Science Career Magazine

Issue for November 17, 2000

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York University TA's Strike!

By  Tiffany Boyd  - D ispleased with the offer of settlement tabled by York University administration last week, 2230 York teaching assistants, graduate assistants, and contract faculty walked off the job after over 20 bargaining sessions. The York University strike is the latest in a series of organized Canadian

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Animal Testing or How to Deal With the Unavoidable

By  Peter Ansari  - Killing animals for bioassays is a central task in many life science research projects, and doing so is a routine part of lab life in a number of working groups. But when students are first confronted with the reality of killing experimental animals, many feel

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Let's Do the Time Warp Again

By  Kirstie Urquhart  - Win a place on a 5-day personal and career development course courtesy of Next Wave and the Research Councils' Graduate Schools Programme Competition open to UK-based 2nd- and 3rd-year Ph.D. students and Postdocs

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Positive Focusing: Become a Goal-Driven Career Strategist

By  Dave Jensen  - DAVE IS THE MANAGING DIRECTOR OF SEARCH MASTERS INTERNATIONAL IN SEDONA, ARIZONA PREVIOUS COLUMNS H ave you ever been to one of those big gatherings of motivational speakers, where people like

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Postdocs Are Not All Created Equal--Postdoc Status, Part 2

By  Emily Klotz  - L ast week, we began our discussion of postdoc status with a primer on two categories of American academic postdocs. This week, we'll cover the status issues of foreign national postdocs, "student" postdocs, and postdocs working in government labs.