Is There an M.D./Ph.D. in My Future? ScienceCareers Staff, 25 August 2006 The MentorDoctor team advises an undergraduate who is interested in practicing medicine and doing academic research. MentorDoctor: The Next Big Thing? ScienceCareers Staff, 30 June 2006 A young scientist asks: Should I get my Ph.D., or start my own company? MentorDoctor: Should I Stay or Should I Go? ScienceCareers Staff, 2...
BACK TO THE FEATURE INDEX Want to find out more about where scientists in the vanguard of creating the scientific environment of the future are working? The Next Wave staff has compiled a list of resources that should get your search off to a good start, whether your interest lies in particle physics, genomics, or computer science. Bioinformatics: At the National Research Council's Institute for ...
UNITED KINGDOM AND IRELAND Fellowship Wellcome Trust Research Career Development Fellowships in Basic Biomedical Science Who can apply Scientists with 3 to 6 years of postdoctoral research experience. Open to nationals from the European Economic Area (EEA), and non-nationals who have graduated from a UK university, or have worked in a UK institution for a minimum of three years. What the funding ...
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Hometown: Flint, Michigan Mathematics Major: Mathematics (undergraduate), Computer Information Systems Management (graduate) Degree Granting Institution(s): Spelman College, Ferris State University Job Title: Information Specialist/Project Manager, Electronic Data Systems (EDS), Flint, MI Job Responsibilities: I am the site implementation manager for General Motors (one of a variety of companies ...
BACK TO THE FEATURE INDEX W e invited each of the European essayists in our feature Too Many or Too Few? The Postdoc Production Policy Debate to read and consider the following document before responding to the ?thought questions? at the end. Postdoc Production The number of science postdocs is on the rise. The University of Cambridge, UK, has more than twice as many contract researchers as staff...
The "Science Bytes" series on Science's Next Wave offered news items that while current at the time, have since become obsolete. Please visit the Science Careers blog for the latest advice, opinion, news, funding opportunities, and links to other career-related resources....
OTHER ARTICLES You've just landed your first tenure-track job. You're sitting in your new departmental office, trying to get some work done. How do you feel? Lonely, according to a new survey. Carol Stringer Cawyer, an assistant professor of communication studies at the University of North Texas, conducted the survey with Gustav W. Friedrich, dean of communication and information sciences at Rutg...
Like many e-businesses before them (such as Amazon.com and etoys), NextWave.org has decided that the virtual world is just not enough to satisfy their members. The purchase of regional warehouses, for storage and direct shipping of career advice straight to their clients' doors, will make Next Wave the first seller of nontangible material to adopt this business model. "Quite frankly, we're excite...
BACK TO THE MAIN INDEX euro40x22.gif Wasted Talents--Women Scientists in Eastern and Central Europe Women in Industry: The Sublime and the Ridiculous European Women in Science: Stand Up and Be Counted European Science in the 21st Century: The View From the Lab Floor Movin' On Up or Movin' On Out? Men Wanted EU Confronts the Gender Gap EU Moves to Decrease the Gender Gap uk40x22.gif What Does It T...
