Feature: Best Places to Work 2007
Top 40 North American institutions
Top 15 North American institutions
Industry postdocs make the grade
Assessing the postdoc experience
After hopping around the top 15 for the past several years, and even dropping to number 29 last year, M.D. Anderson Cancer Center in Houston has worked itself to the top of this year's Best Places to Work for postdocs. It's the right combination of respect from the faculty, top-notch facilities, and good working benefits that keep postdocs happy. "I'm not treated as the most senior graduate student who's just doing grunt work," says postdoc Tracy Costello, a statistician working with geneticists and epidemiologists. "I'm treated more like junior faculty, someone who has a brain in their head and is headed to independent ...