Sentences with phrase «who left academia»

Going to law school can be a formidable challenge for older students who left academia years ago.

«You would think companies would be thrilled to have such a highly trained workforce at their fingertips,» says Alison Fisher, who left academia in 2008 after completing a postdoc with the U.S. Department of Agriculture at a site near San Francisco.

There is (perhaps no surprise) an appealing narrative — the «hero's journey» — following a biologist who leaves academia, goes to film school and Hollywood, battles daunting monsters, encounters sages and emerges, wounded but wiser, as «Randysseus.»

Not exact matches

The right price — the one that will extract the most profit from consumers» wallets — has become the fixation of a large and growing number of quantitative types, many of them economists who have left academia for Silicon Valley.

So if liberals really hope that the next terrorist event will be treated as an isolated incident, they should, in the immediate aftermath, say something like «We really hope these are left - wing terrorists who were inspired by the ability of the Weather Underground bombers to leverage their terrorist activities into employment in academia.»

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.

If there's anyone who understands that it's a broad skillset (rather than knowledge in a very narrow specialty) that leads you successfully leave Academia, it's Student B.

The 53 % who appear to leave science after their PhDs actually leave academia — many of them move into science related posts outside universities.

PIs often struggle to give feedback to trainees who want to leave academia because they may not know what else you should or could do.

Private industry is coming to academia, and it would not be unusual for a student to work in the lab of a faculty member who also is associated with a start - up company, or to see someone leave their faculty position to work in industry full - time.

«I know no one who has [left academia and come back], except Tans.

Hu struggled with the fear that leaving academia would make people (including, possibly, her) believe she couldn't hack it — or that she wasn't as rigorous a thinker as those who stayed.

So far, the survey has drawn nearly 1700 responses, 600 from former European and U.K. postdocs who have left academia.

While what I have read here is certainly foreboding, I don't see that most of this outside influence is new and corporate - based; I've run into the same damn theories for 15 years and have seen evidence of it coming from the left and academia, not just from those who want to run schools as if they were businesses.

Since big oil, Koch, the banks, corporations, Hollywood, the media, academia, science and the boyscouts all apparently believe in an imminent climate crisis, Who is left to fight the good fight?

's, MA's, honours BA's etc. government bureaucrats who have, for the most part, never worked in the real world, but who have largely populated government agencies and academia etc. during the course of their cloistered working years by searching out and by being interned by same (their comfort zones; ironically, largely non-competitive) immediately upon graduation from the sanctity of left - wing university professors» (who again have mostly never worked in the real world) indoctrination sessions.