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Science Career Magazine

Issue for August 11, 2006

Science Career Magazine
NSF Wants PIs to Mind Their Postdocs
By  Yudhijit Bhattacharjee  -

A 2 August letter from the National Science Foundation’s geosciences directorate asks grantees and grant applicants to spell out their postdoc mentoring activities in both grant proposals and annual and final reports.

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Lab Dynamics: Negotiating Science
By  Carl M. Cohen, Suzanne L. Cohen  -

Whether you realize it or not, most important discussions about science are in fact negotiations.

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No More Boring Science
By  Grant Doctor  -

With little fanfare, NSF director Arden Bement seems to be transforming his organization to eliminate the pedestrian and to fund only cutting-edge science.

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Career Transition Profile - Jonathan Wood
By  Anne Forde  -

Jonathan Wood's broad interests took him from a biology Ph.D. to his current job as editor of a materials-science publication.