A man might not be, but grad school is an island ;) …with fewer turtles…

15Apr10

Part of the draw of living on the island, which is now owned by the Nature Conservancy, was that “time did not matter — sometimes I would lose track of the year,” he said. “It was so magical, millions of birds, turtles. When I’d go out with the dinghy, manta ray would escort me, dolphins.” [...]

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Mentoring

16Mar10

http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v447/n7146/full/447791a.html

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Does the U.S. produce too many scientists?

28Feb10

Apparently so. A good, if hardly novel, discussion of the problems with the career trajectory in American academic science by Beryl Lieff Benderly. But I’d hate to see this sort of proposal getting serious consideration: Freeman has another idea: The way to attract young American talent is by providing much higher incomes for graduate students [...]

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The importance of peer interactions in grad school

16Nov09

This is an issue I’ve been thinking about every so often lately, so I was interested when I saw this post on the subject from Professor-in-Training pop up in my Google Reader. A senior coworker at a non-academic research job once told me that the best thing about his work was the opportunity to routinely [...]

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