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Gregory is now nearing completion of his Ph.D. at UCLA so now he has to figure out the next step on his career path.

"I really enjoy that I get to work with my friends, and also get to illustrate the subjects that I love." - Dino Pulerà, biomedical illustrator.

If you don't have a pathway award or a similar fellowship, you'll probably be competing for the positions left over once all the award winners have been placed.

The interview process, she points out, goes both ways: They are interviewing you and you are interviewing them.

Won't call back, part 2 ... Preliminary data and predoc fellowships.

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"It would be really heartbreaking to spend 18 days doing work in the submersible and get back home to the lab only to find out you screwed up. I've seen it happen a lot." - Craig Cary

"This is an environment where everyone is considered and assumed to be a responsible, engaged adult until proven otherwise. You do what you have to do to get the job done." -Holly Butler

Won't call back … Computer and human vision.

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Could a "Fast Pitch Competition" Hold Lessons for Your Future Job Success?

Thanks to the support she received and her active approach to meeting her needs, Powell obtained her Ph.D. in genetics in 2001.

Now, as a faculty member and dean of health sciences at The Community and Technical College of Shepherd in Martinsburg, West Virginia, Plautz looks back at the hats she has worn and the events that have defined her professionally.

Stephen James: "As a scientist, you must be willing to work toward making a product." Gaining new knowledge for its own sake it not enough.

Young scientists have to be willing to learn about the commercialisation of new products and the related market if they are to play an important role in developing European biotech into a more mature industry.

Once a program makes the transition to electronic submission, paper proposals will no longer be accepted.

Although the course emphasized a few issues that are unique to academia, many of the subjects covered--general management, project planning, time management, and interpersonal principles--are crucial to all professionals, no matter what career they ultimately choose to pursue.

"You cannot do one project. You have to do a number of projects to try to get to the answer, hoping one of the approaches will work out." --Yimin Zou

Back to basics … More opportunities for foreign postdocs

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The goal is to give universities an added incentive to recruit young investigators ….

This is an unusual position; I will have little bureaucracy and limited teaching.