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HHMI Bulletin Feb 2011 |
President's Letter Postdoctoral scientists have played an essential role in advancing discovery research in the life sciences for more than a century.  |
HHMI Bulletin May 2011 Amber Dance |
The Best of Times and the Worst of Times for Postdocs Fresh from a Ph.D. in virology, Nancy Van Prooyen is carving her own scientific niche. She's taking on the little-known fungal pathogen, Histoplasma capsulatum, as a postdoctoral fellow at the University of California, San Francisco.  |
HHMI Bulletin Fall 2012 Robert Tjian |
President's Letter: Stabilizing Forces Recognizing the role of research professionals in today's laboratory organizations is important not only to the individuals who contribute their services but also to the research enterprise as a whole.  |
HHMI Bulletin Aug 2011 |
Time to Teach for Postdocs Teaching experience is vital for postdocs.  |
Chemistry World August 31, 2015 |
The postdoc problem: too many, or the wrong kind? Are concerns about postdoc proliferation valid? Maybe we just need to make their training more diverse, suggests Keith Micoli  |
HHMI Bulletin Spring 2013 Erin Peterson |
I Am a Scientist Science benefits from diversity, says David Asai, senior director of HHMI's precollege and undergraduate science education programs. "Finding solutions to hard scientific problems often depends on the diversity of the problem solvers."  |
HHMI Bulletin Fall 2012 Madeline Drexler |
The Indispensables Every research lab has behind-the-scenes specialists without whom modern science could not get done. Here are the stories of five indispensable lab team members, among many acknowledged by grateful HHMI investigators.  |
Chemistry World December 17, 2014 |
US National Academies urges postdoctoral reforms The US National Academies is urging significant changes to improve the country's postdoctoral training system. A panel concluded that postdoctoral researchers should spend more time on training and mentoring, and less time performing research in the lab.  |
HHMI Bulletin February 2011 |
New International Competition for Early Career Scientists The biomedical competition is aimed at helping up to 35 early career scientists establish independent research programs. Scientists trained in the United States who are now running a lab in any eligible country may apply.  |
HHMI Bulletin Nov 2011 Sarah C.P. Williams. |
Carolyn Bertozzi: Changed Expectations Chemists trained in biology were once a rarity -- now they're becoming the norm.  |
HHMI Bulletin May 2012 |
President's Letter: Critical Thinking Though our efforts to improve the training of STEM teachers and students are modest in the big picture, we hope the work becomes an amplifying mechanism. And with new initiatives coming out of our science education group, we plan to have an even bigger influence on STEM education in this country.  |
Bio-IT World August 13, 2002 Kevin Davies |
Hughes Offers a Helping Hand Under the assured leadership of Nobel Laureate Tom Cech, the Howard Hughes Medical Institute (HHMI) is increasingly applying its considerable resources to foster imaginative, interdisciplinary biomedical research and education.  |
HHMI Bulletin Fall 2012 |
Medical Fellows Get a Chance to Try Research This past summer, 70 medical, dental, and veterinary students put their courses and rotations on hold to focus on laboratory research.  |
HHMI Bulletin May 2012 Erin Peterson |
Making Bigger Better University of Texas at Austin Freshman Research Initiative student Holli Duhon describes her research.  |
Chemistry World January 23, 2013 Paula Stephan |
Too many scientists? It may be hard to believe, but once there was a time when scientists (young and old), policy wonks and those in government worried about a shortage of trained individuals to conduct research.  |
Wired May 2003 Brendan I. Koerner |
The Lab that Fell to Earth Once the center of the technology research universe, the storied MIT Media Lab is now teetering on the brink of breakup -- or, even worse, irrelevance  |
HHMI Bulletin Spring 2013 Robert Gutnikoff |
Lab on the Move When the high school classroom setting is lacking, enter the mobile lab from the University of Texas -- Pan American, in Edinburg, funded with HHMI grants in 2004 and 2008.  |
HHMI Bulletin Winter 2013 Lauren Ware |
Musical Magnet Andrey Shaw sees many parallels between playing music and conducting scientific research. "Much of what you do is tedious and repetitive. It requires a Zen-like state -- you have to sit down, focus, and be in the moment," he says  |
