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A newly Shuttle-less NASA is trying to figure out how many astronauts to recruit.

A report suggests a big jump in Black/African-American enrollment in computer science graduate programs.

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

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.

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.

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

In implementing the recommendations of its Biomedical Research Workforce Working Group, NIH decides to play it safe.

A report from the Australian government finds Aussie graduate students and postdocs, like their U.S. counterparts, frustrated by the job market.

The ACS report on graduate and postdoc training goes where NIH's workforce working group didn't, recommending limiting Ph.D. production among other bold measures.