The Science Alliance for Graduate Students and Postdocs is a consortium of universities, teaching hospitals, and independent research facilities in the New York City metro area that have formed a partnership with the New York Academy of Sciences. Through the Alliance, each institution sponsors Academy membership dues for all of their first-year graduate students and postdocs.

Our mission is to provide career and professional development mentoring for graduate students and postdocs in the sciences and engineering, through a series of live events and a dedicated web portal. In addition, the Science Alliance gives graduate students and postdocs the opportunity to network with their peers across institutions and with key leaders in industry and academia. Graduate student and postdoc representatives from each of the participating institutions form a Steering Committee, which helps shape, and develop Alliance events, programs, and web content.

Symposia, workshops, and other events are convened at least monthly on the topics listed below. Upcoming Science Alliance events are shown at the right.

•	Careers in industry
•	Laboratory management
•	Crossing disciplinary boundaries
•	Entrepreneurship
•	Conducting an academic job search
•	Intellectual property: Questions and career opportunities
•	"Hot fields" lectures - e.g., Consulting, Marketing, Policy, Publishing, Regulatory Affairs
•	Professional skills development seminars - e.g., grant writing, media relations, improving your writing/editing skills, public speaking

The web portal keeps members informed of upcoming meetings at the Academy and throughout the NYC metro area. It also includes rich original content as well as articles and links from partner sites NatureJobs, Science Next Wave, The Scientist, and BioMed Central. Some key features of the web portal:

•	eBriefings on Science Alliance symposia
•	Profiles of top employers, interviews with scientists in challenging careers, advice on immigration issues, and other subjects of practical interest to the membership
•	Links to career-related resources
•	Job listings selected specially for our members from the NatureJobs database
•	Editor's Choice archive of the top career guidance articles and web sites
•	Calendar of Science Alliance events and others of interest in the NYC metro area

All student members of the Academy are welcomed - and encouraged - to take part in the Science Alliance events and to use the web portal. Institutions need not be members of the consortium in order for their graduate students and postdocs to participate - but all participants must be individual Academy members.

If your institution is not a member (see Participating Institutions), you as a student or postdoc may independently become a full member at student rates. Your membership in the Academy includes full online access to Annals Online, deeply discounted prices on Annals print volumes, attendance at Academy lectures and seminars, access to the Science Alliance web portal, and more.

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New institutions - regardless of their geographic location - are encouraged to join the Alliance team. Interested parties should contact Mr. René Bastón, Vice President, Business Development 2212.298.8674 or email rbaston@nyas.org.

For more on the Science Alliance program, contact the Program Manager of the Science Alliance, at sciencealliance@nyas.org or by phone 212.298.8612.