The Association of Women in Science and Engineering (AWiSE) called the meeting to discuss «on the ground» progress that had been made in the 7 months following
the report of the Research Careers Initiative committee.
Not exact matches
There are also numerous
research reports and
career support articles that are available on Bayt.com for all professionals in the MENA to make use
of.
Bud began his investment
career in 1992, as publisher
of a stock
research periodical called San Diego Stock
Report.
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Some F1 2017 players who've picked McLaren for their
career mode have
reported problems with the
Research & Development element
of the game.
The NASEM
report, commissioned by Congress in 2016, collected
career aspiration, training, and outcome data from NIH,
research institutions, and professional societies, as well as solicited suggestions from individual university administrators and biomedical scientists at different stages
of their careers.The
report especially zeroed in on the plight
of the postdoctoral
research fellow.
The
report highlights many important problems that countries like the United Kingdom have been focusing on to provide better support to early -
career researchers, such as «the multi-facetted role
of the early
career researcher and the need for professional development in areas beyond
research such as people management and winning funding,» writes Ellen Pearce, director
of Vitae, a U.K. organization that promotes the professional development
of early -
career researchers, in an email to Science
Careers.
«Potential interest [among Ph.D. s] in
careers in secondary school science and mathematics education is much higher than the 0.8 %
of Ph.D. s who currently work in K - 12 education,» says a 2000
report by the National
Research Council called Attracting Science and Mathematics Ph.D. s to Secondary School Education.
In 2007, Yale University bought a
research campus from Bayer HealthCare AG that covers 136 acres and includes 550,000 square feet
of laboratory space, along with 275,000 square feet
of office space, and 600,000 square feet
of manufacturing and warehouse space, as we
reported at the time on the Science
Careers blog.
Last Thursday, Vitae — an organization supported by
research funding bodies, that promotes the professional development
of early -
career researchers in the United Kingdom — released two
reports exploring the working conditions and
career development
of research staff (mainly postdocs) and principal investigators (PIs) in higher education.
Brian Nosek, COS executive director and a professor in the Department
of Psychology at the University
of Virginia in Charlottesville who studies the gap between
research values and practices, also points out that using the Registered
Report format can offer valuable feedback for junior researchers and help support their
career development as they decide what
research directions to pursue.
«Postdocs from all social backgrounds
reported significant declines in interest in faculty
careers at
research - intensive universities and increased interest in nonresearch
careers,» compared to their feelings early in grad school, write Kenneth Gibbs, Jr.,
of the National Cancer Institute in Bethesda, Maryland; John McGready
of Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, Maryland; and Kimberly Griffin
of the University
of Maryland, College Park.
The postdoc appointment is one such illustration: «Although the concept
of postdoctoral researchers is well understood, there is considerable variability in job titles and in the practical organization
of this stage in Europe,» according to the 2010 European Science Foundation (ESF)
Report, «
Research Careers in Europe: Landscape and Horizons» (http://scim.ag/qrFZHZ).
Curt Rice, a linguist at the University
of Tromsø in Norway and the Leader
of Norway's Committee on Gender Balance in
Research, also welcomes the
report but expresses concern about its mild tone; the tone makes it unlikely that the recommendations will be implemented, he writes in an email to Science
Careers.
This week, Science's Next Wave, in collaboration with one
of Europe's top
research organizations, the European Molecular Biology Organization (EMBO), continues the series
of articles providing firsthand
reports and travel information that will help you successfully plan your
research career in an increasingly mobile scientific community.
A 1998
report from the National
Research Council recommended that the Ph.D. remain a research - intensive degree but added that «graduate programs should expand their efforts to help students learn about the diversity of career opportunities open to them, and university departments should examine possible alternatives to the research Ph.D
Research Council recommended that the Ph.D. remain a
research - intensive degree but added that «graduate programs should expand their efforts to help students learn about the diversity of career opportunities open to them, and university departments should examine possible alternatives to the research Ph.D
research - intensive degree but added that «graduate programs should expand their efforts to help students learn about the diversity
of career opportunities open to them, and university departments should examine possible alternatives to the
research Ph.D
research Ph.D.»
