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For scientists who study conflict's motivations and consequences, the brain is the battlefield that matters.

The Post-9/11 GI Bill and other programs are enabling some veterans to pursue careers in science.

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.

Graduate students' pressures make them especially prone to depression, but small changes can help.

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.

Psychologists share tips for figuring out what's sapping your enthusiasm—and how to get it back.

The agency has updated its grant proposal guide, but its new use of "products" in the biosketch, in place of publications, is ambiguous.

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.

The House Judiciary Committee invited experts to discuss the effects of high-skill immigration on the U.S. workforce, but there was little talk about what employers actually need.

At a session at the AAAS Annual Meeting, featured members of the ACS presidential committee on fixing graduate chemistry education, expounded on the report's recommendations.

NSF empowers graduate students with small awards to help them improve their graduate programs.

A panel of workforce experts at the 2013 AAAS Annual Meeting urged NIH to be more aggressive in fixing biomedical workforce training.