In addition, hiring
postdocs at academic institutions in the United States is solely the responsibility of individual PIs, who need experiments to be done and papers to be written so that they can continue to get funding for their labs.
Not exact matches
When it comes to learning, the MedImmune
postdoc experience «exceeded my highest expectations,» especially concerning «topics I would not have had
at an
academic institution,» Cabrera says.
Career counselors
at academic institutions are becoming more aware of graduate students and science - savvy, and they're increasingly available to
postdocs.
If a permanent position has advantages over a
postdoc, a job
at a public research
institution in France also has advantages over the typical
academic post.
I used the PDN database to locate other offices and check on their programs, I looked
at other NIH intramural programs, and drew from my own experiences as a
postdoc at NIEHS [National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences] and as a faculty member
at an
academic institution.»
Postdoc associations and offices have begun exposing
postdocs to the possibilities available to them by holding seminar series or panel discussions featuring scientists who have done something besides become assistant professors
at academic institutions.
We
at Science Careers see little ethical equivalence between the chattel slavery practiced in the United States before 1865 and employment in an
academic institution, but there is a coincidental connection: Seven years (the approximate length of the average biomedical Ph.D.) plus 5 years (the maximum allowable time for a
postdoc supported by the National Institutes of Health, and the length of many
postdocs these days) equals 12 years.