Sentences with phrase «years of academia»

For recent college graduates, the transition to the working world after years of academia can be a shock to the system — and today's employers expect junior hires to hit the ground running.

After minimum 4 years of academia and 2 years of full - on training, that is such a slap in the face.

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This year — with some of the more influential minds within the industry, state and federal government, and academia all gathered on his back patio — Jenkins wants to do more than just talk about what can be done.

This alarms many in academia, as business majors have «the weakest gains during the first two years of college on a national test of writing and reasoning skills.»

Levin, a 20 - year veteran of academia who stepped down as president of Yale in 2013, is exactly the type of person who you might think would be quick to cast aspersions on MOOCs.

Of all the research assistants I've worked with during my 30 years in academia, the ones who stand out hold one thing in common: each approached me within two weeks of starting to ask how they were honestly doinOf all the research assistants I've worked with during my 30 years in academia, the ones who stand out hold one thing in common: each approached me within two weeks of starting to ask how they were honestly doinof starting to ask how they were honestly doing.

About 20 years ago when he was working at Bell Labs (now AT&T's Image Processing Research Department), he happened upon a way of thinking about teaching computers to see that wasn't really used outside of academia until about three years ago.

A former top leader in academia, Rodin has put the idea of «resilience» at the center of the Rockefeller Foundation's work in recent years, helping communities worldwide prepare for and recover from major environmental and man - made shocks.

That is the surprising new view of a number of economists in academia and on Wall Street, who are now predicting something the United States has not experienced in years: healthier, more lasting growth.

Nirali is a licensed pharmacist with over 18 years of experience including community pharmacy, hospital pharmacy and academia.

Drawing on a wealth of intellectual capital, our professors will engage and challenge you with their insights gained from years in both business and academia.

I've been saying for six or seven years now (four of those spent adnitcnujg post-degree) that I could and should be looking for work outside of academia, but only after five rollercoaster years on the academic market and coming * this close * to landing a tenure - track position can I happily and healthily say I quit.

During your four years or more in academia, you will probably challenge the intellectual foundations of your long - held beliefs, and you may even have doubts.

As an «informal global political regime», global governance has proven remarkably efficient in the last fifteen to twenty years in changing the language of governments, academia, the media, and NGOs, and in setting new political and cultural goals (such as «sustainability» and «good governance»), thereby creating a new global culture that quietly transforms all cultures from within (see IIS 279 - 81).

But seeking the truth exacts a price, as Kenneth Maxwell, the Latin America specialist at the Council of Foreign Relations for the past 15 years, recently discovered in a dispute that caused a stir at the highest levels of academia and the policymaking elite.

Even before the facility officially opened its doors in January, seven of its prospects signed contracts with big league clubs; the commissions covered more than half of La Academia's operating costs for its inaugural year.

Since leaving academia nearly 12 years ago I have gotten my hands into a lot of projects, many of which are still pumping.

This is, therefore, a tremendously febrile moment, fertile for new ideas and approaches that have been buzzing around the past few years from think tanks, NGOs and academia, to finally make it into the substance of a new intergovernmental agreement.

«We are also of the strong opinion that for an industry that has recorded globally appreciable growth over the years, contributing an average of 9 per cent to the country's GDP, the sector has capacity to contribute to the expansion of knowledge in the academia and consequently profit from such contribution.

It should be very evident therefore that although the Commission's engagement with academia has been on for a couple of years, a fresh impetus has thus been added to ensure that such an engagement becomes very robust, productive and beneficial to the various stakeholders.

The use of a dual timeline, mixing chapters dealing with Stewart's own rise in the industry with those documenting consultancy's attempts to legitimise itself through its formative years by incorporating semblances of science and academia.

Yet, if anything, the indispensability of this text lies in the fact that five years after the first coalition government was formed since the Second World War, a wide variety of esteemed experts from Whitehall, Parliament, academia and think tanks have given their professional and intriguing assessments of the «Coalition effect» across all major policy areas.

Whether out of personal choice or a lack of opportunity, the prospect of leaving academia after many years of research training, professional dedication, and personal sacrifices is often daunting.

Now, after some years in research - academia I begin to search what is my next step, in industry of course.

Now I have just turned 27 (in Spain BSc's take 6 years...) and I think that academia is what I should be doing for the rest of my life.

Each year, STPF adds to a growing corps over 3,000 strong of policy - savvy leaders working across academia, government, nonprofits, and industry to serve the nation and citizens around the world.

