Sentences with phrase «postdoctoral education»

It has been suggested that private institutions may have easier access to funds and more autonomy in setting up new programs for postdoctoral education than do state universities.

Mary Delong, director of the Office of Postdoctoral Education at Emory University in Atlanta, Georgia, says that postdocs tend to see industry as a place where they have less independence — where they can not do «their own thing.»

AAU's approval of this report meant that our work on postdoctoral education at Berkeley, which was going on in parallel with the AAU study, also had the highly visible, official blessing from our chancellor.

«Prior to the establishment of the Office for Postdoctoral Education at UAB» said Sharon Johnston, the office's program coordinator, «there were loopholes in the system.

In 1998 CoGD had issued recommendations to improve postdoctoral education and has since been working on proposals for implementation.

To provide a non-degree postdoctoral education in veterinary clinical pharmacy and therapeutics.

In my opinion, leadership at this level is critical for substantial progress to be made in regularizing postdoctoral education.

The committee began its work in 1994 and delivered its report in March 1998, having conducted three informal surveys of selected major research universities to gain insights into campus policies and practices governing postdoctoral education.

During the discussion, it became «really clear that there was no general consensus as to how postdoctoral education should be handled,» according to Sharon Milgram, associate professor of cell and molecular physiology, faculty advisor to the postdoctoral association at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, and director of the UNC Postdoctoral Initiative.

Administrators who are running offices for postdocs often experience roadblocks while trying to negotiate additional funding or other resources to support postdoctoral education.

The Association of American Universities» (AAU's) Committee on Postdoctoral Education made a similar recommendation in its 1998 report, suggesting that periodic surveys be conducted by each institution «in order to assure that the legitimate educational needs and career interests of [its] postdocs are being fully met.»

The Emory University Office of Postdoctoral Education hosted a panel of successful medical writers teaching about their careers.

That program is aimed at spurring scientific and technological inquiry from elementary through postdoctoral education.

The session featured Sadis Matalon, associate dean of the Office of Postdoctoral Education at the University of Alabama, Birmingham (UAB); Jonathan Wiest, associate director for Training and Education at the National Cancer Institute's (NCI?s) Center for Cancer Research (CCR); and Mary Anne With, director of Institutional Oversight for the Postdoctoral Program at Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL).

Second, for progress to be made in a very large bureaucracy like Berkeley, one absolutely requires a fairly large, high - level staff working group committed to improving postdoctoral education.

Only 15 % of today's trainees will ever get that coveted tenure - track position in a research university, noted Phil Clifford, associate dean for postdoctoral education at the Medical College of Wisconsin in an address to NPA.

She is also the founding and executive director of the Office of Academic Career Development, associate dean for postdoctoral education, and co-director of the University of Pittsburgh Clinical Scholars Training Program.

«Next year our Office of Postdoctoral Education will roll out two cross-training programs to promote interdisciplinary research,» Lindstaedt says.

There has long been a contradiction in the dialog about graduate and postdoctoral education.

Another key element in obtaining buy - in by departmental administration and faculty was an invitational graduate - division seminar on postdoctoral education that we conducted during the fall semester of 1996.

«There is an element missing in graduate and postdoctoral education: communicating,» said Reis.

For example, the results of several local postdoctoral association (PDA) surveys corroborate the findings of the Committee on Science, Engineering, and Public Policy (COSEPUP)(2000) and the AAU Committee on Postdoctoral Education (1998), both of which identify career development, salary, and benefits as main concerns of postdoctoral scientists.

The existing «high - risk, «up or out» system of graduate and postdoctoral education will not remain an attractive option for the brightest students,» the authors predicted.

It is time for Denmark to also focus on postdoctoral education.»

Offices for postdoctoral education can serve a variety of purposes — anything from offering career or educational symposia to establishing health insurance policies to securing postdoc access to campus resources.

Part 2 examines additional roadblocks to establishing offices for postdoctoral education, including securing funding, garnering administrative support, and overcoming systems - driven obstacles.

All postdoc paperwork is filtered through the Office for Postdoctoral Education.

Obtaining funds for postdoctoral education offices is not always problematic.

The National Science Board — one of the pillars of the academic research establishment — has just released a report entitled» The Federal Role in Science and Engineering Graduate and Postdoctoral Education.»

The UAB Office of Postdoctoral Education was formed in 1999 following a series of focus groups with faculty and postdocs, organized by the graduate school.

Last year, the UAB postdoc office established a Council for Postdoctoral Education — which includes department chairs, six or seven faculty members, seven or eight postdocs, and the associate dean of biomedical research.

Young scientists today are engaged in improving graduate and postdoctoral education, making science more hospitable to women and minorities, and interacting with Congress on issues of funding and professional development.

In turn, Marchase introduced Pyron to the UAB Graduate School's Office of Postdoctoral Education (OPE) and to Sadis Matalon, associate dean for postdoctoral education.

She is an advocate for postdoctoral education and, from 2008 - 2009, she served as Chair of the Postdoctoral Leaders Section of the Association of American Medical Colleges Graduate Education and Training (GREAT) Group.

Joan M. Lakoski, Ph.D., is the Associate Vice Chancellor for Academic Career Development at the University of Pittsburgh Schools of the Health Sciences, and the Associate Dean for Postdoctoral Education, Professor of Pharmacology and Chemical Biology, and Professor in Clinical and Translational Sciences at the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine.

Philip Clifford, Ph.D., is Associate Dean for Postdoctoral Education and Professor of Anesthesiology and Physiology at the Medical College of Wisconsin.

Emory's Office of Postdoctoral Education is holding a Best Image contest.

We are therefore dedicated to the postdoctoral education, the availability of high quality, clinically relevant, continuing education courses, gastroenterology focused naturopathic residencies, and the development of a fellowship program in Naturopathic Gastroenterology.