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Dates: during 2000-2009
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Christina M. Hughes, who earned a Ph.D. in virology from Harvard last year, is still on the academic track, having taken a postdoc at the Rockefeller University in New York. But she says that eight of her nine classmates in the virology program have already decided against university positions...

Author: By Clifford M. Marks, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Ph.D.s Ditch the Lab | 12/13/2007 | See Source »

...It’s not that big a deal to get a postdoc if you want one,” Hughes says. “It’s a pyramid scheme. The next jump”—from postdoc to professor—“is really hard...

Author: By Clifford M. Marks, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Ph.D.s Ditch the Lab | 12/13/2007 | See Source »

Omega Minor was born of curiosity about a past that Verhaeghen, 42, never knew. "I was doing a postdoc at Potsdam in 1995," he recalls, moments before leaving his Atlanta home for a psychology conference in California. "I took the train to Berlin and emerged at Mitte, the center of old East Berlin. I found myself alone on this huge square, except for a strange glow coming from a glass plate in the pavement. There was a small white underground chamber lined with empty bookshelves. On it was that famous [Heinrich] Heine quote, 'Where they burn books, they will...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Hot Fusion: Omega Minor | 12/5/2007 | See Source »

...committee at the Medical School’s teaching hospitals reviewed the proposed transfer. It took about a year before the panel approved the plan. By that time, the postdoc had returned to France...

Author: By Nicholas M. Ciarelli and Daniel J. T. Schuker, CRIMSON STAFF WRITERSS | Title: Tear Down This Wall? | 5/23/2007 | See Source »

...Venky cites one instance of a junior faculty member whose spouse needed to be hired as a postdoc. In this case, Venky found a position by calling his colleagues to inquire about openings. “I arranged for that to happen,” he says...

Author: By Stephanie S. Garlow, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: A Family Affair | 12/15/2006 | See Source »

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