- Why I Sought Out Peer Mentoring And You Should Too
As I sat through five years of Newman Society seminars, I often left them with feelings of anxiety and dread. I would listen to tenured faculty tell me all of the things I needed to do to be successful at Vanderbilt. And no other talk probably shook me more to my core than the on...
- Donna Webb: Missing Out on a Genius Lunch Buddy
Donna Webb and I pass each other once a month and we are perpetually going to have to grab lunch. She's one of my favorite people to run into - that crazy smart person who is always happy to see you. If we were both heading in the same direction, we'd wait for each other and ride...
- Blogging in a Busy World: Tips for Keeping Your Readers Engaged
Over the past several years, I have written or edited hundreds of blogs. I have spoken with many who find it difficult to get readers to invest the time to view their posts. When writers are juggling reader interests, keywords, analytics and relevant content, it is understandable...
- Summer Reading: What’s Popular in the Edge Library
Here's what's been flying off the shelves of our "analog library" of career development books:
The Slow Professor: Challenging the Culture of Speed in the Academy
The perfect way to start your summer! The authors fight back against "the time poverty engendered by corpora...
- Not that Kind of Summer: Tales of Preparing for Academic Job Season
The time has come. Your training is nearing completion, you have discussed your career plan with your mentor, and now you must apply for your first academic faculty position. Because academic research institutions are closely tied to university and medical school calendars, they ...
- Are Online Labs a Valuable Distance Learning Experience?
For most science and engineering majors, introductory level labs are a rite of passage. These labs accompany many of the courses at the 100 and 200-levels and often support the material presented in a classroom environment.
Today, not all labs are in the cookbook style, where...
- Top 10 Social Media Recruitment Rules
So you want to use social media to recruit volunteers for research? While no “formal” rules currently exist, here are some basic considerations to keep in mind. And always remember the most important rule…
#1: Follow IRB guidelines!
DO Be sure that social media is included...
- How To Survive The Interview You Didn’t Know Was Coming
Daily news reporting is a tough and thankless task. A reporter can write a well thought out, hard-hitting story on a Thursday and, when they wake up Friday morning, the page is blank again and the editor is asking "What have you done for me lately?"
Because TV stations and new...
- Use Your Kroger Card to Donate to the Hardship Fund
The Faculty and Staff Hardship Fund can be a crucial resource for employees with a temporary financial crisis due to a significant life event. Awards from the Hardship Fund are a major step to returning to financial stability.An easy and FREE way to contribute to the Fund is by ...
- Not that Kind of Career Development Award: Tales of Living with the K99/R00
My previous posts have covered writing career development awards (here), tips for the K99/R00 specifically (here), and the events you await during career development award review (here). In this final post on career development awards, I will address some questions specific for t...
