Professional Development and Postdoctoral Affairs (PDPA) at Boston University invites applicants for a postdoctoral fellow to support a new Boston University Digital Education Incubator-funded initiative. The fellow will assist the PDPA team in developing, organizing, implementing, and assessing a doctoral professional development curriculum tied to a digital-badging and tracking system, being piloted on the Badgr Pro Pathways platform. The goal of this pilot is to evaluate the Badgr Pro Pathways platform as a solution for creating a professional development curriculum and online digital...

Position Description

Contributes to the university’s mission through teaching, research and service, some variation by academic unit.

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The Center for Teaching Excellence (CTE) at the University of Illinois at Chicago (UIC) invites applicants for a position of Associate Director for Faculty Engagement in Action Research to support the CTE’s mission to engage all members of the UIC community who have a teaching role, including faculty, teaching assistants, and postdoctoral scholars, in professional development opportunities that promote instructional innovation and inclusion in the classroom.

Reporting to the CTE Executive Director, the Associate Director will systematize...

Uneasy and insecure, postdoctoral researchers worldwide are experiencing great distress around their career prospects, workload and workplace culture, among other issues, finds Nature’s first-ever survey of postdocs.

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Don Coen's lab in the Department of Biological Chemistry & Molecular Pharmacology and David Knipe's lab in the HMS Department of Microbiology are jointly seeking applicants for a postdoctoral research fellow.  

Perform research on mechanisms that regulate whether herpes simplex virus undergoes a productive ("lytic") infection or a latent infection in neurons.  Potential mechanisms that might be studied include neuronal factors, epigenetic and chromatin modifications, microRNAs, and translational regulation.   Studies in both cell...

We are seeking a Postdoctoral Associate to work within the lab of HHMI Investigator Dr. Allan Spradling at The Carnegie Institution for Science. The Spradling Lab focuses on oogenesis, stem cell biology, and ecogenomics – in addition to a number of other projects spanning across the realm of genomics and molecular biology.  The institute and lab provide a highly supportive atmosphere for developing new techniques and novel projects – and look for candidates who are innovative, creative, and who possess a strong drive for success.

As parents who had their children while pursuing Ph.D.s, we have no choice except to have a clear daily routine. Before the pandemic, we used decent time management strategies. We would work only when our children were in daycare and/or after they were in bed. We have also learned to be flexible and adjust our plans when unexpected events happened, such as when our children were sick.

But having that experience did not make us ready to be “productive” in a pandemic.

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