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Postdoc Newsletter - January 22, 2019

The latest edition of the postdoc newsletter is now available! Click the link below to learn more about upcoming events and the latest postdoc news. Please note, a CWID and password is required to access.

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Inaugural Postdoc Pub Talk aims to connect WCM researchers with Roosevelt Island residents

The Weill Cornell Medicine Postdoc Association (PDA) is hosting its first-ever Postdoc Pub Talk, a new science outreach event. Weill Cornell postdocs and organizers, Drs. Heidi Meyer, Anna Schlusche, and Keri Callegari, plan to develop this...

Perspectives on Maintaining a Work-Life Balance in Academia

After ecologist Meghan Duffy’s post on the popular blog Dynamic Ecology titled, “You do not need to work 80 hours a week to succeed in academia,” quickly became one of the site’s most popular pieces, Nature further explored how some scientists...

The path that could not be taken.

From a recent survey by Nature, approximately half of the grad students who responded wanted an academic job. Unfortunately, only a significantly smaller perceentage of these grad students will acheive their goal. An editorial suggests they...

What are you worth?

Postdoc stipends vary signifcantly accross the U.S. That was one of the conclusions by Gary McDowell of Future of Research from a recent survey of postdoc stipends. From his data that Dr. McDowell found that ~80% of postdoc stipends ranged from $...

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