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Spotlight on 2017 Fall COMPASS outreach grant recipients

December 1, 2017

Science outreach can be many things—teaching and inspiring a younger generation of scientists, communicating results in an accessible way to…

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Tanner to receive Bruce Alberts award for excellence in science education

October 24, 2017

Kimberly D. Tanner, a professor in the Biology Department at San Francisco State University, will receive the Bruce Alberts Award…

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2017 E.E. Just Award winner is JoAnn Trejo

October 19, 2017
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It was during summers as an undergraduate while living in a small cottage on the property of immigrant engineering professor…

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Hartl and Horwich named 2017 E.B. Wilson Medalists

September 22, 2017

ASCB has selected F. Ulrich Hartl of the Max Planck Institute of Biochemistry and Arthur Horwich of the Yale School…

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Cornell’s Scott D. Emr to deliver 2017 Porter Lecture

September 22, 2017

Scott D. Emr will give the 2017 Keith Porter Lecture at the 2017 ASCB|EMBO Meeting this December in Philadelphia. Emr…

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Opinion by Jessica Polka

July 31, 2017

For background and information on the GSI and NGRI, click here Even after passing through the bottleneck between a postdoc…

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Volunteering in your scientific society: six lessons from a COMPASS alum

June 16, 2017
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Compared with all other ASCB committees, membership in the Committee for Postdocs and Students (COMPASS) fluctuates with a fast tempo,…

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Spotlight: COMPASS Outreach Grant recipients

June 2, 2017

The ASCB Committee for Postdocs and Students (COMPASS) is a group of trainees dedicated to promoting the voice and visibility…

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How international scientists can advocate, and how U.S. scientists can support them

April 19, 2017

In the current political climate in the United States, many scientists are looking to become more politically engaged or to…

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Letting the right ones in: obstacles in graduate admissions  

March 29, 2017
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Our previous article discussed admission metrics such as the GRE (Graduate Record Examination), undergraduate GPA (grade point average), previous research…

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