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Science Career Magazine

Issue for October 26, 2007

Science Career Magazine
Tooling Up: Barriers to Decision Making
By  David G. Jensen  - Those who are trained to make highly specialized decisions at the lab bench often make poor decisions in the job search.
Science Career Magazine
Mastering Your Ph.D.: Starting Off on the Right Foot
By  Patricia Gosling, Bart Noordam  - For scientists in grad school, getting into good habits early is key to starting a new term off right.
Science Career Magazine
Educated Woman, Postdoc Edition Chapter 10: Loyalty, Subterfuge, Manipulation, and Sabotage
By  Micella Phoenix DeWhyse  - Micella has been in the science game for a while, but only now has she realized just how much the life of a postdoc can resemble a paperback thriller.
Science Career Magazine
Careers in Neuroscience: From Protons to Poetry
By  Emma Hitt  - Neurological and psychiatric disorders affect a growing number of individuals—nearly one in five Americans in a given year and more than two billion people worldwide. Furthermore, the scope of neuroscience is vast—ranging from the most basic cellular-level research to translational medicine—and many unanswered questions remain. Interesting niche areas have emerged in neuroscience research such as neuroeconomics, neuromarketing, and neural networks. Together, these factors make neuroscience one of the more exciting and opportunity-laden fields in which to pursue a scientific career.