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CIHR Updates: Budget 2012 and Science Policy Fellowships
Today’s post is actually two mini-posts – one on CIHR’s response to Budget 2012 and the other on the announcement of their Science Policy Fellowship program. Response to Budget 2012 Earlier this month, CIHR President Alain Beaudet released a message concerning … Continue reading
Posted in Financial, Policy
Tagged Budget 2012, Canada, CIHR, CIHR Science Policy Fellowship, Employment, fellowship, funding, Government, non-academic jobs, PhD, Policy, Post Doc, postacademic jobs, Science, Training, University
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A Difficult Pill to Swallow: The Harsh Realities of a 15% Funding Rate
A country’s biomedical advancement and innovation is intimately linked to its investment in academic research (Measure for Measure: Chemical Research & Development Powers the U.S. Innovation Engine). Funding for research comes almost entirely from government and private donors (Stossel, T.P., … Continue reading
Posted in Financial, Policy
Tagged biomedical research, Canada, CIHR, Education: The PhD Factory, fellowship, funding, funding rates, Government, Graduate Student, grant funding, money, NIH, PDF, Peer Review, PhD, Policy, postdoc, R01 grants, Training, United States, University
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Quarterly Summary: Jonathan Thon starts with a flourish
We were thrilled this quarter to welcome Dr. Jonathan Thon to the Black Hole in the capacity of regular contributor. He’s enthusiastically launched himself into the online blogging world with several articles and I’ve tried to scatter in a … Continue reading
Bring home the (scientific) troops!
Read related entries to this post: Pitching solutions: Transition awards and Targeted Hiring The Problem: A lack of faculty positions at top-tier Canadian Universities and Research Institutes Making the Case for Increased Federal Support of Biomedical Research Repatriating young Canadian … Continue reading
Posted in General, Policy
Tagged biomedical research, Budget 2010, business, Canada, CIHR, degrees, doctors, education, Employment, Faculty jobs, fellowship, funding, Government, Graduate Student, Health Canada, industry canada, Leona Aglukkaq, PDF, Policy, Post Doc, postacademic jobs, Science, SSHRC, Stephen Harper, Training, University
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Who do universities want to hire – scientists or politicians?
In his article The Vanishing Voter, Harvard professor Thomas Patterson makes a statement about modern political campaigns that made me a little nauseous: Ambition, manipulation, and deception have become as prominent as issues of policy and leadership You might scoff at … Continue reading
Posted in Education and Training, General, Policy, Science Communication
Tagged Canada, CIHR, degrees, education, Employment, fellowship, funding, Government, Graduate Student, Jobs, life choices, money, NSERC, PDF, Peer Review, PhD, Policy, Post Doc, publications, scholarship, Science, science and society, scientist metric, selling science, SSHRC, Training, University
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It can be done: Moving labs with your CIHR fellowship
Winning a postdoctoral fellowship is not trivial and when you land in a suboptimal research situation after bringing in your own money, things can get pretty stressful. Today’s post is a guest post from a former colleague of mine who … Continue reading
Posted in Education and Training
Tagged Canada, changing fellowship lab, CIHR, education, fellowship, funding, Government, moving labs, moving postdoc lab, PDF, Post Doc, Science, Training, University
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Bidding You Adieu
So, a while back I mentioned that I would be applying to CIHR’s Science-to-Business (S2B) program, which provides scholarships for individuals with PhDs in a health related field to do MBAs. And the good news is that I was fortunate enough … Continue reading
Posted in Education and Training, Financial
Tagged business, Canada, CIHR, education, fellowship, funding, life choices, MBA, money, scholarship, Science-to-Business Program, Training, transferrable skills, University
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University Affairs commentary on our CSPC panel
On November 30, University Affairs posted two articles that summarise and discuss the major issues that came up in our session at the 3rd Annual Canadian Science Policy Conference: Is Canada producing too many PhDs? Yes, no and maybe The … Continue reading
Posted in Education and Training, Policy
Tagged 2011 CSPC, Canada, CAPS, CIHR, CSPC, degrees, education, Graduate Student, Leo Charbonneau, life choices, Mehrdad Hariri, money, non-academic jobs, NSERC, PDF, PhD, Policy, Post Doc, postacademic jobs, Science, science and society, too many PhDs, Training, transferrable skills, University, University Affairs
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What to do with all the Scientists… find out at the 2011 Canadian Science Policy Conference
In a break from normal lab routine, I’ll be dabbling in the black arts of science policy this November and running a session at the 3rd annual Canadian Science Policy Conference. The conference runs from Nov 16th-18th and features an … Continue reading
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Tagged 2011 CSPC, Alan Bernstein, Angela Crawley, Canada, Canadian Association of Postdoctoral Scholars, Canadian Science Policy, Canadian Science Policy Conference, CAPS, Chad Gaffield, CIHR, CSPC, David Kent, education, Gary Goodyear, Government, Graduate Student, life choices, MITACS, money, non-academic jobs, NSERC, Olga Stachova, Ottawa, PDF, Penny Park, PhD, Policy, Post Doc, postacademic jobs, Science, science and society, science communication, Science Media Centre, SSHRC, Suzanne Fortier, Training, transferrable skills, University
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