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October 11, 2011
funding
I spent tonight learning a little more about my adviser's funding source and the process involved. There is more information out there then I suspected. As far as I can tell, as a student, I have not been funded by ARRA. What I learned tonight makes me feel a little bleaker about the current environment of academic research funding. My elders keep telling us it that it will get better but the numbers and facts tell a different story.
Anyone who has read Upton Sinclair's Jungle will appreciate (or not) this story.
Posted by azileretsis at October 11, 2011 10:56 PM
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HA! You should come to Asia! I've been told that they LOVE foreigners to be on their research teams. They have special funds to entice foreign researchers to come.
I've got a couple friends doing their post-docs here as well as those working with researchers to make sure their papers are up to international standards.
Granted... all of THOSE friends are British and have very British names... :p
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at October 11, 2011 11:29 PM
The problem with a post-doc in Asia is that you can't easily come back. We talked about this issue while we were in Singapore. Usually, you have to look six months ahead, now up to two years for an American post-doc.
If the Chinese students are struggling and don't want to go back, I'm not sure how good of an opportunity it is right now. However, their education hierarchy is much simpler than the complicated British system or even the American one. I've heard most faculty start as professors.
Posted by: azileretsis at October 12, 2011 06:05 PM
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