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This page is not a job board but rather is intended to provide links to special opportunities, such as prizes, awards, and professional development workshops. The National Postdoctoral Association supports the Science Careers Job Board as the ultimate job search tool. Please also note that listing of an opportunity here does not necessarily imply endorsement by the NPA, and that the opinions represented by the those included here are not necessarily those of the NPA. Go to opportunities posted in:
January 2012 |December 2011 | November 2011 | October 2011 | September 2011 | August 2011 | July 2011 | Ongoing Opportunities January 25, 2012 The University of Pittsburgh MIDAS National Center of Excellence Pilot Research Grant Program The University of Pittsburgh MIDAS National Center of Excellence, under the leadership of Dr. Donald S. Burke, Dean of the Graduate School of Public Health, is pleased to announce a Pilot Research Grant Program designed to facilitate collaborative research in computational modeling and simulation of infectious diseases. Investigators within the various schools, departments, and centers at the University of Pittsburgh, University of Pittsburgh Medical Center (UPMC), the RAND-University of Pittsburgh Health Institute (RUPHI), affiliated Institutions associated with the University of Pittsburgh MIDAS National Center of Excellence and/or the MIDAS National Network are eligible to participate.
International Energy and Sustainability Conference 2012 Farmingdale State College will host the International Energy and Sustainability Conference 2012, "Shaping the Future through Smart Grid Technologies," March 22 - 23, 2012. • The Abstract deadline is February 15th. The Call for Papers and other relevant information can be accessed at www.farmingdale.edu/IESC. January 20, 2012 NOW ACCEPTING APPLICATIONS FOR HSCF's Advocates in Disability Award (ADA) The HSC Foundation's ADA Award has gone national and is seeking the next generation of disability advocates!! If you are a or know young leaders with disabilities, you/they are encouraged to apply for the 2012 Advocates in Disability Award (ADA)! The purpose of the ADA Program is to award and encourage a young individual with a disability between the ages of 14 and 26, who has dedicated himself/herself to positively affecting the lives of individuals with disabilities and their families in the United States. The program also supports an innovative project developed by a young person with a disability that serves and empowers individuals with disabilities. The Advocates in Disability Award (ADA) is a program of The HSC Foundation, funded in part by the Sarah Beth Coyote Foundation. The selected recipient is awarded $3,000 in recognition of his/her past disability advocacy and will receive up to an additional $7,000 in funding support for his/her proposed project that focuses on serving and empowering individuals with disabilities. Applicants must be a citizen or permanent resident of the United States at the time of application submission and recipient selection. The Advocates in Disability Award Program is part of The HSC Foundation's National Youth Transitions Initiative (NYTI). To apply, please see the 2012 Advocates in Disability Award Guidelines and the 2012 ADA Application. You may also apply online at: www.hscfoundation.org/2012ADA.php. Applications must be received by by 5:00pm EST on February 28, 2012.
January 9, 2012 Science NextGen VOICES Survey Science is asking for responses to their NextGen VOICES survey. They are asking for responses to the following questions: What is your definition of a successful scientist? How has this definition changed between your mentor's generation and your own? To submit your responses, go to http://www.surveymonkey.com/s/NextGen2pd. The submission deadline is Friday, February 17, 2012. The best responses will be published in the April 6th issue of Science. You can now read the many responses we received to the first survey at http://scim.ag/NextGenResults. The survey was also highlighted in the January 6th Editorial: http://www.sciencemag.org/content/335/6064/13.full. The print version of the results is available here: http://www.sciencemag.org/content/335/6064/36.full.pdf. January 4, 2012 Destination Europe: Your Research & Innovation Opportunities The conference Destination Europe: Your Research and Innovation Opportunities will be hosted by the European Commission on January 20, 2012 in Cambridge, Massachusetts. This high-level Conference will showcase Europe's vibrant and attractive science, technology and innovation culture; the excellent funding opportunities Europe provides for career development; and the challenging positions in world-class environments offered by European industry and research organizations. When we look at the picture of all of the opportunities available, both at national and European level, including the attractive opportunities for women researchers, it is truly impressive. Presentations by high-level speakers, representing some of the major funding organizations and research intensive industries in Europe, will be illustrated by testimonials from researchers who have taken advantage of the opportunities offered to develop their careers in Europe. Speakers will include: Maire Geoghegan-Quinn , the EU Commissioner for Research and Innovation; Professor Tim Hunt, Nobel Laureate; Professor Donald Dingwell, Secretary General of the European Research Council and many other inspiring leaders in the field. The Conference is the first of a series of events planned for the USA and has been organized by the European Commission and the European Research Council, in consultation with EU Member States and the Strategic Forum for International Cooperation. The target audience is researchers of all nationalities based in the US, opinion leaders and representatives from leading US universities; multipliers from EU and national networks working in the USA, and representatives from the science diplomacy community and the media. All are welcome. Participation is free but registration is obligatory. For full information: http://destinationeurope.teamwork.fr STEM Professional Volunteers Needed! WHAT: Volunteers are needed to support WMST's efforts of teaching Renewable Energy basics to high school juniors and seniors. EXPECTED OUTCOMES OF THE PROJECT: The aim is to give students a solid foundation in renewable energy. This will encourage students to pursue a career in STEM, Renewable Energy, Social Entrepreneurship or work in an aid organization. WHEN: January – May 2012 WHERE: Washington Math Science Technology Public Charter High School (WMST) VOLUNTEERS ARE NEEDED TO ASSIST WITH: WINDMILL PROJECT BIOGAS GENERATOR PROJECT SOLAR CONCENTRATOR PROJECT *VOLUNTEERS CAN PARTICIPATE ON DAYS THAT THEY ARE AVAILABLE If you are interested in participating in this effort please contact:
December 6, 2011 Your Science is Excellent....What about the Rest? Mary Mitchell, of The Mitchell Organization, guides you through "Presenting Yourself to Your Best Advantage," explaining key elements of the interview process -- helping you customize your "professional presentation style." More information and registration for the program available here. University of Texas Medical Branch Health (UTMB) Issues Call for Abstracts on Infection and Immunity for the 2012 James W. McLaughlin Colloquium in Galveston, Texas The University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston, announces the annual James W. McLaughlin Colloquium on Infection and Immunity and issues a nationwide call for abstracts from doctoral candidates who will be graduating in 2012. It is highly preferred that these students are seriously considering a postdoctoral position at UTMB and have contacted an appropriate faculty member to discuss a project suitable for UTMB Health's T32 postdoctoral training grant and other funding programs. UTMB Health offers opportunities to conduct basic and translational research in BSL-2, -3 and -4 biocontainment laboratories in the state-of-the-art Galveston National Laboratory. The April 13th colloquium, sponsored by the James W. McLaughlin Endowment and the Institute for Human Infections and Immunity, will feature a keynote address and include poster and oral presentations by UTMB Health pre-doctoral students, postdoctoral and clinical fellows, and invited pre-doctoral students from across the nation. In addition to awards for invited student trainees to defray their cost of attendance, all poster presenters will be eligible for travel awards, in recognition of research excellence, to attend their choice of future scientific meetings. Abstracts will be accepted until February 1, 2012, and should be submitted to McLaughlin.IHII{at}utmb{dot}edu. Abstracts will be reviewed by the McLaughlin Endowment Colloquium Committee and invitations issued by March 15, 2012. For further details, visit www.utmb.edu/mclaughlin. Pubget Pubget is a life science literature search tool similar to PubMed. Unlike PubMed, with Pubget, the search results are complete papers-not abstracts. Each paper in a search is displayed as a PDF, thus allowing users to quickly and efficiently save and print papers from journals such as Nature, Science and Cell (in fact, our database is comprised of everything in PubMed). Pubget is free to use (although a user's institution needs a subscription to use Pubget) and currently has more than 800,000 unique users from more than 500+ institutions accessing the site each month.
November 29, 2011 11th Annual New England Science Symposium The Harvard Medical School Minority Faculty Development Program (MFDP) and the Biomedical Science Careers Program (BSCP) will hold the 11th annual New England Science Symposium (NESS) on Sunday, April 1, 2012 at the Joseph B. Martin Conference Center at Harvard Medical School. MFDP and BSCP invites postdoctoral fellows; medical, dental and graduate students; post-baccalaureates; college and community college students (particularly African-American, Hispanic/Latino and American Indian/Alaska Native individuals) involved in biomedical or health-related scientific research to submit an abstract for the New England Science Symposium (NESS). The deadline to submit abstracts is January 5, 2012. There is no registration fee for this symposium, but pre-registration is required. To submit abstracts, register, read more information or view the tentative agenda please visit www.NewEnglandScienceSymposium.org. For further information please feel free to contact Pinar Kilicci-Kret, Program Coordinator at Pinar_kilicci-kret{at}hms{dot}harvard{dot}edu or 617-432-5580.
