MedEd Mentoring: Site Updates http://www.mededmentoring.org/default.asp MedEd Mentoring is a mentoring and career development initiative providing tools and resources for mentees, mentors, and mentors-in-training in geriatric mental health research. Creating Successful Presentations whatsnew.asp?ID=22 Filed under: What's New

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]]> What's New The Chilling Effect: How Do Researchers React to Controversy? updateinfo.asp?contentID=485 Kempner J.PLoS Med. 2008 Nov 18;5(11):e222. [Epub ahead of print]

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Do researchers sometimes have to engage in self censorship in order to get their politically controversial grants funded?

 

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]]> Medical News Fixing the system, not the women: an innovative approach to faculty advancement. updateinfo.asp?contentID=482 Morrissey CS, Schmidt ML.J Womens Health (Larchmt). 2008 Oct;17(8):1399-408.

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University of Illinois College of Medicine's Faculty Academic Advancement Committee was established in 2003 to increase the number of tenured women faculty and move women into a greater number or leadership positions.

 

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]]> Medical News When critics take potshots, some researchers hide truth http://www.nj.com/news/ledger/jersey/index.ssf?/base/news-12/122698713445920.xml&coll=1 New Jersey Star Ledger.com, November 18, 2008

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A Rutgers University study found that for years researchers have had to removed controversial wording from grant applications to obscure the intentions of their project in order to get funded.

 

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]]> In the News Learning to Let Go While Trusting Your Data http://sciencecareers.sciencemag.org/career_magazine/previous_issues/articles/2008_11_14/caredit.a0800167 Science Careers.org, November 14, 2008

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New PIs have to get used to their role as an adviser to the postdocs and technicians who will do most of the lab work they once did.

 

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