Sentences with phrase «postdoc associations»

The poll did not specifically ask about the amount of postdoc association funding.

She added that she also enjoys working at the grassroots level, and that she looks forward to working with local postdoc associations and organizations to address their needs.

Overall, we found that the survey was a worthwhile endeavor that has influenced the direction and goals of our nascent postdoc association, fulfilling the survey's primary goal.

Individual postdoc associations could then include these standard questions in their local surveys, making it easier to compile results from these core questions nationally.

Of these institutions, 56 provided health benefits to all postdocs, 23 had postdoc offices, and 25 had an active postdoc association.

The two postdoc respondents were chairs of well - respected postdoc associations.

Also increasingly active in the career planning field, even on campuses that do not provide extensive services to postdocs, are local postdoc associations.

At the inaugural National Postdoc Association meeting, Keith Yamamoto, vice dean for research at the University of California, San Francisco, suggested we consider redefining the mission of graduate education.

Based on an interview with Kasey Davis, President of the Stanford Black Postdoc Association at Stanford University

Like any good researcher, Kasey looked for examples of other black postdoc associations at other institutions.

In the end, we brought together postdocs representing seven of the nine UC campuses, as well as a postdoc representing the Stanford University Postdoc Association.

See the Postdoc Network resources page for a list of postdoc surveys, including our recent meta - analysis of postdoc association surveys.

This article is based on and inspired by a presentation Mel Limson made at the inaugural National Postdoc Association meeting, held on 15 March 2003.

At present NPA is «really just starting» and is «forming collaborations with institutional postdoc associations and investigating their needs,» says Carol Manahan, chair of the executive board.

As academic administrators and postdoc associations focus their attention on these issues, it has become clear that the sharing of information and practices between institutions would be very helpful, both to avoid reinventing the wheel and to learn from the experiences of seasoned innovators.

The LJI Postdoc Association (LPI) allows postdoc to connect scientifically and socially in a relaxing and welcoming atmosphere.

The POSTDOCket has several open writing opportunities and also welcomes contributions about postdoc issues, as well as postdoc association and postdoc office programs and events.

Sharyl Nass, a Ph.D. cell biologist from Georgetown University, became an activist when she started her postdoc at Johns Hopkins University, an institution with a large postdoc association already well established.

We unanimously decided to form a UC - wide postdoc association, the Council of Postdoctoral Scholars (CPS), to which I was elected founding chair.

Ideas that emerged include regular scientific - cum - social meetings, a possible departmental postdoc association, a dedicated postdoc section on the departmental Web site and an effort to develop the department's substantial postdoc alumni network into a job - hunting resource.

Electronic versions of the survey instrument — such as that made available at the Baylor College of Medicine Postdoc Association Web site — appear to be the easiest to complete, increasing the possibility of a larger response rate.

To minimize ambiguity, the University of Chicago Biological Sciences Division Postdoc Association (BSD - PDA) solicited expertise from those experienced in survey - based research.

Founded in 2003 by a small group of local postdoc association leaders, the NPA rapidly has become the pre-eminent leader of and advocate for postdoctoral scholars.

Not only is the University of Pennsylvania (Penn) School of Medicine Office of Postdoctoral Programs one of the first resource offices for postdocs in the country, it is also unique in that it was established at the administration's initiative, not because of advocacy from an existing postdoc association.

Many postdoc associations survey the postdoctoral population at their institution both to help find the campus» postdocs and to identify what their concerns are.

After an informal breakfast, the group gathered in the auditorium for sessions on surveys, career needs, and the issues affecting postdoc associations and offices.

Other articles have more thoroughly covered the details of networking (see the related links below), so let's look at what postdoc associations and offices can and are doing to promote networking opportunities.

The Society of Fellows (SOF), the Scripps postdoc association, has realized this and is attempting to introduce the two groups to each other.

Moderator: Sam Castañeda Coordinator, Visiting Scholar and Postdoc Affairs Program University of California at Berkeley Panelists: John Vaughn, (invited) Executive Vice President, AAU Sam Castañeda, Coordinator, VSPA, UC Berkeley Tom Peavy, Chair, UC Davis Postdoc Association; and Chair, UC Council of Postdoctoral Scholars

Since we started in 1998 SURPAS has grown into what is now the largest organized postdoc association in the USA.

The Black Postdoc Association seeks to build a community among the black postdocs here at Stanford, that will lead to a valuable professional network to support and promote diversity.

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Hikes were organized by Dartmouth College Postdoc Association / Dartmouth Center for the Advancement of Learning and the University of Washington.

During the first couple of sessions of the symposium it was clear that, even though postdoc associations across different universities are trying to compile more comprehensive demographic information about the postdoc work force, problems start with the question of «What is a Post-doc?»

Vanderbilt Postdoc Association and Office of Postdoctoral Affairs Broaden Reach with Organizational Transition

Tables were also available to learn more about the newly created National Postdoc Association (NPA) as well as the CCR - FYI Steering Committee.

The Stanford University Postdoc Association (SUPD) is a case in point.

Postdocs must now choose either to maintain the status quo or to work for positive change through the now - established channels, namely the NPA and institutional postdoc associations.

Sources for help with these and other aspects of career planning and job hunting include the postdoc offices and career centers at some universities, campus postdoc associations, and professional societies, as well as publications like Science's Next Wave.

While not yet a formalized curriculum, our post-docs excel through a variety of training opportunities provided by the institute, the LJI Postdoc Association and their mentors.

As we found in the PDN meta - analysis of postdoc association surveys, a coordinated effort, with a set of predetermined and tested questions, is likely to provide greater clarity.

Together with a group of 6 postdocs who showed up to the first meeting, she established the Stanford Black Postdoc Association (BPA).