Michael Teitelbaum is Senior Research Associate at the Labor and Worklife Program, Harvard Law School, and former Vice President of the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation. He is a demographer who studies labor and worklife issues of scientists and engineers. Teitelbaum has authored many books over the course of his career, most recently Falling Behind? Boom, Bust & the Global Race for Scientific Talent (Princeton University Press, 2014). He was named Science Career’s Person of the Year in 2013 for his “major roles in numerous important advances that have enhanced the careers and lives of thousands of young scientists.”
Talks with this Speaker
Stabilizing Funding Cycles
Michael Teitelbaum argues that the instability of he US research enterprise is primarily due to a history of boom and bust funding cycles. (Talk recorded in May 2015)
Audience:
- Researcher
- Educators of Adv. Undergrad / Grad
Duration: 15:50
