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Career Development
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NPA released its 2025 Postdoctoral Needs Assessment Report
The survey of over 600 postdocs covered 19 issue areas, grouped into four categories: career trajectory, compensation and benefits, an equitable, inclusive and healthy workplace, and role, responsibilities and organizational status.January 17, 2025 -
2025 Fly Board election voting deadline
Select individuals who will represent the Drosophila community to further its interests in research, education, and public outreach.February 16, 2025 -
2025 OSP Summer Internship Program application deadline
The NIH Office of Science Policy Summer Internship Program provides an opportunity for undergraduate, graduate, and/or professional students to gain tangible science policy experience in support of the NIH mission.February 28, 2025 -
Culture Change in Genetics: A Launch Event and Community Forum
Join GSA and their partners, PGED and RSI, as they share details about their NSF-funded CC-BRIDGE project seeking to build a more inclusive culture across the field of genetics.January 29, 2025 -
BREWMOR Workshop: Assessment of Undergraduate Experiential Learning in Biology Labs
Participants will learn from and connect with educators passionate about inclusively assessing student learning in undergraduate biology lab courses.January 23, 2025 -
Webinar: “Understanding and addressing misinformation about science”
NASEM's Board on Science Education will give an overview of the report "Understanding and Addressing Misinformation about Science" and discuss its conclusions and recommendations.December 19, 2024 -
New career tool available to NPA members
A new tool for NPA members, Flamingo™, can help you figure out what jobs excite you, guide you in importing and analyzing job descriptions using SciPhD's Job Analytics Engine to identify the critical skills, and help create a targeted resume to help you get the job.December 9, 2024 -
Join the new FlyCROSS Mentor-Mentee Matching Program
This program designed for Drosophila researchers to gain valuable career development advice from experienced mentors in the community invites graduate student and postdoctoral researchers in a fly lab, non-tenure track faculty, and pre-tenure faculty running a lab as well as those holding an equivalent position in non-academic institutions to participate.January 5, 2025 -
Join Genetics Educators Exchange (GEE)
GEE is a collaborative space where undergraduate genetics educators can share slides, exams, problem sets, and other material from introductory genetics classes for undergraduates.December 3, 2024 -
Multilingual Seminar Series: Yoruba
This online event will feature expert panelists for a discussion on genomic applications for adequate health care.February 15, 2025 -
Multilingual Seminar: Portuguese
This online event will feature experts sharing their experiences and insights on career development for scientists through discussions on scientific careers, industry, academia, professional skills, and networking in Portuguese.November 13, 2024