Welcome to Ask Dr. Clemmons, a monthly advice column for scientists and engineers looking for top-notch academic, career, and personal development advice. How will it work? Quite simply, I'll solicit questions from you, the column's readers, on whatever is on your mind career- and education-wise. All questions are welcome! It does not matter if you are a high school student contemplating a career...
Sonya Clemmons INDEX OF ARTICLES Ask Dr. Clemmons is a monthly advice column for scientists and engineers who are seeking top-notch academic, career, and personal development advice. Please read the introductory article to see what the column is all about, and then send me a question of your own! Dear Dr. Clemmons, With all of the recent attention and controversy surrounding the comments made by ...
diamond.gif Career Prosperity is More Than a Matter of Degrees 22 April 2005 Dr. Clemmons helps a scientist of color deal with job hunting issues in academia. diamond.gif Insensitive, Uniformed, or Right? The Education of a Harvard President 25 March 2005 Lawrence H. Summers, president of Harvard University, caused a firestorm of controversy when his comments concerning women were made public. ...
Ask Dr. Clemmons is a monthly advice column for scientists and engineers who are seeking top-notch academic, career, and personal development advice. Please read the introductory article to see what the column is all about, and then send me a question of your own! Dear Dr. Clemmons, I have finished my Ph.D. and a prestigious postdoctoral fellowship in biophysics, but I am still uncertain why I am...
Ask Dr. Clemmons is a monthly advice column for scientists and engineers who are seeking top-notch academic, career, and personal development advice. Please read the introductory article and my most recent article to see what the column is all about, and then send me a question of your own! Editor's note: This article is a continuation of last week's "Ask Dr. Clemmons" commentary entitled, " The ...
Ask Dr. Clemmons is a monthly advice column for scientists and engineers who are seeking top-notch academic, career, and personal development advice. Please read the introductory article and my most recent article to see what the column is all about, and then send me a question of your own! Dear Dr. Clemmons:The topic of alternative careers in science is one that comes up a lot nowadays, even in ...
Ask Dr. Clemmons is a monthly advice column for scientists and engineers who are seeking top-notch academic, career, and personal development advice. Please read the introductory article and my most recent article to see what the column is all about, and then send me a question of your own! Dear Dr. Clemmons: I recently had dinner with a group of female, executive-level scientists and engineers...
Ask Dr. Clemmons is a monthly advice column for scientists and engineers who are seeking top-notch academic, career, and personal development advice. Please read the introductory article and my most recent article to see what the column is all about, and then send me a question of your own! Q: Dear Dr. Clemmons: I am a Ph.D. who has just finished a teaching postdoc at a major research university ...
Ask Dr. Clemmons is a monthly advice column for scientists and engineers who are seeking top-notch academic, career, and personal development advice. Please read the introductory article and my most recent article to see what the column is all about, and then send me a question of your own! Dear Dr. Clemmons: I just started working on my Ph.D. in engineering in a town with a very small minority p...
Ask Dr. Clemmons is a monthly advice column for scientists and engineers who are seeking top-notch academic, career, and personal development advice. Please read the introductory article and my most recent article to see what the column is all about, and then send me a question of your own! Dear Dr. Clemmons: I really enjoy reading your column every month, but I am curious as to whether or not ...
Ask Dr. Clemmons is a monthly advice column for scientists and engineers who are seeking top-notch academic, career, and personal development advice. Please read the introductory article to see what the column is all about, and then send me a question of your own! To kick off the new year, I've provided guidelines to help my readers have the best year possible in 2005. In previous articles, I've ...
INDEX OF ARTICLES Ask Dr. Clemmons is a monthly advice column for scientists and engineers who are seeking top-notch academic, career, and personal development advice. Please read the introductory article to see what the column is all about, and then send me a question of your own! Dear Dr. Clemmons, I recently started a job right out of college as an entry-level biological engineer at a large, m...
Ask Dr. Clemmons is a monthly advice column for scientists and engineers who are seeking top-notch academic, career, and personal development advice. Please read the introductory article and my most recent article to see what the column is all about, and then send me a question of your own! This column is a follow-up from my last article, "Two-Way Assimilation: Part I," which appeared on the MiSc...
A sk Dr. Clemmons is a monthly advice column for scientists and engineers who are seeking top-notch academic, career, and personal development advice. Please read the introductory article and my most recent article to see what the column is all about, and then send me a question of your own! Q: Dear Dr. Clemmons: I recently received an offer for employment from a biotechnology company located...
Ask Dr. Clemmons is a monthly advice column for scientists and engineers who are seeking top-notch academic, career, and personal development advice. Please read the introductory article and my most recent article to see what the column is all about, and then send me a question of your own! Q: Dear Dr. Clemmons: I am a white student at one of the University of California (UC) campuses and I recen...
Ask Dr. Clemmons is a monthly advice column for scientists and engineers who are seeking top-notch academic, career, and personal development advice. Please read the introductory article and my most recent article to see what the column is all about, and then send me a question of your own! Q: Dear Dr. Clemmons: I attended graduate school at a very prestigious Ivy League institution in the Northe...
Last month, MiSciNet introduced Ask Dr. Clemmons, a monthly advice column for scientists and engineers in training who are seeking top-notch academic, career, and personal development advice. Please read the introductory column to see what the column is all about and then send me a question of your own! Dear Dr. Clemmons,I am an African-American female, and I am currently completing my doctorate ...
Ask Dr. Clemmons is a monthly advice column for scientists and engineers who are seeking top-notch academic, career, and personal development advice. Please read the introductory article and my most recent article to see what the column is all about, and then send me a question of your own! Q: Dear Dr. Clemmons: I am a black male with a bachelor's degree in biology from a prestigious university a...
Ask Dr. Clemmons is a monthly advice column for scientists and engineers who are seeking top-notch academic, career, and personal development advice. Please read the introductory article and my most recent article to see what the column is all about, and then send me a question of your own! Editor's note: This is a follow-up article to "The Right Audience", which was published on MiSciNet last mo...
BACK TO THE FEATURE INDEX When I was asked to write an article for Next Wave's March 2001 feature on underrepresented minorities in science, I enthusiastically accepted the invitation because I thought it might represent an opportunity to bring key issues to the forefront pertaining to the plight of students of color in science and engineering. This is certainly an issue with which I am intimatel...
