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The first—and perhaps last—crop of NSF Innovation in Graduate Education Challenge awards went to graduate students who laid out plans for improving their chances for career success.

Nowadays, social media is ubiquitous, but you still need to consider how your online presence looks to future employers.

myIDP helps you cut through hearsay and conjecture and base your career choices on solid data and professional experience.

By picking up the fundamentals of biology, computer scientists are contributing to the life sciences.

Crowd-funding could prove to be just a niche funding source, but it could also end up changing how science is done.

USA Today's editors and the head of the AFL-CIO disagree about the Senate immigration bill's high-skill provisions.

The yearlong study aims to improve campus safety practices.

Two NYU researchers were arrested for conspiring to pass information about their research to a Chinese company and the Chinese government.

In science, sometimes, mistakes are not merely good, they're extraordinary.

A desire to prove to disadvantaged students that they, too, could be successful carried Knatokie Ford through her graduate program at Harvard.

An open letter calls for funding agencies and hiring institutions to evaluate scientists by their research and not what journals they publish in.

Often, the people who get noticed are the ones who get hired.

In the United Kingdom, recent Ph.D. recipients have weathered the recession in better shape than most.

In scientific fields, graduate school debt is higher for minorities than it is for whites.

myIDP is a free, Web-based career-planning tool that was created to help graduate students and postdocs in the sciences define and pursue their career goals.

As traditional disciplines become more data-focused, traditional scientists need to become more "pi-shaped".

Institutional fellowships offer recent Ph.D.s the chance to leap right into running their own labs.

This cognitive scientist/opera singer learned to love science and music separately before figuring out how to bring them together.

One of the oldest paths into science writing careers has ended.

A recent analysis in neuroscience urges caution both in reading the literature and in designing your own experiments.