During a two-year stint as a postdoctoral researcher in computational micro-biology at the University of Liverpool, UK, Adrian Cazares suffered despite his successes. “I published papers but I wasn’t ...

Postdoctoral fellowships make a lot of sense in theory: They offer recent Ph.D.s, especially those aspiring to careers in academic research, a place to develop professionally and – hopefully -- build ...

When he left Canada for India in February, Varoon Singh thought he was just heading home for a brief visit before starting a postdoctoral position at Ghent University in Belgium. Singh had just ...

Despite decades of talk and years of occasionally substantial investments, academe has made relatively little progress in diversifying the faculty ranks in many science and engineering disciplines.

Postdocs and scholars across Princeton want a union. For the past year, we have been talking with our colleagues and signing union authorization cards. These cards demonstrate our support for ...

For 15 years now, Sudipta Mallick has been diligently attending college lectures, tirelessly devouring college textbooks and proudly earning college degrees. Even now, at age 35, she’s still scurrying ...

This is the first installment in a series about why doctoral students at Drexel should consider postdocs and how to find the right opportunities. A forthcoming installment will feature a Q&A with the ...

“People have been talking about this for nearly my entire life,” says a respondent to Nature’s latest survey of postdoctoral researchers. These words highlight how, compared with people who have ...

A new study found that a significant share of postdoctoral researchers leave academia. The study, recently published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, looked at the careers of 45,572 ...

Some postdoctoral scholars who entered the graduate housing lottery in hopes of being assigned University housing for the 2022-23 academic year found themselves scrambling instead to find last-minute ...

Thousands of junior scientists who spend long nights and weekends running experiments in biomedical labs are in line for a pay hike, thanks to a whopping change to federal overtime pay regulations.

Penn research associates and postdoctoral researchers have filed a petition with the National Labor Relations Board to form a union on April 24. Of the 1,500 postdoctoral researchers at Penn, 1,000 ...