Patricia Burchat Photo: Steve Gladfelter "A new lab rotation each quarter allows students to learn more about the research pursued by the group and gives a student the opportunity to test the 'culture' in the group before making a decision" The selection of a doctoral program: it's not quite marriage, but it's a long-term commitment that could turn into a lifetime relationship, perhaps impacting—...
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There has always been a far wider range of career opportunities for chemists than the chemists—or at least newly qualified chemists—recognize, according to Lisa Balbes, a volunteer careers consultant with the American Chemical Society (ACS). Balbes is a freelance technical writer and consultant, and the author of Nontraditional Careers for Chemists (Oxford University Press, 2006). Lisa Balbes & M...
foc_051206 The high concentration of academics and industry in California makes this state a desirable destination for many job seekers in life sciences. In this article, experts from academic, government, and industrial settings describe the skills in highest demand and techniques for gaining the best job. Mike May Genentech (http://www.gene.com) Kelly Scientific Resources (http://www.kellyscien...
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Denise Koo Denise Koo Photo by James Gathany "Other advantages of working for the government include having job security and good retirement benefits." Collectively, the US government is the largest single employer in America, filling approximately 1.6 million full-time, permanent positions; however, in reality, the US government consists of several hundred smaller employers, each of which has it...
Money Lock iStockPhoto.com/dny59 "Researchers should not neglect smaller, private foundations." "Publish or perish" is the scientist's maxim—with good reason. Career advancement hinges on publications. But data generation requires dollars. And as the time it takes for investigators to become financially independent grows, the old adage may also motivate early-career researchers to capitalize on t...
Photo of Tuajuanda Jordan Photo: Paul Fetters for HHMI Tuajuanda Jordan "To increase representation of women, people of color, and of different sexual orientation, things have to change in terms of attitudes as well as policy." On January 20, Barack Obama became the first African American to be sworn in as President of the United States. On that day television screens carried images of African Am...
PDF Version Start with these numbers: African-Americans make up 13 percent of the United States population, but comprise only 5 percent of those employed in the life, physical, and social sciences. Or with this: less than 3 percent of Ph.D.s in biology and chemistry are held by African-Americans. Different statistics pepper various reports, but none dispute the central fact, that African-American...
foc_021006 Postdoctoral fellowships for many life scientists have become marathons that delay their entry to their first “real” jobs by some years. To counter the problem, potential employers in government, industry, and universities have started to set term limits to the postdoctoral experience. Affymetrix, Inc. ( http://www.affymetrix.com) Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center ( http://www.msk...
foc_021706 Brain Mind Institute, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Lausanne ( http://www.epfl.ch) F. Hoffmann-La Roche ( http://www.roche.com) Federal Institute of Technology, Zurich ( http://www.ethz.ch) Friedrich Miescher Institute for Biomedical Research ( http://www.fmi.ch) Institute of Cell Biology, University of Berne ( http://www.izb.unibe.ch) Ludwig Institute for Cancer Research ( ht...
"Being a leader in new discoveries and innovation is what many of the companies on the top 20 list strive to achieve." The year 2009 has been a time of change for the biotechnology and pharmaceutical industry. With a weakened global economy and dwindling drug pipelines, many of the companies that made the list of Science's 2009 top employers are finding that maintaining innovation through collabo...
Being a single mom makes starting out in a scientific career all the more challenging, but Margaret Dalzwell Lowman found a way to involve her two sons.
Being regarded as one of "tomorrow's bioleaders" is a welcome incentive for the participants in a program called BioVision.Nxt. Ninety-three PhD students, postdocs, and MBAs were selected for this "next generation" program, part of the international life sciences forum BioVision 2005. BioVision.Nxt seeks to enhance interactions between the rising stars in life science -- on both the technical and...
Any researcher or graduate student who has ever performed a lab experiment knows that achieving an accurate, reproducible result is often less of a science and more of an art—and certainly much more complex than some scant "methods" sections would lead one to believe. Numerous variables come into play that can influence the outcome of results: accurate measurements, temperatures, timing, and puri...
Credit: Photo illustration by Amy Hardcastle, image from istockphoto.com/andrewjohnson "Several forces are seemingly colluding, and these forces are building upon one another to create a good deal of synergistic pressure." Like it or not, each of us has only 168 hours a week to spend in whatever way we see fit, and most of us apply at least one-fourth of those hours—about half of our waking hours...
The European Molecular Biology Laboratory is teaming up with the Spanish government to create a new center for the development of mathematical models of living systems. [Courtesy of Science News]
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