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Ranking of PhD Programs in Communication
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"The NCA 2004 Doctoral Reputational Study invited the participation of all programs that offer the Ph.D. in communication. The study evaluated programs and organized them by rankings in the following specialty areas: communication and technology, critical-cultural communication, health communication, intercultural-international communication, interpersonal- small group communication, mass communication, organizational communication, political communication, and rhetorical communication."
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New PhDs.org Graduate School Rankings
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All new rankings of nearly 6000 graduate programs at 418 universities. Rankings include new data from NSF on where recent PhDs got jobs, how they were funded, and more.
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Rice University - Beyond Traditional Borders - Post Doc Teaching Fellowship
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The Beyond Traditional Borders Initiative is creating a new interdisciplinary curriculum to train undergraduate students in the development and implementation of appropriate technologies that address global health challenges. We are looking for postdoctoral fellows who want to enhance their teaching skills and prepare for future positions on faculty. * Experience extended, mentored teaching * Learn how to teach an inquiry based, integrated curriculum in global health * Participate in a semester long teaching practicum where you will observe best practices of inquiry based teaching, develop inquiry based materials, and learn strategies to assess student learning * Positions open to post-doctoral research associates in biotechnology and bioengineering, humanities, social science, and policy studies Interested candidates, for more information please visit: http://cohesion.rice.edu/collaborations/btb/programs.cfm?doc_id=9297#univ
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Quant jobs and Quantitative Analyst jobs
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We are a 18 year old firm that identifies and evaluates the top tier resources in Quantitative Programming and Quantitative Analysis and Quantitative Modeling.
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Idaho National Laboratory
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The Idaho National Laboratory (INL) is a science-based, applied engineering national laboratory dedicated to supporting the U.S. Department of Energy's missions in nuclear, energy, science and national security.
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NIH to NRSA postdocs: Revise and Resubmit!
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NIH cuts NRSA postdocs?
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PhD Fusion | Get Your PhD Buzz On
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A collection of forums, articles, and links for Phds interested in non-academic careers.
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Black Brilliance
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"When American history books mention famous black scientists, the list usually doesn't go much further than botanist George Washington Carver, the former slave who did wonders for the peanut. Why aren't there more on the list? Over the decades, there's been a lot of talk about racial differences in intelligence scores, paralleling the debate over the gender gap in math and science. But the case of industrial chemist Percy Julian, a pioneer in the production of synthetic alkaloids and steroids, illustrates how racial stereotypes and downright discrimination served to dull black brilliance."
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How to report scientific research to a general audience
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Tips from Cognitive Daily
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Zerhouni for a Day: A Challenge
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The Problem: The NIHs budget doubled over the past few years, and the NSF is currently working on a budget doubling of its own. Despite this vast influx of new federal funding, approval rates for grant proposals at the NIH have plummeted, and similar things are happening at NSF. The Challenge: If you were in charge, tell us what would you do differently. Join a public discussion.
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Mathematicians of the African Diaspora
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A site "exhibiting the accomplishments of the peoples of Africa and the African Diaspora within the Mathematical Sciences."
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Tip: Find Your Citations
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A quick way to learn who is citing your papers. The answer might lead you to a prospective PI for a postdoctoral position.
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Should You Go to Graduate School?: Here are some important questions to consider before you
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Is graduate school right for you? Here are some serious questions to consider before you make this commitment.
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Women in Science: The Battle Moves to the Trenches
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NY Times, December 19, 2006. "Since the 1970s, women have surged into science and engineering classes in larger and larger numbers, even at top-tier institutions like the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, where half the undergraduate science majors and more than a third of the engineering students are women. Half of the nations medical students are women, and for decades the numbers have been rising similarly in disciplines like biology and mathematics. Yet studies show that women in science still routinely receive less research support than their male colleagues, and they have not reached the top academic ranks in numbers anything like their growing presence would suggest."
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GRE Master - Master 5000 words from the Barron's list
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A nice little interactive quiz for students who need to improve their vocabulary for the GRE or TOEFL test
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ScienceCareers.org | Lobbying Congress: A New Role for Postdocs?
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sciencecareers.org, 7 September 2001 - Robert Bartolo [bobdc2 at verizon.net ] In this opinion piece, Robert Bartolo * argues that improving the employment conditions of postdoctoral researchers requires more than institution-level action. Bartolo also argues that postdocs, and those working with them, have an important role in establishing national priorities for research and development. Possible action items for grassroots postdoc organizing at the national level might include: * Persuading Congress, NIH, NSF, and other funders to classify postdocs as employees instead of "nonemployees" or "trainees," in order to facilitate extension of full employee benefits. * Persuading Congress, NSF, NIH, and other funders to increase the minimum salaries for postdocs and work toward increasing the use of research scientist positions with complete compensation packages.....
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How to Do a Good PowerPoint Lecture
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Great suggestions from Chad Orzel's Uncertain Principles blog.
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The Scientific Approach
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A nice editorial in The Scientist on better approaches to increasing diversity. "Despite our scientific training, when we think about ways to build a more diverse biomedical research workforce, we may base our ideas on sentiments and preconceptions rather than the best evidence. One way to avoid this is to approach the challenge of increasing diversity as a scientific problem."
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Does Science Promote Women?
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Ginther and Kahn use data from the NSF's Survey of Doctorate Recipients (the SDR) to estimate the chances of obtaining a tenure track position and of subsequent promotions as a function of sex and other explanatory variables. Their findings, in a nutshell: 1) Overall, women are less likely to obtain tenure track positions in the sciences, 2) However, the gap is entirely explained (in a statistical sense) by marriage and children, 3) Furthermore, there is little sex-related difference in the likelihood promotion to tenure or full professor.
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DARPA Heilmeier Catechism
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A set of questions that George Heilmeier, director of ARPA, used to ask of all new research programs. The questions make a great starting point when writing your own proposals.
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"All About Grants" Tutorials
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"These All About Grants tutorials help biomedical investigators, especially new ones, plan, write, and apply for the basic NIH research project grant, the R01. Developed and maintained by the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID), National Institutes of Health (NIH)."
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Engineering Science: Building better scientists and engineers
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Peter Fiske and Geoff Davis (creator of phds.org) have started a blog / forum on science and engineering careers and education. Come check it out!
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Unionization of UC postdocs fails
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November, 2006.
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The Unwelcome Discovery
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New York Times Magazine, Oct 22, 2006. "Walter DeNino was a young lab technician who analyzed data for his mentor, Eric Poehlman. What he found was that Poehlman was not the scientist he appeared to be."
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Getting into Graduate School in Ecology and Evolutionary Biology
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A Primer on How to Apply to and Get Admitted to Graduate School in Ecology and Evolutionary Biology
