Sentences with phrase «postdocs at their institutions»

Had he been given full information, he assured Science Careers in an interview, he would not have taken the position, nor would some of his fellow postdocs at his institution.

They also described the needs of postdocs at their institutions and the programs they offer to address those needs.

The survey asked three questions: What is the first - year stipend / salary for biomedical postdocs at your institution?

In 2010, Clark took a position as a program manager in global health at San Diego State University, where he plans to further this policy career and use the lessons he learned at NPA to improve working conditions for postdocs at his institution.

For example, implementation and compliance for the FLSA changes, including finding money in already tight lab budgets and even simply being able to categorize all postdocs at institutions, will be challenging.

Carnegie president Matthew Scott remarked, «Choosing the PIE award recipients is difficult, with so many talented postdocs at the institution.

Not exact matches

The National Institutes of Health offers these awards to postdocs who, in addition to conducting research, want to build classroom and mentoring skills through teaching internships at partner institutions.

Thoughts about IRACDA fell by the wayside as she landed a postdoc at a high - powered research institution, UC San Francisco.

Yet, as I continued to unsuccessfully pursue a postdoc at a top - notch institution, I was haunted by the feeling that I was a failure.

Only a minority of the postdocs working in university labs have opportunities to receive high - quality training from eminent senior researchers, develop their own research ideas, gain experience in lab management and grant writing, acquire contacts and a publication record and, ultimately, move into a tenure - track position at a research institution.

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.

As O'Reilly told the Boston Globe, these cases are about «recognizing the contributions of students and postdoc researchers at institutions such as Harvard.

Her PhD (1993) at the Autonomous University of Madrid was followed by postdoc appointments in Zürich and Cambridge, UK, before she became a tenured scientist at her current institution in 2000.

These conditions are fulfilled by most faculty members at research institutions, but few institutions allow postdocs to play the NIH - research - grant funding game.

In 1987 the Camille and Henry Dreyfus Foundation initiated the Dreyfus Scholar / Fellow program for undergraduate institutions, which established what were, in effect, «teaching postdocs» in chemistry, with established mentors at predominantly undergraduate institutions (PUIs).

Beyond monetary issues, NIH is working to better track all of the recipients of its fellowships and grants, including those postdocs that are working on NIH - sponsored training grants at various institutions and those employed on their PI's R01 grants.

Almost immediately, institutions balked at the new directive, citing the heavy financial and human resource burden it would place on them to educate nearly all of their PIs, graduate students, postdocs, and technicians.

The daily experience of postdocs, whether at the University of Chicago or any other institution, is made even more complex by the reality that a postdoc's professional identity can shift from moment to moment as the postdoc interacts with the lab, the institution, and the scientific profession.

Real energy, creativity, and labor must be directed — by scientists, institutions, and funding organizations — toward the integration of meaningful, well - conceived training into the research activities of every science trainee, at every level... including, notably, the nation's postdocs.

At present, the majority of institutions do not enforce a minimum standard salary for postdocs.

The team also included «outsiders,» postdocs who had been postdocs at other institutions, who contributed an awareness of practices, ideas, and policies from further afield.

Information about postdoctoral experiences at a variety of institutions suggests that postdoc stories share many common themes.

Indeed, if only postdocs heard the stories of other postdocs at their own institution, they would see common patterns in the postdoctoral experience.

IRACDA postdocs spend the better portion of a year teaching classes at a nearby partner institution; there are 42 such institutions in all.

As you research, seek student organizations, including postdoc clubs or committees at your own institution.

Many postdocs tell themselves that if they don't land a job at a top research institution, then they'll just apply for a teaching position.

The authors suggest that they are top professors with large numbers of former grad students and postdocs located at institutions far and wide, but still closely aligned with their former mentor's scientific interests.

IRACDA postdocs also invite their students to participate in research at their host institution's labs, including summer research programs.

If, as seems to be the case, a fraction of scarce tenure - track faculty jobs go to «postdocs» who already have funding, then institutions that don't allow postdocs to apply for grants put their postdocs at a disadvantage.

