Academic Scientists at Work

by Jeremy M. Boss, Susan H. Eckert

Academic Scientists at Work guides the scientist on the journey from the end of a postdoctoral career to the point of promotion to Associate Professor.

This book focuses on the three aspects of promotion in an academic setting: Scholarship, Teaching, and Service. Valuable advice is provided on the following topics:

- Choosing and landing your ideal academic job

- Setting up and effectively managing the lab

- Obtaining funds

- Organizing, writing, and publishing your science

- Teaching and mentoring

- Organizing and performing academic service

- The promotion and tenure process

Templates and worksheets designed to help you navigate your career with point-by-point instructions on how to complete them are provided. All downloadable blank worksheets are contained on the accompanying CD-ROM. Included are six database program files that can be used to help the reader organize his or her laboratory specific reagents.

In addition to updating the contents of the previous version, this second edition includes a dozen articles written by the authors on managing your career that first appeared in Science's Next Wave.

Academic Scientists at Work is a valuable resource for the career scientist who demands and expects the best.

Genres: Academic

308 pages, Kindle Edition

First published November 30, 2002

Reviews

[Jessica · Rating 4 out of 5]

A great introduction and template for the burgeoning academic scientist. Dr. Boss does a wonderful job of explaining some of the important aspects of how to begin your academic career while also keeping the reader entertained with antidotes and story-based explanations with many examples of potential obstacles and questions that young investigators may, and nearly always, find themselves facing. The book comes with a great CD that has many templates utilized in setting up a lab and keeping records and setting up budgets.
The book also includes little grey boxes with real answers and suggestions from tenured professors and has a "survey says" section where the answers from a survey of many different professors throughout top research institutions have been compiled.
A great book to have going forward and will be a nice resource to use throughout each step of career development in the biomedical science career.

[David Usharauli · Rating 2 out of 5]

Academic Scientist's career sounds quite boring, and it will be boring if you believe this book.

So why is this book so boring? Because it has nothing beyond trivial views and facts that any junior scientist could randomly guess.

The one thing I agree with the authors is the notion that when you are running your own lab and training postdocs, you are taking responsibility for their careers as well. This aspect of PI's job is mostly ignored in real life.

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[Raquel Lieberman · Rating 5 out of 5]

A must-read for current and future science academics