Best Places to Work 2008: Academia

Best Places to Work 2008: Academia This year's top institutions give researchers more than a place to do great science. They offer the opportunity to nurture, and be nurtured in return. By Megan Scudellari Related Articles Best Places to Work in Academia 2008 The art of WE at UAB Dead Sea Science Survey Methodology Slideshow: BPTW 2008 Academia Type of Institutions How respondents spend their timeRanking Tables: Top 40 US Academic Insti

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Best Places to Work in Academia 2008

The art of WE at UAB

Dead Sea Science

Survey Methodology

Slideshow: BPTW 2008 Academia

Type of Institutions

How respondents spend their time

Ranking Tables:

Top 40 US Academic Institutions

Top 15 US Academic Institutions

Top 10 US Academic Institutions

Top US institutions on five most important factors

Strengths and Weaknesses of the International top 10

Top Countries List

What's important to US and international scientists

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Additional Articles:

Best Places to Work 2008: Industry

Best Places to Work 2008: Postdocs

The Scientist 2008 Life Science Salary Survey

Starting a new job isn't easy, even if you are Ron Weiss, an innovator in the emerging field of synthetic biology. When Weiss arrived at Princeton University seven years ago, straight from completing his PhD at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, the young bioengineer had never been a principal investigator, much ...

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