Word: postdocs
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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...
...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...
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...
...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...
...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...