November 21, 2011 INNoVATE Program - A Hands-On Entrepreneurship Training Course INNoVATE Program is for postdoctoral fellows and research scientists in the life sciences who are interested in starting a technology-based business. Participants learn the business principles, evaluate the commercial potential of their technology, create a business plan for their product, platform or service and learn how to pitch to investors. Classes are held in the evening (one Thursday a week and one Saturday a month) at Carey Business School, Johns Hopkins University, Montgomery County Campus, Rockville. Next class cohort starts in February 2012. Information sessions are a great way to learn about the Program and a chance to meet with the instructors, current students and alumni. Please follow the link for additional details and to register: http://carey.jhu.edu/our_programs/Innovate/regpage.html More questions?
October 24, 2011
The Acabiz platform allows Companies to access a diversified network of Academics, whose knowledge can help addressing companies’ continuous business challenges.
For Academics, Acabiz is a great way to monetize their knowledge, get in touch with commercial counter-parties interested in their research and expand their CVs; for companies, it is a great way to directly access a specialized pool of knowledge delivered by leading Academics (complementing the traditional consulting channel.)
Acabiz is looking for a limited number of Academics to take part in remote Short-Term Consultancy Assignments via the Acabiz platform. Typical Assignments require 3-4 days of work with rewards in the €1,000- 3,000 range, depending on the length and difficulty of the Assignment.
Candidates should have:
Please register and apply via the following link. All academic subjects are welcome.
The APS Professional Skills Training Project promotes the development of key professional skills among minority graduate and postdoctoral students by creating effective live and online interactive courses that are appropriate for students in any life science discipline. The APS offers a number of Professional Skills Training Courses for Postdocs throughout the year. For more information about courses, please visit http://www.the-aps.org/education/profskills/. Ethics CORE
Ethics CORE investigators hail from diverse backgrounds, including business, law, civil engineering, education, electrical and computer engineering and library sciences. Other partners bring strengths across the range of disciplines supported by the National Science Foundation and beyond.
National Institutes of Health Loan Repayment Program The 2012 application cycle for the National Institutes of Health’s Loan Repayment Programs (LRPs) is now open. The LRPs help repay the outstanding student loans of researchers who are or will be conducting nonprofit biomedical or behavioral research. Participants receive up to $35,000 annually, and opportunities are available in five research areas – clinical, pediatric, health disparities, contraception and infertility and clinical research for individuals from disadvantaged backgrounds. Applications will be accepted until 8:00 p.m. EST on November 15, 2011. For more information and to apply, go to http://www.lrp.nih.gov.
Top Ten Tips for Better Scientific Presentations Lisa B. Marshall will be hosting a free webinar on Wednesday, October 26, 2011 at 6:00 p.m Eastern. The topic is “Top Ten Tips for Better Scientific Presentations.” The webinar should last approximately an hour and will have a Q&A session afterwards. It will be streamed via Adobe Flash Player. Register here: http://www.tipsforbusypeople.com/top-ten-tips-seminar/. Read more about Lisa B. Marshall at http://www.lisabmarshall.com/.
Burroughs Wellcome Fund Collaborative Research Travel Grants
6th Annual Frontiers of Clinical Investigation Symposium The UC San Diego Clinical and Translational Research Institute (CTRI) and Nature Medicine would like to announce the 6th Annual Frontiers of Clinical Investigation Symposium: Vascular Disease 2011. The meeting will explore innovative approaches to bridge laboratory investigation and clinical research in disorders affecting the vasculature, including cancer, inflammatory disease and cardiovascular disease. The symposium will be held October 13 – 15, 2011 at Estancia La Jolla Hotel in La Jolla, Ca. Register today at http://cme.ucsd.edu/b2b2011/.
The 2011 NPA Michigan Regional Meeting: Pathways to Careers The Wayne State University Postdoctoral Office would like to announce the 2011 NPA Michigan Regional Meeting, "Pathways to Careers." Featuring a keynote address by Dr. William Paul of the National Institutes of Health, the meeting will take place on Saturday, October 22, 2011 from 8:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. Held at the Gordon H. Scott Hall, School of Medicine, the event includes discussions on careers in various fields such as academia, industry and patent law, federal agencies, and policy and publishing. Registration is $25 and includes program, lunch, breaks and reception. The 2011 meeting is held in collaboration with the University of Michigan and Michigan State University. As this event is limited to 250 people please RSVP by Friday, September 23, 2011. Visit here to RSVP and to view the NPA Michigan Regional Meeting Agenda. For questions, call (313) 577-0300.
