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Life Sciences Research Foundation
- "LSRF awards fellowships across the spectrum of the life sciences: biochemistry; cell, developmental, molecular, plant, structural, organismic population and evolutionary biology; endocrinology; immunology; microbiology; neurobiology; physiology; virology.... Three-year fellowships will be awarded on a competitive basis to graduates of medical and graduate schools in the biological sciences holding M.D., Ph.D., D.V.M. or D.D.S. degrees. Awards will be based solely on the quality of the individual applicant's previous accomplishments, and on the merit of the proposal for postdoctoral research."
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NIH Postdoctoral Index of Openings
- Current postdoctoral opportunities at the NIH
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Life Sciences Postdocs
- Compiled by the UCSF Biochemistry & Biophysics Department. One of the most comprehensive listings of postdoctoral fellowships online.
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The Real Science Crisis: Bleak Prospects for Young Researchers
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in HomeChronicle of Higher Education , September 2007. "[F]or many of today's graduate students, the future could not look much bleaker. They see long periods of training, a shortage of academic jobs, and intense competition for research grants looming ahead of them. 'They get a sense that this is a really frustrating career path,' says Thomas R. Insel, director of the National Institute of Mental Health. So although the operating assumption among many academic leaders is that the nation needs more scientists, some of brightest students in the country are demoralized and bypassing scientific careers."
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Postdoctoral Fellowship Program for Cancer Immunology or General Immunology training
- "[S]upports qualified young scientists at leading universities and research centers around the world who wish to receive training in cancer immunology or general immunology"
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Postdoctoral Fellowships in the Biological Sciences
- A big list of sources of fellowships assembled by UC Berkeley.
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Ruth L. Kirschstein National Research Service Award (NRSA) Stipend Levels for 2006
- Some institutions use NRSA stipend levels as the benchmark against which they set postdoc salaries. Here are the numbers for 2006.
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Post-Docs.com
- This website provides current job listings of post-docs, faculty jobs and other full-time jobs.
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National Research Council Research Associateship Program
- The goals of the program are " (1) to provide doctoral scientists and engineers of unusual promise and ability opportunities for research on problems, largely of their own choice, that are compatible with the research interests of the sponsoring laboratories; and (2) to contribute to the overall research efforts of these laboratories and to the national scientific and technological welfare of the United States. "
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After the Offer, Before the Deal: Negotiating A First Academic Job
- By Chris M. Golde, Academe , January-February 1999. " What is a fair salary? Can I ask for moving expenses? When can faculty members negotiate reductions in their teaching loads? These are the kinds of questions graduate faculty often hear from their students who have just been offered academic jobs. Besides training young scholars as teachers and researchers, we also mentor them in their search for jobs. As a result, we're expected to know the answers to such questions. In this article, I offer suggestions to the just-appointed faculty member who seeks to be a savvy participant in negotiating the terms of a first job. "
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NIH Pathway to Independence Award
- "This initiative will develop and implement a new Pathway to Independence Award Program (PI) designed to facilitate receiving an R01 award earlier in an investigators research career. The primary, long-term goal of the PI Award Program is to increase and maintain a strong cohort of new and talented, NIH-supported independent investigators."
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AAAS Science and Technology Policy Fellowships for Scientists and Engineers
- One and two-year program. Congressional internships, fellowships in global stewardship, diplomacy, risk-assessment, technology policy, defense policy, and environmental policy.
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Burroughs Wellcome Fund
- " The Burroughs Wellcome Fund is an independent private foundation established to advance the medical sciences by supporting research and other scientific and educational activities. Its emphasis is on the career development of outstanding scientists and on advancing areas in the basic medical sciences that are underfunded or that have a shortage of qualified researchers. " The fund has a number of fellowships for postdoctoral work and for early career scientists.
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Postdoc jobs at jobs.phds.org
- Postdoc job listings
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How to write a great research paper
- Great advice from Simon Peyton Jones at Microsoft Research.
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Street Savvy Science, Chapter 4: Evidence of Productivity: The Cover Letter
- "Many people believe that the cover letter is a throwaway, and that the resume or CV attached is what counts. While it is entirely true that the resume has to be well written and have good content, the cover letter's job is to point to the key selling points, and to make it more specific to that reader. Just like the cover of a magazine."
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FindAPostDoc.com
- FindAPost-Doc.com is a new site exclusively dedicated to advertising Post-Doctoral positions.
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Postdoctoral Fellowships in Complex Systems Studies at the Santa Fe Institute
- " The Institute's multidisciplinary research program is devoted to the study of complex systems, especially complex adaptive systems. Topics currently under study include nonlinear dynamics and pattern formation; measures of complexity; learning algorithms; agent-based modeling and simulation tools; evolutionary biology; models of the immune system, cellular regulation, and other biological systems; models of economic, political and social interactions, and others. Postdoctoral Fellows work either on existing research projects or on projects of their own choosing. "
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NIH to NRSA postdocs: Revise and Resubmit!
- NIH cuts NRSA postdocs?
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National Research Council (NRC) Research Associateship Program
- "For outstanding investigators of any nationality who have held their doctoral degree for less than five years."
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Environmental Fellows at Harvard University
- The Harvard University Center for the Environment will award eight two-year post-doc research fellowships to start Sept. 2006 to oustanding scholars in any field related to the environment. Each Environmental Fellow will work with a host faculty member in his or her department. The fellowship will provide a generous salary and benefits. Applications are due Jan. 15, 2006; details are posted at environment.harvard.edu.
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How to Succeed in Graduate School: A Guide for Students and Advisors
- by Marie desJardins. " This paper attempts to raise some issues that are important for graduate students to be successful and to get as much out of the process as possible, and for advisors who wish to help their students be successful. The intent is not to provide prescriptive advice -- no formulas for finishing a thesis or twelve-step programs for becoming a better advisor are given -- but to raise awareness on both sides of the advisor-student relationship as to what the expectations are and should be for this relationship, what a graduate student should expect to accomplish, common problems, and where to go if the advisor is not forthcoming. "
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National Institute on Aging, Employment Opportunities
- Postdoctoral opportunities at the National Institute on Aging
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The Noel Smith-Wenkle Salary Negotiation Method
- "Salary negotiation is something at which hiring managers are usually a lot more proficient than the people they hire. In the interest of leveling the playing field, here is a method for salary negotiation that has worked for me and many others."
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ScholarshipNet.info: Scholarships and Postdocs Resources for International Students
- ScholarshipNet.info - International Scholarships Window. We deliver scholarships, postodcs and study abroad related information from around the world to international students.
