NYU Science and Technology Career Symposium

Supported by a New York City regional consortium of colleges and universities and recognized as a nationally preeminent career convention. What Can You Be With A PhD?: A Science and Technology Focused Career Convention is a unique opportunity to connect the private and public sector, industry and academe with the rising generation of scientists and engineers who will become tomorrow’s leaders and innovators.

Over 1200 graduate students and postdoctoral trainees in the biosciences, physical sciences and engineering in the larger metropolitan area, representing the region’s great academic institutions from Connecticut to Pennsylvania, attended the last convention in 2009.

From MIT to Arkansas to UMass Amherst to where?

This is my education history so far:

• Undergrad (BS): MIT
• Grad (MD): University of Arkansas College of Medicine
• Grad (MPH): UMass Amherst School of Public Health

• Grad (MBA): ??

Given my journey so far, where will I end up next year? Which graduate school? Which MBA program? What type of MBA program? These questions don't keep me up at night, but they are questions that I often think about when I'm driving to work in the morning. I've been listening to business podcasts from iTunes during my commute and the ones that focus on entrepreneurship have me captivated.

Over the weekend, I attended a Penn State Smeal Executive MBA information session and recently I've been looking at a few other executive MBA programs in the area. Should I take the train and attend a school in NYC? New York University (NYU) has a great executive MBA program and they also have a part-time MBA that allows you to take courses only on the weekends. I could use the time on the train to get some work done, so I'd prefer that to driving to a campus. Decisions, decisions...

SHERP Program at NYU

If you're interested in medical journalism, you should take a look at the SHERP program at NYU. New York University's Science, Health and Environmental Reporting Program (SHERP) is one of the oldest and most prestigious science journalism training programs in the country. The program was known as 'SERP' until 2006, when the 'H' was added to acknowledge the program's focus on health reporting. Perhaps it should have been an "M" for Medical reporting, but then SMERP just doesn't have the right ring to it. Students completing the 16-month program receive a Master of Arts in Journalism and an Advanced Certificate in Science, Health and Environmental Reporting.

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Congrats to Dr. Ivan Oransky!

Ivan Oransky, MD has been hired as the new executive editor for Reuters Health. Dr. Oransky is a Harvard graduate (BA in biology) and he received his MD from the New York University (NYU). According to the NYU Journalism Facutly website, Dr. Oransky did his postgraduate training at Yale and he has served on the board of directors of the Association of Health Care Journalists (AHCJ) since 2002. Dr. Oransky also has experience teaching medical writing in the Science, Health and Environmental Reporting Program (SHERP). Previously, he was deputy editor of The Scientist, editor in chief of the medical student section of the Journal of American Medical Association (JAMA).