Sentences with phrase «obtain tenure track»

In total most life scientists will invest 12 — 14 years in low - paid training positions and only 14 % will obtain tenure track jobs (Miller McCune, the real science gap).

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Only one in three women who takes a tenure - track job before having a child ever becomes a mother, and women who obtain tenure are more than twice as likely as their male colleagues to be childless twelve years after earning their doctorates.

As a result, it is commonplace for MD / PhD psychiatrists or neurologists to obtain fully independent, tenure - track assistant professorships — at the top universities in the country — within 4 or 5 years of their graduation from medical school.

However, academic jobs, including both tenure - track and nontenure - track positions, make up only 42 % of jobs obtained by former postdocs.

The three surveys also reveal that postdocs on the job market prior to 2007 had higher success rates for obtaining tenure - track positions than those on the market in 2008 and later, indicating that such posts are becoming more scarce than ever before.

The fellowship is one of NASA's most prestigious early career awards and it comes with $ 100,000 of laboratory start up funds that Steve can use once he obtains a tenure - track or equivalent permanent position.

There should be alternative routes that create niches for experimentalists and the increasing numbers of devoted scientists who either do not want to open their own labs or are not able to obtain one of the rare tenure - track faculty positions.

One study of the progress of junior LTSA scientists, however, indicated that this goal has not, in fact, been achieved: 5 Junior LTSA scientists have been substantially less successful in obtaining tenure - track faculty positions than their peers with named fellowships, such as the Hubble fellowships.