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Tag Archives: Rice University
Is tenure failure a social failure, not an individual failure?
A great piece by Cin-Ty Lee in his blog, Down to earth questions, makes the wise point that tenure denied is a problem from many levels other than the individual. It could be a hiring problem, a mentoring problem, an … Continue reading
Posted in Tenure
Tagged academia, mentoring, Rice University, tenure, Washington University in St. Louis
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Who are the gatekeepers?
There are gatekeepers to every step in an academic career. It is wise to think about who they are and what they are looking for as you progress. Gatekeepers restrict your choices on which lab group to join, where to … Continue reading
Posted in Managing an academic career, Politics, Success!
Tagged Gatekeeper, National Science Foundation, NSF, Rice University, Wikipedia
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You will be judged; your large team research grant will be reviewed
Once I was involved in deciding who would get an important mentoring prize. One of the candidates was from the Shepherd School of Music at Rice University. He had many students supporting his nomination. They pointed out how empathetic he … Continue reading
Posted in Grants, Group leadership
Tagged Attention, evaluation, evolutionary biology, Finnland, Finns, graduate students, international programs, Michigan State University, postdocs, Research, Rice University, Richard Dawkins, science, Shepherd School of Music, Social Sciences, United States
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Why I like the separation of academic departments and colleges
One of the best things for creative scholarship is to feel you are in the company of others also striving for understanding and clarity. That company is often best if it is quiet, even dead. This is because we need … Continue reading
Lab meeting talks
She began with a couple of figures taken from someone else’s paper. They showed exactly what that other study measured. Sara Mitri told us what motivated that study. She then went on to clearly explain how her study would be … Continue reading
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