Best Places to Work : Postdocs 2009

Best Places to Work : Postdocs 2009 International postdocs often take on challenges that go beyond the lab. How do this year's top institutions help foreign fellows adjust to their new lives? By Jennifer Evans © Amac Garbe / ein-satz-zentrale.de Only moments after emerging from the plane, exhausted from his 23-hour flight, plant microbiologist Andry Andriankaja was met at the Dallas–Ft. Worth airport by a driver from the Samu

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By Jennifer Evans

Only moments after emerging from the plane, exhausted from his 23-hour flight, plant microbiologist Andry Andriankaja was met at the Dallas–Ft. Worth airport by a driver from the Samuel Roberts Noble Foundation. They traveled two hours to the Ardmore, Oklahoma, campus and to temporary housing set aside for Andriankaja until he found his own apartment.

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"I knew Noble Foundation through its publications and research, but I didn't know much about Oklahoma," says Andriankaja. International travel was not new to Andriankaja, who hop-scotched from his native Madagascar to France for graduate school before landing in Oklahoma. But he still recalls his anxiety about ...

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