Search Results: SF declaration 2012

Workforce Issues: What About the Postdocs Already Swimming in the Pool? What Becomes of Us?

Infographic by Jessica Polka of where biology PhDs end up based on the NIH 2012 workforce report As postdoctoral researchers, sometimes we feel a little unloved. Alternately, we feel like…

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A Climate Change Pause? The Science Behind the Debate

Was there a pause in climate change or is our planet heating up? Photo by Steven Depolo. Within the scientific community empirical acceptance of anthropogenic climate change is by far…

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Exploring “Alternative” Careers: Are universities doing enough to help?

…ultimately obtain a tenured position at a research university. According to recent NSF statistics, the number of graduate students in science and engineering has nearly doubled from 1975 to 2013,…

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2012 Celldance Winners

View the 2012 Celldance Poster (.PDF | .PNG) First Place “Drosophila Dorsal Closure“ Submitted by: Stephanie Norwotarski (University of North Carolina) Public Service Award “Invisible“ Submitted by: Emmanuel Reynaud University…

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Preserving Data: Who’s Got Your Back(up)?

…recovery. Different parts of the world are subject to different natural disasters, with 2012’s Hurricane Sandy still fresh in the minds of many New Yorkers. Some lessons learned from this…

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Ari Helenius Named as 2012 Keith R. Porter Lecturer

ASCB is pleased to announce that Ari Helenius, of the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich, has been named as Keith R. Porter Lecturer at the 2012 ASCB Annual…

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Innovation in Education Award

…on the basis of work done within 3 years prior to the nomination. The innovation should be aligned with the core tenets of the ASCB Declaration on Effective and Inclusive…

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Driving institutional change for research assessment reform

On October 21–23, 2019, the San Francisco Declaration for Research Assessment (DORA) and the Howard Hughes Medical Institute convened funders, university administrators, faculty members, early career researchers, librarians, culture change…

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Honorific awards acknowledge established scientists in the cell biology community

…a founder of the Declaration on Research Assessment (DORA), ASCB does not use journal impact factors or other journal-based metrics in the evaluation process for its award candidates. ASCB looks…

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ASCB offers awards for life scientists just starting out

…a founder of the Declaration on Research Assessment (DORA), ASCB does not use journal impact factors or other journal-based metrics in the evaluation process for its award candidates. ASCB looks…

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