Science Career Magazine

Issue for January 19, 2001

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Bridging the GREAT Divide: A Postdoctoral View

By  Pauline Wong  - A t the recent GREAT group meeting (see accompanying article for more information), administrators from medical colleges and postdocs from across the country gathered to discuss issues pertaining to graduate education. During the course of the discussions, it became

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Inherent in the System

By  Kirstie Urquhart  - EDITORIAL COMMENT I ndirect discrimination is disadvantaging women in their battle to build an academic research career. That's the conclusion of a report published just before Christmas which looked at the

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Back to School at York U

By  Lesley McKarney  - A fter 78 days of strike havoc, the picket lines have come down and classes resumed this week at York University. Graduate assistants, teaching assistants (TAs), and contract faculty won important concessions from the administration, including tuition protection, health benefits, and an increase in the

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Opening the Entrance to Job Life: Berlin's Humboldt University Establishes Career Center

By  Markus Wendeler  - J ob life is quite different than what you learned at university. Everybody knows this, but Germany's universities have so far made little effort to bridge the considerable chasm that opens up in front of graduates eager to join the "real" work life. However, so

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Yours Transferably: Going Global 1--Why and Who?

By  Phil Dee  - INDEX OF ARTICLES WRITTENBY PHIL DEE B efore you say anything, I know that when it comes to developing collaborations with their fellow scientists some PhD students don't even get a look-in. This is often simply because