This article outlines the challenges that
young scientists face, such as obtaining research grants, and offers proposals related to career paths, peer review and funding.
Currently,
young scientists face the worse funding climate in the past 50 years, NIH Director Francis Collins recently told lawmakers.
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Young Scientists Face Demand for Broader - Based Education» discusses opportunities available to graduate students for gaining nonacademic work experience.
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a young scientist faces despair from too many failed academic job searches, one panelist had some tough advice: It's time to reassess options as to whether academia is the right track.
Indeed, this is one of the most pernicious aspects of the bullying and victimisation which
younger scientists face if they stick their heads above the parapet.
Not exact matches
I won't reveal yet who my favorites are, but I will say that these
young scientist - founders came up with very creative solutions for preventing infections in some common surgeries, tackling resistance in targeted antibody drugs, improving gene vectors for cell therapies, helping the vision - impaired «see»
faces and better read their environments, imaging hard - to - see spots in the lungs and other organs, improving genetic risk analysis, and expediting the logistical operations of hospitals.
Today, the agency is
facing broad challenges and mounting pressure for change, but there's no question that ERC Starting Grants have been career - changing for the
young scientists who have won them.
The Bratislava Declaration of
Young Researchers presents the challenges that early - career
scientists face and policy proposals for addressing them
«I also saw it as an opportunity to raise the profile of women in science, to increase the diversity of voices and perspectives that make up the «
face» of science — my hope is that all
young people have the opportunity to see themselves as
scientists, to consider science as a career and pursue it if that's where their passions and skills lie.»
My wife, meanwhile, fought her way through the usual challenges
faced by
young scientists working at small colleges: learning how to teach courses she never took; starting up a research program while managing an oppressive teaching load; dealing with tenure pressures and associated political shenanigans.
Three major challenges
facing young Chinese
scientists are a funding system that tends to value connections more than innovation and ideas; a push to generate Ph.D. s and publications that could compromise quality and hurt the reputation of Chinese science; and a desire for training and international experience that does not match opportunities.
But many
young scientists in Sweden
face temporary unemployment after finishing their Ph.D.'s
And while countries do support
young scientists or full professors with various special grants, junior level
scientists face sparse choices.
During a workshop that the Enwise group organised last year to let
young scientists express their concerns, some of the issues identified appeared to be identical to those
faced in Western Europe.
For an upcoming Mind Matters column: What are some of the unique challenges
faced by
young scientists who move to a foreign country for their training or work?
The problems that
young interdisciplinary
scientists face will be solved only when the culture has changed.
My experience with the environmental research community suggests that it is critical to sensitize
young scientists to the concept of worldview if they want to address the global challenges we
face in the Anthropocene.
The chance to meet funders
face to
face provides
young scientists with a unique opportunity to learn vital information about the programmes — information that may not be available on the Web or in the organisation's literature.
Senior
scientists working away in their labs, applying for new research grants, writing new papers, hiring new postdocs, remain as oblivious as ever, and as unlikely to note the problems
faced by today's
young scientists.
But the research institutes are
facing stiff competition from the private sector, which is more good news for
young scientists.
In light of the issues that some
young scientists have
faced, however, any increased attention to the ethics of research can only be a welcome change.
As a result of an imminent retirement wave among senior
scientists, paltry pay for
young researchers, and the pull of the business world, universities and research organizations could
face a shortage of almost 1300
scientists as early as 2003, the study predicts, rising to nearly 3000 in 2008.
«Thanks to all of you, near and far, old and
young, who joined the Cassini mission in marking the first time inhabitants of Earth had advance notice that our picture was being taken from interplanetary distances,» said Linda Spilker, Cassini project
scientist at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, Calif. «While Earth is too small in the images Cassini obtained to distinguish any individual human beings, the mission has put together this collage so that we can celebrate all your waving hands, uplifted paws, smiling
faces and artwork.»
The hurdles
facing young scientists seeking grant funding are growing increasingly higher, as, it appears, are the hurdles in the tenure process.
This is the story of how a
young scientist makes the leap from being a postdoctoral fellow in someone else's lab to being the P.I. of his own at a time when science itself is
facing funding hurdles.
In
Faces we portray the
young scientists of the Lindau Nobel Laureate Meetings and give them an open forum to talk about their research and everything else that is important to them.
Young scientists are
facing a constantly growing pressure of having to publish.
SAYAS aims to contribute towards solutions to national and global challenges
facing society; provide a platform for
young scientists to influence policy decisions; contribute towards the development of scientific capacity in South Africa through mentoring and role - modelling of future
scientists; and foster opportunities for interdisciplinary collaborations amongst
young scientists.
Here's the official synopsis for Incarnate, now in theaters December 2nd: «A
scientist with the ability to enter the subconscious minds of the possessed must save a
young boy from the grips of a demon with powers never seen before, while
facing the horrors of his past.»
«A
scientist with the ability to enter the subconscious minds of the possessed must save a
young boy from the grips of a demon with powers never seen before, while
facing the horrors of his past.
It is an admirable attempt to equip
young people with the skills they need to be tech professionals and computer
scientists, but the new qualification
faces serious challenges in its current form.
In the rare instance that breaks the pattern, some kindly older
scientist will take aside the
young, fresh -
faced idealist who turned in a final result, and explain to him how it works.
LONDON, 19 July, 2017 — One of the world's most famous climate
scientists has just calculated the financial burden that tomorrow's
young citizens will
face to keep the globe at a habitable temperature and contain global warming and climate change — a $ 535 trillion bill.