Issues

cover: Our fifth annual careers issue focuses on the road to tenure. On page 26, Eugenia Etkina presents a new way to train future physicists. On page 36, Rachel Ivie and Susan White analyze factors that can affect the time to tenure. On page 44, Toni Feder explores the impact of not getting tenure. Additional stories report on changing ways to assess researchers’ job and grant applications (page 22) and on the state of the US radiation workforce (page 18). (Image by Abigail Malate.) (Photo by Cynthia B. Cummings.)