by Gary McDowell | Sep 4, 2017 | Events & Networking, FOR meetings, Ideas for change, Non-academic careers, Personal perspectives, Policy, Resources
On Sept 12, from 1-2pm EST Future of Research (@FORsymp) and the Union of Concerned Scientists (@SciNetUCS) will co-host a Tweetchat on “Mentoring the future,” talking about what mentoring in science is/should be, and how we should change the...
by Gary McDowell | Jul 18, 2017 | Non-academic careers, Personal perspectives
This post originally appeared on the GCC Carpe Careers blog published on the Inside Higher Ed website on July 3, 2017. Re-posting with permission from Inside Higher Ed. This is a post by policy activist Adriana Bankston. What do you want people to know you for?...
by Gary McDowell | May 4, 2017 | Non-academic careers, Personal perspectives, Resources
This is a guest post by Future of Research policy activist Adriana Bankston. On February 14, 2017, Dr. Joerg Schlatterer gave a talk to the Career Research Advancement Focused Training (CRAFT) seminar series at the University of Louisville entitled “The Most Important...
by Gary McDowell | Feb 14, 2017 | Personal perspectives
This is a guest post by Future of Research policy activist, Adriana Bankston. Growing up in Romania in a family of scientists was unusual in the 80s and 90s. For my parents, both scientists, doing research without many grant opportunities or lab supplies was...