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CONTACT COSEPUPCommittee on Science, Engineering, and Public Policy
The National Academies
500 5th Street, N.W.
Washington, D.C. 20001
USA
Tel: (202) 334-2424
Email: cosepup@nas.edu More contact info... PGA Home
UPCOMING EVENTS
Next Meetings:
September 09-10, 2013
COSEPUP Meeting, Keck Center, Washington, DC Theme: Arc of the Academic Research Career: Issues and Implications for U.S. Science and Engineering Leadership December 09-10, 2013
COSEPUP Meeting, Keck Center, Washington, DC
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The State of the Postdoctoral Experience for Scientists and Engineers Revisited Building on the 2000 COSEPUP report Enhancing the Postdoctoral Experience for Scientists and Engineers, an ad hoc committee will: - Describe the state of postdoctoral programs in the United States
- Examine how postdoctoral fellows (postdocs) are being guided and managed
- Review institutional practices with respect to postdocs
- Determine what happens to postdocs after they complete their programs
- Explore important changes that have occurred in postdoc practices and in the research ecosystem
- Assess how well current practices meet the needs of postdoctoral scientists and engineers and the needs of the research enterprise
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Next Meeting Meeting V
11-12 February, 2013
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Based on a review of existing data about postdocs and institutional practices, the committee will, to the extent possible, attempt to answer key questions in the following areas:
- General characteristics of postdoctoral fellows and positions in the U.S.
- How many postdoctoral fellows are there in the U.S.?
- Where are they working, in what fields, and for how many years?
- Current conditions for postdocs
- Are expectations of principal investigators made clear?
- Do postdocs receive adequate professional status and privileges as well as salary and benefits?
- Are the rules clear about credit they receive for their discoveries in the lab, and are they receiving adequate career guidance and development?
- Institutional provisions
- Do postdocs serve as investigators on grants?
- Are questions of intellectual property identified and provided for?
- At universities, is teaching required; if not, is it encouraged or discouraged?
- Career paths
- Where do postdocs come from?
- What do we know and what can we learn about what postdocs do after they complete their programs?
- How well are the postdoc programs matched with the career opportunities that are open to them?
- Recent trends and changes
- Have previous recommendations been implemented and to what effect?
- Are there other developments in the research enterprise that have had a significant effect on postdocs?
- Participation in the research enterprise
- Are postdocs being invited to review journal articles and to write grant proposals, either formally by journals and agencies or informally by PIs, and is this experience useful?
- What are the impressions of postdocs about peer review today?
- Are postdocs being used effectively in research?
- Are postdocs acquiring the skills they need to become productive independent researchers in the future?
At the conclusion of the study, the committee will produce a consensus report.
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Chair
Gregory Petsko
Gyula and Katica Tauber Professor of Biochemistry and Chemistry, Brandeis University
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Members
Sibby Anderson-Thompkins
Director of Postdoctoral Affairs, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
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Nancy Schwartz
Associate Dean for Graduate and Postdoctoral Affairs, The University of Chicago
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H. Russell Bernard
Professor Emeritus, Department of Anthropology, University of Florida
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Paula Stephan
Professor of Economics, Georgia State University
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Napoleone Ferrara
Genentech Fellow, Genentech, Inc.
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Lorraine Tracey
Director of Biological Research and Development, Nanodetection Technology
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Carol Greider
Daniel Nathans Professor and Director, Department of Molecular Biology and Genetics, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine
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Michael Turner
Rauner Distinguished Service Professor and Director, Kavli Institute for Cosmological Physics, The University of Chicago
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James Plummer
Frederick Emmons Terman Dean, School of Engineering, Stanford University
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Allison Woodall
Managing Counsel, Labor, Employment and Benefits Group, University of California System
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Albert Reece
Vice President for Medical Affairs, Bowers Distinguished Professor and Dean of the School of Medicine, University of Maryland
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Joan Woodard
Retired Executive Vice President and Deputy Director, Sandia National Laboratories
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Staff
Kevin Finneran
Study Director
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Marion Ramsey
Administrative Associate
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Guru Madhavan
Program Officer
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David J. Proctor
Research Associate (until September, 2012)
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John Ceccatti
Consultant Writer
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Maria Lund Dahlberg
Research Associate
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National Research Council
Burroughs Wellcome Fund
Alfred P. Sloan Foundation
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