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Issues and Perspectives

Issue for July 31, 2009

Career Advice

Issues and Perspectives

Career Advice

Issues and Perspectives

Career Advice

Issues and Perspectives

Perspective: How to Succeed in Big Science and Still Get Tenure

By:

Victoria McGovern

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

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Career Advice

Issues and Perspectives

Career Advice

Issues and Perspectives

Career Advice

Issues and Perspectives

Independent Postdocs, Part 1: Gaining Early Autonomy

By:

Elisabeth Pain

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.

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Issues and Perspectives

Issues and Perspectives

Reshuffling Graduate Training

By:

Jeffrey Mervis

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.

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