December 3, 2007
University great place to work for scientists
The Scientist has
announced its annual list of the Top 40 Best Places to Work for life
scientists, and Rochester is the only university in New York to make the
cut.
The magazine’s ranking derives from a Web-based
survey of tenured or tenure-track life scientists working in educational,
government-sponsored, or other noncommercial research institutions.
Massachusetts General Hospital placed at the top of
this year’s list, which also included the University of Texas’s
M.D. Anderson Cancer Center, Duke University, Dana Farber Cancer Institute,
and 36 others.
Respondents were asked to assess their work
environment according to 39 criteria in eight different
categories—job satisfaction, peers, infrastructure and environment,
research resources, pay, management and policies, teaching and mentoring,
and tenure—weighted by the respondents’ sense of each
category’simportance. Tenured faculty at Rochester gave their
employer high marks for positive peer relationships and sound
management and policies. For the first time since 2004, scientists overall
reported valuing peer relationships more than tenure.
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