Commentary: Hiring researchers who teach

Artists Who Teach

There is, it could be argued, an enormous symbolic capital invested in the belief that it is artistic practice that informs the pedagogy of artists who teach. Despite the apparent tendency for artists to reproduce stylistic character in their students and apprentices, this paper argues that the instructional relations between student and artist teacher are driven by art educational convention r...

Who will teach tomorrow's nurses?

During the current period of intense competition for nurse educators, the single most important mechanism for supporting outstanding talent is endowed positions. These long-term financial resources allow key faculty to focus on achievement, education and discovery. Investing in these leading lights is one of the most essential ways to advance the OHSU School of Nursing at a time when Oregon nee...

Commentary: Teach network science to teenagers

We discuss our outreach efforts to introduce school students to network science and explain why researchers who study networks should be involved in such outreach activities. We provide overviews of modules that we have designed for these efforts, comment on our successes and failures, and illustrate the potentially enormous impact of such outreach efforts.

Who will teach the medical students?

Optimal Hiring and Retention Policies for Heterogeneous Workers Who Learn

W study the hiring and retention of heterogeneous workers who learn over time. We show that the problem can be analyzed as an infinite-armed bandit with switching costs, and we apply results from Bergemann and Välimäki [Bergemann D, Välimäki J (2001) Stationary multi-choice bandit problems. J. Econom. Dynam. Control 25(10):1585–1594] to characterize the optimal hiring and retention policy. For ...