Science Exchange, A New Online Marketplace for Outsourcing Experiments Science Exchange, A New Online Marketplace for Outsourcing Experiments
Gibco by Life Technologies Launches Partnership with Pandora Radio Gibco by Life Technologies has partnered with Pandora Radio and created a unique radio station that allows you to discover to the beat. Check it out by clicking here: Cell Culture Radio
Center for the Integration of Research, Teaching, and Learning (CIRTL) Announces Its Fourth Forum The Center for the Integration of Research, Teaching, and Learning (CIRTL) is hosting its fourth forum, Teaching, Learning, and Research: Preparation of the Nation’s Future Faculty. The 2011 CIRTL Forum will be held on October 10-11, 2011 in Madison, Wisconsin. This CIRTL forum will explore the current landscape of professional development efforts to prepare future faculty who are both excellent researchers and excellent teachers, and can integrate their approaches to both. Together, participants will consider the ways in which graduate students and post-docs gain the knowledge, skills and experience they need to become successful faculty members across science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM). As in the past, the CIRTL Forum is designed especially for those engaged in STEM graduate education at major research universities: graduate and college deans, STEM faculty and academic staff, those who study graduate future faculty development, as well as those who participate in such development including STEM graduate students and postdocs.
The organizers are confident that this meeting will be a benchmark in STEM graduate education, and very much hope that you will be part of it. For complete details visit http://www.cirtl.net/forum2011/. First Annual Postdoctoral Preview Event at The University of Michigan Medical School's Office of Postdoctoral Studies The University of Michigan Medical School Office of Postdoctoral Studies is pleased to announce its first annual Postdoc Preview, which will be held in Ann Arbor from November 3-5, 2011.
July 11, 2011 Participants Needed for Research Study about Postdoctoral Research Fellows (Postdocs) Illinois Institute of Technology's Lewis Department of Humanities is currently recruiting participants for a research study about Postdoctoral Research Fellows (Postdocs). We are especially interested in hearing from postdocs who work on virtual or geographically-distributed research teams.
Pubget is a life science literature search tool similar to PubMed. Unlike PubMed, with Pubget, the search results are complete papers-not abstracts. Each paper in a search is displayed as a PDF, thus allowing users to quickly and efficiently save and print papers from journals such as Nature, Science and Cell (in fact, our database is comprised of everything in PubMed). Pubget is free to use (although a user's institution needs a subscription to use Pubget) and currently has more than 800,000 unique users from more than 500+ institutions accessing the site each month.
Ethics CORE investigators hail from diverse backgrounds, including business, law, civil engineering, education, electrical and computer engineering and library sciences. Other partners bring strengths across the range of disciplines supported by the National Science Foundation and beyond.
Become a Character in an Interactive Movie Simulating Responsible Conduct of Research Topics
In "The Lab: Avoiding Research Misconduct," you become the lead characters in an interactive movie and make decisions about integrity in research that can have long-term consequences. The simulation addresses Responsible Conduct of Research topics such as avoiding research misconduct, mentorship responsibilities, handling of data, responsible authorship, and questionable research practices. In the movie you assume the role of four characters confronted with the pressures of working in a research laboratory. For complete details about this interactive movie visit http://www.ori.hhs.gov/TheLab/.
The American Chemical Society (ACS) Younger Chemists Committee The Younger Chemists Committee advocates for and provides resources to early-career chemists and professionals in the chemical sciences and related fields. The YCC addresses specific issues facing younger chemists within the ACS and serves as a voice to the Society on behalf of younger chemists.
Addgene is a non-profit plasmid repository that helps scientists share their published plasmids. Addgene helps depositing scientists by archiving their DNA samples and handling plasmid requests. Addgene is also a great resource for scientists that need plasmids because we provide a searchable database of sequence-verified samples. Addgene currently has over 10,000 plasmids stored, and has shipped close to 100,000 samples to scientists around the world. LabLife provides free lab management software to biology research labs. LabLife helps scientists organize materials and data, organize lab ordering, analyze sequences, and more. It's perfect for post-docs who want to help their current labs get organized or who are looking for free IT infrastructure as they start their own labs.
The New York City postdoctoral community has established an Internet platform which promotes cross-institutional collaboration for improving the lives and training of more than three thousand postdocs living in the NYC area. Follow this link: www.NewYorkPostdocs.com
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