The GloSYS researchers conducted one - on - one interviews with 45 young scientists — defined in the study as researchers 30 to 40 years old within 10 years of obtaining their Ph.D. s — from around the world, working in academia.

A 2012 law that ordered French public employers to offer stable employment after 6 years of short - term contracts backfired, making it impossible for many postdocs to extend or get a new contract in academia.

Before making a decision about where to go for the next 2 to 3 years, it is important to analyse your long - term goals and judge the fit of the prospective lab, whether it is in academia or industry.

At last year's American Association of Pharmaceutical Scientists annual meeting held in Toronto, a panel of scientists from industry and academia discussed the pros and cons of pursuing a postdoc in either environment.

Yet, according to multiple recent surveys from U.S. and international government agencies, only 66 % of students pursue postdocs after graduation; 6 years after their doctorates, a mere 33 % still hold jobs in academia.

I returned to Manchester with my husband in 1997, on a Royal Society Dorothy Hodgkin Fellowship, which offered 4 years of funding, considerable prestige, and an opportunity to build a career in academia.

Wanting to test the away - from - the - bench waters without losing all chance of returning to academia's fold, American Amanda Staudt took a 1 - year science policy postdoc with the National Research Council.

Join Science's Next Wave, Sense About Science and invited experts from the fields of industry, academia and government - funded research organisations for a stimulating discussion in line with this year's festival theme «Setting the Agenda for Science.»

Currently, the majority of biomaterials jobs are in academia, but the private sector is showing signs of activity, with academic labs spinning out companies, pharmaceutical companies allying themselves to biomaterials companies, and traditional medical implant companies looking to replace their 50 - year - old technology, Müller adds.

I moved out of academia after several years of precarity with little rewards, but if someone offers me a position tomorrow in a university to do fundamental research, I would probably consider the offer.»

So, after a string of short - term positions in academia — 1 year teaching, a 2 - year postdoc in Italy, and 16 months in a second postdoc back in France — she decided to try her luck elsewhere.

After 2 years on the job, she went back to academia to get more training, completing a master's degree at the Georgia Institute of Technology in Atlanta.

A: For years, I had been involved in promoting professional recognition for early - career researchers, raising awareness of alternative careers, and bridging the gap between academia and industry through grassroots associations in France and the United States.

In general, the salaries of women are significantly lower than their male counterparts in academia, as most recently reported by the American Association of University Professors (AAUP) in its 2002 Annual Report on the Economic Status of the Profession — although the discrepancies have existed for at least 30 years.

Some laboratories remain open because they are run by contractors who are using money that was not spent during the 2013 fiscal year, but that could soon all change,» [a] nd at the 10 national laboratories supported by the Department of Energy's Office of Science, managers warned that academia and industry could soon lose access to synchrotrons and other popular tools.»

Pollock considers himself lucky; he wonders if someone like him — away from academia for years and with no record of bringing in grants — would even get an interview today.

In 2014, after her first attempt at getting an INSERM position came to no avail, Bigorgne was confronted with a reality that many early - career scientists eventually come to face: Despite her passion, years of training, and personal sacrifices, she wouldn't necessarily be able to secure a permanent position and stay in academia.

Over the 8 years of the program's existence, about 15 % of its postdocs have ended up with jobs in academia, says Leslie Pond, who manages the program.

In its latest survey of postdocs, Vitae, an organization based in Cambridge that supports the career development of U.K. research staff, found that 9 % of respondents have done placements or internships outside of academia, up from 5 % just 2 years earlier.

I highly recommend this book to anyone in academia, regardless of the number of years you have been at it.

Obtaining the images usually requires a strong bond between individuals at a university and in industry to persuade to companies to release the data for scientific purposes, observes senior exploration geologist Richard Davies of the 3DLab at Cardiff University in Cardiff, U.K. «Individuals that are presently spearheading it in academia have usually worked in the oil and gas industry in a previous life,» says Davies, who worked for ExxonMobil for eight years.

A survey of Ph.D. s graduating from the Department of Biochemistry at the University of Toronto (U of T) within the last 10 years revealed that only 15 % remained in academia (compared to 35 % in 1980 for all of Canada — look here and here).

After years of training seminars at the university level, I can count on one hand the number of faculty members I remember attending meetings about the differences between academia and industry.

It's part of an ongoing process, and I think it can be quite productive,» said Gilbert Metcalf, an economics professor at Tufts University who led the creation of the Green Climate Fund at the U.S. Treasury Department before returning to academia this year.