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Name: Benjamin Porter, PhD
Job Title & Company: Communications Manager, Office of Communications; The University of Texas at Dallas
Location: Dallas, Texas
How long you’ve been in your current job: 3 months
Postdoc Advisor, IC and subject: Alan Koretsky, NINDS, Behavioral fMRI
If you have been following our Calendar for Career Success, October is the month to prepare yourself to negotiate a job offer. Because the preparation for negotiating an academic position versus a non-academic position is so divergent, we are going to cover them in separate blog posts. This week, we will give a brief overview of how to prepare for negotiating academic job offerings.
This is the second in a series of profiles about recent NIH postdocs who have found an array of jobs, from academia to industry to communications and beyond, in the U.S. and abroad. What do they do now, and how did they get there? What challenges did they face, and what advice do they have? Read on to find out.
Happy holidays, everyone! Last month, OITE hosted an online chat on careers in science writing with Mariette DiChristina, the Editor-in-Chief of Scientific American. The chat was attended by over 400 people, and some questions remained unanswered by chat's end, so Ms. DiChristina graciously offered to answer those remaining. Here are her responses to your questions:
Q: I would love to hear about what steps one should take while in grad school - i.e. prepare for a postdoc? seek out writing opps?
Last week, OITE hosted an online chat with Mariette DiChristina, Editor-in-Chief of Scientific American. If you're considering a career in science writing, be sure to check out the transcript of the chat here: Day in the Life of a Science Writer.
This fall, OITE is hosting "A Day in the Life of...," a series of interactive, online chats exploring a variety of careers in science.
So, just what does a science policy analyst do every day? A science museum exhibits coordinator? A VP of drug development? OITE aims to answer these questions via an interactive, online chat series this fall.
The series will be held from 12:00 - 1:00 pm every third Thursday from September through December, which includes: Sept. 16, Oct. 21, Nov. 18, and Dec. 16.
Topics covered will include careers in science policy, science writing, drug development in industry, and science education.
