Category Archives: career planning
The Nurturing Paradigm of Scientific Training
Uri Alon, a biophysicist at the Weizmann Institute in Israel, likes to tell a story about when he first became a faculty member. Already an accomplished researcher, he stepped into his empty new lab and immediately felt overwhelmed. Despite all … Continue reading
“Teaching Assistant” is a state of mind
Working as a teaching assistant implies a very wide variety of experiences. For some, it’s a full semester of two hours sitting in a lonely office every week and very little else. For others, it requires two new lesson plans … Continue reading
“Desktop Faculty Development” — the Tomorrow’s Professor Mailing List
One of the best online resources for graduate students, especially those aspiring to academic careers in research or teaching, has to be the Tomorrow’s Professor (TP) mailing list: http://www.stanford.edu/dept/CTL/Tomprof/index.shtml Managed by Rick Reis, a professor of engineering at Stanford, the … Continue reading
Identity, Goals, and Diversity in Interdisciplinary Research
While I was an undergraduate physics major, my interests and research experiences were quite clearly of the pure physics variety: particle physics, cosmology, astrophysics. There was never any question about my scientific identity or goals — I was unambiguously a … Continue reading
Feet in (At Least) Two Worlds
Every discipline has its subfields…and subfields of subfields. This is very much the case in Anthropology where the Cultural (and Linguistic) wing is a completely different world from the Physical (and Archaeological) wing. Of course there is a shared history, … Continue reading
Spring Break as Conference Prep Time
When I was an undergrad, Spring Break meant a whole week to do absolutely nothing. Some years that meant traveling to a warmer locale with friends, others were of the “staycation” variety, but in both cases Rest and Relaxation were … Continue reading
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