Issues relevant to careers in scientific research

I went to an independent forum devoted to job searches (in all
occupations) in the US, and here is the articles specifically for job-
searching scientists:

http://www.ascb.org/index.cfm?navid=126
www.chronicle.com/jobs
http://advertising.utexas.edu/JR/InterviewPrep.html
http://www.dartmouth.edu/~gradstdy/careers/services/interview/acad.html
http://aslo.org/phd/interviewhints.pdf
http://www.cra.org/Activities/workshops/academic.careers/2004/agenda

Quesion for medical physicists, or general physicicts.

I am trying to sketch out a plan to use the absoption spectra of
molecules as a means to destroy viruses within the body.

I AM GATHERING INFORMATION ON THIS PROJECT, AND WOULD LIKE ANYONE WITH
AN INTEREST TO GIVE ME SOME FEEDBACK.

Please read the questions here:

    www.virology.wordpress.com/virology-questions-seeking-expert-answers

Please also read this brief article, which explain how the virus
inactivation will be performed

    www.virology.wordpress.com/2007/02/15/absorption-spectra-capsid-bursting

Please add any comments and expertise you may have on this subject.

Many thanks for your time.

www.virology.wordpress.com

Northwestern University
Evanston, IL 60208

Synthesis and characterization of new materials; properties of new
materials and nanocomposites.

Application detail at: http://www.tedjob.com/job_detail.php?id=9573

http://www.TedJob.com – Higher Education Jobs, Post Search for Free

Ontario Cancer Institute
University of Toronto
Toronto, Ontario M5G 2C1

Funded postdoctoral research positions are available in the laboratory
of Dr. R. Hakem at the Ontario Cancer Institute in Toronto, Canada.

Successful candidates will investigate the mechanisms of DNA damage
repair or apoptosis and their roles in cancer.

A recent PhD in biochemistry with a strong interest in cancer biology
is required. Good communication skills, strong organizational and
interpersonal talents, and the ability to work independently are very
important attributes for this job.

Application detail at: http://www.tedjob.com/job_detail.php?id=9571

http://www.TedJob.com – Higher Education Jobs, Post Search for Free

… like totally …

Hi ,
    We are developing a project under our university course. We are
novice in the field of communication.Wedeveloped a web site & we want
to deploy the updates of that websites
to our client.
    To deploy updates we  provide hand held embedded device to
clients. We assume that all our   clients are within 1.5 km range.
Currently we have an ebox2300. We think that we use this  device to
receive updates from website through GSM network (mobile phone
network)& then updates will be deployed to hand held  devices through
WI-FI network. That is, ebox 2300 is connected to GSM network & local
WI-FI network . We want to know whether doing all these is possible
using ebox and if not what changes need to be made to ebox?

           Which IEEE standard for WI FI can we use to cover range of
1.5km ?Is it possible to use IEEE802.11 b for this?
            What type of WI FI transceiver can be used for  Hand Held
end device here?
Remember that cost is a great factor in this project.
Please give necessary information & links.

Thanks in advance
Babu

I don’t mean to bring up Don McLean’s classic but the music really
died for the S&E shortage myth and with it, SRC, the last bastion of
the truth that the shortage was in fact a myth throughout the 90s and
00s.

A contrarian group can only survive until its message becomes
mainstream. Nowadays, I can’t meet anyone in the real world who wants
an MS/PhD in ChemE, EE, Physics, Operations Research, etc, unless
they’re fully sponsored by their companies. And even then, many have
confessed that they don’t expect to earn more money with it. I guess
some people can’t get enough of those graded projects. Many workers
are clearly MBA oriented and want those 3 initials especially if
associated with the likes of a Wharton School. Truth be told,
education and its halo are rapidly fading into the sunset. I recently
counseled a group of parents and all of them, with science proficient
teenagers (ala Math Olympiad, Westinghouse bound, etc), want their
kids to get into a 6 yr BA/MD program. I even tried to seed a notion
of a science PhD, playing devil’s advocate, and most of them balked at
it saying that it was a waste of time since those jobs were going to
Asia in ten years anyways.

University of Minnesota
Minneapolis, MN 55455

A postdoctoral position is available in the group of Kevin Dorfman in
the Department of Chemical Engineering and Materials Science at the
University of Minnesota beginning as early as April 1, 2007. The
project involves experimental studies of DNA electrophoresis in
microfabricated separation devices. A Ph.D. in chemical engineering,
physics or a related area is required and should be defended prior to
starting the position. Some experimental experience in DNA
electrophoresis, microfabrication, or lab-on-a-chip technologies is
expected. Experience in soft lithography and/or fluorescence
microscopy are highly desirable. The initial appointment is for one
year, with the possibility for renewal for a second year based on
performance and funding.

Application details at: http://www.tedjob.com/job_detail.php?id=9589

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This are two posts from Barbara Ehrenreich’s forum discussion on
issues of middle class jobs dissapearing.

