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A new finding says black scientists win NIH R01 grants less often than whites; here's how they can improve the odds.

Science faculty at community colleges are finding ways to fit research into their jobs.

Niccole Villa Cerveny teaches a research course for which students rate the susceptibility of ancient Hopi rock art to erosion.

Thomas Higgins and other local community college instructors organized the STEM-ENGINES undergraduate research collaborative to promote research at their institutions.

Jacqueline Crisman left a promising biomedical research career to build a cutting-edge biochemistry program from scratch in her hometown.

Companies are building partnerships with academia to train and retain their next generation of scientific employees.

Who better than Nobel Prize–winning scientists to offer advice for scoring science's top prize for yourself?

Scientists studying the physics of living systems utilize an NSF initiative to expand their network and make it easier to find jobs.

Our correspondent reports from the Neuroscience 2011 meeting in Washington, D.C.

Graduate students need to decide whether to spend time replicating other scientists' data.

As the industry moves away from the big pharma model, drug development scientists are likely to find more and better opportunities at smaller companies, and even academic labs.

A new NIH center aims to set the national agenda on translational research, but budget constraints mean not much change for now.

As big-pharma jobs disappear, pharma scientists are landing at start-ups, launching their own, or joining academia.

Scientists working with patient-advocacy groups need to set legal and ethical guidelines so interactions can be mutually beneficial.

The scientists who founded the National Postdoctoral Association 10 years ago say the experience helped their careers.

Drug development companies are now hiring more computational biologists, creating an abundance of high-paying jobs.

Today, NPA co-founder Karen Christopherson is principal scientist at a unit of Pfizer.

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

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

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