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Like other professional doctorates, Eng.D.s combine an applied research project, usually in industry, with courses that are directly relevant to the candidate's profession.

"Mathematicians working together just talk through ideas or stare into space hoping to have one. Sometimes they go for a walk. This is particularly pleasant if the walk happens to be through Paris streets or along cliffs overlooking the Mediterranean Sea. Fresh air is essential, especially if one of them smokes." --Ernest Schimmerling

Guillaume Bourtourault's enduring interest in environmental matters, his drive to pursue a career even when it was marginalised, and his vision for sustainable development are what made it all possible.

"I like to move very fast and take a lot of risks compared to the traditional Swedish way."

--Mohammed Homman

The roads of Brittany were littered with cyclists who failed to live by this rule; so are the roads of science.

I won't be confined by other people's notions of who I am and what I should do. I'm starting to feel free.

Early-Stage Training fellowships offer Ph.D. researchers the opportunity to pursue specialised training for a period of 3 months to 3 years as part of their doctoral training.

Pregnant scientists face a unique set of challenges, a special Science Careers exclusive (7 April 2006), and one of our year's best.

We expanded our coverage of student issues in 2007.

Given the opportunity, Jana Kadukova says she would definitely be keen to work abroad again. "In my opinion, everyone should try this once in their life," she says

“I’d like to be here [longer]. But now my wife and my baby are in Japan, so I have to go back.”

I knew a little molecular biology, but I had no notion of what you could do experimentally. It reminded me of electronics, the idea that you had these tools to splice things together in an ordered way, that you could reengineer things in the cell to do something else. --Mark Goulian

People sometimes overestimate the extent to which the conventional assumptions apply. Often, for example, managers assume they are more qualified than they really are to judge their employees' performance.

Quantifiable survey data are more resistant to dismissive interpretations than more subjective perceptions of the "quality" of the training environment.

The couple started looking "around in the world [to see] where we could both have nice positions," and they found what they were looking for in Spain.