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With a career in academia and education, you can inspire the next generation of students, create and deliver courses or educational materials, and generate new knowledge through research. Sample career paths include becoming a professor at a university or college; an investigator at a research institute; higher education staff; K-12 teacher; or creator of educational programs at museums. Click on the menu items below to explore additional resources.
Based on workshops co-sponsored by the Burroughs Wellcome Fund and HHMI, this book is a collection of practical advice and experiences from seasoned biomedical investigators and includes chapters on laboratory leadership, getting funded, project management, and teaching and course design.
Katrien Janin always enjoyed doing hands-on research. “Put me in a basement of the museum and with loads and loads of boxes of remains or fossils and I am extremely happy,” says Janin, who completed her …
By Simona Rosu
Simona RosuSenior Assistant Director, Postdoctoral Career and Professional Development
I never would have gotten here without luck. I worry about all the bright, passionate, capable students from underresourced countries and less privileged backgrounds who don’t have the same family support and encouraging, open-minded mentors. I …
By Simona Rosu
Simona RosuSenior Assistant Director, Postdoctoral Career and Professional Development
Before starting his postdoc in neuroscience at MIT, Jon performed postdoctoral research on homeostatic feedback mechanisms at Brandeis. He then moved on to teach math and science classes at Jamaica Plain. Although …
Summer Opportunities for Undergraduate Research and Creative EndeavorsUniversity of Delaware - Graduate College
Elementary TeacherJobID: 2349East Central Independent School District
ASP (Advanced Studies Program) Intern Teacher- GENEROUS STIPEND AS WELL AS FREE ROOM, BOARD, FOOD AND TRAVEL EXPENSES!St Paul's School - Concord, N.H.
