to discover and advance the best new ideas for stopping ALS.

The costuming is also on point, Lee is all business in angled short hair and crisp suits while the staff is dressed in relaxed and loose clothing with a lot of flannel that makes them all look more like camp counselors than scientists.

Each discussion will be kicked off by a short introduction written by the editorial staff, followed by a guest blog by two or more invited scientists.

The debate isn't happening — the way politics works probably guaranteed that outcome — but much credit goes to the organizers for at least getting answers from their campaign staffs to 14 questions on science and technology policy, winnowed from more than 3,400 questions submitted by scientists and concerned citizens.

The science committee majority staff, which had more than a dozen Ph.D. scientists during the Boehlert era, now was loaded with political operatives like Mark Marin, who had been deputy staff director for Rep. Darrell Issa (R - Calif.)

From October 2009 to April 2010, coal's influence peddlers held at least 33 meetings with White House OMB staff — three times more than meetings that included university scientists and environmentalists.

Our format Each discussion will be kicked off by a short introduction written by the editorial staff, followed by a guest blog by two or more invited scientists.

A dozen more requests for the same information makes demands on clerical support staff time, but doesn't impinge on the researcher / scientist who did the study / testing / paper / report in the first place.

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