mentoring

Mark Emerson shares his secret for establishing a fruitful research experience for students and mentors alike.

Academic mentors are not necessarily natural managers. Their graduate students often bear the brunt of this shortcoming.

A study makes policy recommendations to optimize citations, but critics say it fails to acknowledge that citations are a biased and narrow measure of scientific success.

Constructively critiquing the scientific literature should be an essential part of the postdoctoral experience, and early career researchers have shown that they are up to the task.

Half of early-career researchers say they’d participated in the peer review process with their mentors without getting credit.

Diversity programs are shifting their focus from just providing academic support to creating a learning environment that is more inclusive of people of different backgrounds.

Hear this month’s Scientist to Watch, Prachee Avasthi, describe the preprint journal review club she started at the University of Kansas Medical Center.

Meet Caltech cell and molecular biologist Marianne Bronner, this month’s profilee, and hear her take on encouraging the next generation of researchers.

The University of Kansas professor is also known for her leadership among early-career researchers.

From efforts to increase the transparency of the review process to initiatives offering training, there are many attempts underway to make better reviewers out of researchers.

Alfred Knudson, who formulated the “two-hit” theory on the origins of cancer, has passed away at age 93.

Meet Tilak Ratnanather, the deaf biomedical engineer who mentors hard-of-hearing students headed for STEM careers.

Scientists at or near retirement can be ideal advisers for their junior colleagues. 

In an ever-changing job market, PhD scientists should be careful not to confuse their passion with their research foci, and to avoid academic tunnel vision.

When molecular biology methods failed her, Sangeeta Bhatia turned to engineering and microfabrication to build a liver from scratch.

A researcher in Florida changes lives by showing struggling 20-somethings the ins and outs of life in the lab.

Choosing to work in industry does not preclude a return to academe. But the move back takes some planning and finesse.

Studying the earliest events in visual development, Carla Shatz has learned the importance of looking at one’s data with open eyes—and an open mind.