Online Literature

Here you will find articles about professional career development.  Whether you are a trainee, a faculty member, or a community member we hope that you will use this as a resource.  Please email bubest@bu.edu if you have suggestions or additions to our current library.

• Biomedical Research Workforce Working Group Report by the National Institutes of Health
• Transforming Training to Reflect the Workforce Editorial by Ambika Mathur, Frederick J. Meyers, Roger Chalkley, Theresa C. O’Brien, and Cynthia N. Fuhrmann
• From student to steward: the Interdisciplinary Program in Neuroscience at Georgetown University as a case study in professional development during doctoral training
• Postdoctoral Training Aligned with the Academic Professoriate
• Shaping the Future of Research: a perspective from junior scientists
• Supply-side academics–An Editorial, Nature Neuroscience
• Ph.D. students rethink the tenure track, scope out non-academic jobs
• Transforming Graduate Training in STEM Education by Sierra M. Love Stowell, Amber C. Churchill, Amanda K. Hund, Katharine C. Kelsey, Miranda D. Redmond, Sarah A. Seiter, Nichole N. Barger
• Time to Degree of U.S. Research Doctorate Recipients, NSF
• Evaluation of the National Science Foundation’s GK-12 Program
• Graduate Students’ Teaching Experiences Improve Their Methodological Research Skills
• Integrating Teaching and Research: A New Model for Graduate Education?
• Toward a Sustainable Biomedical Research Enterprise: Finding Consensus and Implementing Recommendations by Christopher L. Pickett, Benjamin W. Corb, C. Robert Matthews, Wesley I. Sundquist, and Jeremy M. Berg
• STEM Education: To Build a Scientist
• Point of View: Strategies from UW-Madison for Rescuing Biomedical Research in the US by Judith Kimble, William M Bement, Qiang Chang, Benjamin L Cox, Norman R Drinkwater, Richard L Gourse, Aaron A Hoskins, Anna Huttenlocher, Pamela K Kreeger, Paul F Lambert, Marsha R Mailick, Shigeki Miyamoto, Richard L Moss, Kate M O’Connor-Giles, Avtar Roopra, Krishanu Saha, Hannah S Seidel
• The origin and implementation of the Broadening Experiences in Scientific Training programs: an NIH common fund initiative  by Frederick J. Meyers, Ambika Mathur, Cynthia N. Fuhrmann, Theresa C. O’Brien, Inge Wefes, Patricia A. Labosky, D’Anne S. Duncan, Avery August, Andrew Feig, Kathleen L. Gould, Michael J. Friedlander, Chris B. Schaffer, Audra Van Wart, and Roger Chalkley