Sentences with phrase «scientist than academia»

JC reflections:» I said in my post JC in transition that I thought that the private sector is a more «honest» place for a scientist than academia.

I said in my post JC in transition that I thought that the private sector is a more «honest» place for a scientist than academia.

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The program encourages them to return to a place other than their Ph.D. institution, because «the foundation is also trying to be sure that those young scientists who are returning... are free to work and free to collaborate,» something that the remaining hierarchy in Polish academia doesn't always allow, Żylicz says.

Tooling Up Book Club: Alternative Careers in Science: Leaving the Ivory Tower by Peter Fiske, 22 May 1998 Science Careers columnist Peter Fiske discussed a book that dashes the stereotypes that scientists who go for alternative careers have necessarily had bad research experiences, don't purposefully seek out careers that are better suited to them than academia, and do not find ways to stay close to exciting science.

The training pipeline produces more scientists than relevant positions in academia, government and the private sector are capable of absorbing.

Academia now serves as a «training ground» rather than a career destination for the great majority of scientists, with work in industry, government, or other nonacademic employers the «new norm.»

Although networking opportunities with other scientists might be fewer in large pharmaceutical companies than they are in academia, the opportunity to publish postdoctoral research results is offered by some, but not all pharmaceutical companies.

Female Ph.D. scientists «who do not secure ladder - track [i.e., tenure - track] appointments,» they add, «are more likely to stay in academia [than men], either as contingent instructors or in nonteaching appointments.»

«At the macro (policy) level, I think it's important to offer a wider array of opportunities, than traditional academia, for scientists to do interesting and important work (industry and government)-- and to help doctoral students become aware of and train for these outlets for their creative work,» Amabile writes.

As science funding contracts, more scientists than ever are seeking jobs beyond academia.

However, training designed to propel scientists into alternative careers is ideally based within the industries themselves rather than in academia, simply because those working in industry know their own needs best.

In general, starting salaries are similar between industry and academia, although in academia, early postdocs trying to prove themselves can potentially put in many more hours than an industry scientist.

«Certainly, in industry it is critical to work within teams to accomplish goals that are defined more by the company than by individuals,» he says, «but I see industry and academia as equally exciting and valuable career options for students,» says Gregory E. Amidon, a research professor at the University of Michigan, College of Pharmacy, in Ann Arbor and American Association of Pharmaceutical Scientists (AAPS) Fellow.

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.

The SGC has active research facilities at seven leading academic institutions across the globe (Toronto and Montreal - Canada, Oxford - UK, UNICAMP - Brazil, Karolinska - Sweden, UNC Chapel Hill - USA and Frankfurt - Germany), and SGC scientists collaborate with more than 300 researchers in academia and industry.

SEI is an organization of more than 1,000 scientists from academia, government, and the private sector dedicated to bridging the gap between the scientific community and society at large.

She has probably got a very much larger range of contacts with those outside of science and academia through this, her blog than has just about any other climate scientists that currently has a high profile such as Judith rightly has.

For they know that «science» is little more than a group of people in academia calling themselves «scientists» — of whom many have extremely crack pot ideas — very like the «mad scientist» genre of horror films.