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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.

DivSch24 Conference Success! Future Webinars

Our 2024 DiverseScholar Postdoctoral Conference (#DivSch24) was a success! Around 30 PhD trainees with 15 speakers, facilitators, and staff participated in our September 6-7 event in Orange County, CA. This seventh conference had professional development sessions, research presentations, and opportunities for recruiting. All activities support our membership in their postdoctoral and professional career exploration especially to diversify academia. We thank sponsors National Institutes of Health, Virginia Tech, and Stanford University.

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.

National Institutes of Health

Articles
DiverseScholar Conference Preps Underrepresented Postdocs for Faculty Jobs

At a July gathering of researchers in Houston, TX, a postdoctoral fellow from Johns Hopkins shared with new friends how disorienting it was to be from a family of non-scientists during graduate school.

Readings
A Pioneering Diversity Officer Sees Barriers That Persist on Campuses
Chronicle of Higher Education, September 2011 (subscription required)

...this is about more than diversifying undergraduate education. When we look at the relatively small change that has happened across the board, change has been very minuscule. When it comes to diversifying top positions, we have to be more intentional.

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