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Tooling Up: Inflection Points
Science Careers – December 16, 2011
Research: Radical Rethink
Nature – December 14, 2011
Careers Going Global
New Scientist – December 14, 2011
How Much Did the Stimulus Stimulate Science?
Science Careers – December 13, 2011
Charting a Course for a Successful Research Career
Elsevier, 2011
Taken for granted: Getting to aaahhh!
Science Careers – November 4, 2011
Face time, dead-end projects, and success
Genome Web Careers – November 4, 2011
National Geographic Young Explorers Grants
Science – November 4, 2011
Life sciences: Biomarkers on the brain
Nature – November 2, 2011
Can you hear me now? Phone interviews
NIH careers blog – October 24, 2011
Academic opportunities in European science
Science – October 21, 2011
The athletes of science
Nature – October 19, 2011
Ph.D. not needed for success in science writing
Science – October 18, 2011
World university rankings – 2011-2012
Times Higher Education – October 7, 2011
The freedom to fail
Inside Higher Ed – October 7, 2011
Education – inspiration for informatics
Nature – October 5, 2011
How to help graduates move into careers
Science – September 28, 2011
Women in chemistry
SLAS Electronic Laboratory Neighborhood – September 27, 2011
Germany works to lure its postdocs home
Science – September 8, 2011
Priorities for year one
Inside Higher Ed – September 7, 2011
Academia: Small-school science
Nature – September 7, 2011
Survey findings: College students pursuing STEM
Microsoft – September 7, 2011
National Academies hope to build a better postdoc
Science – August 23, 2011
Factory worker to president
Inside Higher Ed – August 8, 2011
Interdisciplinary studies: Seeking the right toolkit
Nature – August 3, 2011
Scientists for sale
Nature – August 3, 2011
Killing Peer Review
Inside Higher Ed – July 19, 2011
ealth Insurance Available for Non-Tenure-Track Faculty
Science – July 13, 2011
Communication: The Best Words in the Best Order<>
Nature – July 13, 2011
Alternatives to PowerPoint?
Science – July 8, 2011
Download the new Science Jobs app for iPhone today!
Pressitt - Jun 27, 2011
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Marie Curie
Chemical and Engineering News - Jun 27, 2011
First female chemistry Nobelist owes much of her success to fierce professional and personal determination
Overcoming gender barriers in science: Facts and figures
SciDev.Net - Jun 22, 2011
Developing countries need more women scientists. Jeanne Therese H. Andres charts the obstacles and how to overcome them. Most of the world's poor — over 1 billion people — are women and children.
Podcast: Training Translational Scientists
Science Careers - Jun 9, 2011
"To facilitate the translation of more personalized therapeutics, we require investigators facile with model systems, informatics, principles of drug action, quantitative signatures of drug exposure, and both mechanism-based and unbiased readouts of drug effects.
Reinventing the Standard Model of Science Presentations
Science Careers - Jun 2, 2011
But why should scientists spend more time crafting their talks when they are presenting research to peers who expect a PowerPoint presentation at conferences where alternatives are discouraged? You wouldn't normally find scenes from a Charlie Chaplin classic in a biology Ph.
Fiive New Hot Spots Where Medicine and Technology Will Converge
Science Daily - May 26, 2011
Medicine and technology are converging in patient care at a faster pace than most people realize. Space age advancements from point-of-care health technologies like telemedicine to medical robots performing surgery are fast becoming commonplace in many hospitals.
Marie Curie Led Science - and Women Scientists - to a New Age
Find Articles at BNET - May 5, 2011
When the International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry (IUPAC) and the United Nations Educational. Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) set their sights on an International Year of Chemistry celebration (see related story on page 61 ), the year 201 1 was selected - in part because it ma
Serious Science, Comic-Book Style
American Scientist - May 4, 2011
A myrmecological comic brings entomologist Corrie Moreau’s journey to life
NIH to ask tough questions about US science workforce - April 29, 2011
Nature News Blog - Nature Blogs - Apr 29, 2011
How many scientists does the country need, and are we doing a good job training them? Those are the big questions that the US National Institutes of Health is asking a panel of external advisers to tackle.
The Pivotal Role of the Scientist-Educator
The Huffington Post - Apr 27, 2011
The recent death of Nobel Prize-winning chemist William N. Lipscomb, Jr. highlights the pivotal role of the scientist-educator and the importance of funding early career scientists, especially at a time when U.
