Sentences with phrase «out of a career in science»

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Chicago's International Museum of Surgical Science has created a new exhibit, RX for Success, to reach out to kids as young as 8 and hopefully convince some of them to consider careers in health care.

The House of Commons Science and Technology Committee fared better, with 13 out of 31 committee witnesses being women (42 %); however this is likely to be because the subject of the sessions in question was «women in STEM careers».

As both Dave Jensen and I have stressed in past columns, the size and strength of your professional and personal network are critical to your success in any career — in or out of science.

In 2008, Science Careers offered readers worldwide a collection of articles illustrating scientific career opportunities in and out of research, advising readers on landing good jobs and excelling in scientific careers, and profiling scientists who succeeded in research as well as some who looked elsewhere for fulfillmenIn 2008, Science Careers offered readers worldwide a collection of articles illustrating scientific career opportunities in and out of research, advising readers on landing good jobs and excelling in scientific careers, and profiling scientists who succeeded in research as well as some who looked elsewhere for fulfiCareers offered readers worldwide a collection of articles illustrating scientific career opportunities in and out of research, advising readers on landing good jobs and excelling in scientific careers, and profiling scientists who succeeded in research as well as some who looked elsewhere for fulfillmenin and out of research, advising readers on landing good jobs and excelling in scientific careers, and profiling scientists who succeeded in research as well as some who looked elsewhere for fulfillmenin scientific careers, and profiling scientists who succeeded in research as well as some who looked elsewhere for fulficareers, and profiling scientists who succeeded in research as well as some who looked elsewhere for fulfillmenin research as well as some who looked elsewhere for fulfillment.

At least since the Lisbon strategy was adopted in 2000, the people who hold the purse strings of European science have been trying to figure out how to convince ambitious and successful researchers at the start of their independent careers to put down roots in Europe rather than North America.

Conferences are also one of the standard ways of getting your work out to its target audience — and that's key to the kind of visibility and recognition that scientists need for their careers to grow, says Donna Dean, a retired senior adviser for the U.S. National Institutes of Health (NIH) who now works as an executive consultant for the Association for Women in Science (AWIS) and a career consultant for the American Chemical Society (ACS).

Her point throughout the book is to map out some of the many paths that a «career» in science can take and then to highlight some of the challenges that may lie in wait for the unaware young scientist.

I had always enjoyed the sciences in school, particularly biology, but I had never expected to make a career out of it.

She also encourages early - career scientists to volunteer in the local school system or science museum — another way of finding out if you like this kind of work.

We'll still create new content, we'll still provide news (though at a less frenetic pace), and we'll be ever vigilant in looking out for new developments, new ideas, and new ways of approaching old challenges that can help you succeed in your academic science career.

In one, e-mail invitat ions went out to members of AAAS, registrants with Science Careers, and visitors to Science's website who had registered with AAAS.

Michael Kelemen, a recruiter and host of the Recruiting Animal show, a call - in career development and recruiting radio show on BlogTalkRadio, told Science Careers, «These days it's about being first to hear about new jobs and making yourself stand out as a job candidate.

We must also increase the number of students of color coming out of high schools with an interest in science careers.

The idea that there is nothing new under the sun — in terms of figuring out exactly what problems there are and which barriers exist in terms of minority recruitment and retention in science and engineering careers — is highlighted when you look at the sheer number of reports that have been issued on the subject from both public and private entities.

► In this week's issue of STM, Arthur Levine, senior vice chancellor for the health sciences and dean of the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine in Pennsylvania, and 18 other U.S. academic medical center leaders wrote that «[u] nstable funding for biomedical research has created a hostile working environment that erodes the time available for investigators to conduct their research, discourages innovative high - risk science, threatens to drive established investigators out of U.S. academic biomedical research, and creates uncertainty for trainees and early - career investigatorIn this week's issue of STM, Arthur Levine, senior vice chancellor for the health sciences and dean of the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine in Pennsylvania, and 18 other U.S. academic medical center leaders wrote that «[u] nstable funding for biomedical research has created a hostile working environment that erodes the time available for investigators to conduct their research, discourages innovative high - risk science, threatens to drive established investigators out of U.S. academic biomedical research, and creates uncertainty for trainees and early - career investigatorin Pennsylvania, and 18 other U.S. academic medical center leaders wrote that «[u] nstable funding for biomedical research has created a hostile working environment that erodes the time available for investigators to conduct their research, discourages innovative high - risk science, threatens to drive established investigators out of U.S. academic biomedical research, and creates uncertainty for trainees and early - career investigators.

To young people considering a career in science, Europe's Chief Science Advisor Anne Glover says when you face challenges, remember the rewards of struggling with a concept then celebrating when you figure something out or make a disscience, Europe's Chief Science Advisor Anne Glover says when you face challenges, remember the rewards of struggling with a concept then celebrating when you figure something out or make a disScience Advisor Anne Glover says when you face challenges, remember the rewards of struggling with a concept then celebrating when you figure something out or make a discovery.

