Category Archives: Careers

Sense to Synapse 2012: Bridging the gap between sensory scientists

Posted on May 10, 2012 by

The Sense to Synapse (S2S) networking event that brought sensory scientists from the New York Tri-state area together took place on April 19th 2012. With support from theBiophysical Society, this one day-conference featured an extraordinary panel of plenary speakers covering the … Continue reading →

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Dear Molly Cule: My PI and I Don’t See Eye to Eye

Posted on April 16, 2012 by

Molly Cule is an Associate Professor in a medical school at a public university in the United States. Professor Cule is delighted to receive comments on her answers and (anonymized) questions at mollycule@biophysics.org, or visit her here on the BPS … Continue reading →

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Find a Mentor, Be a Mentor with the BPS Mentor Board

Posted on March 29, 2012 by

Are you a biophysicist in need of a mentor, or want to volunteer to mentor a biophysicist? Check out the new Mentor Board, an online tool that connects Biophysical Society members all over the world looking for mentors with members … Continue reading →

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FIRST: P&G’s Recruiting Conference

Posted on March 8, 2012 by

For those of you interested in industry, P&G’s Focusing on Industrial Recruitment of Scientific Talent (FIRST) Conference may be the conference for you! It’s a recruiting conference mainly aimed at African American, Hispanic and Native American doctoral and postdoctoral scientists … Continue reading →

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The Career Center – a leg up on my next step

Posted on February 27, 2012 by

Today I ended up spending quite a bit of time at the BPS Career Center.  I attended two of the three lectures they provided in room 26A today about how to begin thinking about science and our science training outside … Continue reading →

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Dear Molly Cule: To Apply or Not to Apply for a Faculty Position?

Posted on February 2, 2012 by

Molly Cule is an Associate Professor in a medical school at a public university in the United States. Professor Cule is delighted to receive comments on her answers and (anonymized) questions at mollycule@biophysics.org, or visit her here on the BPS … Continue reading →

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Summer Course in Biophysics: Why Apply?

Posted on January 27, 2012 by

Hi, my name is Michael Jarstfer and I am the new director of the Biophysical Society’s NIH-sponsored Summer Course, hosted at the beautiful University of North Carolina campus in the southern part of heaven. If you are considering this course, … Continue reading →

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Calling All Postdocs: NIGMS Transitions Workshop

Posted on November 17, 2011 by

Many of us postdocs are out there looking for our next position. Many of us hope that position is as an independent investigator/professor, where we can finally follow up on all those ideas we’ve got in our heads. If you … Continue reading →

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Gender Inequalities in STEM Workplaces

Posted on August 24, 2011 by

The good news is that the gender wage gap is much smaller in STEM jobs than non-STEM jobs. The bad news is that there still is a gender wage gap. This is the message that the US Department of Commerce … Continue reading →

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