Not exact matches
I love
writing and
researching and this
career has given me countless opportunities to learn about interesting topics and share them with thousands of other people.
Seeing a
career - defining opportunity, Breslow shelved other projects and shifted money so he wouldn't have to ask for the $ 200,000 needed to
research and
write the rules.
Writing for Quartz recently, a team of business school professors summed up the current state of the
research on personality and
career performance, highlighting the many fascinating ways your personal traits are likely affecting your work and your bank balance.
Not until after I took a major risk in my
career of quitting my job as a banker and spending two years
researching and
writing my second book did my mentor take me under his wing and open up for me a valuable stream of knowledge, people and opportunities that have inspired my journey ever since.
I'm Charley, I
write unique and well -
researched content for amazing professionals in the fields of business,
career development and personal development.
With these two internships, along with the
research work she is doing for API, she is not only gaining invaluable experience but determining which type of work she intends to pursue as a
career in the
writing industry.
She's an iatrogenic survivor whose prior
career in computer science,
research, and
writing was lost as a result.
Wish I would have thought of doing the
research or had come across this blog, had you
written it in 2013 when a family court judge saw no value to my being a stay at home mom full time for 9 years and awarded ne no spousal support and a pitiful amount for child support despite my having zero income and no
career to go back to once my ex left, suddenly.This is a fantastic template to argue in court for stay at home moms seeking support everywhere that sacrificed their education,
career and opportunities and stayed home with the kids.May pop some people's perspective back where it should be!
«A lack of diversity at the faculty level is an enormous problem in biomedical science, so I applaud HHMI's efforts to support junior scientists from underrepresented backgrounds,»
writes Jessica Polka, president of the Future of
Research board of directors, in an email to Science
Careers.
In her nomination statement, Cooper
wrote that Edwards has devoted his
career to advancing
research addressing issues «at the nexus of water - infrastructure - public health.»
His desire «to apply his
research to an applied sports science setting» rather than eventually becoming just a lecturer is what earned Mason the position, Vicky Tolfrey, his Ph.D. supervisor and PHC's director,
writes in an e-mail to Science
Careers.
University scientists staff their labs with graduate students and postdocs recruited «with funding and the implicit assurance of interesting
research careers,» she
writes.
Jahren «has transformed the sedentary, slow - growing lives of plants into a vibrant series of stories that are interwoven with tales of her own
research career in the field of paleo - plant physiology,»
wrote reviewer Meg Lowman, a field biologist at the California Academy of Sciences in San Francisco who is also an author.
As Gary McDowell, executive director of the San Francisco, California - based grassroots organization Future of
Research,
writes in an email to Science
Careers, «[t] he Declaration certainly covers many key issues faced by today's junior scientists very well.»
As associate professor and first - author Johan Bollen
writes in an e-mail to Science
Careers, they wanted their new system to «enable scientists to set their own priorities, fund scientists... not projects, avoid proposal
writing and reviewing, avoid administrative burdens, encourage all scientists to participate collectively in the definition of scientific priorities, encourage innovation, reward scientists that make significant contributions to data, software, methods, and systems, avoid funding death spirals (no funding - > no
research - > no funding) but still reward high levels of productivity, create the proper incentives for scholarly communication (publishing to communicate, not to improve bibliometrics), enable funding of daring and risky
research, and so on.»
Throughout her
research career, Case
wrote conference reports and book reviews for trade journals.
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.
One is that» [w] ithout initial funding to conduct high - quality
research, it will be very tough to «prime the pump» and
write winning proposals» for early -
career scientists, he continues.
Early -
career researchers in neuroscience and other biological fields are not adequately aware of the issue, Button
writes in her e-mail: «
Research methods and statistical inference are key to the current model of bioscience research but their importance is not reflected in the time dedicated to their teaching in undergraduate courses
Research methods and statistical inference are key to the current model of bioscience
research but their importance is not reflected in the time dedicated to their teaching in undergraduate courses
research but their importance is not reflected in the time dedicated to their teaching in undergraduate courses.»
Other components of the program are educational and
research opportunities, mentoring, a science -
writing workshop,
career counseling and guidance, and financial support for students accepted into a graduate - level program.
Australian microbial ecologist Jenny Skerrat
writes about what it takes to do
research in Antarctica — from personal traits to
research project design — and the beneficial effect of the experience on her
career.
I knew that faculties in Canadian universities were starting to employ scientists in «
research officer» positions that were involved in grant
writing,
research, and fostering collaborations, but I did not have a clear plan on how I could pursue a bioinformatics
career in Canada.
