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 ...

The following is a guest contribution and reflects the authors’ views alone. For information on how to submit a piece to the Opinion section, click here. However, despite having two scheduled ...

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 ...

A National Institutes of Health working group on Friday recommended a sizable increase in salaries of postdoctoral researchers and a cap on the length of the position in an effort to secure the future ...

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.

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 ...

Benefits to postdoctoral scholars vary according to the type of appointment. Due to IRS restrictions placed on non-taxed fellowships, retirement benefits are not allowed for postdoc trainees (Status ...