Sentences with phrase «times of a career in science»

Have you ever honestly asked yourself if you (yes, you) have a) the courage of your intellectual convictions, b) a big enough brain, and c) your own personal brand of insanity to goad you through the tough times of a career in science and engineering?

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For the first time he was free to question his own serene faith in science, to seek the ultimate answers which three years of psychoanalysis had not provided, and even to decide whether to pursue the medical career he had begun.

And as the time it takes to complete a degree and get a first job increase and the complaints about perceived subjectivity and dismal employment practices grow louder, Butz says that the rewards and satisfactions of a career in science become increasingly unattractive relative to the costs to prepare for it.

After my postdoc, I decided it was time to part ways with academic science and seriously considered my career options in the commercial angle of science.

At the time, the prospects of a scientific career in India looked dim: «Everyone was pretty realistic about science in India.

I first became interested in forensic science when, at the age of 13, I had access to a book called Criminal Investigation by Hans Gross; from that time there was no other career which, to me, offered the same level of interest or challenge.

While pursuing her project on how environmental contaminants and oxidative stress cause lung cancer, Gelhaus complemented her postdoctoral training by spending some time with other PIs at Penn. «She has worked hard to develop skills that are independent of those available in my own laboratory while working on a project that is central to my research program,» Blair writes in an e-mail to Science Careers.

«I've found that quality time is critical for some of my work, such as writing, data analysis, and mathematics,» he tells Science Careers in an e-mail.

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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.

► In this week's issue of STM, Arthur Levine, senior vice chancellor for the health sciences and dean of the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine in Pennsylvania, and 18 other U.S. academic medical center leaders wrote that «[u] nstable funding for biomedical research has created a hostile working environment that erodes the time available for investigators to conduct their research, discourages innovative high - risk science, threatens to drive established investigators out of U.S. academic biomedical research, and creates uncertainty for trainees and early - career investigatorIn this week's issue of STM, Arthur Levine, senior vice chancellor for the health sciences and dean of the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine in Pennsylvania, and 18 other U.S. academic medical center leaders wrote that «[u] nstable funding for biomedical research has created a hostile working environment that erodes the time available for investigators to conduct their research, discourages innovative high - risk science, threatens to drive established investigators out of U.S. academic biomedical research, and creates uncertainty for trainees and early - career investigatorin Pennsylvania, and 18 other U.S. academic medical center leaders wrote that «[u] nstable funding for biomedical research has created a hostile working environment that erodes the time available for investigators to conduct their research, discourages innovative high - risk science, threatens to drive established investigators out of U.S. academic biomedical research, and creates uncertainty for trainees and early - career investigators.

«What we're seeing is that... some of the easier things to change have changed and improved, some of the more difficult things, which maybe you need a bigger cultural change,... are taking more time,» Vitae's Research and Intelligence Director Robin Mellors - Bourne tells Science Careers in an interview.

«One could think that the topic of her own research work... is so fascinating and at the same time so difficult that one could work on it a life long,» Michael Grewing, an astronomer retired from the Institut de Radio Astronomie Millimétrique in Grenoble, France, writes in an e-mail to Science Careers.

To this end, I use the «80:10:10» rule laid out by Science Careers columnist Peter Fiske in 1998: Devote 80 % of time to your current work, invest 10 % of your time learning something new, and dedicate the remainder of your time to networking.

... I had to learn how to say no to a lot of things in order for it to not take up my time and sink my science career.»

If you're considering investing years of time, gallons of sweat, and all of your expertise in preparing for a career in materials science, it's at least helpful to know that there are sound fundamentals.

Actually Michal [Sharon], who you e-mailed me about previously [for another Science Careers article], she would be very organized in the lab and would come in and have a list of things that she was going to do that day, and she wouldn't become distracted by the news Web site or other activities or go to coffee, particularly for long periods of time, because her time was very precious in the lab.

