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Surviving the Pandemic as Grad Student Parents [Inside Higher Ed]

November 20, 2020

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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Assistant Director of Career Services, Architecture and Urban Design @ Columbia University

November 13, 2020
Columbia's Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation seeks an Assistant Director of Career Services for the Architecture and Urban Design programs. Reporting to the Associate Dean of Development and Alumni Relations, the Assistant Director is dedicated to assisting students with professional development. More information can be found on the job posting (where candidates should apply): ... Read more about Assistant Director of Career Services, Architecture and Urban Design @ Columbia University

Vector Engineering Scientist @ Ring Theraputics

November 12, 2020

Company Summary: 

Ring Therapeutics Inc. is a privately held, early-stage biotechnology company pioneering a completely novel form of gene therapy  by exploiting a family of naturally occurring commensal viruses to create the first re-dosable and targetable DNA medicines. This  approach enables a powerful new class of tropic, persistent, non-integrating vectors that overcome the immunogenicity, and  limited...

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Learning Objectives for Navigating Research Mentoring Relationships [iBiology Survey]

November 12, 2020

We are looking for input from administrators, faculty and staff who mentor life science graduate students or are involved in graduate student doctoral training; and input from senior doctoral graduate students and postdocs. All individuals who fall into these categories are encouraged to respond to the survey.

You are invited to provide your input on the skills and knowledge that are most important to...

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Assistant Professor, Biology @ York University

November 12, 2020

The Department of Biology in the Faculty of Science, York University invites highly qualified candidates to apply for a teaching stream tenure-track position in Biology at the rank of Assistant Professor, Teaching Stream to commence July 1, 2021. The successful candidate will be expected to teach first-year and other undergraduate biology courses and to coordinate and teach courses for a biotechnology graduate diploma program at York University’s new Markham campus. The successful candidate is also expected to support aspects of curriculum delivery and development and provide creative...

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Assistant Professor of Teaching, Biology @ University of California Davis

November 12, 2020

The University of California, Davis invites applications for an Assistant Professor of Teaching position in quantitative biology education. Professors of Teaching are Academic Senate faculty members whose expertise and responsibilities center on undergraduate education and scholarly analysis and improvement of teaching methods. The official title is Lecturer with the Potential for Security of Employment (LPSOE). LPSOEs are eligible for promotion to “Security of Employment,” which is analogous to tenure. The position will reside in the Department of Evolution and Ecology and be affiliated...

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Postdoctoral Position, Visual Circuitry Biology @ University of Maryland

November 12, 2020

The Speer laboratory at the University of Maryland, College Park has an opening for a  postdoctoral research fellow to help advance our research in developing visual circuits. We are  investigating activity-dependent molecular mechanisms that regulate the refinement of parallel  retinal pathways to distinct visual centers in the brain. We are currently developing new  research lines using transcriptomic, proteomic, and high-resolution molecular imaging analyses  to examine local protein...

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