- The Job Market
- Taken for Granted: An Alternative to the Ph.D. Track
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As NSF prepares to help Professional Science Master's programs multiply, employment prospects for graduates of these programs look strong, even in a weak economy.
- Career Profiles
- Fun With Fungi: Mycology Careers
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The demand for mycologists is relatively small, but career opportunities exist in areas from academic research to applied agriculture.
- Career Advice
- Career Renewal for Established Scientists
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Some senior faculty members continue to be productive, whereas others become deadwood or just meander along.
- Career Advice
- Looking Up in a Down Market: Cambridge, Oxford, and London
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The science job market in the London–Oxford–Cambridge triangle, after 10 years of rising public investment in the United Kingdom's science base, has never been stronger. But the shockwaves of the financial crisis are undermining the biotech industry and pharma restructuring is hitting R&D, while academia is refocusing research with a translational bent.
A Science/AAAS Business Office feature.
- Career Advice
- Rejuvenation Tips for Tenured Faculty
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Staying engaged, motivated, and productive for the decades that stretch beyond tenure can be challenging.
- Career Advice
- Revising Best-Laid Plans
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Tenured scientists tell stories about how they managed to restart their research careers.
