Jennifer Miller (Tim Fuller) Jennifer Miller (Photo: Tim Fuller) "I don't think that science or business is for a timid person." --Jennifer Miller Her colleagues still call her "the mistake." In late 2001, Jennifer Miller was on track to become a theoretical physicist. "My dream was to work for NASA and go to Mars," says Miller, who was then a senior at Fordham University. She was flying high--so...
Keyboard and stethoscope. Credit: Comstock Image: Comstock Medical "It's not true that tenure equals support." --Roy Silverstein Tenure-track? Yes/no. It's a common field on application forms for medical research grants, says Maryrose Franko, senior program officer at the Howard Hughes Medical Institute (HHMI). In many cases, "no" means disqualification. But a few years ago, HHMI noticed that mor...
Agnieszka Dobrzyn Courtesy, Agnieszka Dobrzyn "I have this kind of patriotic thinking that if we won't come back and if we won't make a change, then who will?" --Agnieszka Dobrzyn Beaming proudly, biochemist Agnieszka Dobrzyn (pictured left) shows off her newly renovated lab, including her latest expensive toy, a gas chromatograph. She has reason to be proud, and not just of her lab. Hired as a l...
Regan Theiler (Susan Henry Photography) Regan Theiler (Susan Henry Photography) "This career path is not for someone who wants to have a big, happy family and go on three vacations a year with them and eat dinner with them every night. It's just not going to happen. [But] I wouldn't trade it for anything." --Regan Theiler On a typical Thursday recently, Regan Theiler saw 19 patients at a private ...
Mathematician (Photodisc) (Photodisc) Outside of universities, a Ph.D. is not always necessary. When Ann Ryu Edwards entered the job market in 2006, she knew she could be picky. Many newly minted academics send dozens of applications with the hope of getting just one position, but Edwards's field, mathematics education, isn't like that. In fact, she applied to just four universities and got four ...
