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	Mastering Your Ph.D.: Countdown to Your Thesis Defence To start writing your thesis, assess what you've done, plan the last experiments, and set aside time to write. [Nov 22, 2007]
	Managing Scientists [Nov 9, 2007]
	A Guide to NSF Success This article provides suggestions and ideas about how to make your next National Science Foundation (NSF) proposal more competitive. [Jul 27, 2007]
	Grant Writing for Tight Times For scientists seeking money for their research, it may not be the worst of times, but it certainly is not the best of times. Approval rates for grant applications have dropped markedly in the past few years, making grant-writing mastery an even more vital skill than before. [Jul 27, 2007]
	Opportunities: The Accidental Consultant There are lots of good reasons for postdocs--and even graduate students--to seek out technical and scientific consulting work. [Jul 13, 2007]
	Be Careful What You Wish For The doubling of NIH research funding left some early-career life scientists worse off than before. Will the planned doubling for physical science repeat the same mistakes? [Jul 12, 2007]
	Huddled Masses Today�s large influx of international postdocs may be good for American society at large, but not, research suggests, for the incomes of America�s young scientists. [Apr 14, 2007]
	Opportunities: A Day in the Life, Part 2 It pays to work hard to find people who can help you. [Apr 13, 2007]
	Educated Woman, Postdoc Edition, Part 3: Time to Strategize Stuck in a postdoc that doesn't quite fit, Micella considers her options. [Mar 30, 2007]
	Introducing GrantsNet 2.0 Most career researchers, no matter what their discipline or career stage, have one issue in common: the need to find funding for their research and training. For researchers in the United States, that task just got a little easier. [Mar 30, 2007]
	FP7 Funding Opportunities at a Glance Get the low-down on funding for young scientists in the new European framework programme. [Feb 23, 2007]
	Contemptuous Irresolution After the Senate's failure to do its job threatened scientists with a very bleak year ahead, Congress comes through with a last-minute reprieve. [Feb 2, 2007]
	Foreign Faculty Face Challenges [Feb 2, 2007]
	Working at National Labs: Oak Ridge Biology, chemistry, and physics researchers tell what it's like to work at the nation's largest science and energy laboratory. [Feb 2, 2007]
	Educated Woman, Postdoc Edition: New Year, New Life, New Start Now a postdoc, Micella discusses her recent transition and ponders what lies on the road ahead--and whether it's likely to get up again, brush itself off, and walk away. [Jan 26, 2007]
	Returning to Academia Conventional wisdom says that moving to industry is a one-way ticket, but some scientists have made it a round trip. [Jan 26, 2007]
	Special Feature: Particle Astrophysics Careers Particle astrophysicists are bringing together particle physics and astrophysics, to the benefit of both fields. [Jan 5, 2007]
	What You Need to Know About Electronic R01 Submissions Science Careers gives you the lowdown on electronic submission of NIH R01 grant proposals as the first deadline approaches. [Jan 5, 2007]
	Opportunities: Intellectual Property, Part 2 So you think that invention belongs to you? Think again. [Jan 2, 2007]
	Science in an International and Humanitarian Context Jobs at UNESCO offer young scientists an opportunity to apply their scientific knowledge in an international, humanitarian context. [Jan 2, 2007]

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