Off the beaten (tenure) track – Katie Pratt

Off the beaten (tenure) track - Katie Pratt
Where are you currently working and what is your position? The University of Rhode Island Graduate School of Oceanography. I am Communications Director for the Deep Carbon Observatory, an international, Sloan Foundation-funded project to understand the location and behavior of all the carbon on Earth. How long have you been working there? A little over ...

Off the beaten (tenure) track Hangout #1 – Jeanne Garbarino

Off the beaten (tenure) track Hangout #1 - Jeanne Garbarino

Off the beaten (tenure) track – Stephen Granade

Off the beaten (tenure) track - Stephen Granade
Where are you currently working and what is your position? I’m working at Advanced Optical Systems in Huntsville, AL. My official title is Director of Projects, though we’re a small company so I do a lot of things: run projects, write proposals, and do research for people who will pay us to do cool things ...

Off the beaten (tenure) track – Jeanne Garbarino 1

Off the beaten (tenure) track - Jeanne Garbarino
Where are you currently working and what is your position? I am the Director of Science Outreach at The Rockefeller University in NYC. How long have you been working there? Since November, 2012. What is your academic background? How long were you in academia? I am a bench scientist – I earned my PhD in nutritional ...

Off the beaten (tenure) track – Jessica Wright 1

Off the beaten (tenure) track - Jessica Wright
Where are you currently working and what is your position? I’m the Research editor at SFARI.org, which is an editorially independent new website for the Simons Foundation Autism Research Initiative. We report news and opinion pieces related to autism research with a target audience of autism researchers. Our aim is to help to advance work ...

Off the beaten (tenure) track – Neta Zach 2

Off the beaten (tenure) track - Neta Zach
Where are you currently working and what is your position? I am a scientific Director at the non profit Organization Prize4Life, accelerating treatments, and a cure, for ALS. How long have you been working there? I have been with Prize4Life since May 2012. What is your academic background? How long were you in academia? I ...

Off the beaten (tenure) track

I left academia in 2005, heading towards the unknown world of management consulting. Like many others before me, I had to find my own way, carve my own career path. Many times I felt as if I was doing this alone, isolated from my friends who were all (it seemed) happily pursuing an academic career. ...

SciLingual Hangout – Crowdfunding Science

Crowdfunding Science Funding for scientific research is getting more and more difficult to come by.  Researchers are scrambling to squeeze every existing grant dollar and desperately searching for more funds to do their experiments.  If federal funding is going to remain flat for the foreseeable future, where will they turn? To you! Microryza and the ...

SciLingual Hangout – Maggie Koerth-Baker

SciLingual Hangout with Maggie Koerth-Baker We talked with Maggie Koerth-Baker about her new book, Before the Lights Go Out: Conquering the Energy Crisis Before It Conquers Us.

SciLingual Hangout Announcement

Announcing The SciLingual Hangout (On Air)! Your chance to chat with Science! Monday, March 26th @ 6 PM PDT Has this happened to you? After reading a book, watching a movie, or listening to a TED talk, the thought hits you, “How great would it be to have a moment to sit down, have a ...