by Gary McDowell | Jul 6, 2015 | FOR in the press, FOR meetings, Ideas for change
Patricia Goodwin, Kearney Gunsalus, Erica Walsh and Gary McDowell from FoR gave a workshop at the NatureJobs Career Expo in Boston, May 2015, entitled, “Future of Research: How Can We Improve Career Awareness and Preparedness?” You can read a lengthier...
by Jessica Polka | May 11, 2015 | Ideas for change, NIH
There are just a few more days left to submit comments to the NIH’s latest Request for Information (RFI) entitled “Optimizing Funding Policies and Other Strategies to Improve the Impact and Sustainability of Biomedical Research.” This is a tremendous opportunity for...
by Gary McDowell | Apr 15, 2015 | Ideas for change, Postdoc population size, STEM shortage myth
Jessica Polka, Kristin Krukenberg and Gary McDowell have an article in today’s edition of Molecular Biology of the Cell, “A call for transparency in tracking student and postdoc career outcomes”. The article calls on the scientific community to...
by Gary McDowell | Apr 13, 2015 | Ideas for change, NIH, Surveys & Forums
The NIH is looking for comments on “policies and strategies to improve the impact and sustainability” of biomedical research. You can read about the background in the NIH “Rock Talk” blogpost by NIGMS Director Jon Lorsch, “Give Input on...
by Gary McDowell | Apr 11, 2015 | Ideas for change
“CHANGING THE POSTDOC : If you could change ONE thing to improve the postdoc experience at UCSF, what would it be?” was held at UCSF in March 2015. You can find discussions about the event in the UCSF Student Newspaper and on Science Careers. Resources from the event...
by Gary McDowell | Mar 2, 2015 | Grassroots movements, Ideas for change
Today UCSF is hosting a forum: “CHANGING THE POSTDOC : If you could change ONE thing to improve the postdoc experience at UCSF, what would it be?” It is at 3:30-5:00 pm Pacific time, 6:30-8:00 pm EST. You can watch the lecture live or later on-demand here....
