- Prepping Your Presentation
The reality, I mean opportunity, of giving a talk, presentation, or lecture can be exciting or terrifying, or if you’re like many of us, BOTH!
Alas, Twitter to the rescue! Your academic tweeps are here with a round-up of tips to get your next talk on point and present like a p...
- Awesome Science Videos for Kids (and Grown-Up Kids Too)
Inspire your young scientists with some amazing STEM-centered videos on YouTube. (You can enjoy them too, because really, who DOESN'T want to see the world's largest lemon battery, or learn how oxygen almost destroyed the world?)
Great channels to follow:
PBS Eons. This series, ...
- Moving Past Non-Renewal: Healing After Losing Your Academic Position
In a previous blog post, I explained that I was given my one-year’s notice that my Assistant Professor job would be non-renewed even though I was on the tenure track. So what happened next?
I turned to my Faculty Senate. I will always be incredibly grateful to that group. They...
- Weekend Playlist from the Edge Video Vault
Take time during the weekend to recharge by watching this selection of videos from our Video Vault: My Philosophy for a Happy LifeLength: 12:45Diagnosed with Progeria, a rare, rapid aging disease, at the age of 2, Sam Berns is featured in the Emmy award-winning documentary Life ...
- Conveying Institutional Support
Grant reviewers want to invest in success. If you’re applying for a career development award, you must convey the support of your institution. If your chair doesn’t want to invest in you, why should the NIH or other funding agencies?
Dr. Nancy J. Brown, chair of the Departme...
- How to Review a Paper
Reviewing regularly, even early in your career, lets you stay ahead of the curve of the literature. Close analysis of a paper benefits your writing as you see examples that do or don’t lead the reader down a logical path to a conclusion, clearly explain the significance of the w...
- Not that Kind of Selection: Tales of Picking Which Grants to Write
In my last post, I blogged about the different types of grants that are available to early stage investigators (ESIs) and the benefits of these awards. If you are like me, you were overwhelmed when you saw the list the first time. There are too many grants to write as a new princ...
- 10 Takeaways for Managing Undergraduate Research Assistants
Tiffany Woynaroski, PhD, studies speech development in children with autism. She also mentors 14 undergrads as part of her research team.
The undergrads on Tiffany's team are an integral part of her lab and involved in all aspects of her research.
Over dinner, she told me why sh...
- Are We in a Mentoring Crisis?
(This Edge for Scholars post is a co-production of Dr. Josh Fessel and Dr. Jen Heemstra.)
Josh here. I was recently catching up with a former lab tech who is now in a fantastic PhD program at an excellent research university. She had just switched labs and advisors, ...
- How to Protect Your Protected Time
You've just gotten your K award—awesome! 75% of your professional effort is now protected to focus on your research and career development. But wait. What about that class you teach, or those days your department expects you to be in clinic, or the students whose dissertation ...