To this end, I use the «80:10:10» rule laid out by Science Careers columnist Peter Fiske in 1998: Devote 80 % of time to your current work, invest 10 % of your time learning something new, and dedicate the remainder of your time to networking.

Starting a science career from scratch with a family in tow turned out to be a huge challenge, and one that she could only manage with plenty of help from her family and colleagues.

The U.K. job market for first - degree graduates fresh out of university is showing signs of recovery, particularly in science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM) fields, according to a report released last week by the Higher Education Careers Services Unit and the Association of Graduate Careers Advisory Services in the United Kingdom.

Type 2 projects, involve educational research that closely examines factors that prompt undergraduates to drop out of the sciences, as well as factors that help them stay on to attain associate and bachelor's degrees in these disciplines, or otherwise to acquire more access to science and related careers.

After starting her career in computer science in the late 1980s, Jennifer Sheridan knows firsthand how a male - oriented culture can drive women out of the job.

In pursuit of a career as a medical science liaison for a pharmaceutical company, she sought out the chance to participate in clinical shadowing and conduct lab tours to learn and practice coveted skills like communication, time management, and relationship building, and to gain a better understanding of clinical practicIn pursuit of a career as a medical science liaison for a pharmaceutical company, she sought out the chance to participate in clinical shadowing and conduct lab tours to learn and practice coveted skills like communication, time management, and relationship building, and to gain a better understanding of clinical practicin clinical shadowing and conduct lab tours to learn and practice coveted skills like communication, time management, and relationship building, and to gain a better understanding of clinical practice.

In fact, it is more a symptom of the fact that your advisers simply lack much information about the other rewarding career paths that are out there for science Ph.D. s. Ignorance is a much easier problem to deal with than antipathy.

Turner argues that «both are exemplars of the kind of curiosity - driven science that gets scientists out of bed in the morning and inspires young people to careers in science by asking some of the deepest questions about how the universe began and the events that have shaped our existence,» he wrote.

Paula Stephan, an economist at Georgia State University in Atlanta and a member of the current report's modeling subcommittee (Stephan was also a member of that 1998 NRC committee), writes to Science Careers in an e-mail that it's «disappointing to see that NIH did not figure out a way to shift more funds into training grants and fellowships and away from research assistantship stipends» or «implement any requirement for limiting the amount of salary that can be written off of grants — something that could dampen the demand for graduate students.»

She branched out after a postdoc at the National Institutes of Health (NIH), joining Science's Next Wave (as Science Careers used to be called), where she served as manager of the Postdoc Network and was instrumental in creating the National Postdoctoral Association (NPA).

Daniel Schrag gets visitors all the time — graduate students in despair over their dissertations, fellow faculty members dropping by to chat about the Cretaceous sulfur cycle or some equally abstruse topic, or visiting scientists collaborating with him on one of the scores of scholarly papers he has churned out in a career that has earned him a professorship in Harvard's department of earth and planetary sciences and a MacArthur genius grant.

In every case, they were told to take the novel aim out, that it was too speculative, or too ambitious, or too unproven,» biochemist Gregory Petsko of Brandeis University in Waltham, Massachusetts, writes in an e-mail to Science CareerIn every case, they were told to take the novel aim out, that it was too speculative, or too ambitious, or too unproven,» biochemist Gregory Petsko of Brandeis University in Waltham, Massachusetts, writes in an e-mail to Science Careerin Waltham, Massachusetts, writes in an e-mail to Science Careerin an e-mail to Science Careers.

I can of course point out that a career in science policy could potentially impact more minorities and females than one in academia or industry.

«I believe the career I have carved out for myself will help pave the way for future generations of underrepresented minority scientists to thrive, and for all members of the scientific community to be more culturally sensitive than those who came before them,» Smith wrote in a column published in the 30 September edition of Science disclosing his own experiences with bias.

Presenters proposed changes in science education as a means to increase the number of young people around the world who pursue science careers, to foster innovation, and to provide skills geared to help meet the goals set out in the UN sustainability agenda.

During 2005, Science's Next Wave also offered more of the same: the same insights into career opportunities for scientists, in and out of the academic world and sometimes out of science Science's Next Wave also offered more of the same: the same insights into career opportunities for scientists, in and out of the academic world and sometimes out of science science itself.

Nine out of every 10 respondents reported staying in research or holding another science - related occupation for most of their post-fellowship careers.

Minority students looking for research experience and interested in math and science careers, should check out the Research Alliance in Math and Science Program, sponsored by Department of Energy's Oak Ridge Nationscience careers, should check out the Research Alliance in Math and Science Program, sponsored by Department of Energy's Oak Ridge NationScience Program, sponsored by Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Lab.

