OTTAWA--Two years ago, Canada's Natural Science and Engineering Research Council (NSERC), created the University Faculty Awards (UFA) program to encourage Canadian universities to appoint promising women and Aboriginal researchers to tenure-track or tenured positions in the natural sciences and engineering (NSE). Despite--or perhaps even because of--its success, the UFA program has generated some...
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Reprinted, with the permission of the American Society for Cell Biology, from the ASCB Newsletter Volume 25, Number 11, November 2002. In 2000, the Committee on Science, Engineering, and Public Policy (COSEPUP), a joint unit of the National Academy of Sciences, National Academy of Engineering, and the Institute of Medicine, published a report on enhancing the postdoctoral experience for scientist...
Erik S. Barton is about to make the leap from postdoctoral fellow at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis, Missouri, to a faculty position at Purdue University in West Lafayette, Indiana.
