Sentences with phrase «of junior faculty»

Litia Perta and EFA Project Space are grateful to the University of California, Irvine Hellman Fellowship Award for their generous support of this exhibition and for their continued support of junior faculty across the University of California system.

His current research focuses on job satisfaction of junior faculty as part of the Ed School's Study of New Scholars, for which he is the coprincipal investigator.

Katie Davis, Ed.D.» 11, recently received the National Science Foundation's Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) award, the NSF's most prestigious award in support of junior faculty who exemplify the role of teacher - scholars through outstanding research, excellent education, and the integration of education and research within the context of the mission of their organizations.

The number of senior faculty positions in the Arts and Sciences college at Yale has remained fairly constant since 1992, the number of junior faculty members has decreased by over 20 %, and the number of postdocs has increased by over 200 %.

The length of the probation period isn't the only concern of junior faculty members; many have made it clear to UTFA that they aren't satisfied with the level of support they currently receive from the administration.

The single least expected and most significant finding of our study of junior faculty was that their success — defined as tenure or extension of contract — is a function not of how well they perform but of decisions the institution makes before they arrive.

We also interviewed cohorts of junior faculty in three theological schools over a three - year period, as well as assorted junior faculty in other seminaries.

Not exact matches

Before her stint in Washington, Canales served as the executive director of the Maverick County Development Corporation in Texas and was an adjunct faculty member for Southwest Texas Junior College for seven years.

Our studies of graduate students and junior faculty show that they often view themselves as service providers rather than professors on a long - term mission.

In only one or two cases did sponsored faculty in good jobs mess up so badly that their colleagues did not want to retain them; and in only one or two instances did junior faculty manage to overcome the handicap of appointment to a junk job.

We also noticed that some junior faculty had been carefully chosen for their potential to fit the school's culture; these usually got a lot of attention from powerful senior faculty after they arrived.

After reassuring that enough qualified applicants are available, she warns of the current dangerous practice of replacing full - time tenured faculty with part - time adjunct faculty, and the importance of seminaries nurturing faculty members» sense of vocation, particularly junior faculty.

«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.

Ansari found refuge with some junior faculty members and postdocs in Dartmouth's Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences.

A recent posting for a tenure - track junior faculty position in my department attracted more than 200 applications, a frightening number in and of itself.

The Chicago Guide to Your Academic Career: A Portable Mentor for Scholars From Graduate School Through Tenure, by John Goldsmith, John Komlos, and Penny Schine Gold (University of Chicago Press, 2001), aspires to give graduate students and junior faculty a candid introduction to an academic career

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 %).

You've heard good, bad, and ugly stories from postdocs as they navigate the murky area between the roles of student and junior faculty, between trainee and professional, and between apprentice and employee, often with the burdens of each role and the benefits of none.

By most accounts, the limited funds for the hiring of postdocs and junior faculty make such positions competitive, and this holds true for the neurosciences.

«Some institutions [in the United States] are no longer recruiting junior - level faculty who don't have their own grant support,» says Michael Lehman, chair of the Department of Anatomy and Cell Biology at the University of Western Ontario and president - elect of the Association for Neuroscience Departments and Programs (ANDP).

Provide an appropriate faculty member or more senior graduate student as a mentor to create a sense of belonging, and give the student a chance to be a mentor to a more junior graduate student.

The low minority representation in mentoring positions in science directly dictates the feeling of isolation that most minority students, postdoctoral fellows, and junior faculty experience.

The postdoctoral and junior - faculty years correspond with the prime childbearing years, and most of the part - time researchers interviewed for this article adapted their work schedules so that they could pursue a scientific career and raise a family

Many junior faculty, especially women in the sciences, say that they fear being stigmatized if they take advantage of such provisions.

At one prestigious university they studied, the «math department hired local junior college faculty to offer a number of courses as overloads.

She recently completed a national survey of doctoral candidates and junior faculty that examines how they make choices about working within or outside of the academy and what factors they use when deciding among more than one academic offer.

A U.S. Appeals Court ruling in a University of Chicago case has lowered the barrier for court review of claims by postdoctoral students and junior faculty that they have been denied financial rewards from discoveries in which they have participated.

You finally landed that junior faculty job, hired a technician and a postdoc, and signed up a couple of graduate students to help take you and your lab boldly into the new millennium.

Although the original specification of the funding was to enhance graduate student education, Stewart says it is clear that «we do need to provide these opportunities for postdocs and to mentor junior faculty.»

To counter similar problems in his own institution, Jack Child, director of the Center for Teaching Excellence at American University in Washington, D.C., pairs new junior faculty members with established faculty members in departments other than their own.

To help you get started you might want to get a copy of a lab set - up list from another junior faculty member in your area of research who has recently set up his or her own lab.

So you battled through your postdoc position and landed a junior faculty spot in the university of your choice.

«As an untenured junior faculty member, there's a lot of pressure,» Motyl says.

Aside from the satisfaction of nurturing students who go on to excel in their chosen field, mentoring helps to establish junior faculty within the scientific community, attract and retain new students, and generate consistently good research.

A prime example is a candidate who wants to work with a talented but junior faculty member who has but a short view of the career trajectory and not much of a track record.

To answer that question, Basson and a team of colleagues, which includes Dr. William P. Newman, chair emeritus of the SMHS Department of Internal Medicine, and Dr. Daniel Persinger, a surgical resident at the time the research was performed and currently an SMHS junior faculty member in surgery, got to work.

Mohammed Razzaque, a junior faculty member in the Harvard School of Dental Medicine, has a pithy response.

«Usually at the junior faculty level,» she says, «the couple themselves have decided that one of them is going to look for the best job they can, and the other is going to be willing to take a research faculty position or a lectureship.»

They would also like to see a form of joint supervision (e.g., a professor and a more junior faculty member working together), moving away from the traditional model of one supervisor.

HMC's new women — indeed, all of HMC's new tenure - track hires — have an advantage over new faculty at other colleges and universities, particularly at some elite universities where junior faculty have very little chance of achieving tenure.

While still a resident in internal medicine at Brigham and Women's Hospital in Boston and a junior faculty member at the Harvard School of Public Health, the economist - turned - doctor researched various attempts since the 1960s to create a combined measure of impairment, illness and death.

For junior faculty members who find it difficult to deal with a variety of commitments, the solution is simple.

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.

Having 3 years of funding also allows new junior faculty members to focus on a long - term research agenda instead of scrambling for immediate funding.

The paper was not important for either of the two faculty members, but it was crucial for the career of a junior colleague who had contributed to the research.

Moreover, junior faculty members at U of T receive little formal faculty mentoring or career development support from the administration or their tenured colleagues.

Every day for 2 months, she questioned senior and junior faculty members on the basic and clinical ends of the research spectrum — no small task for someone working 13 - hour days, typically without a break.

«When you are a junior faculty [member] and you have a family and children and large medical school debts, even if you want to be a physician - scientist, the thought of private practice or industry definitely crosses your mind,» says Vonderheide, who is now an associate professor of medicine and an investigator at the Abramson Family Cancer Research Institute at the University of Pennsylvania.

The lack of visible mentors translates to junior faculty and postdocs as well.