Laure Haak, editor
of Next Wave's Postdoc Network,
reports that editorial board experience can be a significant asset for
career progression in the
research sciences.
The
report nicely illustrates that «excellen [t] science» is the sole selection criterion,» regardless
of whether the
research fits any pre-established ways
of thinking or traditional fields
of science, Schäfer, who also leads an interdisciplinary group at the University
of the Basque Country's Institute for Polymer Materials in Donostia - San Sebastián, Spain, writes in an email to Science
Careers.
He
reported that more than 90 %
of the MSTP graduates obtained positions in academia or
research institutes.3 This number is consistent with data from programs publishing their own studies, with the proportion
of MSTP graduates establishing
research careers ranging from 74 % to 95 %.4 - 6
Another recommendation
of the biomedical
research workforce
report was to understand better how different types
of support — including having an individual fellowship, being on an institutional training grant, or being supported on a PI's
research grant — track in terms
of research productivity or future
career path and success.
Those voices include, as this column noted in early July, two recently published
reports:
Research Universities and the Future
of America: Ten Breakthrough Actions Vital to Our Nation's Prosperity and Security, from the U.S. National Academies, which urges universities to «restructure doctoral education..., shorten time - to - degree and strengthen the preparation
of graduates for
careers both in and beyond the academy,» and the Biomedical
Research Workforce Working Group
Report, from the National Institutes
of Health (NIH), which advocates «additional training and
career development experiences to equip students for various
career options, and test ways to shorten the PhD training period.»
Paula Stephan, an economist at Georgia State University in Atlanta and a member
of the current
report's modeling subcommittee (Stephan was also a member
of that 1998 NRC committee), writes to Science
Careers in an e-mail that it's «disappointing to see that NIH did not figure out a way to shift more funds into training grants and fellowships and away from
research assistantship stipends» or «implement any requirement for limiting the amount
of salary that can be written off
of grants — something that could dampen the demand for graduate students.»
Young scientists embarking on a
career in science will be relieved that the issue
of how to maintain the skill base, and specifically to provide adequate
career paths for
research staff, was raised in the
report.
Finally, the
report noted that most biomedical graduate programs and postdocs in the United States do little to prepare biomedical scientists for
careers outside
of academia even though considerably fewer than half (43 %) wind up in academic
research or teaching and fewer than a quarter (23 %) wind up tenured.
Nine out
of every 10 respondents
reported staying in
research or holding another science - related occupation for most
of their post-fellowship
careers.
SAN JOSE, CALIFORNIA — 87 %
of scientists believe they and their peers should take an active role in public policy debates, according to a Pew
Research Center
report presented by Lee Rainie
of the Pew Internet and American Life Project during «Scientists Engaging with Reporters, the Public, and Social Media: Survey Findings,» a session yesterday at the annual meeting
of AAAS, which publishes Science
Careers.
The fellowship aims to address the problem that «many people who have trained in [science, technology, engineering, and mathematics] and worked for a number
of years in
research... struggle to return after a
career break,» the Trust stated in a press release announcing the
report.
According to a
report yesterday in The Times
of India, 20 top researchers with the Indian Defence
Research and Development Organization (DRDO) have left the organization since July for more lucrative
careers in areas like information technology.
This
report should describe instruction, or participation as a course director, etc. in the case
of senior
career awardees, in both formal and informal instruction in responsible conduct
of research in the past budget period, if applicable.
AMHERST, Mass. — Cognitive neuroscience researcher Joonkoo Park at the University
of Massachusetts Amherst, who recently received a five - year, $ 751,000 faculty early
career development (CAREER) grant from the National Science Foundation (NSF) to address basic research questions about how our brains process number and magnitude and how such processes give rise to more complex mathematical thinking, has co-authored a paper that reports this week where in the brain numerical quantity evaluation is proc
career development (
CAREER) grant from the National Science Foundation (NSF) to address basic research questions about how our brains process number and magnitude and how such processes give rise to more complex mathematical thinking, has co-authored a paper that reports this week where in the brain numerical quantity evaluation is proc
CAREER) grant from the National Science Foundation (NSF) to address basic
research questions about how our brains process number and magnitude and how such processes give rise to more complex mathematical thinking, has co-authored a paper that
reports this week where in the brain numerical quantity evaluation is processed.
