Research Advice

Five years ago, I took a leap of faith and flew to Japan for a five month industry internship. I thought going to college was the time I grew the most the fastest, but that dwarfed in comparison to my …

I’m going to start this by making two big disclaimers: 1. An amazing lab for one person will be the worst lab for someone else. So I’m not about to list a bunch of ‘musts’ you should look for, but …

What are informational interviews and why should you do them? Informational interview: speaking with someone about their knowledge for insights on their career path & areas of interest. This is not a request for a job or an interview! They …

Keeping up with scientific literature, career development, experiments, and the rest of life can be a bit overwhelming as a graduate student. To streamline information, I’ve found some great websites and tools to stay on top of science and professional …

Graduate Women in Science (GWIS) is a smaller professional society of ~800 women in science around the United States. Once a year, they host a conference to bring women from across the STEM disciplines together, learn from and connect with …

I had the pleasure of going to the Exploring Biology Conference 2022 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania! Exploring Biology is a huge conference made up of multiple large professional societies coming together. The society I came with was the American Association of …

Why bother communicating science outside of your field? Why share your science to non-scientists at all? When more people understand the science we are doing, it increases people’s understanding of what science can do! Or, as the The National Academies …

Virtual conferences were rare before the COVID-19 epidemic swept the world. Conferences were always in person, and I’ll bet many of you hadn’t even heard of successful virtual conferences before 2020. I was skeptical when I first heard conferences were …

What is STEM Outreach I’m sure many of you have heard about outreach before, and likely done it, in some way shape or form (either because you wanted to, or for some high school or college requirement). Outreach itself means …

I’ve always loved planning and organization, and grad school puts everything I know about organization to the test! There’s so much always happening: experiments to plan, experiments happening, data to analyze, papers to read, meetings and classes to attend, and …