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March 29, 2013

Whites No Longer Overrepresented in Youngest Scientist Cohorts

Underrepresented minorities increase their share of faculty posts at 2-year colleges, while Asians rise at 4-year institutions and in industry.

March 29, 2013

NIH Wants Your Input on Training

NIH is seeking feedback from the community on how best to improve graduate and postdoctoral training.

March 20, 2013

Making Sense of Your Self-Assessment

Once you've thought hard about your skills, interests, and values, it's time to narrow the range of career options you ought to consider.

March 12, 2013

A Law (Not) Unto Itself

Lawyers, like scientists, struggle to find jobs.

March 01, 2013

Live From D.C., It's High-Skill Immigration Reform!

Recent political pronouncements would be laughable if they weren't potentially so harmful.

February 11, 2013

House Committee Debates High-Skill Immigration

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.

January 18, 2013

Is NSF's 'Product' Category a Finished Product?

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

December 28, 2012

Science Careers 2012: The Year's Best Stories

The best and most popular stories of 2012, as chosen by readers and editors.

December 21, 2012

Breakthrough of the Year: Seekers of the Higgs Boson

Science Careers talks to three young investigators who contributed to this year's monumental discovery.

December 07, 2012

Getting Back Your Mojo

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

November 02, 2012

A Modest Workforce Proposal

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

June 20, 2008

Opportunities Abound in Toxicology

So far in her career, Nadia Moore has toured several major subfields of toxicology.

May 30, 2008

Educated Woman, Postdoc Edition, Chapter 16: Still Perky After All These Years

"Clarity is a gift." --Micella Phoenix DeWhyse

April 18, 2008

A Matter of Policy

"We complain that these decisions are being made in a vacuum without significant scientific or engineering input. Well, the way to fix that is for scientists and engineers to get involved in the policy process." --Joseph Helble, dean and professor, Thayer School of Engineering, Dartmouth College

February 29, 2008

Educated Woman, Postdoc Edition, Chapter 13: Fake It Until You Make It?

I want to be able to proudly say to someone that I am a "fill in the blank" and not cringe afterward.

October 26, 2007

Educated Woman, Postdoc Edition Chapter 10: Loyalty, Subterfuge, Manipulation, and Sabotage

Is it ineptitude or something worse?

August 10, 2007

An Astrophysicist at La Città della Scienza

"Interactive museums have sprouted around Italy and across Europe as the European Commission and individual nations have placed science-and-society issues higher on the agenda."

June 29, 2007

Educated Woman, Postdoc Edition, Chapter 6: Carrots and Sticks

“Our recent personal history teaches us that what we will most likely receive when we seek guidance is a swift kick in the pants.”

June 15, 2007

French Pharmacist Finds Career Niche at Regulatory Agency

Franck Diafouka found at the EMEA the opportunity to study the impact of drugs in real life and work in a multinational and multicultural environment.

April 27, 2007

Educated Woman, Postdoc Edition, Chapter 4: Baby Steps

Some things must be worked through, and that takes time.

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