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Advice for PhD Students: Tips From Professors, Startup Founders, and Industry Professionals
Here we present various pieces of advice from startup founders, academic professors, research scientists, postdoctoral fellows, and industry executives to current and future PhD students.
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What can women in science learn from female entrepreneurs?
Scientists may not readily identify themselves as entrepreneurs, but a comparison can indeed be made between the corporate business sector and the scientific enterprise. Are their skills that women in business have that women in science can acquire and benefit from? The intersection of STEM (Science, Tech, Engineering and Math), Innovation, Business and Women were [...]
Grad Student to Successful Career: Where do we go from here?
Noushin Nabavi, Ph.D.
November 2014
With all the major journals covering the shortage of academic positions and funding for trained scientists, and many key university decision makers acknowledging that we are in a funding stagnation period, I find it necessary to engage in the ever-evolving and active discussion about career possibilities and opportunities for PhD graduates. According [...]
When a PhD isn’t enough
Contributor Bianca Marcolino
“You need to beg, borrow and steal” was the advice I was given by a Pfizer medical director on how to enter the pharmaceutical industry after graduate school. The medical director also had a Ph.D., and I had met him through a common friend. He had transitioned from academia into industry, and was [...]
The PhD System Is Broken. This Is How We Fix It. Part I: Mentors
In my previous post I wrote about why I left academia, and mentioned that I felt the system was broken. My next series of posts will focus on what I believe are some of the major problems, and also some suggestions on how we can begin to reform the existing system. Part one of this series will [...]
Why I Left Academia (And What You Should Do About It)
I know there have been a lot of posts on this recently, but I wanted to take an opportunity to share my experience, with the hopes of helping others in the same situation.
About six months ago, after two doctorate degrees, two fellowships, and a residency (almost 15 years of my life) training for a career [...]
How PhDs Can Escape Benchwork And Get Paid Better
Isaiah Hankel, Ph.D.
I slammed the -80°C freezer shut and slowly walked out of the lab. It was midnight and I was exhausted. Another 18-hour day was behind me and all I could think about was going to bed so I could wake up and do it again.
In a twisted way I liked the grind of [...]
Think Outside the Lab
Marcia McNutt
Last month, the U.S. National Science Foundation (NSF) released a report* with some grim news that confirmed what is painfully obvious to recent Ph.D. graduates in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) fields: Unemployment for this cohort is on the rise (at 2.4% in 2010, up nearly a percentage point since 2008). Although it [...]
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