The Academic Scientists' Toolkit

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Introduction

• Getting Hired
• Getting Funded
• Research Grant Sources
• Publishing
• Book Reviews and Other Resources
• Managing Your Time
• Managing Your Lab
• Managing People
• Teaching
• Tenure and Other Professional Issues
• Immigration Issues

GETTING HIRED

• CDC/Science Careers Job Search Engine
• Writing a Successful CV
• Writing a Winning Cover Letter
• Writing the Teaching Statement
• Interviewing
• Negotiating I
• Negotiating II
• The Job Talk

GETTING FUNDED

• The NIH R01 Toolkit
• Writing a Research Plan

How Not to Kill a Grant Proposal

• Part 1: Introduction
• Part 2: Abstract Killers
• Part 3: So What?
• Part 4: Lost at Sea
• Part 5: The Facts Thus Far
• Part 6: The Research Plan

More Resources

• NSF Grant Reviewer Tells All
• Giving it 110% (Percent Effort)
• Dealing with Peer Review
• GrantDoctor Archive

RESEARCH GRANT SOURCES

• The NIH Guide
• NSF Program Announcements
• NSF Grant Proposal Guide

PUBLISHING

• Maximizing Productivity and Recognition: Publication, Citation, and Impact
• Publishing @ the Top of the Heap
• Dealing with Peer Review, Part 1
• Ethics of Authorship

BOOK REVIEWS AND OTHER RESOURCES

• At the Helm: A Laboratory Navigator
• Chicago Guide to Your Academic Career

MANAGING YOUR TIME

• Mastering Your Ph.D.: Setting Goals for Success
• Mastering Your Ph.D.: Running in Place
• Where'd My Day Go?

MANAGING YOUR LAB

• Setting Up a Laboratory
• Lab Leadershi
• Managing a Lab Move

 An Introduction to Project Management

• Part 1
• Part 2
• Staffing Your Lab
• Management in the Lab
• Project Management and Discovery
• Slush Funds
• The Red Herring: Abandoning a Project
• Competing for Graduate Students
• Undergraduate Research
• Relocating With the Lab

MANAGING PEOPLE

• PIs, Professionalism, Productivity
• Rules for Beginners
• Project Management and Discovery
• Managing Knowledge Workers
• An Interview with a Management Expert
• Avoiding Management Mistakes
• Undergraduate Research

TEACHING

• Teaching 101: Getting By
• To Teach or Not To Teach?
• Quick 'n Dirty Pedagogy

TENURE AND OTHER PROFESSIONAL ISSUES

• Interdisciplinarity and Tenure
• Out of the Desert

IMMIGRATION ISSUES

• Introduction: Scientists and Immigration
• Getting Your Green Card: An Overview
• The Alien with Extraordinary Abilities Category
• National Interest Waivers
• The Outstanding Professor or Researcher Category

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