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

PREVIOUS COLUMNS A few years ago, Dr. Jim Bylund was studying gene expression in Bacillus subtilis, working as a...

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

A protégé pays tribute to the humanity and resilience of immunologist Alan Houghton.

Reconfiguring a professional and personal life takes serious planning. Here are five pointers from professors with recent sabbatical experience.

Paternity leave helps fathers and mothers advance their careers; too bad it's not more common.

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

Managing an intimate relationship at work requires awareness of potential pitfalls and a delicate balance of privacy and openness.

To help him write his dissertation, computer scientist Fred Stutzman created an app that blocks online distractions.

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.

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"I would say that there's definitely enough work to go around." --Emma Hitt

Answering these six questions can help you choose your career path without having to make major course corrections.

Like many of the folks here at Next Wave my professional journey has been radically nonlinear. I was a North Carolina...

High-skill immigration reform is more complicated and contentious than it looks, an expert conference shows.

John Long, his collaborators, and his Vassar undergraduates study fish biomechanics and behavior.

Identifying and addressing self-confidence issues can help early-career scientists make swifter progress.

In almost every work environment the ability to influence others is an essential job skill.

Setting up successful international collaborations is about leveling the field, especially when working with partners in developing countries.

At the AAAS Annual Meeting in Boston on Thursday, Mark Frankel, the Director of the Scientific Responsibility, Human Rights, and Law Program at AAAS, made a case for scientists to think more deeply about their social responsibilities.