Postdocs spend most of their time during the second year teaching at their matched institution: first an introductory biology course and then an advanced seminar that they design themselves.

At the University of Pennsylvania's PENN Postdoctoral Opportunities in Research and Teaching (PENN - PORT) program, which just had its 5 - year IRACDA grant renewed for a second term, first - year postdocs spend about 85 % of their time doing mentored research and about 15 % taking pedagogy classes and preparing to teach at one of three minority - serving institutions nearby: Lincoln University, which is recognized as the United States» first historically black university, in unincorporated southern Pennsylvania; Delaware County Community College (DCCC), which is in Pennsylvania; and Rutgers University, Camden, in New JerseAt the University of Pennsylvania's PENN Postdoctoral Opportunities in Research and Teaching (PENN - PORT) program, which just had its 5 - year IRACDA grant renewed for a second term, first - year postdocs spend about 85 % of their time doing mentored research and about 15 % taking pedagogy classes and preparing to teach at one of three minority - serving institutions nearby: Lincoln University, which is recognized as the United States» first historically black university, in unincorporated southern Pennsylvania; Delaware County Community College (DCCC), which is in Pennsylvania; and Rutgers University, Camden, in New Jerseat one of three minority - serving institutions nearby: Lincoln University, which is recognized as the United States» first historically black university, in unincorporated southern Pennsylvania; Delaware County Community College (DCCC), which is in Pennsylvania; and Rutgers University, Camden, in New Jersey.

IRACDA postdocs may fill in for a professor at the partner institution who is away on sabbatical, or teach courses that partner - institution faculty members aren't prepared to teach.

Career counselors at academic institutions are becoming more aware of graduate students and science - savvy, and they're increasingly available to postdocs.

Unlike most other groups, however, BALSA is most decidedly not a club, but a full - fledged nonprofit corporation that charges for the consulting services of its approximately 80 current members, who are graduate students and postdocs at WUSTL, Saint Louis University (SLU), and other St. Louis - area research institutions.

However, although the NIH payscale is the de facto standard for biomedical postdocs, institutions are in fact free to compensate them at less, the same as, or more than the NIH level.

A two - body problem was keeping her at the institution where she studied HIV for her postdoc (and her graduate training), and she didn't want to compete with her former advisers.

As one respondent put it, «Once we are employees, we can argue that employees at our own institution (and NIH) with fewer degrees and less experience are earning more than postdocs are.»

As happened during the glory days of those other famed institutions, Rubin foresees lab chiefs joining postdocs, grad students, and staff scientists at the bench, unhampered by the need to teach, see to administrative tasks, or write proposals.

She also learned of a survey conducted at her institution that found that 40 % of the school's international postdocs had experienced workplace conflicts — twice the rate of their domestic peers.

As one respondent wrote, «There are huge variations in the way postdocs are treated at different institutions.

The NPA now has 67 sustaining - member organizations, comprised of postdoc associations and offices at institutions hosting nearly half the postdocs in the U.S.

This rise in postdoc visibility has been accompanied — and to some extent precipitated — by the explosive growth in the number and influence of postdoc associations and postdoc offices at research institutions across the country.

Related issues for postdocs include the lack of adequate training, professional development opportunities, mentoring, and career guidance at most institutions.

Rounding out the author list are Michael Szell, who was a postdoc in the Senseable City lab when the work was done and is now at Northeastern University, and Giovanni Resta, a researcher at Santi's home institution, the Institute for Informatics and Telematics.

For example, although postdocs may «naturally come together» at a smaller institute where there are only 30 or 40 postdocs, what about the larger institutions that accommodate as many as a 1000 or more postdocs, who presumably don't naturally come together?

The results of the poll reveal substantial variation in how institutions handle postdoc affairs — not just because of the varying natures of the institutions, but because «we're all at different stages, doing different things,» Lakoski says.

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

The workshop was offered as an example of what associations and offices could offer at their own institutions and as a personal benefit for the postdoc attendees.

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.

The consensus among postdocs at the conference was that funding agencies, institutions, and mentors must take responsibility for effecting change in this critical area.