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Making the Right Moves: A Practical Guide to Scientific Management for Postdocs and New Faculty, Second Edition
Based on courses held in 2002 and 2005 by BWF and the Howard Hughes Medical Institute, this book is a collection of practical advice and experiences from seasoned biomedical investigators. The second edition contains three new chapters on laboratory leadership, project management, and teaching and course design.

Excellence Everywhere:A Resource for Scientists Launching Research Careers in Emerging Science Centers
Science is an international endeavor. Wherever it is done, it connects us to the scientists, scholars, and philosophers of the past and the future. Our work as a scientific community can make human lives better, healthier, and longer, and can improve the economies of nations, regions, and the world. To be a scientist is both a privilege and a passion, but launching a career in science is difficult. Success as a scientist will depend on many things—from intelligence and creativity to luck; from being a good team player to being an independent thinker and driver of your own work; from bringing out the best in the people with whom you work to being an accurate and respected authority whose fairness and good ideas are known to other researchers, organizations, and perhaps governments. We hope the insights in this book will help you build a career where you aim higher, reach farther, and perform better than what you may have thought would be your best.

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Communicating Science: Tools for Scientists and Engineers
Communicating Science: Tools for Scientists and Engineers was developed by the AAAS Center for Public Engagement with Science and Technology, in partnership with the National Science Foundation, to provide science-communication tools for use by scientists and engineers. Communicating Science resources are available both online and via in-person workshops, to help researchers communicate more broadly with the public.

ScienceCareers Blog
Get frequent updates from the science-career trenches including advice, opinion, news, funding opportunities, and links to other career-related resources

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Clinical and Translational Science Network (CTSciNet)
The Clinical and Translational Science Network focuses on building a network of scientists and trainees who wish to speed the translation of scientific breakthroughs into real-world therapies—including scientists from all disciplines with clinical or basic science training—or both.

CTSciNet users can join discussion groups on clinical trials, commercialization and entrepreneurship, ontology and bioinformatics, and many other subjects, and read articles on paying off graduate school debt, the academic tenure process, M.D.-Ph.D. dual-degree programs, and how basic scientists can work closer to the clinic.

The network is funded by the Burroughs Wellcome Fund, with 12 scientific and professional societies partnering with AAAS in various ways. The partners include the Howard Hughes Medical Institute, the American Physician Scientists Association, and the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation.

Articles

The Pathway to Independence Awards:Early Returns
ScienceCareers.org
The NIH's K99/R00 awards, modeled off of BWF's Career Award in the Biomedical Sciences, lead the way to research independence.

Academic Tenure-Track Offer Letters for New Assistant Professors in the Biomedical Sciences
FOCUS
BWF’s policy requires institutions offering CABS awardees faculty appointments to make a significant commitment to their career development...

Constructing a Winning Grant
FOCUS
Grantwriting is a process rife with obstacles, this articles helps to navigate the tricky terrain

The People Puzzle: Investing in the Right People
FOCUS
What is the best way to start off hiring when first getting your lab off the ground?

Path of a Postdoc
Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center
Four postdocs discuss the challenges and uncertainties of making academic science their career

Making the Leap to Independence
Science Careers
Independence is a lofty goal. It’s what every parent wants for their child and every citizen wants for their nation. It is also what most scientists aspire to after years of training and working for other people.

Science Education

North Carolina Afterschool Training
Identify training workshops and plan staff professional development.  The new website features a user-friendly, searchable catalog of trainings that users can sort by geographic region, training competency, skill level of staff member, provider of training, and more.

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