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To get tenure, you need to show that you, not a group that frequently includes you, deserve promotion.

The joy of playing with her granddaughter tickles the neurons of a noted neuroscientist and inspires her research.

These days, postdocs need to demonstrate their independence early, which they can do by negotiating with advisers, seeking individual fellowships, or obtaining a junior-PI position.

Nobelist Roald Hoffmann believes that taking graduate students off grants and giving them fellowships would be good for U.S. science. But others say such a radical change isn't in the cards.

"Administrative review" is leaving some foreign scientists stranded overseas and others afraid to travel, putting their careers and science at risk.

Rutgers postdocs join their bosses' union as union efforts multiply across the continent.

What do paradigm-shifting scientists have in common? The first in a series.

These scientists are applying their skills to relieve many of the world's ills, including food shortages, human-rights violations, and epidemic outbreaks in developing countries. (Photo: Refugees in Darfur, Sudan. Courtesy, USAID)

Medical students and physician-scientist trainees suffer from high rates of depression and often are reluctant to admit to their condition.

Traditional PI-centered research can't solve today's big technological problems, a lab leader asserts.

To do breakthrough science, you need passion, a supportive institution and mentor, and a suitable problem.

Science Careers describes how to get tenure--and what some people do when they don't.

An expert on tenure describes best practices for getting tenure.

You've been denied tenure--now what?

A recently rejected physics professor rediscovers the pleasures of carrots and carpentry as she ponders her future.

After an initial exodus of their young scientists, Eastern European countries are seeing returns on a world without walls.

Eastern European scientists have many opportunities to benefit from international collaborations at home.

Three early-career scientists discuss returning to their native countries after spending time abroad.

These programs help researchers from Eastern Europe get training or experience abroad or bring researchers from elsewhere to the region.

This index provides links to Anne Sasso's articles in the Audacity in Science series appearing in Science Careers.