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Articles By Michael Price

  • The Job Market
    Issues and Perspectives
    Career Advice
    The Job Market
    Issues and Perspectives
    Career Advice
    The Job Market
    Issues and Perspectives
    Career Advice

    Physicists Learn a Trade

    A few universities are teaching physics students quantitative finance skills, but some observers think that isn't a good idea.

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  • The Job Market
    Issues and Perspectives
    The Job Market
    Issues and Perspectives
    The Job Market
    Issues and Perspectives

    Pushing Students Toward STEM

    A national STEM workforce conference suggests numerous plans to boost STEM education and training, but few to make jobs more desirable.

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  • Issues and Perspectives
    Career Advice
    The Job Market
    Issues and Perspectives
    Career Advice
    The Job Market
    Issues and Perspectives
    Career Advice
    The Job Market

    Can NIH Renovate the Biomedical Workforce?

    An NIH committee recommends overhauling training, increasing postdoc pay, and improving and expanding staff scientist positions.

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  • MySciNet
    Diversity Issues
    MySciNet
    Diversity Issues
    MySciNet
    Diversity Issues

    Soldiers Becoming Scientists

    The Post-9/11 GI Bill and other programs are enabling some veterans to pursue careers in science.

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  • Career Profiles
    Issues and Perspectives
    Career Profiles
    Issues and Perspectives
    Career Profiles
    Issues and Perspectives

    Understanding Minds to Win Over Hearts

    For scientists who study conflict's motivations and consequences, the brain is the battlefield that matters.

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  • Career Profiles
    Issues and Perspectives
    Career Advice
    Career Profiles
    Issues and Perspectives
    Career Advice
    Career Profiles
    Issues and Perspectives
    Career Advice

    Another NPA Founder Speaks

    Today, NPA co-founder Karen Christopherson is principal scientist at a unit of Pfizer.

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  • The Job Market
    Issues and Perspectives
    Career Advice
    The Job Market
    Issues and Perspectives
    Career Advice
    The Job Market
    Issues and Perspectives
    Career Advice

    Computational Biologists: The Next Pharma Scientists?

    Drug development companies are now hiring more computational biologists, creating an abundance of high-paying jobs.

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  • Career Profiles
    Issues and Perspectives
    Career Advice
    Life and Career
    Career Profiles
    Issues and Perspectives
    Career Advice
    Life and Career
    Career Profiles
    Issues and Perspectives
    Career Advice
    Life and Career

    NPA Founders Find Success

    The scientists who founded the National Postdoctoral Association 10 years ago say the experience helped their careers.

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  • Career Advice
    Issues and Perspectives
    Career Advice
    Issues and Perspectives
    Career Advice
    Issues and Perspectives

    Your Research, Their Hope

    Scientists working with patient-advocacy groups need to set legal and ethical guidelines so interactions can be mutually beneficial.

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  • The Job Market
    Issues and Perspectives
    Career Advice
    The Job Market
    Issues and Perspectives
    Career Advice
    The Job Market
    Issues and Perspectives
    Career Advice

    Stepping Out of Big Pharma's Shadow

    As big-pharma jobs disappear, pharma scientists are landing at start-ups, launching their own, or joining academia.

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