HHMI Bulletin Aug 2011 Robert Tjian |
President's Letter: Journal: Scientists at the Heart Journal aims to publish the highest-quality research across the full spectrum of the life sciences.  |
T.H.E. Journal October 2003 Davies et al. |
Implementing a Mobile Lab in a Faculty of Education University of Alberta makes technology more accessible through advancing integration with an experimental wireless access point and a wireless mobile computer lab.  |
Chemistry World February 2012 |
Column: In the pipeline Every lab should have a common working language (presumably that of the country where it's located), and it should be the responsibility of every person in it to be able to at least get along with its basic vocabulary.  |
Chemistry World October 2006 Katherine Sanderson |
Careers: Climbing the Academic Ladder The UK National Research Staff Association hopes to smooth the academic path for postdocs.  |
HHMI Bulletin Aug 2010 |
National Awards to Foster Science Education In May, HHMI announced $79 million of new grants to help universities strengthen undergraduate and precollege science education nationwide.  |
T.H.E. Journal June 2007 Crai S. Bower |
Se Habla Technology Whether in the lab or without, advancements such as laptops, MP3 players, and videoconferencing are helping enrich foreign language instruction.  |
HBS Working Knowledge January 5, 2011 |
Funding Unpredictability Around Stem-Cell Research Inflicts Heavy Cost on Scientific Progress Society pays a high price for randomization of research support -- a fact that, sadly, is not recognized by the public, the media, or politicians.  |
Chemistry World January 2009 |
Column: Undercover academic As a postdoc in Canada I wanted a job that I didn't fully understand.  |
HHMI Bulletin Winter 2013 Nicole Kresge |
A Structural Revolution Over the years, scientists and artists have used an assortment of techniques to showcase molecular structure.  |
HHMI Bulletin May 2011 |
New HHMI Gilliam Fellows Selected This year, Howard Hughes Medical Institute doubled the number of the Gilliam fellowships available after realizing that they had more top applicants than they could fund.  |
D-Lib June 2009 Arms et al. |
EScience in Practice: Lessons from the Cornell Web Lab Anew form of scientific enquiry is emerging in which fundamental advances are made by mining information in digital formats, from datasets to digitized books.  |
Chemistry World August 28, 2015 Derek Lowe |
A risky business How much of a risk is it to work in an organic chemistry lab? Back when I was first beginning bench work in graduate school, I was home during the holidays and telling some lab stories.  |
Fast Company October 1999 Cheryl Dahle |
Can an Old School Learn to Love New Media? Professor James Short teaches students at the London Business School how to play by the rules of the Internet economy. His mission: To turn Europe's top b-school into a British version of a Silicon Valley garage.  |
HHMI Bulletin Nov 2011 |
HHMI Offers International Student Research Fellowships New fellowship supports 48 international graduate students.  |
HHMI Bulletin May 2012 |
Institute Launches New Investigator Competition These appointments will enable the Howard Hughes Medical Institute to strengthen its community of researchers and bring innovative approaches to the study of biological problems.  |
Chemistry World July 5, 2010 Phillip Broadwith |
Too many chiefs, not enough indians? Researchers in the United Kingdom are calling for recognition and support for those who prefer to stay 'at the bench' rather than heading up an academic research group.  |
HHMI Bulletin Feb 2012 Jim Keeley |
International Early Career Awards Provide Connections and Funding Twenty-eight scientists from 12 countries receive inaugural award.  |
Chemistry World June 2, 2015 Angeli Mehta |
Postdocs struggle with poor job security and stress in Europe Growing numbers of students securing doctorates and taking postdoc positions is causing 'considerable dissatisfaction and stress' across Europe, as many end up spending years on temporary contracts.  |
Chemistry World July 2, 2013 Derek Lowe |
Lab's laborers lost? There are excellent scientists who are hopeless at administration, just as there are plenty of capable administrators who should never be allowed near flammable solvents.  |
HHMI Bulletin Nov 2010 Robert Tjian |
President's Letter Announces Plant Science Funding "Plant scientists have tremendous potential to help us understand -- and possibly find solutions to -- some of the most pressing concerns that face society."  |