Sentences with phrase «of faculty scientists»

Failure to succeed in these efforts will have bad consequences for the career of any faculty scientist.

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The church needs more priests like him, some for example who could head a new faculty dedicated to training scientists in theology and also overseeing the recruitment and scientific training of seminarians and clergy who have the aptitude and the wish to become experts in branches of science.

Despite finding that underreporting continues to be what she wrote in two 2013 studies to be an «alarming» and «overwhelming» problem, Dr. Johna Register - Mihalik, a research scientist and member of the faculty at the Matthew Gfeller Sport - Related TBI Research Center at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, recently told MomsTEAM that the reason she and her colleagues did not recommend the use of impact sensors in addressing the problem was that she viewed «the use of impact sensors in concussion detection, as the science, although a growing field of information, [as] just not quite there in [terms of] how the [y] may best be used from a clinical standpoint and across all sport settings.»

Scott Hale is a data scientist at the Oxford Internet Institute and a faculty fellow of the Turing Institute.

AAAS implemented the MWIRC program, with support and funding from the National Science Foundation (NSF), with the goal to foster participation of U.S. female scientists and engineers in international science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) research and education collaborations, particularly female STEM faculty from underrepresented minority groups and with physical disabilities.

«A lack of diversity at the faculty level is an enormous problem in biomedical science, so I applaud HHMI's efforts to support junior scientists from underrepresented backgrounds,» writes Jessica Polka, president of the Future of Research board of directors, in an email to Science Careers.

A new program aims to launch the careers of diverse life scientists — including women and members of other underrepresented groups — by providing up to 8 years of support, covering both the postdoctoral training and junior faculty stages.

Now, an Indiana University faculty member who studies the spread of misinformation online is joining prominent legal scholars, social scientists and researchers in a global «call to action» in the fight against it.

This view needs to change, and more positions need to be created for the increasing number of qualified scientists who are not interested in opening their own labs or who do not secure the few faculty positions available.

The project was led by three scientists: John Harley, MD, PhD, Director of the Center for Autoimmune Genomics and Etiology (CAGE) at Cincinnati Children's and a faculty member of the Cincinnati VA Medical Center; Leah Kottyan, PhD, an immunobiology expert with CAGE; and Matthew Weirauch, PhD, a computational biologist with the center.

Trained as a psychologist, she works part - time as a research scientist at the Nathan S. Kline Institute for Psychiatric Research in Orangeburg, New York, and she holds a faculty appointment as a professor of psychiatry at the New York University School of Medicine.

Today's funding system, adopted by the federal government in the wake of World War II, initially focused both on educating scientists to meet the nation's needs in an era when faculty openings were plentiful, and on encouraging faculty members to perform fundamental research.

Fellows represent the spectrum of career stages — from recent doctoral graduates to faculty on sabbatical and retired scientists, and sectors — from academia and industry to nonprofit organizations.

If you're a Ph.D. scientist who loves academia but doesn't want to become a professor, don't fret — there are plenty of diverse and challenging career paths to be pursued in institutions of higher learning that don't require a faculty appointment.

In a typical investigation, the RIO - led committee — made up mostly of faculty with relevant expertise — reconstructs the research behind a scientific result from its documentation (which may be sparse, cryptic, or fabricated)-- so the RIO job requires deep insight into how scientists work.

Expats are in good company: 40 to 80 per cent of faculty and scientists in Swiss institutes have been lured from other nations.

Laubenbacher should know; VBI just added one new research professor, bringing the number of permanent faculty to 15, as well as two visiting research scientists.

Nothing in Canada compels a university to absorb legal costs on behalf of faculty members or affiliates, but the government of Quebec may step in with funding, says the province's chief scientist, Rémi Quirion.

The motivations most frequently cited by investigators who withheld data were that sharing required too much effort (80 %) and that scientists needed to protect the ability of a graduate student, postdoctoral fellow, or junior faculty member to publish (64 %).

New faculty members and principal investigators should be wary of applying practices developed for industrial management to managing students, postdocs, and other scientists.

The presence on the faculty of successful, true physician - scientists is an even better indicator.

COPENHAGEN — Surely, one reason women scientists are relatively rare on university faculties — in academic leadership posts such as department chairs and deans, on the programs of scientific meetings, as experts interviewed by the media, on boards, and in other prominent positions — is that women are less visible than men.

But a new awareness of digital artistry is emerging, thanks to research by cognitive scientists that shows the extent to which aesthetically rich experiences enhance our mental faculties.

The ostensible goal of that arduous and anxiety - fraught procedure — and of the even more involved process of hiring and promoting faculty members at research universities — is to identify the next generation of productive scientists.

The Physician Scientist Training Program in Internal Medicine, a research - oriented residency training program at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis, has reported that more than 80 % of the residents who completed the program remained in academic medicine, and about 70 % of those had faculty positions at Washington University (4).