And if you manage to hang on and establish a career in science — and probably even if you don't — you'll give versions of this talk hundreds, maybe thousands of times over the next 30 to 40 years.

In pursuit of a career as a medical science liaison for a pharmaceutical company, she sought out the chance to participate in clinical shadowing and conduct lab tours to learn and practice coveted skills like communication, time management, and relationship building, and to gain a better understanding of clinical practicIn pursuit of a career as a medical science liaison for a pharmaceutical company, she sought out the chance to participate in clinical shadowing and conduct lab tours to learn and practice coveted skills like communication, time management, and relationship building, and to gain a better understanding of clinical practicin clinical shadowing and conduct lab tours to learn and practice coveted skills like communication, time management, and relationship building, and to gain a better understanding of clinical practice.

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During her many late nights in the lab she takes time to read the back pages of major science journals and scans online career sites.

According to Next Wave's Andrew Fazekas, the field of sports science is getting lots of ice time with early career scientists in Canada.

Daniel Schrag gets visitors all the time — graduate students in despair over their dissertations, fellow faculty members dropping by to chat about the Cretaceous sulfur cycle or some equally abstruse topic, or visiting scientists collaborating with him on one of the scores of scholarly papers he has churned out in a career that has earned him a professorship in Harvard's department of earth and planetary sciences and a MacArthur genius grant.

«If you're spending your research time chatting with your friends or trying to impress people just for the sake of trying to impress people, you're probably not helping your career,» Marc Kuchner, an astrophysicist at NASA Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland in the United States and author of Marketing for Scientists: How to Shine in Tough Times, writes in an e-mail to Science Careers.

I found what I wanted: a meaningful career that lets me make use of both my interest and education in science and my love for the German and English languages, and that at the same time allows me to be with my kids almost as much as I want to be.

We at Science Careers see little ethical equivalence between the chattel slavery practiced in the United States before 1865 and employment in an academic institution, but there is a coincidental connection: Seven years (the approximate length of the average biomedical Ph.D.) plus 5 years (the maximum allowable time for a postdoc supported by the National Institutes of Health, and the length of many postdocs these days) equals 12 years.

Marc Goulden, a researcher at the University of California (UC), Berkeley, who has studied the issue, says that «constant and short - cycle requirements» in science careers make it hard to take off big blocks of time to bond with and care for a new child.

«Although the benefits of following this «passion» for forming and tackling the NPA's mission... were not terribly obvious at the time, co-founding has been clearly beneficial to my career,» he writes in an e-mail to Science Careers.

One of the major problems in life sciences careers is that postdoctoral fellows are often treated as highly skilled technical assistants at the time they have their best opportunity to sow the seeds of an independent career.

Forget snow and ice — it's time to think summer at the University of Michigan Medical School for college students interested in medical science careers.

«Scholarships give our students the gift of freedom: to make career choices based on purpose and passion, rather than the price of education; to use time to study, explore science, and volunteer to help others, rather than working to make ends meet; and to succeed because someone who never met them saw enough potential to invest in their dreams,» said Catherine Lucey, MD, vice dean for education at UCSF's School of Medicine.

At the same time, we wish to help students (1) experience authentic processes of science, in particular discussion / debate about experimental data and their interpretation (including «grey areas»), (2) recognize the creativity and open - ended nature of research, and (3) see the diversity of people who undertake research careers (i.e. not just the genius / geeks of popular culture).

Her current area of research focuses on how youth in out - of - school - time science clubs, such as the Pulsar Search Collaboratory and Skynet Junior Scholars, learn to see themselves as scientists and choose to pursue careers in science.

It might also be a good time in your weight training career to look into some of the more «advanced» aspects of the art and science of weight training.

