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His life in tatters, one former UMass postdoc sues his college and his adviser as postdocs on three UMass campuses unionize.

When you're unemployed, it's essential to keep your skills and connections fresh. The best way to do that is to keep on working.

Is it a good idea to propose a safe research project to NIH or NSF, then use the money for riskier work?

Recovery Act funding will give a boost to a field focused on containing health care costs while maintaining quality.

Ongoing reforms of the science system in Poland give molecular biologist Agnieszka Chacinska great hopes for the country's future.

Dropping off an infant at daycare is very stressful for new mothers returning to work.

Your parents may have told you that you're special, but the job market requires some humility.

Despite layoffs, pharmaceutical companies are hiring researchers to strengthen their early drug-development programs.

An early success in growing indium gallium nitride quantum dots put the career of material scientist Rachel Oliver on a fast track.

Like a biologist's microscope or a geographer's global positioning system, assistive technologies allow scientists and engineers to extend their capabilities.

With assists from technology -- sometimes high and sometimes low -- these scientists are overcoming obstacles and getting their work done.

Research finds that scientists' career-related preferences are far wider than stereotypes suggest -- and that industry is likely to be an excellent choice for many.

A few scientists are going to great lengths to make everything they do in the lab transparent, often in real time.

Regulations at every step of drug development mean jobs for regulatory scientists at every step, too.

A career in outreach makes a full-time job of connecting science and scientists with the public.

The rules and conventions of authorship are ever-changing and rarely clear, but early-career scientists need to master them.

Begoña Vitoriano Villanueva uses her mathematical skills to help humanitarian aid organizations respond to natural disasters.

The job search is immeasurably aided by good, transparent writing.

A complex fabric of researchers -- geneticists, psychologists, neuroscientists, physicians -- are working to understand autism.

Faculty who teach science to nonmajors promote science literacy while finding space in the classroom to unleash their creativity.