"Remarkable!" It's a word often heard in relation to the speed of discovery in the life sciences. Due to the speed of this knowledge generation, researchers often talk of the growing gaps in the communication of science to the public. A new educational Web site aims to tackle this very problem. Launched in August 2003 at the University of British Columbia (UBC), Bioteach attempts to fill gaps in ...
It was in the spring of 2001 that three PhD students at the University of British Columbia (UBC)--David Oliver, Steve Seredick, and Ali Tehrani--found themselves sitting around a lunch table, discussing questions about careers in biotech R&D that their graduate education had not provided suitable answers for. Questions like, what kinds of jobs might I get in the biotechnology sector? Would I find...
BACK TO THE FEATURE INDEX A computer is a useful tool to a scientist, and it's just one of a wide range of common technologies regularly used by researchers and students studying science. But for the scientist, student, or individual with a disability, many of these technologies are simply not readily accessible. Scientists and engineers at the Neil Squire Foundation ( NSF) have worked hard over ...
Danika Goosney (pictured left) was sitting on the fence. In the midst of a postdoctoral position, she was looking from side-to-side at her future career prospects. To her left, she could see the starting line for an academic position with her own lab, and to her right she could see the potential for a position as a research scientist in the biotech industry. She wasn't sure of which way to choose...
BACK TO THE FEATURE INDEX Wally Cherwinski had an itch--a nagging feeling that there were more opportunities out there for a scientist than simply research. The chance to scratch that itch came through something very Canadian--a hockey game. This was surprising because he was living in England at the time, working as a postdoctoral fellow at the University of Cambridge. He had ventured abroad aft...
