OTHER ARTICLES To the Editor: I read with great interest the article entitled "'Postdocs,' Seeing Little Way Into the Academic Job Market, Seek Better Terms in the Lab" (August 7). I was a postdoc for three years before accepting a position at a small, four-year teaching institution, and the article addressed many important issues that I once faced. I am now the chair of the biology department at...
RETURN TO TH EINDEX Mentoring is essentially the experienced teaching the less experienced. It is often the primary way that newcomers are assimilated into a culture, and it can be one of the best ways to learn because it is one-on-one, tailored to the questions that are most pressing to the mentee, and optimally involves mutual respect between the mentor and mentee. The scientific culture relies...
RETURN TO TH EINDEX Mentoring is essentially the experienced teaching the less experienced. It is often the primary way that newcomers are assimilated into a culture, and it can be one of the best ways to learn because it is one-on-one, tailored to the questions that are most pressing to the mentee, and optimally involves mutual respect between the mentor and mentee. The scientific culture relies...
