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Biological Science Boot Camp: Bridging Theory and Experiment
Society is a complex network of people needing to effectively communicate. To advance the standard of living, it is imperative that communication exists between people who articulate different...
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From the computer screen to the lab bench: A physicist learns to do wet-lab...
As Kenneth described in a recent post, the Center for Integrated Proteomics Research and the BioMaPS Institute for Quantitative Biology at Rutgers recently held a two-week “boot camp” program to cover...
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Making the most of scientific conferences
Conference experiences have been explored a few times on this blog before, but given the apparent diversity of conference formats across disciplines, I think another perspective might be valuable. The...
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Teaching Issues: Behavioral Ethics
As graduate students, we share our opinions with the force of fact. In many fields, this unwavering confidence is necessary for ideas to be considered. We are required to frame our ideas so we...
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Prioritizing Writing
At this point in the semester, I am surrounded by individuals trying to ride out the wave of work that surges through a semester. The most important task is the one that is due next, and those long...
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The Truest Sentence You Know: How to Get Un-stuck
The greatest frustration of graduate school has to be that, no matter how often I hope it will, the dissertation never writes itself. How convenient that would be! Alas. It’s one thing to feel...
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A few things I wish someone had told me before I went to my first conference
As conference season approaches, I always have mixed feelings about going. I feel like I’m going to be missing a lot of work time and giving a big presentation can definitely be daunting. Honestly,...
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Your job, found at iJOBS
Whether it is a sad or happy thought, it is true that a PhD or MS program has an end. So what does one do after? The number of academic jobs decline each year, and the future state of higher...
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Benefits to Being a TA (Throwback Thursday)
Series note: The following post is part of the Rutgers Graduate Student Blog Throwback Thursday blog series, in which we will repost one of our most popular blog posts from years past. When I was...
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Prioritizing Writing (Throwback Thursday)
Series note: The following post is part of the Rutgers Graduate Student Blog Throwback Thursday blog series, in which we will repost one of our most popular blog posts from years past. At this point...
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