Marco
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Layoffs, Lawsuits? (Guest)
Posted: 2:24:05 am on 2/6/2007

I was laid off seven months ago

I wasn’t crying over it. I was looking for another job anyway because
the company was in trouble.

Today my former coworker called me with some interesting news. At a
recent company party, after a few drinks had settled in his system, my
boss confided to this ex-coworker that laying me off was the best
thing for the company because it allowed him to hire three people from
India for the cost of my salary.

My former coworker says I have a great case for a lawsuit since these
workers were brought into the United States to take over my job. At
the very least, he encouraged me to file a complaint with the
Department of Labor. Has anyone ever had an experience like mine? What
they did was illegal, right? I’ve not a lawsuit happy kind of person
but this doesn’t seem right.

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Re: Layoffs, Lawsuits? (LaborSpecialist)
Posted: 12:51:32 pm on 2/6/2007

Your post further confirms my suspicions about what is happening to
the American work force.  And it is happening to highly education
professionals all across the country.   There is an epidemic of this
kind of labor practice going on all across the country.  It has been
going on for many years now.

I retired from DOL almost ten years ago now and I saw this pattern a
endemic even back in 1998.  My sense of the situation is that
insourcing is rapidly increasing and has grown substantially since I
left DOL.  I have been following all these trends since I left and I
have a sense of alarm based on what I am seeing.

My wife and I participated in an organization called
HireAmericanCitizens.—.  The site is no longer on the net.  It was
started by a computer expert who was laid off and was forced to train
his Indian replacements in three different jobs in just 18 months.
Here in Colorado we tried to address the outsourcing of government
jobs with an intitiative. Nationally this organization also tried to
address insourcing and put out a CD called "American Jobs".  Anti
offshoring and insourcing groups face extremely vicious and
contemptuous business opposition. And we face probably almost billions
of opposition dollars that could buy media and politicians.

 Things are likely to get much worse because business does not want
American workers anymore as far as I am concerned.  And I know from
all the dumping I witnessed since the 1990′s that American business
does not want anyone over 40 as a long term employee or any employee
for that matter.    80% of workers over 40 will never have a permanent
full time job in the future if this trend continues. People over 42
are simply too expensive to employ.  I will get a lot of kickback on
these conclusions, but they are accurate.  The general public has no
idea about what is going on because DOL largely covers up these trends
and refuses to really enforce what few weak laws we have.  The media
is not only silent but suppressive of any information regarding these
practices.

At this point almost all of our largest corporations along with the
GOP and Bush want to increase these H1B immigration work visas from
65,000 to 115,000 per annum and include a trigger that will allow
another 20,000 if the quota is met.  And there is an increase in L1
visas that are not counted or capped and allows a company to pay the
immigrant employee the same rate of pay they would get in their
country of origin. We now have over 1 million H1B visa holders in this
country mostly from India.  These Fortune 500 companies are claiming
that there is worker shortage in this country.  It is a lie really.
They just want cheap labor that will work for 25% – 35% less pay than
like trained and educated American citizens.

Insourcing is not the only labor problem occurring in the market.
American jobs are draining out of this country in record numbers now.
This administration keeps the number of jobs outsourced either hidden
or they have stopped any data gathering.  We are likely losing tens of
thousands of jobs a month now, but there is no way to verify that.  My
observations reveal a lot of symptoms supporting  this fact.  Right
now I know of one major security company with millions of subscribers
who has offshored ALL of its customer serve to India.  If you call in
an alarm from Chicago you get India. And I know a many stories where
now our health care industry beginning to move all medical records and
diagnostic test analyses to Indian service companies.  Eventually 100%
of all medical tests will be analyzed in India.  Even some states are
now sending government work to India and China. Indiana came close to
transferring their unemployment insurance division to India.
Indianans would have had Indian nationals taking and processing their
unemployment in US.   Virtually all credit card companies have
offshored their phone banks to India.

So there is a general drain on the economy both from insourcing and
outsourcing and living wage jobs are melting like snow in summer.
Even professional jobs are seeing falling wages now.  Our economic
numbers are junk.   Everything that I have said here is a situation
that the media and press are loath to report at all. They are a part
of the problem as well. The reason being is that our news gathering
media are looking at offshoring all of their reporting and
newsgathering to places like India or China.

As far as you situation is concerned it might be helpful to talk to an
attorney.  I was at DOL for 24 years and as far as I know there is
nothing illegal about what your company did.  What you experienced is
now very  common practice and it is growing like a pandemic in the
US.   DOL has become very worker hostile in the last 6 years.  Unless
workers organize and demand legislative change and a regulation of
business in certain areas, matters will get terminal for American
workers.

If an American citizen in the future wants to work they will have to
learn Spanish, Chinese, an Indian dialect or other language and even
go to another country.  American business is moving toward an
international job market where you will not be able to stay in your
home country to work at a job of any value. And American citizens will
have to compete with international workers from all over the world in
their own country.  And Americans will  have to agree to work for
lower wages in the "new global economy" in the United States.  What
you are seeing is only the beginning.    American business now
supports a completely open job market internationally.  But they won’t
tell you that.