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Practice GRE General Test
in Graduate Record Examination (GRE)
A complete practice GRE General Test courtesy of ETS. "Contains one full-length paper-based GRE General Test, test-taking strategies, sample verbal and quantitative questions with explanations, sample analytical writing topics, and scored sample essays and reader commentary."
Statistics Job Announcements
in Math / Statistics Jobs
Database of openings for statisticians run by the University of Florida.
Microsoft Research
in Nonacademic Employers That Hire PhDs
" Microsoft Research is dedicated to basic and applied research in computer science. We develop new technologies for improving the way computers interact with people. We have outstanding researchers in a wide variety of disciplines, both from leading academic institutions and industrial research labs. We are committed to supporting and participating in the worldwide research community, and we collaborate with many universities worldwide. "
How to Get a Teaching Job at a Primarily Undergraduate Institution
in How to Get a Job
Malcolm Campbell, Davidson College Department of Biology, gives a complete guide to pursuing a career in teaching at a primarily undergraduate institution.
The Real Science Crisis: Bleak Prospects for Young Researchers
in Home
Chronicle 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."
PLoS Computational Biology: Ten Simple Rules for Getting Grants
in Grant Writing Skills
"At the present time, US funding is frequently below 10% for a given grant program. Today, more than ever, we need all the help we can get in writing successful grant proposals. We hope you find these rules useful in reaching your research career goals."
calculus@internet
in Mathematics Resources
Resources for teaching calculus, linear algebra, and ODE's.
The Labor Market for Information Technology Workers
in IT Worker Shortage, 1998
Testimony before the Subcommittee on Immigration Committee on the Judiciary United States Senate, Dr. Robert I. Lerman, Director, Human Resources Policy enter, Urban Institute and Professor of Economics, American University, February 25, 1998.
Graduate Education Is Losing Its Moral Base
in Required Reading
By Cary Nelson and Michael Berube, The Chronicle of Higher Education, March 23, 1996. " What does it mean to face an academic future in which many graduate students will have none? What are the ethics of training students for jobs that few of them will ever have? Thanks to the dramatic collapse in the humanities job market, for example, many graduate students and newly minted Ph.D.'s teach more than 30 different courses at two or three institutions and publish articles in refereed journals, before they earn a tenure-track position (if they do so at all). It is time bluntly to name the consequence: Graduate education is losing its moral foundation. "
Becoming a Software Developer
in Nonacademic Careers
Nenad Rijavec of IBM describes the transition from mathematician to programmer and gives some useful advice.
AAU Committee on Postdoctoral Education Report and Recommendations
in Reports on Postdocs
" The general lack of institutional oversight of postdoctoral appointments(coupled with the evolution of postdoctoral education in a number of disciplines into a virtual requirement for a tenure-track faculty appointment) has resulted in a considerable degree of instability within postdoctoral education as a whole. " The report recommends that " each university act promptly to develop policies and practices for systematically incorporating postdoctoral education into its overall academic program. "
Science Writing
in Science Journalism
UC Santa Cruz's one-year graduate program in science writing is " The best academic training ground in the U.S. for science journalists, " according to New Scientist magazine.
Richard Feynman on Teaching: The Dignified Professor
in Teaching
" I would never accept any position in which somebody has invented a happy situation for me where I don't have to teach. Never. "
Reforming Graduate Education in the Sciences
in Improving Graduate Education
by Representative George Brown, Jr. A blunt assessment of what needs to change in higher education from one of the people who controls the purse strings. A definite must-read.
Landing an Academic Job: the Process and the Pitfalls
in Home
Great advice on the application and interview process in academia from Jon Dantzig, the chair of the faculty recruiting committee at UIUC's Mechanical and Industrial Engineering department.
Michigan Technological University GSC
in Graduate Student Associations in the US
Trends in the Early Careers of Life Scientists
in Required Reading
Executive summary of a 1998 National Research Council report that recommends (1) the life-science community constrain the rate of growth in the number of graduate students, (2) every life science department receiving federal funding for research or training should be required to provide to its prospective graduate students specific information regarding all predoctoral students enrolled in the graduate program during the preceding 10 years, and (3) all federal agencies that support life-science education and research [should] invest in training grants and individual graduate fellowships as preferable to research grants to support PhD education.
Jobs at E-Ink
in Nonacademic Employers That Hire PhDs
" Don't miss this opportunity to be a part of our exciting, leading-edge company. E Ink Corporation is a venture-backed start-up that is developing 'electronic ink' to make a paper-thin electronic display. This technology has been described recently in Scientific American, Wired, USA Today, Byte, IBM Microsystems Journal, Technology Review, and Popular Science among others. "
New Scientist Science Jobs Database
in Job Listings
Online classifieds from New Scientist magazine covering academic and industrial positions, postdocs, and graduate fellowships, primarily in the UK.
Research Opportunities at IBM
in Nonacademic Employers That Hire PhDs
" At IBM Research, we encourage creative brilliance -- More than sheer brain power, it's an attitude, a state of mind, a 'pull out all the stops' approach to this innovative work. Sure, It gets intense but it can be incredibly rewarding. IBM Research has the minds that create the breakthroughs that define the future. We know it; the Research industry knows it. "
University of Iowa Honored for Mentoring Minority Students
in Underrepresented Minorities in Science and Engineering
SIAM News, September 26, 2005. A profile of the University of Iowa's very successful effort to increase the number of minority graduate students in the mathematics department.
S.798 - A bill to establish a Commission on the IT Technology Worker Shortage
in IT Worker Shortage, 1998
The text of a bill introduced by Senator Warner of Virginia on May 22, 1997. Additional details may be obtained by using " Thomas " with S.798 as a search term. Senator Warner's remarks on page s5015 are illuminating. There is no mention of existing IT professionals as stakeholders. (Requres Adobe Acrobat)
Reproductive Success for Working Scientists
in Women in Science and Engineering
"Long ago, I found myself pregnant while working as a postdoc at a federal institute. I was blessed with what seemed like the ideal situation for a mammal who wanted to increase her Darwinian fitness while enhancing her chances for tenure. I would be able to give birth and raise the baby past that difficult first year before I had to throw myself into the academic job market in search of a faculty position. Perfect, I thought."
Doctoral Education: Preparing for the Future
in Improving Graduate Education
Jules LaPidus, Council of Graduate Schools. " The best advice for faculty members is this: In order to help students prepare for a variety of possible careers, dont train them too specifically for any one. Instead, provide the kind of education that enables them to know their fields, understand the processes of scholarly inquiry, and have a realistic picture of how they can use these incredibly valuable skills in a variety of ways, in a variety of settings, and in a variety of satisfying and rewarding careers. " (Requires Adobe Acrobat)
International Journal of Ecological Economics & Statistics (IJEES)
in Online Journals
International Journal of Ecological Economics & Statistics (IJEES) ISSN 0973-1385
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