The National Science Foundation (NSF) got the go-ahead last week to launch its first ever stand-alone scholarship program to include undergraduates. The $21 million program will fund 8000 1-year scholarships of up to $2500 each to low-income students who want to pursue degrees in computer science, engineering, or mathematics. The money for the program will come from a $500 fee that U.S. employers...
Graduate student enrollments are down for the fourth year in a row, according to a Data Brief written in mid December and recently released by the National Science Foundation (NSF). This trend falls into line with last year's recommendation by the National Research Council that graduate programs in the biological science should limit their growth. The numbers in the Data Brief come from the NSF's...
ARL's Copyright and Intellectual Property Page The Association of Research Libraries (ARL) has an intellectual property Web page with information on current legislative activities as well as court cases and legal decisions. What is a Patent, a Trademark, and a Copyright? An overview of intellectual property by the American Intellectual Property Law Association. Andy Gibbs's Inventor's Resource We...
CHARLOTTESVILLE, VA--Scientists are typically thought of as being disinterested in Washington policy events. But that may be changing. Last Monday, for the first time ever, developmental biologists sat down to a lesson in legislative affairs 101--a workshop presented at the 58th annual meeting of the Society for Developmental Biology (SDB) at the University of Virginia in Charlottesville. "How th...
BACK TO THE FEATURE INDEX WHAT! WORK AT AN INVESTMENT BANK? FINANCIAL MATHEMATICS AT THE UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO THE MATHEMATICS IN FINANCE PROGRAM AT THE COURANT INSTITUTE USING MATHEMATICS IN FINANCE AT THE UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO RESOURCES SCIENTISTS AS MARKET ANALYSTS: FEATURE INDEX "It's like driving an 18-wheeler in traffic every day. There are so many parameters you have to adjust," says Mitch...
"I always wanted to work in forensics," says Jenifer Smith, chief of the DNA Analysis Unit with the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI). With this goal in mind, Smith did a summer internship at the New York Medical Examiners Office while an undergraduate at Pennsylvania State University. It was during this internship that Smith's mentors suggested that she go on for an advanced degree if she wa...
BACK TO THE TEACHING CAREERS FEATURE INDEX NEUROSCIENCE IN HIGH SCHOOL? PURSUING A LESS TRADITIONAL CAREER PATH RESOURCES FOR A TEACHING CAREER Sometimes the best way to find out how to break into a field is to ask the people who place folks in that career. These people see a large number of candidates for open positions, so they know what works and what doesn't. We fired off an e-mail with some ...
I've just walked in the door of the Florida Department of Law Enforcement forensic laboratory to spend a day on the job with Kelli Carter, a forensic technologist. Kelli has an M.S. in zoology and 5 years of experience in the health department lab. She also likes to get to work at the crack of dawn--it's 7:30 a.m. We go to Kelli's desk where she drops off her stuff, and then we're off to the lab....
If you like explaining science to others you may want to consider a career in teaching at either the secondary or postsecondary level. Neurobiology in High School? Jennifer Brakeman made the transition from a Ph.D. program to teaching science. Find out how. Pursuing a Less Traditional Career Path Leah Cataldo loves her job as a high school science teacher. She teaches and still does research on t...
RESOURCES BIOINFORMATICS SKILLS We interviewed Rowan Chapman of Incyte Pharmaceuticals to find out her field and her career: Next Wave: What is proteomics? Is it just protein chemistry with a fancy name, or is it more than that? Rowan: Proteomics is taking the protein complement of the cell, the whole proteome of a cell, and linking it to the genome of a cell. Protein chemistry is much more defin...