They may be at various stages of the careers, but they share a common fervour for solving theoretical or experimental problems in physics and have a determination to get out there and find good science.

The Greenwall Faculty Scholars Program in Bioethics is a career development award to enable outstanding junior faculty members to carry out original research that will help resolve important policy and clinical dilemmas at the intersection of ethics and the life sciences.

Her current area of research focuses on how youth in out - of - school - time science clubs, such as the Pulsar Search Collaboratory and Skynet Junior Scholars, learn to see themselves as scientists and choose to pursue careers in science.

My UNLV education marks the start and foundation of my professional science career, because the things I learned and the activities carried out in the department, were both practical and imaginative.

The report points out that «great strides have been made in enrolling more women in undergraduate courses, especially in the biological and chemical sciences (success has been more limited in the areas of physics, mathematics and engineering), there remains significant challenges in ensuring that the best women scientists are able to have fulfilling careers with increasing levels of responsibility, eventually taking up leadership and decision - making positions.»

As I continue to study a degree in psychological sciences, I have now created a career out of ThetaHealing by helping people to identify their blockages, releasing them and empowering them to create the life that each and every one of us deserves.

The first of the reports, carried out by Education Datalab, measured what the impact of a «modest» 5 per cent pay increase for early - career maths and science teachers in England would have been, had it been introduced in 2010.

While English and math remain at the core of the accountability system (joined, somewhat half - heartedly, by science), leaders in both countries also seek to round out children's education with other subjects, including career - enhancing skills.

SMB: We should take a page from the successful, ongoing efforts that address the lingering lag in girls» and women's participation in STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics) fields and leadership positions: 1) mentoring and role - modeling programs that involve more men in schools, particularly men who hold other than traditionally male jobs so that students see men in a variety of careers; 2) a national fathers» reading campaign to engage more fathers in reading to their children; and 3) increased funding for innovative programs that engage students in literacy activities in and out of school.

Al - Hakim set out to explore alternatives and spent a year of his post-doctoral talking to as many people as he could, including those who had left a career in science.

Oppenheim speaks of growing up in Washington and California, his father's Russian ancestry and education in China, his father's career in engineering, his mother's background and education in English, living in Richmond El Cerrito, his mother's love of the arts, his father's feelings toward Russia, standing out in the community, his relationship with his older sister, attending Richmond High School, demographics of El Cerrito, his interest in athletics during high school, fitting in with the minority class in Richmond, prejudice and cultural dynamics of the 1950s, a lack of art education and philosophy classes during high school, Rebel Without a Cause, Richmond Trojans, hotrod clubs, the persona of a good student, playing by the rules of the art world, friendship with Jimmy De Maria and his relationship to Walter DeMaria, early skills as an artist, art and teachers in high school, attending California College of Arts and Crafts, homosexuality in the 1950s and 1960s, working and attending art school, professors at art school, attending Stanford, early sculptural work, depression, quitting school, getting married, and moving to Hawaii, becoming an entrepreneur, attending the University of Hawaii, going back to art school, radical art, painting, drawing, sculpture, the beats and the 1960s, motivations, studio work, theory and exposure to art, self - doubts, education in art history, Oakland Wedge, earth works, context and possession, Ground Systems, Directed Seeding, Cancelled Crop, studio art, documentation, use of science and disciplines in art, conceptual art, theoretical positions, sentiments and useful rage, Robert Smithson and earth works, Gerry Shum, Peter Hutchinson, ocean work and red dye, breaking patterns and attempting growth, body works, drug use and hippies, focusing on theory, turmoil, Max Kozloff's «Pygmalion Reversed,» artist as shaman and Jack Burnham, sync and acceptance of the art world, machine works, interrogating art and one's self, Vito Acconci, public art, artisans and architects, Fireworks, dysfunction in art, periods of fragmentation, bad art and autobiographical self - exposure, discovery, being judgmental of one's own work, critical dissent, impact of the 1950s and modernism, concern about placement in the art world, Gypsum Gypsies, mutations of objects, reading and writing, form and content, and phases of development.

[ANDY REVKIN responds: I daresay I've brought Dr. Hansen's research and conclusions as much or more publicity over the course of his career than any other science writer, starting with a 6,000 - word cover story on global warming in Discover Magazine in 1988 that opened with his Senate testimony and continuing through the period when political appointees at NASA tried to stop him from speaking out.

Speaking out in support of science on global warming is a very bad career move, at least for anyone employed by the government.

As to the climatology rank and file, they either approve of the corruption of their science in the service of politics (most are Democrats, we saw earlier, thus have a more totalitarian outlook); and / or fear for their careers and grants should they dare to speak out.

To find out how you can get into a career in this area via a school leaver route see the science section and the public service section of TARGETcareers, our website aimed at school leavers.

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