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Scientists can raise small amounts of cash for their research through online crowd-funding sites.

Advice from top executives reflects their years of experience climbing the corporate ranks, hiring people, and watching others succeed and fail.

Scientist seeks honest, reliable partner for meaningful research discussions and maybe more, ideally for a long-term relationship.

Scientists with the right skills and attitude find limited but increasing opportunities to pursue high-risk, high-reward research.

Sports biomechanics researcher Barry Mason works on improving wheelchair design for basketball and rugby athletes.

A husband-and-wife team studies the brain areas that allow us to feel what others feel.

Most of us have no idea how those on the receiving end make their decisions about our believability.

"It was time for me to go and find new challenges and learn new techniques before I became part of the old furniture of the department."

"Attention is our way of devoting a limited resource (our time and energy) to the most important information. By almost any measure, productivity hinges on this most basic of skills," says G. Andrew Mickley, professor of psychology.

"Everything on Earth has a location attached to it, and geomatics engineers measure and map that," explains Elizabeth Cannon, world expert in GPS technology. "Software simply is the tool of choice in our tool kit that allows us to test and develop newer and better methodologies."

"If we really want to have high-quality research to aid policy-making, we need to have government agencies paying for this research."

"A mother is continually training in how to manage her time and organise her work. This is key [to success in entrepreneurship], beyond having guts and imagination," says Claire Dutertre.

E-mail your questions for Dr. Clemmons to
msnadvice@aaas.org.

--Dr. Willie Pearson, chair of Georgia Tech's School of History, Technology, and Society

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"Because of its close ties to state-of-the-art science, the collaboration with international scientists, and the opportunity to raise the awareness internally and externally about aviation’s environmental impacts, my current job quickly reached the status of a dream job for me."

"The choices I made pretty much mirrored my growth as a scientist."

If the profession does not act now, faculty diversity may be stalled for another 30 years--which does not serve the interests of the academy or society at large.

"It is important that the maximum feedback or spinoff is obtained in case of the failure of a mission," says Dr. Mark Sims, Beagle 2 mission manager.