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Skype a Scientist While You Stay at Home
May 11 2020
Reposted from the Promega Connections blog with permission. A few weeks into Wisconsin’s Safer at Home order, I saw a tweet from Sarah McAnulty, PhD, the founder and ...
Move from Fear to Balance by Asking Yourself the Right Questions
Apr 13 2020
Sometimes the right question in the right moment is all you need. Once, when I was teaching a large group of people, a participant made a joking comment about me that got a ...
10 Tips to Maintain Physical Distancing in the Lab
Apr 06 2020
Laboratories can be crowded places. We are used to working around other people, tossing ideas back and forth. Dark rooms, cold rooms and large equipment spaces are often share...
How Practicing Mindfulness Can Help Ease Stress
Mar 19 2020
Amy Jeanguenat, founder of Mindgen, LLC, has shared how practicing mindfulness can help ease stress to a number of you at previous ISHI conferences, but we know not all of you...
How to Choose a Research Thesis Topic
Mar 10 2020
For a Ph.D. student, one of the most challenging, yet underrated key steps, is choosing a research topic. We often invest in choosing a university and/or a mentor neglecting p...
A Forensic Scientist’s Path to Transforming Stress
Feb 25 2020
Many analysts work in the background helping to develop investigative leads. Too often this also correlates to not receiving the benefits other positions may have to combat st...
Back to School: An Education on Advanced Degree Programs in Forensic Science
Feb 20 2020
If you are reading this publication you are likely already in the field of forensic science or considering this as a career choice. Congratulations- you have chosen an occupat...
Pop Quiz: What Scientific Job is Right for You?
Jan 21 2020
I used to love taking magazine quizzes to learn more about myself. I thought it would be fun to create a quiz to help you find out what scientific career path may be the best&...
Tales from the Trenches: Career Growth in Biotechnology
Jan 02 2020
Building a successful career in the biotechnology industry is really just a series of transitions from one role to another. But the devil is in the details—when to make a ch...