Menino's support for making Madison Park a model
of urban vocational education follows the release
of a
report, commissioned by Boston Public Schools through its Office
of Career and Technical Education in the spring
of 2011, compiled by two dozen national and state experts in
career and vocational technical education including Harvard Graduate School
of Education's Pathways to Prosperity Project Director William Symonds and Strategic Education
Research Partnership Program Director Claire White.
JE: Just finally then, you and your colleagues have done quite a bit
of research around student
career choices — and we've
reported on those findings previously in Teacher magazine [When I grow up; Infographic: Students and
career aspirations].
The
research follows an Ofsted
report which found that most
of England's schools are failing to prepare their pupils for the world
of work through effective
careers education.
This
report addresses
research questions regarding the program's 1) implementation fidelity, 2) performance goals, 3) impact on student attendance and mathematics achievement outcomes, 4) impact on student aspirations for college, studying STEM subjects in college, and pursuing STEM
careers, and 5) impact on measures
of teacher effectiveness.
The purpose
of the
research project is to enhance the data
reporting that guides local and policy - level
career and college readiness decision - making processes at both public education and postsecondary education levels.
«The long - term academic,
career, and civic outcomes from integrated educational experiences can be profound for both white children and children
of color,» Robert Cotto and Kenny Feder write in their
report, citing national
research.
By 2012, however, the reverse was true, with the majority
reporting they had little autonomy (U.S. Department
of Education, 2015)-- and as
research by the sociologist Richard Ingersoll has made crystal clear, teachers who experience lower levels
of decision - making authority in their classes and schools are significantly less likely to stay in teaching as a
career (Ingersoll, 2001).
This
report, prepared by the Center for Great Teachers and Leaders at the American Institute for
Research explores the perspectives
of National Board Certified Teachers, asking them what experiences and supports were most important to their development over the course
of their
careers.
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It contains news, opinion, letters, scientific reviews and original
research papers and communications on a wide range
of veterinary topics, along with disease surveillance
reports, obituaries,
careers information, business and innovation news and summaries
of research papers in other journals.
I began my legal
research career in Alberta, where Maritime's Alberta
Reports are a staple for
research, largely because
of the excellent index.
From the purely administrative task («learn process for recording expenses and disbursements») to the complex («prepare written
report of options and strategy based on the articling candidate's
research and investigation») and the critical («learn proper usage
of precedents»), the competencies to be mastered are as varied as legal
careers are diverse.
At the
research seminar where these findings were
reported, the dean
of law at Northwestern University observed that «the study highlights the need for schools to break down silos between law, business and other programs to prepare students for
careers outside
of traditional practice».
While a 2015
report by Hart
Research Associates found that 64 percent
of employers feel colleges could improve graduates chances
of career success, by helping them learn both field - specific and broad skills, it's important for students to also find ways to develop these skills.
My overriding value proposition is my
career reporting skills: abilities in in - depth
research, asking the driving questions, unearthing
career gold nuggets, whittling 25 pages
of career brain dump down to 2 - 3 crisp, compelling and focused pages, and marketing the job seeker's value to the right reader, influencing them to call.
• Managed applicant sourcing, job advertising, conducting reference & background checks • Compiled proposals and candidate documentations for new Business Development teams and scheduling and assisting managers with job interviews • Drafted letters
of correspondence, assisted
report writing and submission
of the recruitment activities, new hire file management,
researching upcoming networking events and
career fairs for improving applicant pool quality and also preparing
career fair bags for recruiters to take along to
career fairs.
Those interested in an Operations Engineer
career should be able to demonstrate the following skills in their resumes:
research abilities, knowledge
of manufacturing processes, quality focus,
reporting skills, attention to details, troubleshooting, and analytical thinking.
Power to the Profession comes in response to a
report by The Institute
of Medicine and National
Research Council, Transforming the Workforce for Children Birth Through Age 8, which found a fragmented early childhood workforce in need
of uniform qualifications,
career pathways and professional supports.
Research shows that when young students are suspended or expelled from school, they are several times more likely to experience disciplinary action later in their academic
career; drop out or fail out
of high school;
report feeling disconnected from school; and be incarcerated later in life.