There's not a lot of similarity between the
world of the academic scientist and that of his or her industry counterpart, yet their training develops along similar — often identical — paths.
Albert Fischer, a Swiss - American oceanographer who speaks French and English and is learning Spanish, has been working for 2 years at the UNESCO Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission (IOC) in Paris, where he co-ordinates a
group of academic scientists charged with deploying a global ocean - observation system to help predict the climate.
Jeremy M. Boss, Ph.D., and Susan H. Eckert, Ph.D., are the authors
of Academic Scientists at Work: Navigating the Biomedical Research Career
Previous social science research has focused on the
views of academic scientists and those working at elite universities while studies of religous views of science have focused primarily on the issue of evolution, said Ecklund.
BN: Results that are novel are more likely to be published, and the primary
currency of an academic scientist is a publication — a good publication record in prestigious journals helps you get a good academic job, funding and awards.
«I know personally
dozens of academic scientists... who have unanswered questions about the risk issues,» said Doug Gurian - Sherman, a senior scientist in the Food and Environment Program at the Union of Concerned Scientists, in an interview after the Lynas speech.
The limitations have to do with the tightening of government money to support research and the structural
problem of academic scientists who continue to work well beyond the usual retirement age of 65.
Like other big pharma companies, Pfizer is partnering with academic institutions to share the risk of drug development and take
advantage of academic scientists» broad base of knowledge, says Boston - based Anthony Coyle, vice president of the Centers for Therapeutic Innovation (CTI) at Pfizer.
In her 11 August response, Barr questioned whether the special agent who conducted the investigation «can be an impartial
evaluator of academic scientists, or anyone with liberal political beliefs.»
The
role of academic scientists in this process has largely been to explain the genetic / cellular basis of diseases for identifying useful targets and provide new chemical and computational methods to improve the pharmacological profile of potential drugs.
This capture of EPA was not limited to the selection of a few supportive political appointees, but rather penetrated into the career civil service and even to the supposedly non-partisan EPA Science Advisory Board (SAB) composed
primarily of academic scientists.
Founded by a small international
group of academic scientists, we aim to build a new class of optical telescope powerful enough to see continents on exoplanets like Proxima b.
But economists tell us that the world of Major League Baseball bears a strong resemblance, in structural terms at least, to
that of academic scientists.
That something like 90 %
of academic scientists are liberals, hence alarmists, explains a lot here.