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Articles By Michael Price

  • The Job Market
    Issues and Perspectives
    The Job Market
    Issues and Perspectives
    The Job Market
    Issues and Perspectives

    Materials Researchers Find Opportunity in Biomedicine

    As biomedical applications emerge, materials scientists find new research opportunities but less funding.

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  • Issues and Perspectives
    The Job Market

    A Modest Workforce Proposal

    Forgoing alarmist pronouncements, a National Academies committee makes sensible suggestions about how to address the workforce needs of the Department of Defense.

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  • MySciNet
    Diversity Issues
    Issues and Perspectives
    The Job Market
    MySciNet
    Diversity Issues
    Issues and Perspectives
    The Job Market
    MySciNet
    Diversity Issues
    Issues and Perspectives
    The Job Market

    Teaching Postdocs to Be Professors

    An NIH program readies teaching-focused postdocs—especially minorities—for lab-and-classroom jobs.

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  • Life and Career
    Issues and Perspectives
    Life and Career
    Issues and Perspectives
    Life and Career
    Issues and Perspectives

    Gauging Graduates' Gloom

    Graduate students' pressures make them especially prone to depression, but small changes can help.

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  • The Job Market
    Issues and Perspectives
    The Job Market
    Issues and Perspectives
    The Job Market
    Issues and Perspectives

    Big Pharma Ramps Up Postdoc Programs

    After years of layoffs, drug companies are turning to the youngest Ph.D. scientists for fresh ideas.

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  • Career Profiles
    Diversity Issues
    Issues and Perspectives
    MySciNet

    Spotlight on Diversity

    Filmmaker and physicist Aziza Baccouche, who is blind, showcases the challenges and successes of diverse scientists in a new documentary series.

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  • Issues and Perspectives
    Career Advice
    The Job Market
    Issues and Perspectives
    Career Advice
    The Job Market
    Issues and Perspectives
    Career Advice
    The Job Market

    Careers in Fast-Forward

    Winners of NIH's Director’s Early Independence Awards share the trials and successes of starting their own labs immediately after graduating.

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  • The Job Market
    Issues and Perspectives
    Career Advice
    The Job Market
    Issues and Perspectives
    Career Advice
    The Job Market
    Issues and Perspectives
    Career Advice

    Physicists Learn a Trade

    A few universities are teaching physics students quantitative finance skills, but some observers think that isn't a good idea.

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  • The Job Market
    Issues and Perspectives
    The Job Market
    Issues and Perspectives
    The Job Market
    Issues and Perspectives

    Pushing Students Toward STEM

    A national STEM workforce conference suggests numerous plans to boost STEM education and training, but few to make jobs more desirable.

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  • Issues and Perspectives
    Career Advice
    The Job Market
    Issues and Perspectives
    Career Advice
    The Job Market
    Issues and Perspectives
    Career Advice
    The Job Market

    Can NIH Renovate the Biomedical Workforce?

    An NIH committee recommends overhauling training, increasing postdoc pay, and improving and expanding staff scientist positions.

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