Graduate school does not formally prepare postdocs for the political battleground ahead in the academic trenches. And drilled into postdocs' minds is the primary need to "do good science and publish, publish, publish," recounts Peter Okkema, an assistant professor in the department of biological sciences at the University of Illinois, Chicago. But what about networking? In today's academic enviro...
After enduring a long job search and interview process, you've finally landed a job as a junior faculty member at a research university. You're ecstatic! Until you look around at your newly acquired lab space, which is ... empty. "I still vividly remember the first day at work when I was going around borrowing stationery items--minor things like sheets of paper to write on, etc.--from neighbors,"...
After enduring a long job search and interview process, you've finally landed a job as a junior faculty member at a research university. You're ecstatic! Until you look around at your newly acquired lab space, which is ... empty. "I still vividly remember the first day at work when I was going around borrowing stationery items--minor things like sheets of paper to write on, etc.--from neighbors,"...
