Sentences with phrase «postdocs on her research grants»

Barbara Beltz, a biology professor at Wellesley College who has hosted three postdocs on her research grants over the past several years, says that at least one Wellesley science department (neuroscience) has funding and a plan in the works to hire postdocs who have an interest in teaching at a liberal arts college.

Not exact matches

This singular focus on research arises from a longstanding funding model that uses students and postdocs as inexpensive labor on professors» grant projects while neglecting their own professional development, which leads to another question McNutt posed: Should federal and state governments consider new models for financing research?

Putting a 3 - year cap on how long PIs» research grants can support a postdoc's salary to encourage the postdoc to graduate to a tenure - track or permanent staff position, or else seek employment outside academia.

The nub of both issues is that the university faculty members running independent labs and competing for grants to support their research depend on graduate students and postdocs as highly skilled but low - paid labor to carry out the work.

Rockey says that shifting the 60,000 graduate students and postdocs now on research grants to training grants «would not be practical or feasible, at least in the short term.»

Despite an obligation to be exclusively engaged in research and university lecturing for 40 hours a week, most grant - holders (PhD students and postdocs) are not represented on the elected body of their centres.

Then, «at the recommendation of your mentor,» says Joseph M. «Mike» Autry, who chairs the university - wide Postdoctoral Association and also serves on BMBB's own departmental postdoc steering committee, scientists interested in staying on at BMBB may be granted the status of research associate.

This is to become a reality for all Research Council PhD students and postdocs on Research Council grants, with all HEIs receiving extra funding from this academic year to provide this additional training.

Indeed, most institutions will not even allow postdocs to serve as co-PIs on research grant applications — although some do — let alone as full PIs.

In each case, an expert group calls for, among other things, supporting more postdocs and graduate students on training grants and fellowships instead of on professors» research grants, employing more staff scientists in permanent posts and fewer temporary trainees to do scientific work, providing higher pay and better working conditions for postdocs, and publishing information on the career outcomes of departments» and labs» graduate students and postdocs.

On the academic side, if you want to be on the faculty at a Research I university, you'll most likely need a fabulous postdoc in a well respected lab for however many years, some plum publications, plenty of grant - writing practice, and contacts with the big - wigs in your fielOn the academic side, if you want to be on the faculty at a Research I university, you'll most likely need a fabulous postdoc in a well respected lab for however many years, some plum publications, plenty of grant - writing practice, and contacts with the big - wigs in your fielon the faculty at a Research I university, you'll most likely need a fabulous postdoc in a well respected lab for however many years, some plum publications, plenty of grant - writing practice, and contacts with the big - wigs in your field.

Nyhus is one of four postdocs hired on a National Science Foundation Awards for the Integration of Research and Education (NSF - AIRE) grant awarded to the school to enhance its undergraduate curriculum by integrating research into tResearch and Education (NSF - AIRE) grant awarded to the school to enhance its undergraduate curriculum by integrating research into tresearch into teaching.

Jeff Smith, a first - year postdoc at OISB who studies cell signaling using proteomics, notes that with no specific categories for systems biology on research - grant applications, he has no choice but to place himself in direct competition with biochemists and biologists in other fields.

Many postdocs at the Whitehead Institute were paid on an experience - based scale that was set according to the stipend awards granted by the National Institutes of Health (NIH) to postdocs through its National Research Service Awards.

First, the number of graduate students and postdocs supported by fellowships has remained essentially constant over the past 30 years as the number supported on research grants increased rapidly.

Tilghman, Rockey, and the others in the working group laid out several recommendations aimed at shortening and diversifying doctoral programs and postdoc positions, increasing the proportion of trainees supported by training grants and fellowships instead of research grants, collecting more data on career outcomes, improving postdoc salaries, and promoting the staff scientist career path.

That would have been «extraordinarily complicated to do,» Rockey said, partly because training and research are separate lines in NIH's budget and also because almost seven times as many postdocs are on research grants.

Universities are also increasingly dependent on foreign graduate students and postdocs to do the work that allows universities to maintain their research operations and compete for grants, Sullivan added.

The policies governing NIH grants, contained in a document called Office of Management and Budget Circular A-21, do not include a broader impacts criterion, although PIs and postdocs each have a «dual role» as persons who are simultaneously both working on a specific research project and giving or receiving training, says Walter Schaffer, NIH senior scientific adviser for extramural research, in an interview with Science Careers.

The Congressional requirement (America COMPETES Act) that the NIH expand data collection efforts regarding postdocs supported on research grants.