by Gary McDowell | Dec 27, 2014 | FOR in the press
See here for a blog post about the Future of Research Symposium in the Nature Scitable ConferenceCast blog, one of the first in a series of planned posts about the Symposium.
by Jessica Polka | Dec 12, 2014 | Events & Networking, FOR in the press
On Saturday, December 6th, we organized a panel at the 2014 ASCB Annual Meeting to discuss the future of research. Audio is available to download in MP3 format here, and can be streamed from YouTube: [youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yUNrIRwyiGQ?rel=0] Kristin...
by Gary McDowell | Dec 11, 2014 | Diversity in science
An article “Biomedical Science Ph.D. Career Interest Patterns by Race/Ethnicity and Gender” by Kenneth D. Gibbs Jr., John McGready, Jessica C. Bennett, and Kimberly Griffin was published December 10 2014 in PLoS One. The article discusses issues that have...
by Gary McDowell | Dec 10, 2014 | Ideas for change
In “Report suggests higher pay, better mentoring for postdocs”, Carolyn Johnson at the Boston Globe discusses a report released by the National Academy of Sciences; the National Academy of Engineering and the Institute of Medicine, led by Greg Petsko at...
by Gary McDowell | Dec 10, 2014 | Ideas for change, Postdoc benefits, Postdoc population size, STEM shortage myth
STEM postdoc researchers are highly trained, but for what? By Gary McDowell, Tufts University The STEM fields of Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics supposedly suffer from a shortage of graduates. Conventional wisdom says there’s no one for employers to...