With several years of postdoctoral study under their belts, today's new science faculty members are, in purely scientific terms, better trained than any previous generation of newly independent scientists.

So, whether you still plan to work toward an eventual faculty position, or are considering instead the myriad of other options available to Ph.D. scientists, competition for the best jobs will be fierce, and graduates will need to emerge fully prepared from their Ph.D. cocoons.

He is dean of the science faculty at Monash University in Australia and lead scientist for research on developing bacteria - infected mosquitoes as a public health tool.

With the small number of tenure - track faculty positions available and the large number of Ph.D. holders in career limbo, many are advocating for increased numbers of staff scientist positions.

Last year, just before a strict hiring freeze took effect, UC Irvine's new Environment Institute announced a series of eight faculty searches seeking scientists who could conduct interdisciplinary research and interact with multiple departments.

Second, by comparing the number of faculty in the field to the number doing a postdoc — which besides being a training phase also serves as a holding pattern for scientists waiting and hoping for faculty jobs — we can get an idea of whether Ph.D. scientists have access to other career options they deem acceptable.

Scientists from leading universities, the National Academy of Sciences, and the White House are calling for faculty to move from traditional lecture - based teaching to active learning strategies.

Lim's team sits in the NUS Mechanobiology Institute and the faculty of engineering, and as he consults with biologists and clinicians as dictated by the nature of his various projects, he stresses the need for engineers and physical scientists to partner with medical doctors early and regularly in the innovation process.

«The opportunities to combine different materials to develop new functionalities are appealing,» said co-senior author Steven Louie, senior faculty scientist at Berkeley Lab's Materials Sciences Division and UC Berkeley professor of physics.

Despite decades of interest in diversifying science and engineering (S&E), the overwhelming majority of science and engineering faculty remain white males (see the Minority Scientists Network article,» Going Downhill»).

To reduce the surplus of young scientists seeking faculty posts and thus help to ease the crisis, the article proposed creating ««nonreplicating» staff scientist positions... as part of a legitimate career track.»

Trained as a psychologist, she works part - time as a research scientist at the Nathan Kline Institute for Psychiatric Research in Orangeburg, New York, and she holds a faculty appointment as a professor of psychiatry at the New York University School of Medicine.

When the bubble burst, it wasn't just little dot - coms that were hurt; a lot of corporate research labs closed, too, and many of those experienced, skilled corporate scientists are now competing with you for faculty jobs.

The list of specialties that will be brought together is deep and broad: beyond a swathe of biological sciences, they include physical scientists, chemists, mathematicians, engineers, and material scientists from 130 research groups in several faculties, hospitals, and research institutes.

If left unchecked, wrote Susan Gerbi of Brown University; Howard Garrison of the Federation of American Societies for Experimental Biology (FASEB); and John P. Perkins, now deceased, of the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, the «perception that the postdoctoral period is a holding pattern» and not the route to a faculty career could drive young scientists away from academe and threaten a crucial source of skilled personnel for the academic research enterprise.

For decades, the conventional wisdom was that increasing the number of minority scientists requires addressing every aspect of the pipeline — from elementary school through hiring and promoting faculty members.

When at sea, we were treated to some 25 sessions with a diverse faculty, including Larry Cahill, neurobiologist at the University of California, Irvine; Robert Fovell, atmospheric and oceanic scientist at U.C.L.A.; James Gillies, head of communications at CERN; Peter Smith, professor emeritus of planetary sciences at the University of Arizona; and David Stevenson, planetary scientist at the California Institute of Technology.

Experienced investigators support the use of PM techniques in the laboratory far more than younger scientists — postdocs and new faculty — who often express intense skepticism.

For the reputational rankings, NRC asked more than 16,000 scientists to assess the quality of the faculty and the relative change in program strength over the past 5 years for as many as 52 programs.

For one thing, tenured faculty play fundamental roles in developing the future of a department, according to Michael Hayden, director and senior scientist at the Centre for Molecular Medicine and Therapeutics and professor in the Department of Medical Genetics at The University of British Columbia.

Cost studies by faculty scientists at MIT provide the underpinning of the findings, which suggest that advanced reactor systems in the future might be able to recycle waste.

«The fact of the matter is that while many young scientists want to perform research and join the faculty of large universities, there are not enough of those positions to go around,» said Blaser.

Ron Graham, once the chief scientist for AT&T, is a siteswapper, as is a good portion of the math faculty at Reed College in Portland, Oregon.

The limiting factor on young scientists» abilities to start academic research careers is thus the number of available faculty positions, which over recent decades has fallen farther and farther behind the number of scientists the system is producing.

From the institution's viewpoint, the program affords a way of evaluating young scientists» suitability for its faculty without the high - stakes risk of dedicated lab space and 4 or 5 years of start - up costs for an untried new assistant professor.