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Professor of Desperation
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in Home" Bad pay, zero job security, no benefits, endless commutes. Is this any way to treat PhDs responsible for teaching a generation of college students? " Sunday Washington Post Magazine, July 21, 2002.
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Electron Band Structure In Germanium, My Ass
- An incredibly amusing undergraduate physics lab report.
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How to Leave Physics
- Jennifer Hodgdon's site comes highly recommended.
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Going Adjunct
- By Andreas Killen, Salon Magazine. " When all the postal workers have been sedated and locked away, will adjunct professors follow in their gun-powdered footsteps? "
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PhD's and Unemployment on NPR's Talk of the Nation
- Dec 1, 1998. " Most students figure if they spend many years and lots of money pursuing a graduate degree, the job market will be wide open on graduation day. But today's Ph.D candidates are facing a grim reality if they hope to find work as college professors; the jobs are few and the pay is meager. And as the number of positions shrinks, the pool of qualified doctoral candidates grows. Join Ray Suarez and his guests to discuss Ph.Ds and the future of academia. " (Requires a RealAudio player)
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Women in Math Project
- This web site is host to numerous links to information about publications, people, associations, opportunities, activities, and statistics relating to women in mathematics.
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Eric Mazur's Science Education Page
- ConcepTests and Peer Instruction. One of the most interesting approaches to science education.
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AAU Committee on Postdoctoral Education Report and Recommendations
- A very progressive statement on the situation of postdocs by the organization which represents the nation's leading universities.
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International Mobility of Scientists and Engineers to the US. Brain Drain or Brain Circulation?
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in ImmigrationNSF Issue Brief 98-316. " This Issue Brief highlights the role of U.S. universities in acquiring, supporting and retaining foreign S & E talent, and the proportion of foreign doctoral recipients who remain in the United States for postdoctoral study as well as long-term employment. "
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Customized Cover Letters
- You can generate all your math department cover letters in a snap using Mary Pugh's LaTeX files, now updated for 1997. You'll need to customize the address list. Hint: customize your cover letters by adding a custom content field or two to your address file. (To download this file, right click on the link and select " Save As... " )
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Physics GRE Preparation Advice and Resources
- "PhysicsGRE.com is a free, yet valuable resource for students preparing for the Physics GRE Subject Test. This site offers you independent advice and is NOT affiliated with the Educational Testing Service or the Graduate Record Examinations."
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University of Alabama Birmingham Postdoctoral Scholar Handbook
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The Big Crunch
- by David Goodstein. " Exponential expansion cannot go on forever, and so the expansion of science, unlike the expansion of the Universe, was guaranteed to come to an end. I will argue that, in science, the Big Crunch occurred about 25 years ago, and we have been trying to ignore it ever since. "
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Nice Work If We Can Keep It: Confessions of a Junior Professor
- by Kathy Newman, Academe , May-June 1999. " After two years on the academic ladder, a lonely, anxious, and overworked assistant professor recommends collective action to give junior faculty members more control over their situation. "
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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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American Institute of Physics job listings
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in Physics JobsOpenings for physicists at the Ph.D. and bachelors degree level.
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The American Physical Society
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Getting into Graduate School in Ecology and Evolutionary Biology
- A Primer on How to Apply to and Get Admitted to Graduate School in Ecology and Evolutionary Biology
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Hell no! We won't grade!
- by Sean McMeekin, Salon Magazine , November 30, 1998. " Will the upcoming strike by University of California graduate teaching assistants raise them from their serflike status -- or spell their eventual doom? "
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Women in Biology Internet Launch Page
- Links to topics around the web relevant to women in biology at all stages, but especially focused on graduate, postdoctoral, and levels beyond. Includes history, organizations, career issues, and aspects of the chilly climate.
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Scientific Elites and Scientific Illiterates
- by David Goodstein, provost of CalTech. The best-written and most disturbing essay I have read on the future of academic science.
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Mathematical Association of America job listings
- Online ads from the Mathematical Association of America
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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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INFORMS Job Placement Service
- Job placement services for OR/MS degree holders.
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Academic Careers & Babies
- Personal accounts of UC Davis women faculty.
