Category Archives: PhD
Grad Student Experiences in Leadership
This will be a different type of blog post. This is actually a blog post from 14 graduate students who are about to graduate (or graduated) from the Rutgers Pre-Doctoral Leadership Development Institute (PLDI). This post is composed of short … Continue reading
Research in Mathematics
Working in mathematics, I’ve found myself often asked the question “What do you do?” Sometimes the expected response is my “elevator pitch” (the short blurb about my area of expertise). But sometimes the question is more basic: “What is it … Continue reading
Research Methodologies in Laboratory Sciences- The Joys of Analytical Instrumentation
Obtaining a graduate degree would be so much easier if the analytical instrumentation would just work…For those of you would don’t have to run various chromatography instruments (ICs, HPLCs, GCs), thermo-cyclers, spectrophotometers, or any of the other numerous finicky pieces … Continue reading
Collaborative Hunting and Gathering
When I try to describe Comparative Literature to those unfamiliar with my field, I think back to the way one of my undergraduate professors put it. Comp Lit, she said, is like a mad scientist’s laboratory, except for the humanities. … 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
Media Mouthfeel
Who am I? I thought I dispensed with such philosophical wormholes after the teenage angst years. My first year as a doctoral student at Rutgers has proved me wrong. Although the angst has mellowed now in my late 30s, I … Continue reading
Amanda Dillon
Aaron Trammell
Brian Stromberg
Carolyn Ureña
Camille Reyes
Jennifer Yang
Kellen Myers
Michael Manhart
Pam Weis
Vukosi Marivate
Yuanzhen Gu
zlkatz
Alexandra Walczak
