“Postdocs Speak Up”: Article in “Science” Career Magazine
An article about the symposium, “Postdocs speak up“, is in the Science Careers Magazine, featuring an interview with Jessica Polka, a lead organizer of the Future of Research Symposium.
View ArticlePoster on future of Research now available
A poster featuring some of the preliminary outcomes from the drafting of the White Paper on the Future of Research was presented at the joint out in STEM (oSTEM) and National Organisation of Gay and...
View ArticleNational Postdoctoral Association Article about FOR
An article about the Future of Research Symposium has been published by the National Postdoctoral Association (NPA) in their newsletter: see pages 7 and 12 of the POSTDOCket for the article, and a...
View ArticleFuture of Research discussed in Nature Editorial
In “Harsh reality“, Nature highlights two reports from either side of the Atlantic: “Shaping the Future of Research: a perspective from junior scientists” from us here in the US; and “The culture of...
View ArticleFuture of Research session at ASCB: audio available
Jon Lorsch, Connie M. Lee, Kenneth Gibbs Jr, Kristin Krukenberg, and Bruce Alberts answer audience questions. Shirley Tilghman and Marc Kirschner (not pictured) also spoke. On Saturday, December 6th,...
View ArticleNature Scitable ConferenceCast blog post about the Future of Research Symposium
See here for a blog post about the Future of Research Symposium in the Nature Scitable ConferenceCast blog, one of the first in a series of planned posts about the Symposium.
View ArticleNew Blog posts on the Future of Research
There is a new NPR piece, “A Glut Of Ph.Ds Means Long Odds Of Getting Jobs“, which discusses the Future of Research group and interviews Kristin Krukenberg, a senior organizer of the Future of...
View ArticlePodcast from Harvard Medical School discussing FoR
You can hear a podcast here from the Harvard Medical School podcast series, talking about the postdoc problem in an interview with Future of Research Symposium lead organizers Kristin Krukenberg and...
View ArticleNatureJobs Podcast on Postdocs and the Future of Research
As part of a series on postdocs, this edition of the NatureJobs Podcast discusses the National Academies Report, “The Postdoctoral Experience Revisited“, and the Future of Research Report, “Shaping the...
View ArticleResults from the FoR NatureJobs Career Expo workshop on Career Awareness...
Patricia Goodwin, Kearney Gunsalus, Erica Walsh and Gary McDowell from FoR gave a workshop at the NatureJobs Career Expo in Boston, May 2015, entitled, “Future of Research: How Can We Improve Career...
View ArticleFOR Blogpost at Cell Press Careers Under the Microscope
Future of Research Boston 2015 lead organizers Sarah Mazzilli and Gary McDowell have written a blogpost as part of the Cell Press “Careers Under the Microscope” series, “How Does the Number of Graduate...
View ArticleFoR receives grant to fund new non-profit and begin full-time operations
The team at Future of Research has been extremely busy over the last few months, and is pleased to announce that The Future of Research, Inc., or (FoR), is officially a MA-based non-profit organization...
View ArticleNew publications: Using Census Data to See the New Face Of U.S. Science
One of the key challenges in our work pushing for reform of the academic system and the scientific enterprise is convincing those resistant to change that there is a problem. Part of the issue in...
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