How long does it take to do a postdoc in biology, such as biochemistry and molecular biology? What are the factors that may affect this?

Should postdocs and graduate students take some of their research time away to do consulting? The answer is probably yes, according to a recent article on ScienceCareers.

June 7th, Jorge Pereira received a prestigious Young Scientist Award at the International Nuclear Physics Conference (INPC) in Tokyo.

ASU Insight published an online article regarding a new legislation about postdoc policy signed by Arizona Governor Janet Napolitano.

EB priority dates become current start from July 2007, according to visa bulletin, according to the State Department's Visa Bulletin for July 2007. All of the priority dates for the EB filing categories (with the exception of the ‘other worker’ category) are current. Beneficiaries who are currently in the United States from all countries with EB1, EB2, & EB3 filings can proceed with preparation of the adjustment of status filings for July, i.e. I485.

May 20th, 2007.ImmigrationVoice, an organization representing legal-skilled professionals, which has a membership of nearly 12000, has serious reservations with the proposed Secure Borders, Economic Opportunity and Immigration Reform Act of 2007.

New version NOC-3.0 is released for Windows/Linux/Mac OSX/FreeBSD/Solaris with source code.
Downloading is available at http://noch.sourceforge.net

A pioneer in the research field of digestive enzymes, the first chairwoman of the Oral Biology Department at University of Washington, renowned scientist Dr. Patricia J. Keller passed away April 1st, 2007, at the age of 83.