The evolution of postdocs

Science

Volumn 306, Issue 5694, 2004, Pages 232-

  Singer, Maxine ^a  

^a NATIONAL ACADEMIES OF SCIENCES   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EDUCATION; UNIVERSITY SECTOR;

ACADEMIC ACHIEVEMENT; COMPENSATION; ENGINEERING; FINANCIAL MANAGEMENT; MEDICAL EDUCATION; ORGANIZATION; PERSONNEL; PERSONNEL MANAGEMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCIENCE; SHORT SURVEY; STUDENT; TEACHER; TRAINING; ARTICLE; CAREER MOBILITY; PUBLISHING; SALARY AND FRINGE BENEFIT;

CAREER MOBILITY; EDUCATION, GRADUATE; FELLOWSHIPS AND SCHOLARSHIPS; MENTORS; PUBLISHING; RESEARCH PERSONNEL; RESEARCH SUPPORT; SALARIES AND FRINGE BENEFITS;

EID: 19544373953     PISSN: 00368075     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1126/science.1104916     Document Type: Short Survey

References (12)

1. National Research Council (NRC), Enhancing the Postdoctorat Experience for Scientists and Engineers (National Academy Press, Washington, DC, 2000).
2. B. L Benderly, Science's Next Wave, 7 May 2004; http://nextwave. sciencemag.org/cgi/content/full/2004/05/05/1.
3. L Haak, Science's Next Wave, 16 Aug 2002; http://nextwave.sciencemag.org/ cgi/content/full/2002/08/ 13/1.
4. See http://nextwave.sciencemag.org/pdn/.
5. See http://postdoc.sigmaxi.org/.
6. See www.nationalpostdoc.org/.
7. For example, A Sreenivasan, Science's Next Wave, 21 March 2003; http://nextwave.sciencemag.org/cgi/content/full/2003/03/20/4.
8. Office of Postdoctoral Services, "Postdoc Options for Promotion" (Univ. of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, 2003); http://www.unc.edu/ops/policies.htm.
9. NRC, Trends in Early Careers of Life Scientists (National Academy Press, Washington, DC, 1988).
10. G. J. Feist, M. E. Gorman, Rev. Gen. Psychol. 2(1), 3 (1998).
11. M. Dresselhaus, personal communication.
12. National Science Foundation, Survey of Graduate Students and Postdocs in Science and Engineering, 1973-2002; accessed by using WebCASPAR (www.webcaspar.nsf.gov).