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Welcome to MinorityPostdoc.org

This is the premier web portal on the minority postdoctoral experience featuring news, articles, resources, and events about jobs, career advice, professional development, funding, fellowships, mentoring, and diversity issues.

Launching Your Academic Job Search webinar on Saturday 9/26

photo headshot of Bill LindstaedtJoin us on Saturday September 26 for a webinar about how to prepare your applications for a faculty job. Our presenter is Bill Lindstaedt, (retired) Asst Vice Chancellor of Career Advancement of the University of California, San Francisco.

His presentation topic "Launching Your Academic Job Search" is based on UCSF career resources and their Academic Career Readiness research. Members of our email newsletter should review the latest issue for webinar registration instructions. We thank the Burroughs Wellcome Fund for their major support.

Jobs & Other Advertisements

MinorityPostdoc.org is a niche marketing site with a diverse readership. The Job listings page has a complete roster of institutions who are reaching out to expand the diversity of their candidate applicant pools for professional/faculty or graduate/postdoc positions. Below is a subset of our advertisers.

University of Chicago

Articles
Could You, Would You, SHOULD You Do a Postdoc?

Chris Blagden, Ph.D., and Ivonne Vidal Pizarro, Ph.D.
This article was originally published in 2007.

Tips on Decision Making, Applying, and Interviewing for the All-Important Postdoc

Events
HENAAC Great Minds in STEM (HENAAC)
September 17 2026 - September 19 2026
: Albuquerque, NM

Readings
Survey Finds a Drop in Minority Presidents Leading Colleges
Chronicle of Higher Education, March 2012

Today's typical college leader is a married white male with a doctorate in education. He is 61 years old...

Our Contact List has 1,000+ Emails!

Our Monthly Newsletter Contact List has over 1,000 emails! To put that number in perspective, NSF estimates that there are only 3,000 underrepresented minority postdocs in the USA. The word clouds below show the institutions and names present in our email contact list.

names of Doctoral Directory members institutions of Doctoral Directory members