The «guidance» provided in this announcement in fact «reflects what many NRSA training programs, particularly our most successful ones, are already doing with respect to providing
career guidance, training in grant
writing, and tracking of trainees,» NIH's Office of Extramural
Research told Next Wave through spokesperson Ralbovsky.
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.
Like many young scientists these days, after embarking on a
research career, I realised that although I was fascinated by all aspects of science — especially my own field of ecology — I did not want to spend the next 30 years
writing grant proposals, carrying out experiments, and publishing technical articles.
Academic
careers pose tripartite demands of
research, teaching, and service; at many institutions — perhaps the majority — professors find that campus time is taken up mostly by the latter two, leaving
research and
writing for evenings and weekends — time that women need to keep up their homes and raise their families.
«Our best and brightest minds deserve to know that our country stands with them,» Senator Tammy Baldwin (D - WI), who originated the portion of the bill dedicated to
research training,
wrote in an email to Science
Careers.
«The best and brightest,» Zerhouni
wrote, «are reaching their full potential in solid
research careers.
The play is Othello, but he could just as well have been
writing about science, where reputation is, in the words of the University of Washington's (UW's) policy on
research misconduct, «of paramount importance to a researcher's
career.»
► 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 investigators.
«He moved from malaria to cancer... and therefore had to learn everything on his new
research subject,» Rihet
writes in an interview with Science
Careers.
«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.
«The biggest upside is that the researcher gets a lot of information about the publishability of a
research idea before going through all the work of doing the study,» he
writes in an email to Science
Careers.
«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.
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.
If left unchecked,
wrote Susan Gerbi of Brown University; Howard Garrison of the Federation of American Societies for Experimental Biology (FASEB); and John P. Perkins, now deceased, of the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, the «perception that the postdoctoral period is a holding pattern» and not the route to a faculty
career could drive young scientists away from academe and threaten a crucial source of skilled personnel for the academic
research enterprise.
I had been an undergraduate at Northwestern, and my college
research advisor, who had just
written a dozen or so letters of recommendation in support of my residency applications, had discussed my
career goals with Northwestern's chair of pathology.
Based on our interactions with postdocs, we learned that they felt they needed additional resources to improve their ancillary
research skills (e.g., scientific
writing, public presenting, and grantsmanship) and
career development skills (e.g., job searching, networking, and interviewing).
Moving «is a key
career decision that can potentially play an important role in the generation of scientific knowledge by allowing scientists [to] find environments where they are more effective in doing their
research,»
writes Ina Ganguli, an assistant professor of economics at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst, and a co-author on the paper, in an email to Science
Careers.
I have now developed a varied
career with three basic strands: the technology of teaching in the biosciences, bioinformatics consultancy and
research support, and science
writing.
Early -
career scientists in particular are eager for Sharp to
write about their work on FYFD — which Sharp is generally happy to do because it provides a «nice situation» for her to «point people to that
research.
Jane Andrews,
writing from Australia, has found that the transition from postdoctoral
research to venture capital can open up myriad other
career choices.
My
career transition began with realising that I wanted to move from
research into an area that would place my language and
writing skills more in the centre of what I was being paid for.
But Sturm, senior scientist at the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Cold Regions
Research and Engineering Laboratory in Fairbanks, Alaska, had not done two things in his notable
career: taken an outlandish trek to explore the human history of the North or
written a narrative book.
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.
«The day has 24 hours only, and the dedication to
research required to [do] a postdoc in physics implies that the other activities are not much more than hobbies,» Castanheira
writes in an e-mail to Science
Careers.
The minister in charge of national education, higher education and
research, Najat Vallaud - Belkacem, will temporarily take over her duties,»
wrote Science
Careers's Elisabeth Pain at ScienceInsider.
For the majority of scientists who won't get tenure - track positions — and may not want them —
Research Universities states that the great need is to «better position new PhDs for the
careers they will have by providing more information about
career options and by providing opportunities to acquire, in addition to the knowledge of one's field, skills that are useful for academic positions (teaching, grant
writing, publishing, presentations) and positions in government, business and non-profits (oral and
written communication, project management, regulatory compliance, business ethics and innovation.)»
Being a PI Ford is busy balancing his successful
research career with the other duties incumbent on a professor, such as teaching, attending committee meetings,
writing grants, and mentoring the members of his lab team.
It was... a «people and data» problem that required maturity and commercial confidence,» which Hope had plenty of even back when he was an undergraduate,
writes O'Keefe, who today supervises postgraduate
research students jointly with Hope, in an email to Science
Careers.