Dr Perlmutter IS right and years of science and research back up his claims along with true testimonials from real people - have you even read the book??? like I said before people like you who are not willing to give up gluten carbs and sugars are going to be the first ones to come on here with skepticism and claims that this is just another «fad diet - «newsflash Will this is a lifestyle and the followers are not in a cult they are real people who want to take charge of their health and live to see their great grandchildren and still be sound in their minds its fine to have questions but to come on here and insult this fine doctor who has helped so many people throughout his career and has written a New York times best seller to educate and help so many more people just makes you sound absurd and immature - he is speaking the truth everything we've been told about nutrition is a lie to profit the wheat industry, doctors and pharmaceutical companies because as long as people keep eating the wrong foods and getting sicker and fatter they will all profit.

Curtis, who is only 56, said science - fiction project About Time felt like «a summing up» for a career which has taken in the legendary TV comedy Blackadder, writing work on 1994's Four Weddings and a Funeral and 1999's Notting Hill, as well as the directing of 2003's Love Actually.

In 1968, Fonda got the first title role of her career, when director / screenwriter Roger Vadim, her husband at the time (her first marriage, his third), cast her in Barbarella, an adaptation of Jean - Claude Forest's series of adult French science fiction comicIn 1968, Fonda got the first title role of her career, when director / screenwriter Roger Vadim, her husband at the time (her first marriage, his third), cast her in Barbarella, an adaptation of Jean - Claude Forest's series of adult French science fiction comicin Barbarella, an adaptation of Jean - Claude Forest's series of adult French science fiction comics.

In a sense, the IB's programs express the effort to nurture both ambitions: the Diploma Program along with its pre-secondary school counterparts embody the rigors of classical education, including the arts and sciences and mathematics, languages, and independent writing projects; at the same time the IB has developed career programs for students focused on more immediate employment.

The funding was announced after the OECD Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA) 2015 report found that 28 per cent of pupils in England hope to be working in a science - related career by the time they are 30 - a significant increase compared to 16 per cent in 2006.

85, Ed.D.» 93, was recently given a five - year CAREER award by the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Division of Research on Learning in Formal and Informal Settings, which will allow her to study how children's complex causal reasoning shifts over time and with different learning supports.

The government pointed to PISA data that showed more than a quarter of pupils (28 per cent) in England hope to be working in a science - related career by the time they are 30, a «significant increase» compared to 16 % in 2006.

Three of the new schools will be located in the Bronx: The New York Center for Autism Charter School Bronx is a replication of a school in Harlem, Urban Assembly Charter School for Computer Science will be the first charter high school of its kind in the city focusing on technical careers, and Brilla College Preparatory Charter School at Highbridge will use blended learning where kids will spend a quarter of their time on computers.

Student has to complete and defend computer science thesis in order to get a graduate degree in this subject and it is also one of the most important projects in every student's academic career, so he or she should take enough time to complete it.

Somewhere in the midst of raising three sons, earning another degree — this time in computer science — and a seventeen year software engineering career, another friend teased her into exchanging letters written «in character.»

I chose this major because I was always interested in healthcare as well as science, and the job security, career options, and paycheck can't be beat for the amount of school and time invested.

In the mid 1980's, early in my science - writing career, I was hired by the Los Angeles Times to be one of the first reporters for a planned weekly science section like the established Science Times of The New York TimeIn the mid 1980's, early in my science - writing career, I was hired by the Los Angeles Times to be one of the first reporters for a planned weekly science section like the established Science Times of The New York Timein my science - writing career, I was hired by the Los Angeles Times to be one of the first reporters for a planned weekly science section like the established Science Times of The New Yorkscience - writing career, I was hired by the Los Angeles Times to be one of the first reporters for a planned weekly science section like the established Science Times of The New Yorkscience section like the established Science Times of The New YorkScience Times of The New York Times.

As a retired chemist with a career in a big corporation and some hands - on environmental science experience from my time in academia and industry, having some interesting first - hand experience on interplays of Government and Industry with environmental and health research, I was always following climate related discussions, at arm length.

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I recommend Natalie Angier's excellent article yesterday in the New York Times about the status of women in science careers.